Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMR disks

2015-05-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On 1 May 2015 at 07:13, Nick Tan nick@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR disk and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send would cause the disk to go offline. My guess is that zfs send is too fast and fills the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zabbix-agent

2014-11-06 Thread Aneurin Price
On 6 November 2014 12:11, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Pawel Stefanski [mailto:pejo...@gmail.com] here you have complete instruction https://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/install/solaris/opensolaris I know. I described that as Plan B. See: Plan A

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151a9

2014-02-20 Thread Aneurin Price
On 19 February 2014 18:18, Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu wrote: In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151a9, Marc Lobelle said (at 7:11pm...: I see that a new version 0I-151a9 is available, but the version to download at http://openindiana.org/download/ is still 151a8. Where can I find

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 1.8 /dev: need help (missing feature for read 'org.illumos:lz4_compress')

2014-01-27 Thread Aneurin Price
On 27 January 2014 10:05, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: Then the USB is broken and is trying to boot your disks, not the USB (it's probably confusing the two also). You could also try using the OmniOS USB - it's possible the OI GRUB stage2 is outdated and the shipped version

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-09 Thread Aneurin Price
On 9 October 2013 14:37, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 8:42 PM Er...isn't hotswap capability PART of the specs whether the drives are SAS or SATA? I can do this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Aneurin Price
On 30 May 2013 15:29, Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org wrote: On 30/05/13 16:15, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: snip I see there are a bunch of C constructs available ... mutex_init, etc. Surely there must be a wrapper application around this kind of thing, right? I spent some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC

2013-04-23 Thread Aneurin Price
On 22 April 2013 20:25, Rich rerc...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: What NIC does the machine have? My solution on Rx10 with the BCM NICs was to grab the bnx driver blob from Joyent [ https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/tree/master/overlay/generic/kernel/drv/amd64/bnx] and throw that in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-17 Thread Aneurin Price
On 17 April 2013 03:53, Carl Brewer c...@bl.echidna.id.au wrote: Further to my original post, I have a new (desktop, I know ... but I am on a tight budget) Intel MB with an i5-3750 CPU and 32 GB of desktop RAM. Booting the 151a7 live DVD shows that it thinks it's a 32 bit system (huh?). It

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and AVS guru $500

2012-07-25 Thread Aneurin Price
On 24 July 2012 17:11, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: are you missing a zero to the left of the decimal place? For a couple of hours' work? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-18 Thread Aneurin Price
On 17 July 2012 17:50, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: Or a job for autofs. Check out the man page for automount. Thanks for the suggestion. The automount option does sound cleaner, although the init script option has the advantage of being very, very simple. I'll

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-18 Thread Aneurin Price
On 18 July 2012 13:30, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: I have one more idea that is more fun... snip Very nice! This works perfectly. Thank you very much for this. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 'pkg image-update' and BEs

2012-06-25 Thread Aneurin Price
On 25 June 2012 15:44, Michael Schuster michaelspriv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Aneurin, I'd expect one of the design goals of the whole image-update process was to work with as little interruption as possible (we had this in live upgrade as well, so the historical precedent is fairly clear, IMO