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

2013-10-10 Thread Laurent Blume
On 09/10/13 15:37, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: In BIOS, I have the option to enable/disable SATA port 0, 1,2,3. If the port is enabled and nothing connected, it throws and error during POST. If something is connected, it's identified as a 1TB or whatever drive, and presented to the

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

2013-10-10 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 10 October 2013 00:18, Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org wrote: Solaris and descendants are not hot-swap OS's. If you want to replace a drive, you need to tell the system beforehand that you will remove a disk with cfgadm, and depending on your HBA/driver combination, tell it again after

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

2013-10-10 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Joshua M. Clulow j...@sysmgr.org wrote: On 10 October 2013 00:18, Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org wrote: Solaris and descendants are not hot-swap OS's. If you want to replace a drive, you need to tell the system beforehand that you will remove a disk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pulseaudio

2013-10-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
SunRays aren't easily replaced. they're a very cheap, reliable and versatile system. SunRays all support high resolutions out of the box. They all support smart card technology to connect to the correct session. They are a true thin-client, a SunRay client uses less electricity than my set of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pulseaudio

2013-10-10 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 26/09/13 01:37 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: On 2013-09-25 12:09, Milan Jurik wrote missing is only SunRay support I think. And that is irrelevant these days. Ouch... that hurts, man! Sad, but true (and speaking as a former Sun Ray customer). -- Dave Koelmeyer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dc s3700 for pool devices -- poor performance

2013-10-10 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-10-09 21:45, Jason Matthews wrote: Do we have anyone using the s3700 in their pools with any kind of scale? I picked up an eval from dell using an r820 4x4650L, 576GB of RAM, and 8 dc s3700 drives on OI151a8. Testing with filebench and the random write personality indicates one device

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

2013-10-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Aneurin Price [mailto:aneurin.pr...@gmail.com] Is this in IDE emulation mode per-chance? If your controller acts this way in AHCI mode, it's defective and should be replaced Alright, I'll try again. Gimme a couple days to respond, as this is what I do for offsite data rotation. I

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

2013-10-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Joshua M. Clulow [mailto:j...@sysmgr.org] This is emphatically false. Though the pestilence of cfgadm(1M) and the idea that device replacement is somehow advantageously manual had persisted inside Sun's walls until its untimely demise, SunOS itself is certainly capable of

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

2013-10-10 Thread Laurent Blume
On 10/10/13 10:01, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: This is emphatically false. It's good to see such enthusiasm. However, all that crap has never, to my knowledge, been clearly documented, so blaming it on the users is not exactly fair. Trial and errors over years is what it took me, including

[OpenIndiana-discuss] additional workspaces in OI151a8?

2013-10-10 Thread Tim Mooney
All- After using CDE and its predecessor for years, I'm adjusting pretty well to OI151a8's graphical environment. I have run into one problem that I'm hoping someone on the list can help with, though. I'm trying to bump the number of workspaces up from 4 to 8. According to the Help entry

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] additional workspaces in OI151a8?

2013-10-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/10/13 10:13 AM, Tim Mooney wrote: I quickly found /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces, which was defaulting to 4. Metacity is only used if System Preferences Appearance Visual Effects is set to None (which it will be automatically if you don't have accelerated 3D drivers for your

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] additional workspaces in OI151a8?

2013-10-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
if you are using compiz, as Alan said you should be able to access the settings under ccsm under General under General Settings in there you should have Desktop Size which should allow you to set the number of virtual desktops. On 10 October 2013 18:19, Alan Coopersmith

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 151.1.8 - Mplayer

2013-10-10 Thread russell
Hi, Since Hipster was released I have now to streams of OpenIndiana on my computer, the Hipster and normal releases but I have noticed that the last two releases of Hipster now cause Mplayer to crash. So I upgraded from OpenIndiana 151.1.6 to OpenIndiana 151.1.8 and found that this release

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] additional workspaces in OI151a8?

2013-10-10 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] additional workspaces in OI151a8?,...: if you are using compiz, as Alan said you should be able to access the settings under ccsm under General under General Settings in there you should have Desktop Size which should allow you to set the number of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 151.1.8 - Mplayer

2013-10-10 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On čt, 2013-10-10 at 18:58 +0100, russell wrote: Hi, Since Hipster was released I have now to streams of OpenIndiana on my computer, the Hipster and normal releases but I have noticed that the last two releases of Hipster now cause Mplayer to crash. So I upgraded from OpenIndiana