On a 64bit intel (amd64) system ...
I have an HBA. I have a driver for the HBA. I can boot the live cd, and I can
load the driver by copying the file to /usr/kernel/drv/amd64 and doing sudo
add_drv blah blah command. At this point, the storage becomes available, and
I can install the OS.
From: Richard Lowe [mailto:richl...@richlowe.net]
When you've installed the system, you should be able to install the
driver into the root we created (mounted at /a, I believe),
This is kinda funny ...
First of all, the miniroot (or whatever, installation environment) has a lock
file,
From: Julius Roberts [mailto:hooliowobb...@gmail.com]
/sbin/zfs send -R Backups/natoffice@offsite | /usr/bin/encrypt -a aes -k
~/encryption.key -o /Offsite/encrypted_zfs_send_blob
Is there a better way to be doing this? Ours seems a
little resource intensive and I'm not sure if it's
From: Gary [mailto:gdri...@gmail.com]
Have you priced out self-encrypting aka hardware-based encrpytion drives?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption
To my knowledge, all hard-ware based self-encrypting drives require a BIOS /
UEFI password be typed in when the
From: Open Indiana [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 6:11 AM
I made a small (read huge) mistake by ordering a DELL R320 that I want to
use as a Openindiana host.
I discovered that I can't install Openindiana because it lacks drivers for
the following parts:
From: Thorsten Heit [mailto:thorsten.h...@vkb.de]
# zfs send fs@snapshot | bzip2 -z -c | gpg -c --cipher-algo AES
--digest-algo SHA512 /media/usb/stream.gpg
Based on performance characteristics, I would never recommend bzip2 for
anything. For most situations like this, fast compression
From: Jan Owoc [mailto:jso...@gmail.com]
My personal opinion is that a variant on the way you described it in
your original mail is the best:
zfs send your_data | your_favourite_compression |
your_favourite_encryption /usb_fs/backup.gz.gpg
I still say, don't receive into a file. This is
So, things like init 6 just reboot from the kernel upward. But sometimes you
want or need to reset the computer, make it go through BIOS and grub and
everything.
If you login on the physical console, you can go to System / Shutdown, and
there's a checkbox, Skip boot menu on restart which
From: Magnus [mailto:mag...@yonderway.com]
The trouble is, the market is a race to the bottom
(price wise) so it's hard to compete when there are so many providers
offering Linux for $10 or less per month with plenty of resources for a small
server.
Linux != Solaris.
My main point of
Formerly, if you interrupted a zfs receive, it would leave a clone with a % in
its name, and you could find it via zdb -d and then you could destroy the
clone, and then you could destroy the filesystem you had interrupted receiving.
That was considered a bug, and it was fixed, I think by Sun.
From: Bryan N Iotti [mailto:ironsides.med...@gmail.com]
- zfs send -R rpool@DATE | gzip rpool.COMPLETE.DATE.gz
... as per Oracle manual.
I was wondering why it was so slow, taking a couple of hours, then I
payed attention to my CPU meter and understood that the normal gzip was
running
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
I've been lately looking around the net for high-availability and sync
replication solutions for ZFS and came up pretty dry - seems like all
the jazz is going around on Linux with corosync/pacemaker and DRBD. I
found a couple of tools,
From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to]
Well, to me, the most obvious is use another box with ZFS to mirror the
ISCSI devices on ZFS. I'm in the process of doing this myself with some
stuff. 2 head nodes and 2 storage nodes. The storage nodes are targets
and the head nodes are initators.
From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to]
strange. I tested failing the targets while the initiators are up and
failover worked fine. One half of the mirror went away and everything
worked as expected.
Same here. Until I put it into production and then one day it didn't.
The only thing I
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net]
I have bought and installed an Intel SSD 313 20 GB to use as ZIL for one
or many pools. I am running openindiana on a x86 platform, no SPARC. As
4 GB should suffice, I am considering to partition the drive in order to
assign each
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com]
I would suggest that on smaller systems you wouldn't bother messing
with the ZIL :)
It doesn't matter how big or small the system is. It matters how it's used.
If you have a small database server, and some other database clients on the
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net]
As far as I am aware, the loss of the ZIL is no longer fatal for the pool in
current zfs versions. As well, even with a corrupted ZIL, the pool should be
recoverable. Hence, I was so far not worried too much. Should I better be?
If you
From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com]
So I have an OI151a7 box. Latest vbox is installed with several guests.
Make sure you have guest additions installed into each of the guests.
Make sure you don't give all the CPU's to any single guest. In my experience,
I give each guest
From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se]
After I did a reinstall of my OpenIndiana system I finally decided to
try out VirtualBox 4. I noticed that the VMs weren't running as smoothly
as I was used to. I don't remember specifics such as network
performance, as a whole the
From: solarg [mailto:solar...@gmail.com]
i have a fresh dell R320 with Perc H310 (mini type). I tried with
raid-mode and non-raid mode, but OI doesn't find any disks.
Searching on the Net, i found that somebody flashed the card firmware
for the PCI type, but it's not a solution for me.
From: Thommy M. Malmström [mailto:thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com]
Thanks for your suggestion guys. The zpool import -f didn't help BUT so far
I had not physically attached the important disks, those with all my
digital images. I tried that today and zpool import saw that pool, thank
FSM.
From: Thommy M. Malmström [mailto:thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com]
I'm definitely missing a driver. Can't see the disks with format.
Whatever HBA you have ... If it worked under opensolaris and it's not working
under openindiana (which is kind of funny) ... Don't you remember installing a
From: Jason Matthews [mailto:ja...@broken.net]
Which motherboard are you using?
Do you have the drives connected to an HBA or the motherboard? If HBA,
which
HBA?
If they are connected to the motherboard, and the ports are sata, your best
chance of making them work is to first try the
From: Ram Chander [mailto:ramqu...@gmail.com]
I have 8 disks in Raid0 in Dell Poweredge R820. When tried to install
latest OI (oi_151a), it fails with below error. Any pointers on how to
install drivers and get OI installed ?
No disks found. Additional drivers needed
-Original
From: Ram Chander [mailto:ramqu...@gmail.com]
I have downloaded OI ISO and want to include below driver and rebuild ISO.
After extracting ISO, how do add this and rebuild ISO ?
Any steps would be helpful. Thanks.
You don't need to rebuild ISO. Here's what you do:
Before you begin, see
From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to]
That isn't necessarily a driver. What model hba do you have? If it is among
many versions of megaraid or similar, you won't see any disks until you
create logical units from the raid card bios interface.
OOohhh... Be *very* careful though. It is
From: Thommy M. Malmström [mailto:thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com]
I might have a drained battery as the time was reset, I noticed. I'll get a
new one. The MB is a GIGABYTE K8N ProSli and I haven't done more than
disconnecting
the disks during new install of b147 (just to make sure I didn't
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru]
Note however that halt, poweroff and reboot commands are binaries (and
hardlinks of one program), and they can be ungraceful and fast.
Up till now, whenever I want to completely reboot (with bios and bootloader,
not just fastreboot which reloads
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us]
20 3 * * 1 /usr/sbin/zpool scrub rpool
I'm not 100% sure if this will work directly inside a cron job; you might have
to stick it inside of a bash shell script, and then have cron call the shell
script. (This is what I do).
for
From: Richard L. Hamilton [mailto:rlha...@smart.net]
I seem to recall that only one scrub could be running at a time, even against
different zpools. So the cron that does them all might never actually do more
than the first.
Your system should not be scrubbing most of the time. If you are
From: peter jones [mailto:openba...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 2:42 PM
Could you give me some pointers with this script?
Openindiana@DT:~$ su
Password:
Openindiana@DT:~# wget
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.12/VirtualBox-3.0.12-54655-
SunOS.tar.gz
Why
From: mario fibbi [mailto:hlo...@gmail.com]
i need to customize the oi-dev-151a7-text-x86.iso with some driver.
Generally you don't need to customize the iso, if all you're trying to do is
install the OS including that driver. Boot into liveCD, load the driver,
install the OS. The
From: David Scharbach [mailto:david.scharb...@mac.com]
I have an OI installation that seems to crash about every 20 days. Locks up
completely and needs a hard reset. Not very much fun.
Whenever I've seen this type of behavior before, it was hardware/driver
related, but we never were able
From: Ulrich Hagen [mailto:openindiana-disc...@uhagen.de]
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 7:58 AM
My plan is now to buy an IBM ServeRAID-M1015 controller, flash it with
LSI IT firmware, and use that one instead.
Now my question: Can I keep my pool intact? I want to do this as
follows:
1
From: Piotr Kaminski [mailto:p...@bloom.pl]
I have several ESXi 5.0 boxes. I use virtualized openindiana on them. I
always install vmware-tools.
Aww, too bad. In my opinion, OI is much better as the host, instead of vmware.
But I suppose you have some limitation that forces the vmware
From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk]
3ware did? I thought the tw driver only came out after it got bought by LSI?
Sorry, I wasn't intending to draw a distinction between 3ware and LSI.
Until then, Areca was the only game in town but who uses hardware raid
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
On 01/24/2013 02:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
Based on my extensive work benchmarking zfs systems, I can say this: The
default write performance on a plain old sas/sata card (without SSD) is
horrible by comparison
From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk]
:-D I'm here to entertain since I have not been able to spring for a ssd
for use as a slog. :-D
LOL, you mean you have a HDD slog device? :-D
It's actually very surprising how well that works, especially if you have a
high
From: Mirko Fluher [mailto:m...@pax.apana.org.au]
I cannot install OpenIndiana using the current LiveDVD because it cannot
see my see my HD ... ?? [gparted, as provided on the LiveDVD sees the
whole HD as unallocated] ??
You're doing it right. If OI installer fails because it can't find
From: Mirko Fluher [mailto:m...@pax.apana.org.au]
The chipset used on this motherboard is -- Intel B75 Express Chipset
as for the missing driver(s) ... it refers to :
Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller
and
Intel Corporation Panther Point MEI Conroller #1
Hmmm... I
To at least summarize your problem, without all the distracting irrelevant
details and tangents of the OP and this thread in general... Even if I don't
have an answer for you ...
When you boot the OI installer DVD, with a 2TB drive attached, OI simply cannot
see the disk.
When you boot the
From: Harry Putnam [mailto:rea...@newsguy.com]
Has that issue been completely resolved... auto snapshots now work
with no problems?
In 151a5, I had to fiddle with password before time-slider GUI config worked.
But the present release is 151a7, so maybe that's a resolved issue now. Either
From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
[mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com]
In 151a5, I had to fiddle with password before time-slider GUI config worked.
But the present release is 151a7, so maybe that's a resolved issue now.
Either way, the workaround was trivial, so I would say you can
I am having a really hard time coming up with a plausible explanation for this,
other than some kind of kernel bug with openindiana...
I have two systems in the office, Dell PowerEdge SC 1435 (Embedded Broadcom
5721 NIC) and Dell PowerEdge 2950 (Embedded Broadcom 5708 NIC), both running OI
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru]
Basically, the workaround for us was to enable this line in /etc/system:
set ip:dohwcksum = 0
Oh well, thanks for the suggestion... Unfortunately, didn't make any
difference...
___
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us]
Unless TCP is offloaded from the kernel (so that checksums are in an
adaptor card), it is exceedingly difficult for wrong data to pass
TCP's checksumming and get passed up to the socket that SSH uses.
In the one packet capture that
From: Stefan Müller-Wilken [mailto:stefan.mueller-wil...@acando.de]
can anyone comment on this? Will time slider work reliably enough on a
developer workstation to use it in real development work?
Yup, it's awesome. The only catch that I'm aware of is immediately after OS
installation,
From: James Carlson [mailto:carls...@workingcode.com]
Which of the many Broadcom drivers is this? If it's bnx, try editing
/kernel/drv/bnx.conf, and uncommenting and changing the checksum=
line
to set it to all zeros.
One of the systems is using bge, and the other is using bnx.
I notice
From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
[mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com]
I am having a really hard time coming up with a plausible explanation for
this,
other than some kind of kernel bug with openindiana...
Found a new clue, which is totally unbelievable, yet totally enlightening
From: Roel_D [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl]
I use ASA5505's always. I never had this problem with solaris 1011, but
those run on sun hardware.
I also have solaris 10 on an old HP DL340 with bge's also without problem.
And OI 1.57 on VMware also without the problems you describe.
I use
From: Ram Chander [mailto:ramqu...@gmail.com]
I had a zpool thats exported on another system and when i try to import,
it fails. Any idea how to recover ?
Start by proving there isn't some other problem. Import the pool again on the
same system that did the export. Assuming you can
From: Reginald Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com]
For 3 disk RAIDZ1 I get 189-199 MB/s and 179 MB/s for 4 disk RAIDZ1. But for
4 disk RAIDZ2 I get 109-118 MB/s. I expected some loss in performance, but
not that much. These are measured writing 64 GB of /dev/zero to the RAIDZ
Here is how I do it: If I'm not misunderstanding, I think this is what you
want.
https://code.google.com/p/simplesmf/
There is a simplesmf service to enable vnc-server. It starts automatically at
startup, and shuts down automatically at shutdown... You configure user1 to
always have a VNC
From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se]
And now I realise I haven't understood a thing... Nothing works. All new
connection attempts are met with a request for a vnc password... But
there is no password configured...
Are you opposed to putting different users on
From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to]
2) explicitly set the route for 192.168.10.x :
route add 192.168.10.0/mask 192.168.2.1
That's what I'm saying I have already done. I set the default route to
192.168.1.1, and I set a static route, 192.168.10.x/24 via 192.168.2.1. The
route is in
From: Robbie Crash [mailto:sardonic.smi...@gmail.com]
If you're not accessing clients on the remote 192.168.1.0 subnet, why are
you adding the second network?
Why are you not handling this on the router instead of the client? Static
routes on a client are bad mojo. It's the router's job
From: Robbie Crash [mailto:sardonic.smi...@gmail.com]
The problem is at the remote side. If they have a huge internal corporate
network that happens to include 192.168.10.x/24 and 192.168.1.x/24 ...
When
I VPN to them and my LAN is 192.168.1.x/24, I have a subnet that overlaps
with
From: Robbie Crash [mailto:sardonic.smi...@gmail.com]
This is something that should be handled at the router, not at the client
in software.
It turns out, I reached a conclusion with the NAT possibility. In pfsense, you
can NAT traffic before it goes across an openvpn, but you can't NAT
From: Reginald Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 3:34 PM
How about summarizing on the wiki?
I'm in favor, but in this case, I don't think there's anything to summarize ...
Here is the summary:
sudo dladm create-vnic -l e1000g0 vnic0
sudo ipadm
From: Grant Albitz [mailto:gr...@schultztechnology.com]
I have been chasing an issue with my openindiana host for some time. It is
stable for a few weeks but then I find it rebooted with no kernel errors.
This sounds like a driver issue. I've had similar problems on an R510 or R520,
or
From: Michelle Knight [mailto:miche...@msknight.com]
It looks like I'm going to have to install something on the server to
publish the video directories in DLNA, which I've got no experience of.
This is what I do:
sudo pkg set-publisher -p http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumbered
sudo pkg
From: dormitionsk...@hotmail.com [mailto:dormitionsk...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 11:42 PM
A Sun Solaris machine was shut down last week in Hungary, I think, after 3737
days of uptime. Below are links to the article and video.
Warning: It might bring a tear to your
From: Gerry Weaver [mailto:ger...@compvia.com]
I have been checking out OpenIndiana as a possible file server and KVM host.
I have several sites using OI for samba, dns, and VirtualBox. As far as
stability is concerned, yes it's stable. But it's not amazingly mature (see
below).
Others
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru]
Well, at the time I documented this page, it worked (at oi_151a5
timeframe, I believe):
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Using+host-
only+networking+to+get+from+build+zones+and+test+VMs+to+the+Intern
et
Yikes.
Thanks for writing that up. But ..
From: Michael Stapleton [mailto:michael.staple...@techsologic.com]
The Dhcp files can be stored on NFS and used by multiple servers.
It defeats the purpose of redundant dhcp servers if you make them both
dependent on non-redundant storage. But that's only tangential. The upshot of
what
From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se]
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/4.7+Remote+Graphical+Login:+Using+Xvnc+
and+gdm
That's interesting ... So correct me if I'm wrong, you VNC to your server on
5900, and you get a login prompt as if you were sitting down in front
From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se]
Is there anyone who has got this
working properly?
I confirm that it works correctly out of the box, for EST/EDT (New York time),
with
this line in /etc/default/init
TZ=US/Eastern
this line in /etc/rtc_config
zone_info=US/Eastern
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net]
Be careful, there are lots of ways to screw this up. Fortunately, not many of
them result in data loss or anything like that. Just bad behavior.
Specifically, I thinking, you want to send including properties, to preserve
the nfs iscsi
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 11:38 AM
- zfs send mainbranch@1 -R /pool2/mainbranch.dmp for each nfs, iscsi,
smb
It is advisable, if possible, to create a new zpool with your new tmp storage,
and zfs send | zfs receive. (Don't store a
From: Wim van den Berge [mailto:w...@vandenberge.us]
multiple 10Gb uplinks
However the next system is going to be a little different. It needs to be
the absolute fastest iSCSI target we can create/afford.
So I'm just assuming you're going to build a pool out of SSD's, mirrored,
perhaps
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us]
It would be difficult to believe that 10Gbit Ethernet offers better
bandwidth than 56Gbit Infiniband (the current offering). The swiching
model is quite similar. The main reason why IB offers better latency
is a better HBA
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
If you are IOPS constrained, then yes, raid-zn will be slower, simply
because any read needs to hit all data drives in the stripe.
Saso, I would expect you to know the answer to this question, probably:
I have heard that raidz is more
From: Jay Heyl [mailto:j...@frelled.us]
So I'm just assuming you're going to build a pool out of SSD's, mirrored,
perhaps even 3-way mirrors. No cache/log devices. All the ram you can fit
into the system.
What would be the logic behind mirrored SSD arrays? With spinning platters
the
From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk [mailto:m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com]
SSD units are very vulnerable to power cuts during work up to complete
failure which they can not be used any more to complete loss of data .
If there are any junky drives out there that fail so dramatically, those are
junky and
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
Raid-Z indeed does stripe data across all
leaf vdevs (minus parity) and does so by splitting the logical block up
into equally sized portions.
Jay, there you have it. You asked why use mirrors, and you said you would use
raidz2 or
From: Jay Heyl [mailto:j...@frelled.us]
Ah, that makes much more sense. Thanks for the clarification. Now that you
put it that way I have to wonder how I ever came under the impression it
was any other way.
I've gotten lost in the numerous mis-communications of this thread, but just to
From: Timothy Coalson [mailto:tsc...@mst.edu]
Did you also compare the probability of bit errors causing data loss
without a complete pool failure? 2-way mirrors, when one device
completely
dies, have no redundancy on that data, and the copy that remains must be
perfect or some data will
From: Jay Heyl [mailto:j...@frelled.us]
I now realize you're talking about 8 separate 2-disk
mirrors organized into a pool. mirror x1 y1 mirror x2 y2 mirror x3 y3...
Yup. That's normal, and the only way.
I also realize that almost every discussion I've seen online concerning
mirrors
From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamo...@gmx.net]
AFAIK, a bit error in Parity or stripe data can be specifically
dangerous when it is raised during resilvering, and there is only one
layer of redundancy left.
You're saying error in parity, but that's because you're thinking of raidz,
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru]
Well, thanks to checksums we can know which variant of userdata
is correct, and thanks to parities we can verify which bytes are
wrong in a particular block. If there's relatively few such bytes,
it is theoretically possible to brute-force match
From: Timothy Coalson [mailto:tsc...@mst.edu]
As for what I said about resilver speed, I had not accounted for the fact
that data reads on a raid-z2 component device would be significantly
shorter than for the same data on 2-way mirrors. Depending on whether
you
are using enormous block
From: Harry Putnam [mailto:rea...@newsguy.com]
Sorry to go over what must have been already covered many times but I
dropped out of OI participation for a good long while.
Hopefully someone will feel kindly disposed and post a brief outline
of how to go from zero to running a vb vm of
From: Kris Henriksson [mailto:kt...@cornell.edu]
I've been having a long-standing issue with using the iDRAC on my
server with OpenIndiana, and I thought before giving up completely, I
could try asking the mailing list. The problem is that the iDRAC is
completely inaccessible while
Oh. I see now, Rich's solution about updated driver. That sounds better. ;-)
-Original Message-
From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:34 AM
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: RE: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC
From
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com]
Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and BIOS
upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical.
I know I'm probably going about this wrong, but I cannot seem to use
fdformat, or mkfs -F pcfs on
From: Kristoff Bonne [mailto:krist...@skypro.be]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:27 AM
What Operating System would you now advice for a personal workstation
for simple work (telnet/ssh to other devices, perl, firefox,
thunderbird, ...). Also important is the ability to run VirtualBox.
For
From: Nikola M. [mailto:minik...@gmail.com]
On 05/24/13 02:46 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
From: Kristoff Bonne [mailto:krist...@skypro.be]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:27 AM
What Operating System would you now advice for a personal workstation
for simple work (telnet
I have some external storage which isn't super reliable. If I don't export it
before shutdown, it will often cause the boot to fail, as it doesn't mount
properly.
I would like to make that pool automatically export during shutdown, or somehow
flag it so the system will never try to import or
From: Bill Sommerfeld [mailto:sommerf...@alum.mit.edu]
On 05/27/13 17:25, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
I have some external storage which isn't super reliable. If I don't
export it before shutdown, it will often cause the boot to fail, as
it doesn't mount properly.
I would
From: Kristoff Bonne [mailto:krist...@skypro.be]
Is there a list of applications that does work OK? As said, my
requirements are not that special: thunderbird, firefox, virtual box.
thunderbird and firefox are included in the standard OS package repositories.
So yes, those work.
Here's the problem I'm trying to solve: SMF service is configured to launch
things like VirtualBox during startup / shutdown. This startup process can
take a long time (10, 20 minutes) so if there's a problem of any kind for any
reason, you might do things like enable and disable or refresh
From: Svavar Örn Eysteinsson [mailto:sva...@fiton.is]
So my question, is it as simple as zpool export datapool on the orginal
machine
and zpool import on the new one ?
Should be that simple. Yes. As long as you're not doing any proprietary
hardware RAID on the disks, and you ensure the
From: Gary Mills [mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm]
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:15:12PM +, Edward Ned Harvey
(openindiana) wrote:
Here's the problem I'm trying to solve: SMF service is configured
to launch things like VirtualBox during startup / shutdown. This
startup process can
From: Aneurin Price [mailto:aneurin.pr...@gmail.com]
I don't know about pure/POSIX shell, but at least bash and ksh support
noclobber, which should do the trick. I've been using the following
idiom for some time without problems:
I read somewhere (possibly obsolete, and also can't relocate)
From: Laurent Blume [mailto:laurent...@elanor.org]
That's why I pointed out mine are in /tmp or /var/run - tmpfs, so it's
guaranteed cleared on reboot, graceful or not :-)
The behavior of clearing out /tmp is a configurable feature, and the default
varies by OS. Some OSes clear it on every
From: Gary Mills [mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm]
SMF is actually well documented, but you do have to jump around from
man page to man page. Start with `man smf'. There are also lots of
examples to follow, both of manifests and methods. They are all text
files.
Ok, so here's a
From: Udo Grabowski (IMK) [mailto:udo.grabow...@kit.edu]
If you don't understand SMF (which is a bit clumsy, but indeed has
all what you want), use this little generator, it will do the hard
work for you:
http://sgpit.com/smf/
That's a pretty cool generator. But apparently, I understand
From: Heinrich van Riel [mailto:heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com]
I will post my findings, but might take some time to fix the network in
time and they will have to deal with 1Gbps for the storage. The request is
to run ~90 VMs on 8 servers connected.
With 90 VM's on 8 servers, being served ZFS
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru]
With 90 VM's on 8 servers, being served ZFS iscsi storage by 4x 1Gb
ethernet in LACP, you're really not going to care about any one VM being
able to go above 1Gbit. Because it's going to be so busy all the time,
that the
4 LACP bonded ports
From: Jan Owoc [mailto:jso...@gmail.com]
I'm running a home NAS using OI 151a7 server (vs. desktop). I was
thinking of running Ubuntu Server in a virtual machine on OI, ideally
configured to startup/shutdown when OI starts/shuts down. I can
connect a monitor to the machine, but it generally
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