Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] time-slider will not start due to dbus security policy on oi151a-text

2012-01-23 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Thomas tho...@alternize.com wrote: Jan Owoc jsowoc at gmail.com writes: I'm having trouble starting time-slider on the text version of oi151a. i had the same problem yesterday (even asked on this list :-)). i found the solution in the meantime while also

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

2012-01-24 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Paolo, On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Paolo Marcheschi paolo.marches...@ftgm.it wrote: Is there any success to have a fully funcional Libreoffice on Openindiana ? I'm not aware of a published binary. With the number of various applications that have been ported to Solaris/OpenIndiana on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no randomness provider for /dev/random?

2012-01-28 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Bryan, On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Bryan N Iotti ironsides.med...@gmail.com wrote: I am very pleased with the performance of it all, but I am puzzled to see that every time it boots it posts that there is no randomness provider for /dev/random. cryptoadm lists a series of providers

[OpenIndiana-discuss] experimental or otherwise not recommended options for ZFS

2012-01-29 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, I'm building a home NAS so I don't care too much about performance, but *do* care if I lose all my photos. I'm aware that ZFS had a very extensive test suite that ensured that data is kept safe. Are the newer capabilities (specifically checksum=sha256, compression=on, dedup=verify)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] experimental or otherwise not recommended options for ZFS

2012-01-30 Thread Jan Owoc
Thank you for the replies. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: The obvious saying springs to mind: RAID != backup. If you need your data to be safe, have two copies of it in two geographically separate locations running in two separate machines. I've

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] experimental or otherwise not recommended options for ZFS

2012-01-30 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Robbie, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Robbie Crash sardonic.smi...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to use Fletcher, you need to use verify, as the likelihood of collisions is increased since Fletcher is not *random*. You don't really need to verify when using SHA256, and by default, SHA256

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Boot Fails

2012-02-03 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Bob Palank b...@stlcc.org wrote: Running Virtual Box on XP Pro SP3 machine with 512 MB. Execution stops and I see the attached screenshot. VB general information dialog shows Operating system as Solaris and the version is Oracle Solaris 10 5/09 and earlier.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: Hi all On this server, I had a drive dying on me, and the spare kicked in. I replaced the drive, detached the spare and zpool replaced the original dev, waiting for it to resilver. When this was almost finished

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: I don't quite understand what happened in your specific case. Let's say you had a setup: raidz2 c1d0 c1d1 c1d2 c1d3 spare c1d4 c1d5 Let's say c1d3 failed. Resilver started and d4 replaced d3's place - you now have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Martin Frost m...@cs.stanford.edu wrote: Does ZFS periodically verify hot spares?  For that matter, does it verify the RAIDZ disks? I'm not aware that ZFS checks disks or portions of disks that do not have active data. This means that if you aren't using part of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: It is evident that ZFS is not very good to use without disk redundancy. In your case, you would have silent data corruption on-disk. This corrupted data would get passed to programs, that would try to work with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RaidZ-2 Array Failure - Trying to recover

2012-02-25 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi EchoBinary, On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Echo Binary echobin...@gmail.com wrote: So okay - I have a controller card with 12 internal SATAII ports and have been successfully running an array of all 1.5TB disks for the past few years. First on OpenSolaris, then on OpenIndiana. A few

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] autosnapshots broken?

2012-03-14 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Roy, On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: I have a new server with some 80TB storage on striped mirrors, and it works well, except for the automatic snapshoting on which I am relying. While it's obviously possible to go back to the old cron job

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] autosnapshots broken?

2012-03-15 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: - Opprinnelig melding - Hi I have the same problem I think that is broken: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a+Release+Notes see the Known issues Seems this is the case. Any idea how to fix or work

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana

2012-03-19 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: I have been using vbox 4.1.x on OI 151 for about 5 months now running some server-based VMs with good success. I noticed some comments from Bayard on the list about how vbox was completely unusable for development.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dependency problem on pkg:/service/network/dns/bind

2012-03-30 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Chris Ridd chrisr...@mac.com wrote: We're running our server quite happily on OI, currently on entire@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1 Trying to install service/network/dns/bind always creates a new BE. Poking around the dependencies I see it depends on pkgs from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem with no randomness provider // on even new laptops ( Dell )

2012-04-02 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Richard Heil richard.d.h...@gmail.com wrote: To the list;  I have a nearly new laptop ( Dell ) and I am getting the no randomness provider error message when attempting to boot OI. I looked for the bug report and the fix and its part of Oracle bug for open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] messages are not posting to list

2012-04-03 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Richard, In the last 24h, I've gotten all 5 of your messages that are in the archives: http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-April/thread.html Just an FYI: mailman doesn't send you a copy of your own messages. If you send a message to the list, it should be in your outbox,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various software

2012-04-07 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Andrew Myers li...@abmyers.com wrote: I guess I'm a newbie although I've been using various Linux distro's for about 10 years. I'm a newbie to OI just like you, but I can answer some (not all) of your questions. Firstly, I wanted to have a later version of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various software

2012-04-08 Thread Jan Owoc
I don't know how IPS actually works, but I can forward you to the Wikipedia page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Packaging_System The first external link about the Image Packaging System for OpenSolaris should be relevant to OpenIndiana as well. You can browse through that until

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How dowload OI packages from Linux

2012-04-11 Thread Jan Owoc
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: - Opprinnelig melding - I'm trying to install OI Desktop (build 151a) in my netbook (HP Compaq Mini 110C) but OI haven't any driver to network card or wireless card. Then i have no internet in OI. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot open: Illegal byte sequence with a file containing a question mark

2012-04-26 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Flo flor...@acw.at wrote: Are there any disadvantages with utf8only disabled? If you have a filesystem that is utf8only with a specific normalization scheme, then all files will have consistent names. Otherwise, the files could have various odd filenames. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: Finally, it looks like OI has some support for 4k sector disks: http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 and ZFS pools can be created with the 'zpool create block-size 4096 ...' option.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: The patch allowing this option was, for various reasons, rejected, and no such option currently exists. Are you able to forward a link to the reasons? I'm asking because were they technical (i.e. something

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice come back with 3.4 release

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Owoc
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:12 PM, cpforum cpfo...@orange.fr wrote: After a long time, Apache Software Fondation published yesterday OpenOffice 3.4. Solaris/OpenIndiana binaries are not available yet ! (same for LibreOffice). [...] Who knows ASF plans for Solaris11/Openindiana  Aoo binaries

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cron best practice

2012-05-14 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a bit of best practice advice. On Windows systems I usually create a job runner account with the correct permissions to run batch scripts when they need to be scheduled, so the jobs aren't tied to specific

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem route traceroute pkg.openindiana.org on 109.71.206.26

2012-05-17 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Arhipkin Ilya i...@arhipkin.com wrote: ilya@miass:~$ traceroute pkg.openindiana.org traceroute to pkg.openindiana.org (91.194.74.133), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets  1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.618 ms 0.549 ms 0.475 ms [...] 13 te3-2-0-cr0.nik.nl.as6908.net

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problem route traceroute pkg.openindiana.org on 109.71.206.26

2012-05-18 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Arhipkin Ilya i...@arhipkin.com wrote: Milan Jurik писал 2012-05-19 00:46: Hi, did you speak with your ISP? Best regards, Milan I have a grudge against one of my ISP's phone conversation with the customer service ended with imprisonment without trial, I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nvidia Driver 295.53

2012-06-02 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:27 AM, russell str...@willows7.myzen.co.uk wrote: I noticed after upgrading to Nvidia Driver 295.53 that the driver supports a colour depth of 30 giving 1.1 billion colours as an experimental feature does the current release of X implemented in OI_151.1.4 support

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] problems with permissions on smb share

2012-06-04 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Robbie Crash sardonic.smi...@gmail.com wrote: I see two problems, The first is that you've got your ACL's set to not propagate to files/directories: This:  user:oi:rwxpdDaARWcCos:---:allow Means that the owner has full access to that file, but not to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-04 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Nick Hall darknovan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering buying a separate SSD drive for my ZIL as I do quite a bit over NFS and would like the latency to improve. But first I'm trying to understand exactly how the ZIL works and what happens in case of a problem.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-05 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Nick Hall darknovan...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: The data on the main pool is always consistent in that a certain operation either made it to the disk or it didn't. However, if your application depends

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

2012-06-24 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:01 AM, michelle miche...@msknight.com wrote: Situation - home-type standard PC, 4gig of RAM, running two SSDs in a mirrored root raid pool. Three 2tb hard drives in a raidz. System is...             OpenIndiana Development oi_151.1.4 X86 (powered by illumos) [...]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-25 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Vishwas Durai vishw...@arkologic.com wrote: I'm wondering what options are available for root filesystem in OI? By default,  install  uses ZFS and creates a rpool. I was about to say, use UFS, but I found this:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't mirror these disks

2012-06-28 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Daniel Kjar dk...@elmira.edu wrote: Anyone have a clue why?  This is on 151a4 dsk@bio1:/# zpool attach home c8t0d0 c8t1d0 cannot attach c8t1d0 to c8t0d0: devices have different sector alignment c8t1do: ascii name  = ATA-ST1500DM003-9YN1-CC4C-1.36TB [...]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Snapshot question

2012-08-02 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Mark, On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: What I should have done (I think) is set up the zfs file system for each VM at the level below ../vmimages, that is: zfs create datastore/vmimages/server1. That way, auto-snapshot would be creating snapshots for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance

2012-08-08 Thread Jan Owoc
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote: On 08/08/2012 16:47, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Has anyone done any testing on the performance of an SSD for swap vs disk? I'm currently fully populated at 12 GB in my Z400. That should work, but if you really

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Calibre doc converter to ebooks formats for OpenIndiana??

2012-08-09 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Milan Jurik milan.ju...@xylab.cz wrote: Sooner or later Python 3.2 will be provided in OI SFE but I am not sure how much it can coexists with 2.6 Many GNU/Linux distributions have both a Python2 and a Python3 in their repositories. I happen to have both installed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] found bug in time slider

2012-08-10 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:31 PM, openindiana openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: If there is a comma in your password, then you can't launch the Time Slider gui util. Where is a good place to report this bug? Freshly installed openindiana 151a5, 64bit, intel. Desktop. The issue tracker is:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] making dual monitor support persistent across reboots

2012-08-26 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote: The Xorg man page suggest I need a xorg.conf file in /etc or one of several other locations. Yes, there are specific locations from where Xorg will read the file. The Nvidia X Server GUI appears to create one

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] making dual monitor support persistent across reboots

2012-08-26 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote: On 08/26/12 07:31 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: This file that was generated... did you put it in /etc (or one of the named directories), or did it end up in your home folder (not one of the locations Xorg looks)? based

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

2012-08-29 Thread Jan Owoc
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Julius Roberts hooliowobb...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 August 2012 21:37, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: I'm not sure when encryption was added to zfs, but you might have to get solaris 11 from oracle. As far as i know, OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Open Indiana openindi...@out-side.nl wrote: It is a true nightmare that the hard work of a lot of volunteers and the people of the old Sun company dies because it has been sucked empty by the commercial snakes. How Is it possible that companies can take

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-08-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup User for zfs send and receive

2012-09-02 Thread Jan Owoc
I don't actually know how this is supposed to work, but I noticed a difference between what you two wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Florian flor...@acw.at wrote: I used this command: zfs send -R tank/raid1-0@20120831-2017 | ssh backup@192.168.10.201/usr/sbin/zfs receive -Fduv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Magnus mag...@yonderway.com wrote: On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I expect that this became available in oi_151a_prestable5 (however, oi_151a_prestable6 is out today!). I'm looking at http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/ and it looks like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with netcat zfs receive

2012-09-11 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: The guy who used to do it used cron, and because the files changed size he couldn't guarantee when they would finish ... he went on holiday for 2 weeks and after 3 days of the servers crashing I rewrote his whole

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to help if you are not developer: Re: OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-12 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Michael Schuster michaelspriv...@gmail.com wrote: something else that comes to mind where a non-programmer can help: Testing. While I'm by no means an expert in this subject, I can think of: installation tests (which HW? how long? are the results as

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Won't start

2012-09-13 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Bob, On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Bob Palank b...@stlcc.org wrote: Running XP Pro SP3 w Virtual Box 4.1.22. OI goes through the startup process, shows the blue screen with the logo and I see the black mouse pointer which I can move. After ten minutes the cd load indicator is still

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Wont start - Resolved

2012-09-14 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Bob, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Bob Palank b...@stlcc.org wrote: B) what do you have set as the OS type? Microsoft Windows Ver Windows XP In VirtualBox, if you specify what the host OS is, VirtualBox sets certain things to what has been found to work. I suggest changing the guest OS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HFS+ (Apple file system) read/write support on Illumos -- interest levels?

2012-09-14 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Dave, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Dave Pooser dave...@pooserville.com wrote: At $DAYJOB we have a need to get files from Mac-formatted (HFS+) volumes from video record appliances onto ZFS-based storage towers (because when you're talking about the only video recordings of a major

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XStreamOS distro available

2012-09-19 Thread Jan Owoc
Not sure if you tried this, but maybe the mirror you selected is having issues. Try a different one. Jan On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Dan Swartzendruber dswa...@druber.com wrote: I don't know. I tried a couple. Maybe something at my end. I'll try again later I guess... -Original

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Swap during install

2012-09-24 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 9/24/12, Gabriele Bulfon gbul...@sonicle.com wrote: I noticed that I usually have to grow the default swap installed by OI or XStreamOS, because the default text installer set up following some rules

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sharesmb=off refresh problem

2012-09-25 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Sebastian Gabler sequoiamo...@gmx.net wrote: I detected lately that if I set a zfs filesystem to sharesmb=off, the share will only be disabled on a subsequent re-start of the CIFS server. In the meantime they remain accessible, but it is removed from the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Seagate 3000GB Drive only shows 746GB

2012-09-28 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: From my notes configuring a 3 TB Hitachi in June 2011 on Sol 10 u8. After considerable fubar, the key to formatting the 3 TB disk was to use, 'format -e', supply LBA pseudo geometry create an EFI label. NB Must

[OpenIndiana-discuss] dismissing zpool upgrade notice

2012-10-01 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, I recently updated my system to oi_151a6 (from oi_151a3, a fresh install). I read up on the advantages and disadvantages of upgrading the zpool, and decided it's best for my data to stay at zpool version 28 (I can potentially read the drives on any of Solaris, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD etc.). My

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dismissing zpool upgrade notice [solved]

2012-10-04 Thread Jan Owoc
This has been solved on zfs-discuss. If someone finds this thread in the future, in summary: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Thorsten Heit thorsten.h...@vkb.de wrote: B) Is there a way to have zpool status -x only give output when the pool is actually exhibiting errors or is otherwise

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Raid type selection for large # of ssds

2012-10-05 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Grant, On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Grant Albitz galb...@albitz.biz wrote: I feel bad asking this question because I generally know what raid type to pick. I am about to configure 24 256gig ssd drives in a ZFS/Comstar deployment. This will serve as the datastore for a vmware

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Announce - WAS:::::::Re: 151a7 text installer

2012-10-10 Thread Jan Owoc
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote: I am making an assumption from the contents of this thread that 151a7 has been released. I have just reconfirmed that I am already subscribed to: OpenIndiana-announce What mailing list do I need to be on to get

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-12 Thread Jan Owoc
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: It is easy to understand that zfs srubs can be useful, But, How often do we scrub or the equivalent of any other file system? UFS? VXFS? NTFS? ... If your data has checksums, it is standard practice to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS, Samba, Windows ACLs

2012-10-12 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Levon, This is probably the best place to ask OI-related questions :-). I can only answer your 2nd. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:51 PM, lbr...@me.com wrote: And, -chmod A- /tank1/Data --Try `chmod --help' for more information. So the chmod accepts options in a different manner. I read the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS; what the manuals don't say ...

2012-10-28 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: As I understand, fragmentation occurs when you remove files and rewrite files to a storage pool a large enough number of times. So if I have a fragmented storage pool and copy all files to a new empty storage

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to disable local/remote login, still allowing access to smb share?

2012-10-29 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Dmitry, On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Dmitry Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com wrote: I am still newbie to UNIX administration. Please advise. After setting up a storage server (a number of smb shares, as described at http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Using+OpenIndiana+as+a+storage+server), I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] December 27th 1986

2013-01-19 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, I have a home NAS that I'm running on an Asus E35M1-I (AMD E-350) motherboard. When I do a shutdown using init 5, and then physically walk over to power it on (without ever unplugging the power), sometimes the system powers up with the date set to December 27th 1986. I have ntp installed, so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 install on 4k sector disk

2013-01-26 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to install on a 3 TB HGST disk which reports 512 byte sectors using the text installer. The system is an HP N40L and is intended to be a ZFS based NFS server for a Solaris 10 workstation. format(1m)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

2013-01-31 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: I tried to use the LiveCD installer to install on a 2 TB Seagate ST2000DM001 in an N40L. This is intended to be a headless server, but I'd like to have multiple terminal windows when I configure or need to do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto snapshots

2013-02-01 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Harry, On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I do remember there was a problem with auto snapshots in the early builds available shortly after the break from opensolaris to openindiana. I think build 148 to 150 were the last builds I used. Has that issue

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new SXCE distribution now available

2013-02-01 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Al, On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Al Hopper a...@logical-approach.com wrote: Martin Bochnig has developed a new Solaris distribution called SXCE. It's available at http://www.opensxce.org My involvement in this project is simply to provide a distribution mechanism for Martins work.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] force ZFS to update disk quota info

2013-02-07 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:08 PM, CJ Keist cj.ke...@colostate.edu wrote: Info: OpenIndiana (powered by illumos)SunOS 5.11oi_151a5June 2012 We have ZFS folder with disk quota set on it. That folder filled up, so the user delete about 3Gb of files. Problem is that ZFS still thinks

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Script to clean mess after zfs-auto-snapshot

2013-02-11 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Roman Naumenko ro...@naumenko.ca wrote: After another big clenup on home filer during which I got terrible headache because of zfs-auto-snapshost, I decided to ask if anybody tried to simplified snapshot management. I think everyone has slightly different

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Script to clean mess after zfs-auto-snapshot

2013-02-11 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Roman Naumenko ro...@naumenko.ca wrote: Jan Owoc said the following, on 11-02-13 8:35 PM: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Roman Naumenko ro...@naumenko.ca wrote: After another big clenup on home filer during which I got terrible headache because of zfs-auto

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using fwflash for SATA SSDs

2013-02-12 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Sebastian Gabler sequoiamo...@gmx.net wrote: I am considering to update firmware on two SSDs in my file server. The models are Intel X25-M and OCZ Vertex 2. Obviously, the manufacturers are providing proprietary tools on DOS or Windows to flash the drives.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot makes snapshots even if false set

2013-02-14 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Roman Naumenko ro...@naumenko.ca wrote: I have a weird issue with zfs-auto-snapshot on oi_151a5, it continues to make snapshots even when I asked not to do so. [...] Initially it inherited snapshot options for dataset above, but when I set all options to false

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Hans, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue is discussed, it turns out all the advice only ever deals with SCSI or SAS drives. After reading this page [1],

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue is discussed, it turns out all the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-17 Thread Jan Owoc
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Timothy Coalson tsc...@mst.edu wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: You also said the raidz2 will offer more protection against failure, because you can survive any two disk failures (but no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana.org down?

2013-04-30 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:22 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: On Apr 29, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Dear all, what has happened to wiki.openindiana.org and www.openindiana.orghttp://www.openindiana.org ? Both seem to be unreachable from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Destroying unavailable ZFS dataset

2013-06-01 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Michelle, On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Michelle Knight miche...@msknight.com wrote: The system contained two SSD drives for the OI OS, mirrored. The data was kept on a zfs pool called data - (yeh, original, I know) - which consisted of three WD green drives. These were previously

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana compatibility with AMD Llano

2012-01-11 Thread Jan Owoc
I found the feature set offered by the AMD A75 chipset (6x SATA3, USB3.0, 64GB of RAM) combined with an AMD A4/A6 APU to be appealing as the basis for a home-NAS. I don't see motherboards with this chipset listed in the Solaris HCL (or am not looking hard enough). Has anyone tried it? I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana compatibility with AMD Llano

2012-01-12 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Milan, On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Milan Jurik milan.ju...@xylab.cz wrote: On 11.01.2012 23:15, Jan Owoc wrote: I'm looking specifically at the Asus F1A75-V PRO: - AMD A75 FCH (Hudson D3) chipset (SATA3 and USB3 - compatible?) USB3 is not supported by OpenIndiana, it requires new

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi will not load

2012-01-18 Thread Jan Owoc
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Bob Palank b...@stlcc.org wrote: Running Virtual box (4.1.8)  under XP Pro SP3 I have the exact same version of VirtualBox and Windows (32-bit) in my test setup, and both the desktop and server versions of oi151a work for me. What should I do ? Do you have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana as a production archive service

2012-01-19 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Len, I'm just starting with OpenIndiana, but I can try to answer two of your questions. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Len Zaifman leona...@sickkids.ca wrote: 2) Running a file service with ~ 36 disks in three  11 disk (9+2) raidz2 vdevs + hotspares, almost all data will be copied from

[OpenIndiana-discuss] time-slider will not start due to dbus security policy on oi151a-text

2012-01-23 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, I'm having trouble starting time-slider on the text version of oi151a. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install oi151a text. 2. Reboot. Login. Run: # pkg install time-slider # svcadm enable -r time-slider 3. Obtain error. Time-slider put in maintenance mode. # svcs -xv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool version compatibility

2013-06-10 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Heinrich van Riel heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Since there is a split pool version is version 28 the highest that would be compatible between the releases or can I import a version 29

[OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-23 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, 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 should run headless. I found there is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 21:54 +0200, Nikola M. wrote: On 06/24/13 02:41 PM, Michael Stapleton wrote: check out www.techsologic.com if you are interested. I see it is closed source proprietary software with a custom license and usage rights. I suggest to this mailing list members not to just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try installing and running VirtualBox sometime over the next few weeks and post back if I have any problems that aren't addressed in the wiki. I was able to follow along with the wiki, consulting VirtualBox documentation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 crashing when trying to import ZFS pool

2013-07-08 Thread Jan Owoc
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:42 AM, CJ Keist cj.ke...@colostate.edu wrote: I'm in a big bind. Have a OI system running 151a7 and this morning the system was hung. I did force reboot and when the system tryies to mount my 57TB zfs data pool it doing a system panic and dumps core. The raid

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 crashing when trying to import ZFS pool

2013-07-08 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:36 PM, CJ Keist cj.ke...@colostate.edu wrote: On 7/8/13 11:49 AM, Jan Owoc wrote: Do you know what zpool version is on there? If it's zpool 28 (i.e. without feature flags), you could try any of a number of other OSes to see if they are able to not crash when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I want to contribute

2013-07-17 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Devyn, On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson devyncjohn...@gmail.com wrote: I want to contribute to OpenIndiana. Where can I port software? Where can I write documentation? Where can I proof-read documentation. Are beta testers needed? The most effective way to contribute

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gradually expanding zpool size

2013-07-31 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Mark, On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering putting together a storage server running OI and I'm wondering about whether I should have to fill all the slots from the start if I don't need that much storage yet. There are certain things you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] iSCSI

2013-08-06 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Piotr, On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Piotr May piotr@inea.com.pl wrote: I seek guide (simple please ..) How the Configure iSCSI Most Solaris-related documentation is equally applicable to OpenIndiana. If you go to the OpenSolaris documentation [1], you should find a section Using a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool crashes system on reboot and import

2013-12-12 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:50 AM, CJ Keist cj.ke...@colostate.edu wrote: Thanks. Stephan, What is the process or time frame of a bug fix in ZFS from Oracle making it's way down to Illuminous and on to OI? From what I understand, there isn't one. The two are developed independently. However,