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

2012-01-29 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/30/2012 04:48 AM, Jan Owoc wrote: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 11/11 Opensource part1 and part2

2012-02-01 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/02/2012 12:04 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote: I take it that the once-promised/planned kernel source release for Solaris 11 is officially canceled... Frankly, this whole situation reminds me a bit of the situation with Borland's InterBase DBMS. First, it was released as open source and then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox on OpenIndiana

2012-03-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/19/2012 06:34 AM, Geoff Nordli 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. Are there other people having

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell PERC H200: drive failed to power up

2012-05-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
Hi, I'm getting weird errors while trying to install openindiana 151a on a Dell R715 with a PERC H200 (based on an LSI SAS 2008). Any time the OS tries to access the drives (for whatever reason), I get this dumped into syslog: genunix: WARNING: Device

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagnosis help needed

2012-06-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 06/25/2012 09:31 PM, michelle wrote: I did a hard reset and moved the drive to another channel. The fault followed the drive so I'm certain it is the drive, as people have said. Then return it for warranty repairs or get a new one. SMART data should help you get a clearer picture of

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell) and while their hardware is generally good, their Solaris support is often times a story of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 08:01 PM, Rich wrote: What firmware reflashing are you thinking of? I don't expect a need to reflash the H310 unless you're going for the IT firmware... The H310 isn't supported by Illumos, according to the following thread:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 08:32 PM, Rich wrote: Is there a reason that just adding the PCI ID to mr_sas won't do anything sane? [I don't disagree re: IT FW + ZFS RAID versus hardware raid, just wondering.] That *might* be all that's needed, but I'm not sure if it's really all that simple. Judging from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 09:08 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: Silicon Mechanics Do they ship to and offer support in the EU? Cheers, -- Saso ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 10:03 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] am i blind? MAC address zones

2012-07-04 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/04/2012 01:57 PM, Open Indiana wrote: I must be blind or stupid and maybe both are be true. But where the h do I find the MAC-address of my zone's IP-address? (in-nonglobal-zone)# ifconfig vnic0 vnic0: flags=201000843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS mtu 1500 index 2 inet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

2012-07-05 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
find anything within a zone I created today -Original Message- From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] Sent: woensdag 4 juli 2012 23:38 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5 On 07

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

2012-07-09 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/05/2012 03:49 PM, Jon Tibble wrote: prestable3 == oi_151a4 == 0.151.1.4 The versioning was brought into line in prestable5 as the release notes for a5 state. So is there a method by which I can get zone installation to work again on oi_151a4 hosts? Cheers, -- Saso

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

2012-07-09 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/09/2012 01:31 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 07/05/2012 03:49 PM, Jon Tibble wrote: prestable3 == oi_151a4 == 0.151.1.4 The versioning was brought into line in prestable5 as the release notes for a5 state. So is there a method by which I can get zone installation to work again

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on SPARC

2012-07-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/31/2012 07:53 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: ALL RIGHT, SPARC enthusiasts )) Thanks for all your kind comments. Moment, moment ... As I said before, I still need a few days (1 week?, 2 weeks?, 3 weeks?). You won't be disappointed this time, as Xsun is the key: (just works!) In the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on SPARC

2012-07-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/31/2012 10:52 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: Awesome man. I take it that since you're only battling Xsun at the moment, that text-OI as such (without a GUI) is working fine. Can you do a code/binary drop? I'd like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on SPARC

2012-07-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/31/2012 11:13 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: Hi Sašo, Oh, my curiosity certainly isn't worth changing your schedule for. I don't have anything running yet. I have a couple of older Netra 240 machines (currently on S10) which I could use for some testing, but that will take me some days

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
I've run into a bizzare issue. An NFS export I have in /etc/vfstab fails to automount on an OI client at boot, even though the filesystem is clearly marked as mount at boot: #device device mount FS fsckmount mount #to mount to fsck point

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/06/2012 02:03 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: For nfsv3 svc:/network/nfs/client:default should be enabled. All these should be enabled for nfsv4 online Jun_29 svc:/network/nfs/cbd:default online Jun_29 svc:/network/nfs/status:default online Jun_29

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/06/2012 02:15 PM, James Carlson wrote: Sašo Kiselkov wrote: I've run into a bizzare issue. An NFS export I have in /etc/vfstab fails to automount on an OI client at boot, even though the filesystem is clearly marked as mount at boot: #device device mount FS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/06/2012 03:21 PM, James Carlson wrote: Daniel Kjar wrote: Thanks for asking about this. I had just assumed the same. Machines I updated all the way from opensolaris still mounted nfs at boot but my clean 151a5s did not. Very annoying when apache fails cause it didn't mount htdocs from

[OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool on mirrored USB flash drives

2012-08-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
I'm considering rebuilding my home server (an HP MicroServer) for some higher capacity and dumping the single 250GB rpool disk and instead replace it with a pair of USB flash sticks (no need to preserve data, I'll copy stuff around and help the system along with booting). The question is, is this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool on mirrored USB flash drives

2012-08-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/06/2012 04:43 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: On 7 August 2012 00:21, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering rebuilding my home server (an HP MicroServer) for some higher capacity and dumping the single 250GB rpool disk and instead replace it with a pair of USB flash

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/06/2012 09:19 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Aug 6, 2012, at 5:15 AM, James Carlson wrote: It's never been possible to mount NFS at boot. Well, some of us old farts remember nd, and later, NFS-based diskless workstations :-) The current lack of support for diskless leaves an empty

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/24/2012 12:25 PM, Julius Roberts wrote: On 24 August 2012 15:03, Robbie Crash sardonic.smi...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using compression or dedup on the FS? Yes, both. We're getting about 1.5x dedup on the Backups pool, So let me get this straight, you've got a 2TB dataset with dedup

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/24/2012 12:25 PM, Julius Roberts wrote: On 24 August 2012 15:03, Robbie Crash sardonic.smi...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using compression or dedup on the FS? We're getting about 1.5x dedup P.S. 1.5x for dedup is essentially worthless for its cost in RAM and performance. You'll be much

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/24/2012 01:56 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I went the m1015 route. Flashing was a bit tricky but was worth it (IMO) to get rid of the raid stack and possible complications. LSI SAS2008-based cards (such as your m1015) are great. No RAID nonsense, good performance and very reliable. Good

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/24/2012 05:59 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: We use the LSI 9211-8i SAS/SATA controllers with the IT (direct attach) firmware. We do have to reflash but it works quite well. We're stuffing 3 of them into 2U 24 drive (2.5in) Supermicro chasses with the direct attach (no SAS expanders)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/24/2012 06:04 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: We've had a ton of issues with expanders causing resets. A side benefit, is we get the full IO bandwidth available to each drive. What expanders have you been running on? I'm only using expanders with LSI chips in them, so interoperability

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for ZFS Pool?

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/24/2012 05:53 PM, Bryan N Iotti wrote: Sorry to reopen an old post, but I have some questions I can't seem to find an answer to myself... I recently caved in and bought an LSI 3041E-R HBA, which I reflashed to Initiator Target firmware, the latest version available. I have my usual

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/24/2012 06:15 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: On 8/24/2012 12:08 PM, Rich wrote: You know, you'd think so. There's lots of opinions on SAS expanders, and the general consensus seems to be if you can avoid the complication, doso. The only complaints I've heard are putting SATA drives

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/24/2012 10:12 PM, Jason Matthews wrote: I only have one gripe with the mpt2 based cards (2008, 2308, etc) is that they cant currently be used as boot devices in the presence of an Intel 910 SSD. I have defect 490258-218190922 logged at LSI but there is seemingly no movement after

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
open PCIe slots, and SATA over PCI is a waste of everything. Are the issues with SATA over SAS expanders that prevalent? I haven't had any issues with SATA over SAS on my LSI controller. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: On 08/24/2012 06:15 PM, Dan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/25/2012 04:26 AM, Timothy Coalson wrote: Would, say, a scrub cause that kind of bus contention, and trigger the bad behavior? That would be rather problematic for ZFS if you couldn't even scrub your pool without devices dropping. I ask because I built a storage system with SATA on LSI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/25/2012 03:42 PM, Jordan McQuown wrote: I can say from experience chaining supermicro sas chassis with any type of disk can be a recipe for disaster. Lsiutil reported a couple million errors in a couple months time which eventually led to some sort of contention and corruption on both

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/26/2012 01:10 AM, Timothy Coalson wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/25/2012 03:42 PM, Jordan McQuown wrote: I can say from experience chaining supermicro sas chassis with any type of disk can be a recipe for disaster. Lsiutil

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] slow speed problem with a new SAS shelf

2012-08-27 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/26/2012 07:40 AM, Yuri Vorobyev wrote: Can someone with Supermicro JBOD equipped with SAS drives and LSI HBA do this sequential read test? Did that on a SC847 with 45 drives, read speeds around 2GB/s aren't a problem. Don't forget to set primarycache=none on testing dataset. There's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] slow speed problem with a new SAS shelf

2012-08-27 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/27/2012 10:37 AM, Yuri Vorobyev wrote: Is there any way to disable ARC for testing and leave prefetch enabled? No. The reason is quite simply because prefetch is a mechanism separate from your direct application's read requests. Prefetch runs on ahead of your anticipated read requests and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] slow speed problem with a new SAS shelf

2012-08-27 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/27/2012 12:58 PM, Yuri Vorobyev wrote: 27.08.2012 14:43, Sašo Kiselkov пишет: Is there any way to disable ARC for testing and leave prefetch enabled? No. The reason is quite simply because prefetch is a mechanism separate from your direct application's read requests. Prefetch runs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL R320

2012-08-28 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/28/2012 12:11 PM, Open Indiana wrote: 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: 1. PERC H710 Integrated RAID Controller, 512MB NV

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Experiences with Supermicro backplane

2012-08-28 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/28/2012 05:02 PM, Franz Schober wrote: Hi, we are looking for a new storage system based on a Supermicro Chassis 826BE26-R920LPB with a BPN-SAS2-826EL2 backplane with two LSI SAS2X28 expander chips and a LSI SAS 9211-8i (LSI SAS2008 chip) hba controller. Does anyone of you have any

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

2012-08-28 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/29/2012 01:27 AM, Julius Roberts wrote: anyone? Hi Julius, Seems like nobody picked up the question, so I'm going to. On 28 August 2012 14:42, Julius Roberts hooliowobb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, due to a lack of high-speed networking, we're unable to replicate our ZFS pool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL R320

2012-08-29 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/29/2012 03:29 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: The PERCs are kludgy with OI because with the correct drivers, you will still end up having to configure each individual drive as standalone RAID0 in order for the controller to present them to OI for use in a ZFS file system. This is only true of

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

2012-08-30 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/30/2012 01:37 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: 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

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

2012-08-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/31/2012 08:31 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: And the farewell message (if you can call it that) here: http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/ http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/thread.html has

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

2012-08-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/31/2012 09:22 PM, Ron Dawson wrote: In my workplace we are still using some SPARC desktop applications on aging Sun SPARC workstations and Tadpole laptops. We also utilize Sun Ray technology extensively in our training environment. (As an aside, I remember talking to Garrett back when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Interest in OpenIndiana VPS host?

2012-09-08 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/08/2012 05:07 AM, Magnus wrote: The opportunities seem so slim that I keep getting this idea in my head of buying a nicely spec'd entry level 1U server, carving out a couple of zones for my own use, and leasing out the rest of the surplus capacity on the box by the slice to recoup

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/10/2012 02:14 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: If you want all these bugs, rather that sill wait, pls. let me know. Then I can offer the current instable alpha version via dyndns. Screenshot.png (image/png) 590K Screenshot-1.png (image/png) 359K Screenshot-2.png (image/png) 364K p.s.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/10/2012 02:14 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: And creating a new 10GB solaris and gzip-9 compress it to 3GB takes 6 hours (and I consider this quick). One more thing: anything above gzip -6 is placebo. Please see https://www.illumos.org/attachments/726/lz4_compression_bench.ods for a quick

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/10/2012 02:49 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: I know, But on everything starting at 1GHz it is not that bad. The reason was: Of course I'm aware of the smaller compression ratios. But then DualLayer would be a requirement. If you like and if time allows, I can offer two versions of that ISO.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/10/2012 03:10 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: However, in case of the current stuff a 4.4GB DVD is 99% full. So even 1MB too much is ... still too much. Of course we could simply delete something that nobody wants to use on such a LiveDVD. Let's see what i/o compression of stuff inside the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/10/2012 04:44 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I got a 256GB Crucial M4 to use for L2ARC for my OI box. I added it to the tank pool and let it warm for a day or so. By that point, 'zpool iostat -v' said the cache device had about 9GB of data, but (and this is what has me puzzled) kstat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

2012-09-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/11/2012 03:27 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Saso, I think you might be on to something here. This is a handful of VM's, none doing anything all that disk intensive, so any disk I/O will tend to be somewhat random. I'm not so worried about premature death of the device, since it's a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI as file storage server

2012-09-14 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/14/2012 09:07 AM, Neddy, NH. Nam wrote: Hi everybody, I have a question and may somebody help me to find the solution please? Let say, my current system where I'm working is too old and it's easy to break up if something wrong happens (lucky for me, there's still nothing wrong). And

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

2012-09-28 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/28/2012 01:06 PM, Rainer Heilke wrote: Greetings. I've connected a Seagate 3000GB HDD to my OpenIndiana oi_151.1.6 X86 server. But when I try to use it, only 746GB show. Printing the partition table from format shows: partition pri Current partition table (original): Total disk

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

2012-09-28 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 09/28/2012 01:27 PM, Rainer Heilke wrote: When I did a zpool create, it built a 744GB pool. What exact drive model is that? Cheers, -- Saso ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell Precision T3600 with Openindiana 151a7 ?

2012-10-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 10/11/2012 10:25 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: Hello, vendor wants us to buy Dell Precision T3600 with Xeon E5-1650 16 GB ECC. processor (C600 series Chipset, Raid Card H310 PCIe, Intel 82579 Gbe controller). Does anybody know if that works with OI151a7 ? Don't want to return 3 large

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell Precision T3600 with Openindiana 151a7 ?

2012-10-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 10/11/2012 11:23 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 11/10/2012 10:35, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 10/11/2012 10:25 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: Hello, vendor wants us to buy Dell Precision T3600 with Xeon E5-1650 16 GB ECC. processor (C600 series Chipset, Raid Card H310 PCIe, Intel 82579 Gbe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell Precision T3600 with Openindiana 151a7 ?

2012-10-12 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 10/12/2012 04:18 PM, Rich wrote: All 4 are listed in there as being SAS2008-based, which makes sense [AFAIK, Dell has no cards based on the LSI 22xx/23xx lines of chips yet]. Yeah, but it all often comes down to PCI IDs and firmwares. The LSI SAS 2008 can run various firmware versions,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell Precision T3600 with Openindiana 151a7 ?

2012-10-12 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 10/12/2012 04:26 PM, Neddy, NH. Nam wrote: Hi, I'm sorry for OT, but how could I know which controller chip model is on controller card? eg. on HP, IBM, etc ... ? Look at the manufacturer's datasheets, the chip is typically listed. Here's also a pre-compiled list of SAS2008-based cards:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on Dell R810

2012-10-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
Try disabling CPU C-states in the BIOS. It appears your machine is having trouble throttling CPUs into power-saving modes. -- Saso On 10/24/2012 11:22 AM, Ram Chander wrote: Below is the dmesg when it crashes . Oct 24 14:47:42 myhost unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu20: x86 (chipid 0x0

[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg update requiring new boot-environment in a zone?

2012-11-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
I'm trying to update a few zones on my oi_151a4 box and the update requests a new boot environment to be created - for the zone. Predictably, this fails, and specifying --deny-new-be in the zone makes pkg refuse to do the update. So here's the kicker: how does one update the image version inside

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg update requiring new boot-environment in a zone?

2012-11-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/02/2012 05:52 PM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: I'm trying to update a few zones on my oi_151a4 box and the update requests a new boot environment to be created - for the zone. Predictably, this fails, and specifying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Postgres 9 repo for OpenIndiana 11

2012-11-08 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/08/2012 03:27 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I believe there is a repository containing Postgres 9 for OpenIndiana somewhere - at least I remember hearing about it - but I can't find it for some reason. If you can point me to to it that will be appreciated. I'm using

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Postgres 9 repo for OpenIndiana 11

2012-11-08 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/08/2012 07:58 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Andrej, Thanks! I guess instructions ought never to be followed blindly, but rather creatively interpreted:) Sorry, I messed up, I wrote that down from memory and forgot about the flag. In any case, you are right, always read up on what the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone use gcj?

2012-11-12 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/12/2012 09:34 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: Just as a question: does anyone actually use gcj? I don't think I ever have, at least. One reason for the questions is that a gcc4.7.2 build is ~1G in size, half that is java support. So if I could just forget about that completely that saves

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone use gcj?

2012-11-13 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/13/2012 10:05 AM, Ilya Arhipkin wrote: got a question why just is not included in the compiler can only for violating the license GNU GPL? The rest of GCC is also covered by the GPL and that is distributed just fine, so it's not because of the license. As Peter Tribble noted, it's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-15 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/15/2012 12:38 PM, Florian wrote: Hello, has someone experience with Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes from two OI servers? I tested this on a virtual machine, but it would be great, if I can get some experience with such a combination! Will this work without

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS High-Availability and Sync Replication

2012-11-15 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/15/2012 12:48 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: How sophisticated does it need to be? I do 5-min dataset-based replication to a remote pool using zrep, but that's all I use it for - a backup... Well, it's more of a question of mapping out the landscape of available tools. Async replication

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs] ZFS High-Availability and Sync Replication

2012-11-18 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/17/2012 03:03 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs] ZFS High-Availability and Sync Replication

2012-11-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/18/2012 08:32 PM, Richard Elling wrote: more below... On Nov 18, 2012, at 3:13 AM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/17/2012 03:03 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: I've been lately looking around

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help: Dell PERC H310 Firmware for IT/IR mode.

2013-01-15 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/15/2013 08:48 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Robert W Johnson Jr wrote: We have a few Dell PERC H310 adapters which seem to be rebranded LSI 9211 8i cards. Can anyone who has successfully flashed the firmware from the LSI 9211 (SAS2008 chipset) IT/IR mode please post the steps taken to do so?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help: Dell PERC H310 Firmware for IT/IR mode.

2013-01-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2013 04:08 PM, Robert W Johnson Jr wrote: Unfortunately I'm using a few extra H310's in non dell servers and need to flash them otherwise I can't boot the server. Could you please chime in with a guide to reflash these controllers? My

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-17 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/18/2013 03:20 AM, David Scharbach wrote: I ran memtest86 for 3 passes, everything was ok there. Computer froze again today after only 1 day of uptime. I now have a dump file but I am confused as to what to do with it. Sorry to be a n00b but could you point me in the right

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-18 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/19/2013 01:53 AM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: From 1992 to I used to 1998, I used to work at the Denver Museum of Natural History -- now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. We had two or three DEC Vax's and an AIX machine there. It was their policy that once a week we had

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] December 27th 1986

2013-01-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/19/2013 05:37 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
Your dump device contains a crash dump from a kernel panic that your machine previously encountered. See http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/How+To+Report+Problems for a guide on how to extract useful information from the crash dump and post it here. In particular, you'll want to do savecore

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk 2TB

2013-01-20 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/20/2013 02:10 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 01/20/2013 01:57 PM, Ulrich Hagen wrote: Hello everyone, I have recently added an Intel SASUC8I controller to my home file server, and hooked up eight Western Digital Red 3000GB disks to it. Only after I started filling up the new pool I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk 2TB

2013-01-20 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/20/2013 03:47 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-01-20 13:57, Ulrich Hagen wrote: Hello everyone, I have recently added an Intel SASUC8I controller to my home file server, and hooked up eight Western Digital Red 3000GB disks to it. Only after I started filling up the new pool I noticed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk 2TB

2013-01-20 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
, started OI and created the pool using entire disks. And, to reply to Sašo Kiselkov: ashift is 9, these disk lie about their native sector size. So my pool will never be as fast as it could. Nope, they don't. What you're hitting is a bug in ZFS which incorrectly handles Advanced Format drives. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk 2TB

2013-01-20 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/2013 05:52 PM, Ulrich Hagen wrote: Sašo Kiselkov wrote: It indeed appears to be a hard limit of the LSI SAS 1068e chip, no newer firmware appears to fix this issue (which is bizarre, but I suppose LSI also knows how to force customers

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mapping devices in OI to physical devices

2013-01-22 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/22/2013 06:26 PM, Len Zaifman wrote: We have just had a major system meltdown and it took several days to fix. What we would have liked is 2 things we had on thumpers (Old SUN ZFS systems) 1) A tool to show the mapping of a solaris device name to a physical location 2) A tool to turn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
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 to the following alternatives: You get a huge increase

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vcenter server sharenfs issue

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/24/2013 03:57 PM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: Hello, I am using a share via nfs as esxi datastore for more than a year. 3 hosts have root access. I have added a vcenter server appliance to manage the esxi hosts, and added the vcenter server's IP address to the allowed hosts using zfs set

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/24/2013 06:38 PM, Dimitri Alexandris wrote: I will agree with the driver problem. My OI has 2 1G Intel ethernet bonded, and crashes at random times. There are also 2 10G ports connected and working fine. Symptom: OI crashes when a lot of traffic at the bond (5 - 40 minutes after

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP N40L configuration as a ZFS server

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/24/2013 10:13 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: I just unpacked an N40L and had a look around. It came w/ a single 2 GB DIMM. Would 4 GB be sufficient for a generally light load single user environment? Absolutely. What sort of disk throughput should I expect w/ that? That largely

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can I start OI from USB drive

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/24/2013 11:30 PM, Brogyányi József wrote: Hi I'd like to start my system from USB port.I think about USB stick or USB HDD. What do you think of my idea? Can I install OI on USB HDD or USB stick? Yep, you can. In fact, for Joyent's SmartOS (another Illumos distro), this is the only way

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NGINX/PHP-FPM tutuorials or instructions?

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/24/2013 11:36 PM, Bentley, Dain wrote: Thanks for the help. Is there a way to request php-fpm be added to the pkg list? The PHP-FPM with nginx beats apache mod-php hands down. I suggest you drop a line to the OI devs over at oi-...@openindiana.org (though some may read this list as

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vcenter server sharenfs issue

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/25/2013 12:01 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: Dear all, I found the problem after some desperate changes by accident, using Saso's recommendation #2. Vcsa apparently uses another interface to access data stores than for management console. After giving the management interface rw access

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NGINX/PHP-FPM tutuorials or instructions?

2013-01-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/25/2013 01:24 AM, Bentley, Dain wrote: Sure, where do I start? Not sure, I'm not familiar with how OI is built and how to contribute package manifests to the project for building. That's why I said go talk to the guys at oi-dev. -- Saso ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMCC/3Ware 9550SX-8LP

2013-01-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/25/2013 03:11 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NGINX/PHP-FPM tutuorials or instructions?

2013-01-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/25/2013 03:56 PM, Bentley, Dain wrote: Well to take advantage of php-fpm it appears I need 5.3 and php 5.2 is in the repos listed. I tried to build it from source but the autoconf pang is to new. Sorry to hear that. Hope you can build PHP 5.3 from source, and perhaps the OI maintainers

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 1.57 on VMWare randomness

2013-01-26 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/26/2013 08:15 PM, Roel_D wrote: I installed OI yesterday on VMWare server. After that i did some alterings and installed postgres and so. It all worked fine untill i ran out of memory so i did Shutdown -y . Bit this lead to single usermode so i did a init 5 from the console. This

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 1.57 on VMWare randomness

2013-01-26 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/26/2013 09:21 PM, Roel_D wrote: Well no-one told me that it changed ( the init part) and i still have some solaris 10 and 11 servers so it's a habbit to use the init commands. I will check these new commands asap. Check your Solaris 10 manpages for init - that one already includes

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

2013-01-26 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/26/2013 09:54 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Having got the 3 TB disk working in the Solaris 10 system where it belongs, I think I'll pass on doing battle w/ booting from disks 2 TB. I've got a zpool on a 3 TB USB disk actually functioning w/ 151_a7 which is a big improvement, but it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting from a drive detached from a ZFS mirrored root pool

2013-01-27 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/27/2013 01:04 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Because I can't boot from 3 TB drives, I'm trying to sort out plan B for configuring my N40L. If I stick the 250 GB disk that came w/ the system in the ODD slot and use that for the root pool w/ a 4x3 TB RAIDZ, what happens if my root pool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The ZFS Pool died when unmirrored CACHE Device is removed ...

2013-01-28 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/28/2013 02:31 PM, Shvayakov A. wrote: Hi, I created a ZFS Storage Pool with Cache and ZIL Devices on SSD. During the performance test I removed the Cache Device to simulate failure. Now I can't get an output from the commands zpool status, format etc. This commands hangs. Is this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The ZFS Pool died when unmirrored CACHE Device is removed ...

2013-01-28 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/28/2013 02:36 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 01/28/2013 02:31 PM, Shvayakov A. wrote: Hi, I created a ZFS Storage Pool with Cache and ZIL Devices on SSD. During the performance test I removed the Cache Device to simulate failure. Now I can't get an output from the commands zpool status

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hi Al: OpenSXCE upload completed 1 minute ago

2013-01-30 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/30/2013 11:48 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: They are two different animals. Below is what he posted to this list on December 17. I'm trying to save him some trouble here, since he's not living in very good conditions. I hadn't originally noticed this extensive list, though I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hi Al: OpenSXCE upload completed 1 minute ago

2013-01-31 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/31/2013 07:59 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: Hi there, They are two different animals. Below is what he posted to this list on December 17. I'm trying to save him some trouble here, since he's not living in very good conditions. I hadn't originally noticed this extensive list,

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