Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SDHC card support in OI?

2013-09-24 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 24, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Bryan N Iotti wrote: Any other ideas as to what I can try? A different reader? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 37, Issue 15)

2013-08-14 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:38 AM, James Relph wrote: the same servers as iSCSI targets has no iSCSI errors at the same time as VMware is freaking out Is VMware using iSCSI as well or NFS? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 11, 2013, at 9:59 AM, James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk wrote: Nope, dedicated physical 10Gb network for iSCSI/NFS traffic, with 4x 10Gb links (in an LACP bond) per device. Should be pretty solid really. If I recall correctly, you can set LACP parameters that determine how fast the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.

2013-02-10 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 10, 2013, at 3:36 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Would any opensource licenses forbid such sort of redistribution, BTW? I doubt many others are this persnickety but the Mozilla Foundation have strict redistribution terms when using the Firefox name -- just ask the Debian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Driggs
I see this question asked regularly... Generally speaking, the vast majority of browser exploits in the wild target windows browsers or their plugins like Java, Adobe Reader Flash, or ActiveX. So even if you're using one of those plugins with a Unix browser (of those available), you're already

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Driggs
On Nov 17, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: Even with x86 binary code, it is possible that the code may be able to resolve and invoke a standard C library call (e.g. system()) in a way which works on both Solaris and Linux. I've not seen any code that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Driggs
On Nov 17, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: Even with x86 binary code, it is possible that the code may be able to resolve and invoke a standard C library call (e.g. system()) in a way which works on both Solaris and Linux. The JavaScript I've seen most

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Project status

2012-04-08 Thread Gary Driggs
Anyone that signs up for a Wikipedia account is welcome to edit any page on the site. But edit and version history by author are part of the design of mediawiki.. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help buidling H264 Streaming Module for Apache

2012-03-04 Thread Gary Driggs
On Mar 4, 2012, at 11:01 PM, Milan Jurik wrote: The other option is to hack configure script to not use options from apxs What happens if you try to build it with apxs instead? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 1.51a not install on Hp DL385

2012-02-06 Thread Gary Driggs
It might help to let us know what generation it is, eg G6, G7, G8 etc. as they tend to differ considerably by way of their components, onboard controllers, etc. That said, did you happen to save the dmesg output from an OS that worked? -Gary ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

2012-01-25 Thread Gary Driggs
Yes, I've posted over they just today after someone there contacted me (I thought I was sub'd at some point). I just left a build running on an office VM. Next time I'll use the GUI installer so it gets all the gnome and X libs in advance but I think I finally met the prereqs (including a sym link

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

2012-01-25 Thread Gary Driggs
Sorry, I meant aclocal. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Suitable Dev box to replace Ultra 80

2012-01-23 Thread Gary Driggs
The Solaris port to ARM is stagnant; http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+osarm ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2012-01-17 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 17, 2012, James Carlson wrote: Why would you want to do that ... ? ECDSA keys would be reason enough alone for me. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any openindiana based website hosting ?

2012-01-07 Thread Gary Driggs
in no particular order: http://entic.net/Servers http://www.everycity.co.uk and the illumos/OI variant, SmartOS: http://www.joyent.com/products/smartmachines ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-07 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 7, 2012, Nikola M. wrote: It means Oracle not willing to make x86 hardware to run non-Oracle software on it. Then why did they send me a Windows driver disc with the X4170 M2 we bought last year? Maybe it's explained somewhere in their Windows 2008 Server install guide for the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 6, 2012, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: Well, if someone would make use of those files that Oracle shared in BitTorrent 1. It's not a legit release and therefore a legal grey area 2. We don't know who released it but either way see #1 3. It's most likely that Solaris 11 changes are spread

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-05 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 5, 2012, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: Can anyone point me at some controller that would pair well. Any of the 6Gb SAS HBAs from LSI that have external ports. However, you might avoid their 3ware line as the last time I tried one with HP hardware it couldn't load the card's firmware even

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-27 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 27, 2011, at 2:19 AM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: You can pretty much guarantee that the only time this will ever be publicly addressed, if indeed it ever is at all, will be in the form of legal proceedings. Against who/m? Torrent users/sites? Mailing lists? Open source projects? There's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-20 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 20, 2011, LinuxBSDos.com wrote: Sounds like you have looked at the code. If true, please do not post anything about it here Yeah, no spoilers, man. The release notes Oracle fora posters already told us that JumpStart, lu, nwam, SMC, wcadmin, Xsun, CDE, and sun4u architecture have all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

2011-12-09 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 9, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Kent Watsen wrote: VBox will run on AMD, whereas KVM won't (unfortunately) Do you mean KVM under OI? I ask for clarification because I'm pretty sure KVM under Linux supports both. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-03 Thread Gary Driggs
Fwiw, iometer will test all manner of read/write throughput. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-03 Thread Gary Driggs
Actually, I meant iozone but if iometer is current then it might be worth looking at as well. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-14 Thread Gary Driggs
I am a bit curious why NFSv4 would be the first choice for such a small LAN as the original poster's. Do you wish to use Kerberos and ACLs to manage access from Windows? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] sd_max_throttle

2011-11-03 Thread Gary Driggs
Has anyone here had need to tweak sd_max_throttle kernel/project setting for their direct attached, fibre channel, or iSCSI storage? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS and aggregation

2011-10-20 Thread Gary Driggs
If you need multiple connections, use multiple IPs and/or host names. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dual boot with Linux

2011-09-30 Thread Gary Driggs
I forgot that Mint is based on Ubuntu so therefore you're dealing with Grub 2. Have a look for /etc/grub.d/40_custom. Alternately, edit /etc/default/grub and set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false (or comment it out if set to true). I don't know how well Grub 2 plays with Solaris2 partitions but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dual boot with Linux

2011-09-29 Thread Gary Driggs
This walkthrough should still work unless grub has changed in recent revs of Ubuntu. If so, you'll need to find the location of the grub config file... http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+documentation/Installing%2DOpenSolaris%2Don%2DNew%2DLinux%2DPartition

[OpenIndiana-discuss] UEFI (née An article from the register)

2011-09-24 Thread Gary Driggs
Microsoft has made a public statement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the-pre-os-environment-with-uefi.aspx And Matthew Garrett from Red Hat has responded with more analysis: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to remove all X11 packages under oi_151

2011-09-06 Thread Gary Driggs
I tend to just change /etc/inittab to default to run level three. This way I can still run VNC for the occasional obnoxious installer that requires a GUI. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE repository packages

2011-09-03 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 2, 2011, Russell wrote: Has anyone be able to get VLC to play dvds with audio and video? Does the VLC package come with libdvdcss? If not, there's your problem. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Distributor License for Java retired

2011-08-28 Thread Gary Driggs
Does this affect OI? http://jdk-distros.java.net ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hi - can anybody help me get OI installed the way I'd like?

2011-08-27 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 27, 2011, at 6:16 AM, James Mansion wrote: What I'd like to do is to install on one disk (happens to be an ssd) which is partitioned so that I can boot from it, and have partitions for ZIL and L2ARC. What is the advantage of doing this? I thought the whole point of having separate log

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cloud printing in OpenIndiana??

2011-08-12 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:05 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Could cloud printing to legacy printers be supported in OI? I e could the printer queues in OI be made cloud aware and cloud responsive?? I'm not aware of any cloud printing services to traditional legacy devices aside from those offered

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-08-01 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 1, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: And now that Oracle has close sourced Solaris, I am very sure you will count its users with the fingers of your hands! Single desktop users? Sun Ray users? Server users? Enterprises, small to medium business, or sole proprietorships?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Gary Driggs
If it's been five years in the making then that would suggest that not many Java VM and API developers were let go during the acquisition of Sun. Or were they? http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/apache-developers-java-7-contains-bugs-35619. But I have to wonder who would be so bold or ignorant

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

2011-07-31 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jul 31, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: The problem in this instance is that Sun DID open source many cool things and post Sun take over Oracle has been systematically undoing Sun's open source gifting via a variety of innovative tactics at pretty much every chance they can, If

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 3.1.8 / bridged networking on oi_148 x86 host

2011-07-24 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Version 4.1 is the latest. True, but it's 4.1.0 so my personal tactic is to not use dot zero releases unless thoroughly tested first. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 3.1.8 / bridged networking on oi_148 x86 host

2011-07-24 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jul 24, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: No, I've been holding off upgrading for the heck of it as 3.1.8 has been running like a champ for ages, however if you think it's worthwhile and might resolve this then I'll upgrade and see. I've found it pretty painless to shift back

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] jbod disk shelves with fmd fault led support

2011-07-20 Thread Gary Driggs
You didn't say whether you're looking for FC or SAS but the Promise series offers both; http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_category.aspx?region=en-globalm=17sub_m=sub_m_2rsn=1statistic=VTrak I've built one out with LSI SAS cards Nexentastor but IIRC it took some work to get the drives mapped

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-12 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jul 12, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: I have switched from broadcastclient to specifying 5 time servers. That seems to have got it to behave properly. That isn't a default setting in OI, is it? If so, I'd strongly advise against it. In fact, I advise against using it at all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-09 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jul 9, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: I suppose this could be true of a virtual machine resetting the time as well. A guest OS should never be allowed to adjust its hosts clock. Sometimes a failing motherboard battery can cause issues but NTP should be correcting them. Have you tried

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] write speeds faster with no ZIL and L2ARC

2011-06-28 Thread Gary Driggs
Are there any plans for adding TRIM support to ZFS in the near future? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jun 23, 2011, Ben Taylor wrote: Personally, I wouldn't have signed up for a Kw based pricing scheme which you apparently did) I didn't as it's one of many data centers that our company built and maintains. I just prefer not to be an ass about resources. -Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: I can almost see dumping 32-bit x86. but dumping 64-bit US-III/IV? Use a kill-a-watt or a smart PDU to compare the power draw for these older systems. Do you really want them in production? Solaris 10 isn't going away if you do. q.v. several BSD

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setting up Samba 3.5.9

2011-06-20 Thread Gary Driggs
Are you trying to set up a domain controller? If not, you might consider using ZFS' built-in CIFS service; http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Using+OpenIndiana+as+a+storage+server#UsingOpenIndianaasastorageserver-CIFS%2FSMB ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI host

2011-06-16 Thread Gary Driggs
The first revs of 4 crashed a lot with APCI or sleep mode on a Windows 7 guest but that seems to have cleared up. The Windows Thin PC release candidate had some memory leak problem, however, but I don't know if it'll be fixed in the RTM version or not. -Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-11 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jun 11, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Michael Stapleton wrote: Am I reading it wrong or do you mean it drops off at 16MB, not 16 KB? Yes, you are correct. I no longer have the throughput tests I did using Nexentastor on the back end (changed jobs) so these are using a NetApp with ONTAP 8.0.1. -Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-11 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jun 11, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Gabriele Bulfon gbul...@sonicle.com wrote: BTW, discussion forked into NFS vs iScsi. What is your backup strategies on tapes? That will vary considerably depending on the size of your org, its budget, and the amount of data it amasses must archive for business

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata port multiplier?

2011-05-28 Thread Gary Driggs
On May 28, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: I'd consider not using dedup given the cheap price of storage these days combined with limited ram in on that mobo. As in, the performance hit for the saved disk space wouldnt be worth it for my needs. IMHO, the RAM utilization expense for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata port multiplier?

2011-05-25 Thread Gary Driggs
On May 25, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Ray Arachelian r...@arachelian.com wrote: I suppose I could give up one of the rpool drives and put it in an USB enclosure instead. I guess it'll be an interesting tradeoff. You might also see if your motherboard has an internal USB port and use a small, fast

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sharing zfs volume on QLogic QLE4062C

2011-05-20 Thread Gary Driggs
Below is some helpful text edited from the napp-it UI's verbiage. This helped me figure out what needs done under COMSTAR as well as what steps to take under NetApp's ONTAP 8.0.1. The concepts are the same for any system being configured as a target... 1. You must define a logical unit 2. You

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Re: System halts on boot when there is no keyboard

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Driggs
On May 3, 2011, at 2:29 AM, Johan Nilsson joni8...@gmail.com wrote: I have experienced that some PS/2-keyboards work to hot-plugin but others don't. It seems that different drivers/keyboard work little different to get hot-plugged on windows/linux. Work sometimes and sometimes not is my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot Install

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Driggs
Did you look at the md5sum after downloading? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-25 Thread Gary Driggs
On Apr 25, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Does anyone know where I can find exact numbers for the RAM cost? Doesn't it also vary by RAID type in use? A calculator would be useful but may have to account for each version of zpool in the wild given that the source is available...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-23 Thread Gary Driggs
On Apr 23, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Gregory Youngblood greg...@youngblood.me wrote: Unless you buy the fishworks based storage products, which I believe includes the dedup feature and is sold for production environments. I just don't remember if the dedup feature is labelled experimental or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Gary Driggs
On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org wrote: Except I'm not running them all the way to the client, and my networking gear is cheap. The only jumbo link is between my server and my first switch. If frame size had a large effect, I'd expect my MTU1500 clients

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about restricting visibility ofcomstar targets

2011-04-10 Thread Gary Driggs
On Apr 10, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: *** Okay, but this doesn't answer my question - e.g. the docs seem to say that proper use of view, host groups, etc, will restrict which LUNs are visible to which initiators, but I am not seeing that behavior. Are you using static,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broadcom GB NIC

2011-04-07 Thread Gary Driggs
On Apr 7, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: For instance Sun X2100. I still have quite a few around, bought in late 2005/early 2006. It looks like the V210 V240 have it as well. I wonder... Is this the Tigon3 chipset? Because I have an older DELL notebook with a BCM95702A20 tg3 that was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Networking with Zones an Crossbow

2011-03-27 Thread Gary Driggs
I may have missed something... Did you day these are not bridged interfaces? If so, which one is handling the routing? I've only used VNICs in bridged mode as we have external infrastructure for routing. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana hosting advocating?

2011-03-24 Thread Gary Driggs
Does Joyent still use some variant of Solaris? I checked their web site a few weeks ago and saw only Linux offerings but that was not the case a couple of years ago. I think OI might be more viable in the hosting market once it has a stable paravirtualization offering. -Gary On Mar 24, 2011,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] State of pNFS in OI?

2011-03-17 Thread Gary Driggs
From what I've read, NFSv4.1 and 4.2 are still works in progress so I would be wary of using it in production environments. On the off chance you're looking for IOPs improvements with Oracle Database 11g, have a look at dNFS. -Gary q.v. http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nfsv4/ On Mar 17, 2011,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Project seeks SPARC M3000

2011-03-12 Thread Gary Driggs
Hi Alasdair, I'll soon have a T1000 to send your way. What address shall I ship it to? kind regards, Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC

2011-03-05 Thread Gary Driggs
SPARC dev for OI has only recently begun by way of a text only install first. No ISOs have been released at this this time, however. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 22, 2011, Harry Putnam wrote: Sorry to be dense here but what is an HBA Host bus adapter is just a fancy name for a multi-port and/or channel hard drive, fibre channel, or Ethernet storage card. A better and more thorough description may be found on wikipedia. It reminds me of when Sun

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 20, 2011, at 1:21 AM, Alexander Lesle wrote: http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle15591.aspx?Keywords=15591 Per recent experience with one of their SAS HBAs, the 3ware line has suffered in quality since their acquisition by LSI. But the other LSI cards are quite usable as I've put a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Driggs
I've found memoryx.com has some of the best prices and often most obscure RAM available. They'll even build their own if necessary and their support is top notch. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: I stil get these symptoms with OI-148. 2. They spin down heads every 8 seconds. This particular problem can be overcome by using the WD3IDLE command to defeat this behaviour. 3. I have seen a few bad sector reports and bad heads on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Flash hangs all system, under VirtualBox

2011-01-30 Thread Gary Driggs
The first thing you might try is turning off VT-x/AMD-V but if you're running a 64-bit guest that won't be an option. Also, try giving it only one CPU and turning off 3D acceleration. If all else fails, you could launch the VM in debug mode per the steps outlined in the VirtualBox user manual,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] video card for v40z

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Driggs
Whats the onboard GPU? Its an older PCI-X system if I recall. Have you tried VESA standard settings first? What other cards have you tried already? -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Suggestions for SATA HBAs

2010-12-12 Thread Gary Driggs
I would start with the OpenSolaris hardware compatibility list. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-05 Thread Gary Driggs
On Nov 4, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: CentOS and other enterprise-grade Linuxes also upgrade well among minor releases, but need to be re-installed to go to the next major release. Those release cycles are suitably long that I'd argue the net effect is negligible. I have one

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express

2010-10-31 Thread Gary Driggs
Not coincidentally, the Usenix LISA conference is in the same building that very week. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: OpenIndiana

2010-10-06 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:41 AM, Gabriel! wrote: OpenIndiana remainds me the opensource version of Indiana Jones. Funny you should say that as the host name for my first OI install is drjones. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list