[OpenIndiana-discuss] X apps in lx zone?

2020-02-04 Thread Mark Kosmowski
Is it possible to run X applications from within an lx zone? If so, would it work for the global zone to run the X server and the lx zone to provide plasma/KDE? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] First cluster after 20 years

2020-02-01 Thread Mark Kosmowski
I'm putting together a home lab / cluster for computational chemistry as a private individual. I'm thinking OpenIndiana on the head node (for a desktop) and OmniOS on the compute nodes. Are there any downsides to this that I should be mindful of? Thanks!

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Will mixing 4K drives and non 4K drives in a storage pool work properly?

2015-03-27 Thread Mark Walmsley
http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks I had the same problem I could never get the sd.conf stuff to work out right for recognizing my 1.5tb seagates as 4k drives so what I did is backed up my entire pool. Destroyed my pool and remade the pool with my new 2gb drive

[OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-25 Thread Mark Stephens
I would like to know will this project eventually get a discussion forum vs using mailing list. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] is this project still active

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Stephens
I am trying to decide if I should go with Omnios or OpenIndiana for my storage needs. So I would like to ask is this project still under active development? I do not see much activity on the website or any other medium such a twitter. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nfs oi server - linux clients

2014-09-18 Thread Mark
sharectl set -p nfsmapid_domain=mydomain.local nfs Then set the appropriate nfs permissions on the zfs file system. (I'll need to find the details on this bit if you need it) Mark. On 17/09/2014 1:39 a.m., Gregory Youngblood wrote: I don't know if things have changed but a couple of years

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comstar Fibre Channel Target

2014-09-05 Thread Mark
and under 30 for write. I do have access to an 8Gb one I could try next. The luns will eventually be for Commvault storage, with a 64k block size. Trying different zfs block sizes hasn't made a significant difference to the Windows throughput. Mark. On 4/09/2014 9:31 p.m., Liam Slusser wrote

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comstar Fibre Channel Target

2014-09-05 Thread Mark
No switch, just a direct cable at present, so point to point. On 6/09/2014 5:55 a.m., Liam Slusser wrote: Mark - No I didn't change any of the HBA bios or QLT parameters. Are you going into a fibre channel switch? thanks, liam On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Mark mark0...@gmail.com wrote

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Comstar Fibre Channel Target

2014-09-04 Thread Mark
for an Emulex HBA. Can anyone offer suggestions on identifying possible causes ? Mark. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] booting HP xw8600 from ISO

2014-07-23 Thread Mark
On 23/07/2014 5:38 a.m., Harry Putnam wrote: Mark mark0...@gmail.com writes: On 21/07/2014 7:11 p.m., Harry Putnam wrote: Setup: Hardware: HP xw8600 2x Xeon (5470) 3.3 Ghz - 32 GB ram (goal was to get past whatever prevents oi iso from working when hdw is in default settings

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] booting HP xw8600 from ISO

2014-07-21 Thread Mark
, or booting from USB drives, which can be even more problematic to try to resolve the problem. So well done, you have made it a few rungs up the experience ladder. Mark. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No boot from iso on HP xw8600

2014-07-20 Thread Mark
It could be that once booted, it didn't find the dvd drive again. On 20/07/2014 5:35 p.m., Harry Putnam wrote: Setup: Server and Desktop ISO, attempting to boot an HP xw8600 A 2x Xeon (5470) with 32 GB ram and 2 1tb hdd. I've attempted booting an HP xw8600 from both server and desktop

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] power off not working.

2014-07-08 Thread Mark Walmsley
and haven't had any hangs at syncing file systems . done Now the keyboard lights blink and the system powers off right after displaying syncing file systems . done Hope this helps someone in the future. -Original Message- From: Mark Walmsley [mailto:mark.walms...@rocketmail.com] Sent

[OpenIndiana-discuss] power off not working.

2014-06-26 Thread Mark Walmsley
Hi, For some reason I can't power off my PC running openindiana build 151a9 Shutdown -i5 -g0 -y Just sits at Syncing file systems . done Same with init 5 or poweroff Init 0 press any key to reboot works. Pressing the power button also leaves me syncing file systems .

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] grub is gone

2013-11-27 Thread Wallbank, Mark
this is not much use to you but I find it a useful backup for when you have to reinstall windows on a multi boot machine. Cheers Mark *** This e-mail is confidential and privileged. If you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs] problem on my zpool

2013-10-23 Thread Mark
One suggestion for the future for better reliability. Avoid using WDC WD20EARS, they aren't great, and hopeless on SAS controllers. Avoid mixing disk brands or models in a zpool. The different behaviour can trigger issues. On 23/10/2013 7:46 p.m., Clement BRIZARD wrote: I cleared the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good enterprise hardware

2013-10-19 Thread Mark Creamer
For whatever it's worth, I've been buying SM servers for the last couple years. I had a motherboard failure and they had a replacement to me next morning. I didn't have to ship anything except the defective board once I replaced it. Mark On Saturday, October 19, 2013, Bob Friesenhahn wrote

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gradually expanding zpool size

2013-07-31 Thread Mark Creamer
, and then later if I need the other 4 drives, can I add them to the same zpool without having to rebuild from scratch? Thanks -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Status of compilers in use for OI

2013-07-13 Thread Mark
On 13/07/2013 9:13 a.m., Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-07-12 21:52, Bryan N Iotti wrote: Thank you all for helping make this clearer. So, in order to compile something using the same tools that are used to build /stable, I would use pkg:/developer/sunstudio12u1 while for hipster I'd use GCC 4.6.3?

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Error in send/receive in moving a zone

2013-05-25 Thread Mark Creamer
-auto-snap_monthly-2012-01-10-14h35does not exist I guess it's saying there is a dependency on that old snapshot that must not exist anymore, so it can't build the zone properly on the destination server. How do I resolve this? Am I missing a switch in my command somewhere? Thanks! -- Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot move a zone to another server successfully

2013-05-20 Thread Mark Creamer
...@hotmail.com wrote: On May 19, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: I've been trying for weeks to get a zone off old hardware onto new. Both servers are running exactly the same OI release, 151a7. I have not been able to find a document that I can follow and get successful results. I've

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot move a zone to another server successfully

2013-05-20 Thread Mark Creamer
probably get you up and running. HTH On May 20, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: Well, sort of. It definitely got me thinking in a different direction, I found my mistake(s) and now I am able to finally attach and boot the zone. So thank you very much for that pointer

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot move a zone to another server successfully

2013-05-19 Thread Mark Creamer
vnic is correct for the new machine 5. I attempt to attach it on the new server, which fails. Maybe is someone can just tell me what they do to accomplish this, or point me to a different how-to. I haven't been able to find anything else. Thanks -- Mark

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sata Port Multiplier

2013-05-14 Thread Mark
turning on debugging, but as a beginner at driver debugging I'm not sure I achived the desired result and got no useful info from it. Anyone have experience with Sata Port Multipliers and can share a few pointers ? Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Copying zone from one machine to another.

2013-03-14 Thread Mark Creamer
For whatever it's worth once you get the networking sorted, every time I've used the procedure listed here: http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/2011/06/05/migrating-an-openindiana-zone-from-one-system-to-another/ it has worked perfectly. Might be useful for you. Mark On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:23 PM

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Extremely slow throughput

2013-03-07 Thread Mark Creamer
I'm trying to scp some files between a couple oi_151a5 machines. One is physical, the other is a VM running on VMware. Both show 1000 Mbit links, but scp is only copying at about 8 Mbps (megabits, not bytes). Any ideas what I should look at to see where the bottleneck is? -- Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rack server recommendation

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Creamer
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAID Controler.

2012-10-12 Thread Mark Creamer
-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAID Controler.

2012-10-12 Thread Mark Creamer
Ricardo, I apologize - I have a RocketRAID but it in fact is not the same model as you have. So my reply may not apply. Sorry I tried to rely on memory without verifying. Best regards, Mark On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Pepe Komatsu ppkoma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody. Someone have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with pkg image-update

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Creamer
cannot risk not being able to start those zones Mark On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:21:30 -0400, Mark Creamer wrote: My server is currently at oi151a5, and it's been about a month, so I ran pkg image-update to check

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with pkg image-update

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Creamer
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Create zone from older snapshot (not rollback)

2012-09-12 Thread Mark Creamer
know how to clone existing zones, but not sure how to do it from a snapshot. Thanks -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-11 Thread Mark Creamer
on the ideas of someone more knowledgeable to automate my snapshot and recovery efforts. -- Mark Creamer ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Roll back a zone update

2012-09-10 Thread Mark Creamer
for that zone? Thanks, -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple Windows servers and a OI NAS, how to get there

2012-09-07 Thread Mark Creamer
__**_ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.orgOpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discusshttp://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and Illumos

2012-09-05 Thread Mark
. Later later ... I just bought a V890 for NZD 72.00 !! but that is for another task. Glad I didn't have to ship it !! But I do have a V440 waiting patiently for an OI install. (4 x CPU, 8Gb mem 4 x 72Gb Hdd) It can be made available for remote testing. Mark. tnx. %martin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple Windows servers and a OI NAS, how to get there

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Creamer
by Multiple Windows clients? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL R320

2012-08-29 Thread Mark Creamer
know your disks are going to work. And then buy the Intel Server NIC. (Disable the broadcom in BIOS). ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing TrueType Fonts

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Creamer
@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing TrueType Fonts

2012-08-06 Thread Mark Creamer
document it this time :-) Thanks! -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Snapshot question

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Creamer
), checksum (sha256), snapdir (visible - I like to see the .zfs). Jan ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Mark

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Snapshot question

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Creamer
-snapshot would be creating snapshots for each VM, rather than for the entire ../vmimages file system each time. So, is there an easy way to make a separate zfs file system for each of the existing directories below ../vmimages? I am able to take the VM guests down to do this as needed. Thanks, -- Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Snapshot question

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Creamer
Thanks Jan, that sounds easy enough. I'll try it with a non-critical one that I use for testing but your explanation looks like it will be more straightforward than I expected. I appreciate the help. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, On Thu, Aug 2, 2012

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

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Creamer
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

2012-06-04 Thread Mark Creamer
You might supplement the advice you get here with this post from Constantin Gonzales on his blog. I found it very helpful when I was setting up my Solaris storage server. http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2010/07/solaris-zfs-synchronous-writes-and-zil-explained -Mark On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:24 AM

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cron best practice

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Creamer
the scp? Thanks for any advice. -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg: No image found.

2012-05-11 Thread Mark Creamer
Having the same issue after updating global and non-global zones to oi_151a4. Cant install anything new on the non-global zones. - Mark On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Milan Jurik milan.ju...@xylab.cz wrote: Hi, after update to prestable3, all my local zones are reporting pkg: No image found

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about halting a zone

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Creamer
first? Thanks -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no external connectivity on link

2012-05-02 Thread Mark
And don't forget to configure or disable the firewall. That's what my last issue with lack of connectivity turned out to be. It may be on and blocking by default. On 2/05/2012 6:13 p.m., Richard Elling wrote: On May 1, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: hello list I have attempted to

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

2012-05-02 Thread Mark
produce the desired outcome. I have used 4k disks (wd20ears) in 3 and 4 disk raidz pools, but they are used for archiving, so just have data dumped to them. Few issues on Sata ports, but dodgy on SAS. Mark On 1/05/2012 8:23 a.m., Peter Wood wrote: I'm building a storage server with Dell

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] aspire D270

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Creamer
-- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2012-05-02 Thread Mark
On 3/05/2012 7:07 a.m., Gordon Ross wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On May 2, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Mark wrote: There are two issues. The first is correct partition alignment, the second ashift value. In theory, I haven't tested

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-04-13 Thread Mark
a big impact as some drives can fail during the re-silver process. Running a full read/write using format is usually enough to fix the bad block permanently. If not, then it's RMA'd. Mark. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Karl Rossing karl.ross...@barobinson.com wrote: I'm running

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI BIND server

2012-04-12 Thread Mark Creamer
Now it starts properly. Can anyone confirm for me that the permissions are correct though? I just want to make sure it's secure and I think 755 might not be restrictive enough?? Thanks again, Mark On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Gary Mills gary_mi...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI BIND server

2012-04-11 Thread Mark Creamer
there referencing the problem. Nothing about the service at all, just the mail service. I'm just looking for some help on where the problem might be logged, since I can't find anything in the above 2 log files. -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some SNMP settings

2012-03-17 Thread Mark
=`zpool list -H -o capacity ${1} | sed -e 's/%//g' ` #echo $diskused if [ $diskused -ge 84 ] then echo WARNING exit 1 fi if [ $diskused -gt 90 ] then echo CRITICAL exit 1 fi if [ $diskused -lt 84 ] then echo OK fi - Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-21 Thread Mark Creamer
-discuss -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring external monitor

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Creamer
probably just misunderstanding how to use the configuration tool, not sure. Thanks for any advice. -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-10 Thread Mark Creamer
-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

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

2012-02-02 Thread Mark
this planet. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Timekeeping in OI zones

2012-01-25 Thread Mark Creamer
, -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Timekeeping in OI zones

2012-01-25 Thread Mark Creamer
OK excellent. Thanks for your reply Jeppe On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Jeppe Toustrup openindi...@tenzer.dkwrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 16:30, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get a definitive answer on keeping the time accurate in my non-global zones. Is it only

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How will this change affect any future source from Oracle ?

2012-01-07 Thread Mark
This looks to be a major change to how ON/net is being built. http://blogs.oracle.com/ali/entry/much_ado_about_nothing_stub Will this be a show stopper when integrating any future source released by Oracle ? Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

[OpenIndiana-discuss] PS2 keyboard problems

2012-01-07 Thread Mark
finally have found time to make a working build environment, so it may be time to dig deeper. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] TrueType Fonts

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Creamer
20:47, Mark Creamer wrote: One of our servers we're trying to move off of Linux and on to OI runs Tomcat and Jasper Reports. Jasper is complaining that it needs Arial font. I remember once that I was able to install a truetype fonts package from the OpenSolaris extras repo, but now

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] TrueType Fonts

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Creamer
Alan thank you very much and happy holidays Mark On Thursday, December 22, 2011, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: On 12/22/11 10:08, Mark Creamer wrote: Makes sense about the licensing. Thank you for that explanation. I see that the fonts available at the link you supplied

[OpenIndiana-discuss] TrueType Fonts

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Creamer
these fonts installed on OI? Im running 151a. Thank you, -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2011-12-20 Thread Mark
On 20/12/2011 6:29 a.m., Gregory Youngblood wrote: This seems potentially bad all the way around to me. Hopefully this turns out to be a real, officially blessed release and not a leak. It doesn't look to be official, since it does contain some closed source code but is mostly CDDL and even

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Allowing sudo for users *per zone*

2011-12-20 Thread Mark Creamer
. What's the right way to handle this? Thank you! -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Can't delete vnic

2011-12-19 Thread Mark Creamer
: link busy Can't seem to figure out what I need to do to delete it. Thanks! -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can't delete vnic

2011-12-19 Thread Mark Creamer
Oh sorry that's a typo. Sorry to confuse... Line 3 should read dladm delete-vnic vnic0 But I do get the deletion error even when I actually type it correctly :-) On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Jeppe Toustrup openindi...@tenzer.dkwrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 19:19, Mark Creamer white

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Will an 82575EB based Supermicro AOC-SG-i2 ethernet work OK in b151a?

2011-12-15 Thread Mark
4 port non-uio 1Gbit and two port 10G non-uio Supermicro cards with no changes, since early OI releases up to 151. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Still having issue with zone install

2011-12-14 Thread Mark Creamer
OK Thanks for that explanation. Yes it does match. -Mark On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Joshua M. Clulow j...@sysmgr.org wrote: On 14 December 2011 09:44, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: It does download via wget, but I haven't used shasum before. So I wasn't sure which shasum

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Still having issue with zone install

2011-12-14 Thread Mark Creamer
these installs to? By the way, last week I did try switching to a different (Internet) repository at someone's suggestion. I think it was in Germany (.de domain). It failed too. 'Bout out of ideas (and time)...any other ideas? I greatly appreciate everyone's help. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Still having issue with zone install

2011-12-14 Thread Mark Creamer
:47 AM, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: Just tried from a different OI 151a box, in a different physical location with different Internet access. It fails too, but just to keep things interesting, it fails on a different package: mcreamer@sdbackup:/zones$ sudo zoneadm -z testzone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Still having issue with zone install - RESOLVED

2011-12-14 Thread Mark Creamer
great. Man I hope this information helps someone else avoid this issue. Thank you to all of you who were so willing to help. People like you are what makes working with complex systems possible, and OpenIndiana in particular such a great OS. Best regards, Mark On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Still having issue with zone install

2011-12-13 Thread Mark Creamer
, or a problem where the connection drops. Thank you very much for your thoughts though. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jeppe Toustrup openindi...@tenzer.dkwrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 19:26, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm hoping someone can give me some ideas I haven't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Still having issue with zone install

2011-12-13 Thread Mark Creamer
Exactly the same URL. I just tried it again to be sure. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Joshua M. Clulow j...@sysmgr.org wrote: On Dec 14, 2011 5:54 AM, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: The thing that is interesting about trying to set up the zones in OI is that it *always* fails

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Still having issue with zone install

2011-12-13 Thread Mark Creamer
10283476ec06bd1ad87b851e050b2b35c00ac78d On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Joshua M. Clulow j...@sysmgr.org wrote: On Dec 14, 2011 8:32 AM, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly the same URL. I just tried it again to be sure. What happens if you try and wget the file? Does it work? Does the shasum

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zone autoboot=true did not boot, then zfs mount fails.

2011-12-11 Thread Mark Humphreys
The only similar thing I've seen is when a mount-point has something in it. Then the ZFS file system will refuse to mount-over that directory. As your zone needs to mount before you can boot it, start looking at your ZFS mounting problem first. Regards, -- .\\ark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with zone creation

2011-12-08 Thread Mark Creamer
really confused what I'm doing wrong. Has anyone else experienced a problem with creating a new zone where the install phase fails due to a package failing to download? Thanks On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I'm sorry I didn't catch this before. I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with zone creation

2011-12-07 Thread Mark Creamer
the zone from scratch 2. Use a more reliable package repo (assuming that's what the problem is with the download) Thanks! -- Mark ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with zone creation

2011-12-07 Thread Mark Creamer
PM, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. Pretty new with this, so I didn't realize I had additional package mirrors available. I should have looked into that possibility. The server is running oi_151a I'll try the different mirror(s) and see what happens. Best regards, Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Humphreys
The ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution paired-with a Xeon-class Server processor. It's a bit of an older chipset; but, it supports 24GB of RAM. http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T6_WS_Revolution/#specifications It does support ECC memory, though with the following caveats:** 6 x DIMM,

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

2011-12-02 Thread Mark
non-volatile. I seem to recall mention that the dedicated zil is only used if it's needed. I have great performance from a FC target using 3 x SAT2-MV8 and 20 x 2Tb sata disks without an ssd zil. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3x LSI 9211-8i controllers + direct attach backplane -- appear as on controller

2011-11-18 Thread Mark
the data, and then write it back which in most cases triggers a disk bad sector replacement and the problem is sorted quickly. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /dev/bmc on SuperMicro boards

2011-11-18 Thread Mark
: No such device or address Has anyone had luck getting the BMC driver to work with SM boards? I have run the bmc from the last nvs release on OpenSolaris on a Supermicro and it works fine. I used the SIMSO+ on a X7DWN. I haven't tried the newer onboard Realtec chipsets yet. Mark

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sil3124 on oi151a

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Humphreys
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mark Humphreys saskal...@gmail.comwrote: I'm seeing freezing issues doing 3-way mirrors across mainboard ICH10R (6 SATA 150/300 ports), and two SYBA SY-PEX-40008 cards (4 Port Internal SATA II ports). Is there an issue with the si3124 (Sil3124) driver

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs replace controller

2011-11-16 Thread Mark
other zpools. I have moved between supported sata and sas controllers as well. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-16 Thread Mark
defaults, and nfs3 and 4 also will produce different results, since one knows ACL's and one doesn't. I just run a cron job to bash them back into what I want. I'd go with a simple approach that works for you. I haven't seen any major performance difference between cifs and nfs. Mark

[OpenIndiana-discuss] setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-15 Thread Mark
on the same file system as I do. Mark. ___ 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

2011-11-13 Thread Mark
hold water for modern solaris and offshoots. If you can wait a few days, I can give you working configs for nfs4 on Centos to OI, since I have a few running that config at work. I seem to recall that only a few settings are needed to make it all work. Mark

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sil3124 on oi151a

2011-10-31 Thread Mark Humphreys
for a system dump? It would be nice to confirm it is actually the storage system at fault. Best Regards, -- .\\ark Mark Humphreys Regina, SK, Canada P.S. - Link to the SYBA HBA specifications ( http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=537

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mixing zfs raids and mirrors

2011-10-18 Thread Mark
the available space. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD FX-8150 (Bulldozer) CPUs

2011-10-16 Thread Mark Humphreys
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robar Philip philip.ro...@gmail.comwrote: Notice though that its 8 cores are not a win for builds, whereas the build test is one of the few tests where the core i7 2600K really separates itself from the rest of the pack—being almost 30% faster than its nearest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Apache error on reboot

2011-10-11 Thread Mark Humphreys
When deploying Webstack 1.6 on Solaris 10, I found a similar issue with making directories in the /var/run file system, after reboot. To secure the application, I had changed apache2 to run as the webservd user/role (the main process was previously kicked-off as root), and consequently it could

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-07 Thread Mark
option which is missing from the repository version. I plan to compile the latest version and test it on a few storage combinations to see if the magic happens. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Announcing OpenIndiana Build 151a

2011-09-14 Thread Mark de Reeper
Funny, after doing the upgrade you get: --- NOTE: Please review release notes posted at: http://docs.sun.com/doc/821-1479 --- On 14/09/2011, at 7:38

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-30 Thread Mark
the same. The 24 x Seagate 6Gb 2Tb SATA disks I had that wouldn't work with expanders are now a solid FC target box via multiple Marvel 8 port PCI-X cards direct to each disk. Mark. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM on Illumos

2011-08-16 Thread Mark Humphreys
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 02:33 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: On 08/16/2011 10:00, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: For those that haven't already seen:

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