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

2015-03-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
I have a system with a bunch of 1.5TB drives running oi_151a5. One of the drives is failing and needs replacement. The problem is that new 1.5TB drives are no longer available on the market. Now, all drives are non-4K sector drives. The largest non-4K drives available are the 1TB drives which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS keeps finding errors

2013-12-21 Thread Robin Axelsson
I would investigate the possibility to hook the hard drives up to another system with say, an LSI 1068 based controller and see how they behave there... On 2013-12-21 16:13, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, I got access to my old Home-NAS again, which got me looking under deep the hood of ZFS in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Audio Broadcasting Suggestions Request

2013-04-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2013-04-12 17:18, Peter Tribble wrote: Hi, I seem to finally be making progress with the last major hurdle before bringing our OI servers online, and now the Archbishop has decided he wants me to take a break from this and lend a hand in another project. He wants to start broadcasting

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to configure OI for proper daylight savings adjustments.

2013-04-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
My suspicions have been that there are several applications that manages the DST, hence the dual hour shifting, but I have been unsure as to which applications are involved with this in OI. It's difficult to test these things as they only occur twice a year. My system is dual/multiboot and it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to configure OI for proper daylight savings adjustments.

2013-03-31 Thread Robin Axelsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, my server has been quite troublesome when it comes to adjusting the time for daylight savings. Last time it adjusted the system time by moving it forward by no less than two hours and now it is one hour behind. It never gets it right. The config

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow performance of guests in virtualbox on OI?

2012-12-07 Thread Robin Axelsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-12-06 15:48, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] After I did a reinstall of my OpenIndiana system I finally decided to try out VirtualBox 4. I noticed that the VMs weren't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow performance of guests in virtualbox on OI?

2012-12-05 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-12-04 23:08, dswa...@druber.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have experienced performance issues with VirtualBox 4.x too and downgraded to 3.2.14. Perhaps you could give 3.2.14 a try and see how it works out. Can you elaborate? I'm not sure how to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow performance of guests in virtualbox on OI?

2012-12-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have experienced performance issues with VirtualBox 4.x too and downgraded to 3.2.14. Perhaps you could give 3.2.14 a try and see how it works out. If you get error messages with 3.2.14 I think it is a configuration issue with the USB driver. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware specs for illumos storage/virtualization server

2012-11-17 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-11-17 05:36, Paul B. Henson wrote: I think I'm finally going to get around to putting together the illumos home/hobby server I've been thinking about for the past few years :), and would appreciate a little feedback on parts/compatibility/design. The box is intended to be both a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD 900 series chipset support

2012-10-28 Thread Robin Axelsson
I also have OI running on that motherboard in case there is some need for testing. So far I've had no serious issues with that motherboard or the chipset that I'm aware of and I have used it for almost a year now. The issues that I have is that the rge (and gani?) drivers don't appear to work

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

2012-10-28 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-10-24 21:58, Timothy Coalson wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: It would be interesting to know how you convert a raidz2 stripe to say a raidz3 stripe. Let's say that I'm on a raidz2 pool and want to add an extra parity drive

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

2012-10-28 Thread Robin Axelsson
Yes, this sounds like an interesting solution but it doesn't seem that SAMFS or SAM-QFS is implemented in OI, I could be wrong. The documentation for that functionality don't seem to be accessible anymore. Access to docs.sun.com is redirected to a standard page on the Oracle website. On

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

2012-10-28 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-10-25 12:21, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-24 15:17, Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-10-23 20:06, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-23 19:53, Robin Axelsson wrote: ... But if I do send/receive to the same pool I will need to have enough free space in it to fit at least two copies of the dataset I

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

2012-10-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-10-23 20:06, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-23 19:53, Robin Axelsson wrote: That sounds like a good point, unless you first scan for hard links and avoid touching the files and their hard links in the shell script, I guess. I guess the idea about reading into memory and writing back

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

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi, I've been using zfs for a while but still there are some questions that have remained unanswered even after reading the documentation so I thought I would ask them here. I have learned that zfs datasets can be expanded by adding vdevs. Say that you have created say a raidz3 pool named

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

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-10-23 16:22, George Wilson wrote: Comments inline... On 10/23/12 8:29 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: Hi, I've been using zfs for a while but still there are some questions that have remained unanswered even after reading the documentation so I thought I would ask them here. I have

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

2012-10-23 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-10-23 17:32, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 23/10/2012 17:18, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Wouldn't walking the filesystem, making a copy, deleting the original and renaming the copy balance things? e.g. #!/bin/sh LIST=`find /foo -type d` for I in ${LIST} do cp ${I} ${I}.tmp rm ${I}

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Only one SSD detected on expander

2012-10-21 Thread Robin Axelsson
. McPherson wrote: On 19/10/12 09:29 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 19/10/2012 11:48, Robin Axelsson wrote: Isn't it possible to somehow make the drive dump the firmware somehow, edit it with a HEX editor (and recalculate firmware checksums) and flash the modified .bin file back to the drive? I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Only one SSD detected on expander

2012-10-19 Thread Robin Axelsson
Isn't it possible to somehow make the drive dump the firmware somehow, edit it with a HEX editor (and recalculate firmware checksums) and flash the modified .bin file back to the drive? I guess that the WWN must be found in the firmware somewhere. On 2012-10-19 02:38, Scott Marcy wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Missing ZFS features?!

2012-10-16 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-10-16 16:16, Jonathan Adams wrote: On 16 October 2012 14:09, Floflor...@acw.at wrote: ... Why has the zfs version from oracle more features than oi? this is a very arguable statement ... it's like saying I have more features than Stephen Hawking because my legs work. Jon So you

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

2012-09-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
. On 2012-09-01 16:48, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy

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

2012-09-01 Thread Robin Axelsson
While I don't have a clue about what userbase OpenIndiana has and how widespread it is, there are some things I see that don't look good for OI. First of all I find it to be poorly marketed. The website is updated almost never and it looks like nothing is happening, there are no roadmaps, the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos KMS Hackathon in Germany

2012-08-28 Thread Robin Axelsson
|-R [-H|-L|-P] [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] [-/] d1 ... dn-1 dn But it seems like some header files were installed. Robin. On 2012-08-28 06:14, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I installed the gcc4.4.4 compiler and saw that now there is a libgcc_s.so.1 file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos KMS Hackathon in Germany

2012-08-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
I wish you all the best, I'm currently trying to get the latest KMS implementations I found by Ken Mays to work but so far been unsuccessful. The implementation was submitted here: https://www.illumos.org/issues/2954 Since there is no installer or package manager that can handle this I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos KMS Hackathon in Germany

2012-08-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
But if I install the gcc4.4.4 package, won't there be other conflicts arising somewhere else? It seems that the gss4.4.4 compiler ought to conflict with the gcc-3 runtime libs. On 2012-08-27 17:57, Lou Picciano wrote: Robin - I wonder if you're running into a dependency on libgcc used by

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos KMS Hackathon in Germany

2012-08-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
I installed the gcc4.4.4 compiler and saw that now there is a libgcc_s.so.1 file in /opt/gcc/4.4.4/lib but the problem still remains and I still have the same errors in the Xorg.log. Btw, I have updated to oi_151a5. On 2012-08-27 17:57, Lou Picciano wrote: Robin - I wonder if you're

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] probable NWAM problems [was Re: REALTEK network card and pppoe config]

2012-04-11 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-04-10 18:55, Northwoods wrote: Thank you Jason a lot, I shall read it. James Carlsoncarls...@workingcode.com wrote: Mountpeaks wrote: (ok, you are right James, I probed that data at different times) To connect, I use DSL modem, that is connected to my laptop with cable. On any linux

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

2012-03-18 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-03-17 21:06, Nikola M wrote: Bayard Bell wrote: VirtualBox has proven to be effectively unusable (building from source takes days instead of hours, and debug kernels suffer awful performance and lockups) Why Vmware? Vmware is not available for Openindiana/Illumos. And Virtualbox is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RDP to login on oi from Windows

2012-02-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
I remember the good old days of using XDMCP. It worked really well when connecting to SUN workstations from a Windows computer. I tried to set up XDMCP on my system not too long ago but without luck. I think I managed to get windows from individual programs to open on my client at best (which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RDP to login on oi from Windows

2012-02-23 Thread Robin Axelsson
That also crossed my mind. VNC comes with OI out of the box (I think) and is probably in the package SUWxvnc. All you have to do is run vncserver e.g. over ssh and the system is ready for incoming VNC connections. But there may be reasons where one might prefer RDP over VNC (although I don't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Server hangs weekly

2012-02-21 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-22 06:58, Ilya Arhipkin wrote: 22.02.12 11:32, oimlt...@skidde.net ?: Hi there, I'm seeing roughly weekly hangs on a server running OpenIndiana 151a. I'm using it primarily as a home fileserver with ZFS. The exact behavior seems to depend on when I notice it, but

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-19 21:23, Richard Lowe wrote: Vague recollection that the pool level is errors that weren't recovered, so possibly two of them on the device were ditto'd metadata? (I'm very unsure on both counts). Otherwise, as Chris said, iostat is particularly difficult to trust. No matter what

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-20 17:05, Richard Elling wrote: On Feb 20, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: Maybe the iostat behavior depends on the controller it monitors. Some controllers such as the AMD SB950 in my case may not be as transparent with errors as the LSI 1068e operating in IT mode. Still

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-20 16:57, Jan Owoc wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: It is evident that ZFS is not very good to use without disk redundancy. In your case, you would have silent data corruption on-disk. This corrupted data would get passed

[OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-19 Thread Robin Axelsson
Today, I had a sudden corruption on the system disk/partition, or rather the zfs partition where the image file of a VirtualBox VM is located (i.e. not the rpool): pool: systempool state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an error

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] System disk corruption

2012-02-19 Thread Robin Axelsson
Thanks, now I understand how the CKSUM is counted. Both fmdump and scrub indicate that there is one error in the .vdi file. Is there a way to enforce zfs to accept the new checksum of the file? Since it is a hard drive image file I rather let the guest OS of the VM handle that corruption

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] source repository down?

2012-02-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
Does anyone know how to log in and clone the Mercurial repository with hg? I have tried to follow the intructions at http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Source+Repositories but I don't have the path /data/export/wombat on my system nor am I capable of creating such a path as per the instructions on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU driver issues in OpenIndiana 151a and a noisy GPU fan

2012-02-11 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-05 00:04, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Robin Axelssongu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: On 2012-02-04 17:32, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/ 4/12 05:03 AM, Nikola M. wrote: On 02/ 1/12 05:51 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm using an ATI Radeon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU driver issues in OpenIndiana 151a and a noisy GPU fan

2012-02-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-02-04 17:32, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/ 4/12 05:03 AM, Nikola M. wrote: On 02/ 1/12 05:51 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm using an ATI Radeon Juniper card (HD5770) and I reported a little over a year ago that the screen went black as Xorg starts when using the radeon driver on OI

[OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU driver issues in OpenIndiana 151a and a noisy GPU fan

2012-02-01 Thread Robin Axelsson
I'm using an ATI Radeon Juniper card (HD5770) and I reported a little over a year ago that the screen went black as Xorg starts when using the radeon driver on OI 148. The solution was to ditch the radeon driver and use the VESA driver in its stead. Now, when I made a new install of 151a, I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-25 21:50, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm confused. If VirtualBox is just going to talk to the physical interface itself, why is plumbing IP necessary at all? It shouldn't be needed. Maybe I'm the one being confused here. I just believed that the IP must be visible

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-26 09:32, Open Indiana wrote: Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion. Virtualbox works on any interface that is plumbed since only then the interface is visible in the menu. A working IP-adress is not necessary. Please put your interfaces on manual

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-26 14:05, James Carlson wrote: Open Indiana wrote: Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion. Virtualbox works on any interface that is plumbed since only then the interface is visible in the menu. Oh, yuck. It should be using the libdlpi interfaces (see

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: On 01/27/12 08:28, Robin Axelsson wrote: One way to make the system user-friendly is to make nwam automatically configure IPMP when it detects two properly working ethernet connections within the same subnet. My recollection is that automatic

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-27 16:45, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface (guided by user selection criteria) for the system. The fact that you got multiple interfaces configured is indeed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-24 21:59, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: If you have two interfaces inside the same zone that have the same IP prefix, then you have to have IPMP configured, or all bets are off. Maybe it'll work. But probably not. And was never been supported that way by Sun. The idea

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-25 19:03, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-24 21:59, James Carlson wrote: Well, unless you get into playing tricks with IP Filter. And if you do that, then you're in a much deeper world of hurt, at least in terms of performance. Here's what the virtualbox

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
: What happens if you disable nwam and use the basic/manual ifconfig setup? -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent: maandag 23 januari 2012 15:10 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-24 16:52, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:39:42PM +0100, Robin Axelsson wrote: ifconfig -a returns: ... e1000g1: flags=1004843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4 mtu 1500 index 2 inet 10.40.137.185 netmask ff00 broadcast 10.40.137.255 e1000g2: flags

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2012-01-24 19:14, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-24 16:52, Gary Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:39:42PM +0100, Robin Axelsson wrote: ifconfig -a returns: ... e1000g1: flags=1004843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4mtu 1500 index 2 inet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-23 Thread Robin Axelsson
? What soundcard are you using? -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent: zondag 22 januari 2012 23:38 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues I don't understand what you mean with PCI-x

[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-22 Thread Robin Axelsson
In the past, I used OpenSolaris b134 which I then updated to OpenIndiana b148 and never did I experience performance issues related to the network connection (and that was when using two of the infamous RTL8111DL OnBoard ports). Now that I have swapped the motherboard and the hard drive and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-22 Thread Robin Axelsson
support all settings? B, Roelof -Original Message- From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se] Sent: zondag 22 januari 2012 19:38 To: OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues In the past, I used OpenSolaris b134 which I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS server on oi_148

2012-01-03 Thread Robin Axelsson
I guess you have two ways to control user access to different shares, one is the Unix style and the other is through ACLs. From my experience the kernel-CIFS server has sometimes ignored the Unix/Posix permission bits that I set. For example even if I say chmod 444 a file I can still delete

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Network (RTL8111/8168) not working properly on OpenIndiana 151a

2011-12-29 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-12-29 10:53, Edward Martinez wrote: On 12/28/11 13:24, Robin Axelsson wrote: After a fresh install of OI 151a I discovered that the network connection fails intermittently. Firefox stalls in OI, SSH sessions spontaneously get severed, internet/network availability goes on and off

[OpenIndiana-discuss] A few words about multiple operating systems with OpenIndiana

2011-12-29 Thread Robin Axelsson
During my install I have run into some problems that I resolved so I think it is suitable to mention these solutions here: When you have several operating systems in one system there are a few things to consider when resolving conflicts that may occur when installing updates and service packs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Network (RTL8111/8168) not working properly on OpenIndiana 151a

2011-12-29 Thread Robin Axelsson
151a On 2011-12-29 10:53, Edward Martinez wrote: On 12/28/11 13:24, Robin Axelsson wrote: After a fresh install of OI 151a I discovered that the network connection fails intermittently. Firefox stalls in OI, SSH sessions spontaneously get severed, internet/network availability goes on and off

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Network (RTL8111/8168) not working properly on OpenIndiana 151a

2011-12-28 Thread Robin Axelsson
After a fresh install of OI 151a I discovered that the network connection fails intermittently. Firefox stalls in OI, SSH sessions spontaneously get severed, internet/network availability goes on and off with this connection. Basically the behaviour is the same as when I was running earlier

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get CIFS to work on OI 151a

2011-12-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
I just made a fresh install of OpenIndiana build 151a and I cannot get the CIFS to work properly. The command svcs | grep smb/server yields maintenance 0:52:32 svc:/network/smb/server:default. When looking into the log at /var/svc/log/network-smb-server\:default.log I get the following

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get CIFS to work on OI 151a

2011-12-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-12-28 03:05, Robin Axelsson wrote: I just made a fresh install of OpenIndiana build 151a and I cannot get the CIFS to work properly. The command svcs | grep smb/server yields maintenance 0:52:32 svc:/network/smb/server:default. When looking into the log at /var/svc/log/network-smb

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

2011-12-26 Thread Robin Axelsson
I think fears that this might be a ruse on Oracle's side to put OI/Illumos in trouble are probably healthy to have. Probably the best course of action is to treat the source as a piece of biohazard while doing absolutely nothing until we see an official reaction from Oracle. All I was trying

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-12-23 Thread Robin Axelsson
. In the meanwhile I have ordered an RE4 drive to replace the old Samsung HD103SJ (which is under warranty tho). Robin. On 2011-09-11 14:41, Robin Axelsson wrote: That was an interesting link. I wonder if these steps really are necessary. It sure doesn't hurt to make a backup copy of /etc/path_to_inst

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

2011-12-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-12-20 13:24, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 12/21/11 12:43 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: The most they can do is politely asking not to use it. Am I wrong? Yes. This is Oracle we're talking about here. I can't quite believe anyone is even seriously contemplating this. Perhaps it is best

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Matrox

2011-12-13 Thread Robin Axelsson
to check it right now. On 2011-12-13 12:58, Robin Axelsson wrote: Hi, normally Xorg should detect all graphics hardware and automatically assign proper drivers to the hardware. If it cannot find the proper driver it usually resorts to the vgatext or vesa driver. I don't know why your system

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

2011-12-06 Thread Robin Axelsson
So it seems that on the Intel side, only systems with Xeon CPUs support ECC RAM, so none of Intel's current line of i3/i5/i7 CPUs support ECC. When it comes to VT-d extensions (or IOMMU on the AMD side) for virtualization, the following page might be a good help:

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

2011-12-05 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-12-05 22:20, Harry Putnam wrote: Jerry Kempsun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc writes: I have one of these running OI b151a without issue. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 I only have 12 Gb of ram installed, but it goes to 24 Gb. At neweggs page with specs I don't see any mention of ECC memory. Do you

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

2011-12-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
If you are considering AMD hardware, most 990FX motherboards support both ECC and up to 32GB of memory. They also have support for IOMMU. I can confirm that for example the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 supports all of the above. I can also recall that I have seen screenshots of ECC options in one

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory drains away....

2011-11-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
I'm wondering if this memory drain may be due to zpool caching (L2ARC). You could try and see if it helps of you set a limit on this cache. The way that I understand it zpool/zfs uses quite a bit of RAM for caching. Robin. On 2011-11-04 14:13, Daniel Kjar wrote: pmap seems to give me exactly

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory drains away....

2011-11-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
Yeah, for a period I had the system gobble up vast amounts of RAM while running Virtualbox. I tried capping the ARC (in some config file I believe, can't remember) but that didn't help. In the end I discovered that this happened when the virtual machines did network intensive tasks over a NAT

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When will we see VGA passthrough on OI hosts?

2011-10-27 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi, I made the following post on Intel developers' forums regarding virtualization and improvement suggestions http://communities.intel.com/thread/25945 cheers Robin. On 2011-10-24 20:50, Robin Axelsson wrote: I've been following the Xen development for a while and I must say that it has

[OpenIndiana-discuss] When will we see VGA passthrough on OI hosts?

2011-10-24 Thread Robin Axelsson
I've been following the Xen development for a while and I must say that it has been an exciting pastime. I recently got hold of the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtmwnx-k2qg where a guy actually pulled off a passthrough of a whole VGA setup on a system running Ubuntu 10.10.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi, I'm about to RMA my motherboard but before that I want to troubleshoot the issue further so that I can give more specific information on what's failing on the motherboard. What happens is that some hardware is failing on the motherboard which causes OI to hang during boot. So my question

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi Steve, thanks a lot for your help! The problem is that the issues that occur are different at different bootups. Since the beginning of this year this computer/server has been started up and shut down a bit over 200 times, where this error occurred 5 times including today. This means that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
Yes, I saw that in the svccfg man pages, but there are no such properties for hal when listing them in svccfg. In fact, when trying to setprop hal/use_syslog=true I get an error saying No such property group. It seems like hal was compiled without any logging features on OpenIndiana. I only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-11 Thread Robin Axelsson
primary system and I fool around on the other system. Regards- Tim On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: I have not yet swapped the motherboard but I will give that a try, thanks for the suggestion! I checked the man pages for 'boot' and interestingly I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-11 Thread Robin Axelsson
That was an interesting link. I wonder if these steps really are necessary. It sure doesn't hurt to make a backup copy of /etc/path_to_inst but creating an empty reconfigure file at the root seems to be enough. To describe the instructions in the bug-report in words: (preparatory steps) 1.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-10 Thread Robin Axelsson
I won't be using the Marvel controller anyway, and both Realtek network ports work just fine on my current system with no stability issues. It's not the first time I'm buying the Gigabyte GA-990FX-UD7 motherboard and I have had no problems whatsoever with fitting an Intel EXPI9400PT card in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-10 Thread Robin Axelsson
Well, last time I replaced the motherboard, the operating system (OpenSolaris b134) froze upon boot. I replaced a Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P with my current motherboard (MSI 790FX-GD70). It froze with the boot splash and I resolved the issue by reinstalling opensolaris. In this swap, there

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-10 Thread Robin Axelsson
' with the hardware swap. But in the event of a freeze during boot, how can I temporarily force OI to boot into a minimalized mode (without probing for hardware; single-user mode?) so that I can issue said 'boot -r' command? On 2011-09-10 17:55, Gordon Ross wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Robin

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

2011-09-09 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi, I wonder how I can make an existing installation of OI work on a new motherboard. From my past experience the operating system stopped working when I replaced the motherboard so I had to reinstall it. I think the reason why is because the new motherboard have different IRQ mappings even

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about drive LEDs

2011-06-22 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-06-22 11:05, Mark wrote: On 22/06/2011 1:38 a.m., Fred Liu wrote: As an aside, I have built a fully functional 7210 Unified Storage Server Clone running on Supermicro hardware and some customised definitions in the management software to match the new hardware. That setup fully

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] JMB363 Chipset support in OI_148

2011-05-09 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-05-08 22:50, Albert Lee wrote: On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Sean O'Brienupintheclo...@gmail.com wrote: I have a pci-express card based on JMB363 chipset, because it is listed in HCL. The card is recognized by the ahci driver. model: 'SATA AHCI 1.0 Interface'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] JMB363 Chipset support in OI_148

2011-05-09 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-05-09 14:52, Chris Ridd wrote: On 9 May 2011, at 12:57, Robin Axelsson wrote: connected to it and diagnostics software (such as Samsung ESTOOL) ESTOOL sounds like a particularly bad value of errno, perhaps indicating fan failure :-) Chris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No Keyboard boot problem reappeared

2011-05-05 Thread Robin Axelsson
I cannot get into grub and edit the lines if I don't have a keyboard so that guide is not of much help. I tried to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst but it looks nothing like the actual menu that I have. The config file for the grub must be somewhere else but where? The keyboard problem is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No Keyboard boot problem reappeared

2011-05-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
Perhaps you could inform me as to what flags I should use and I will do it. On 2011-05-04 19:28, Blake wrote: Can you add debug flags to your grub boot command and then watch the system boot without a keyboard? You can then transcribe what you see on the console into an gist and post a link to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] No Keyboard boot problem reappeared

2011-05-03 Thread Robin Axelsson
I have posted earlier on how the system freezes at boot when there is no keyboard connected to the system. This was on OI_148. Then Ken Mays suggested that I should update to OI_148b from the devil repository. After the update I could boot the system without a keyboard but now the very same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTFS-3G

2011-04-26 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-04-23 16:06, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Hello, I have compiled ntfs-3g under OpenIndiana 148 and it works just fine. Also, I have made some patches and I have send them to the developers for review. If anyone wants to test the package, please send me an e-mail off-list. Regards,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pool messup

2011-04-11 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-04-11 10:28, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Hi all I have this box for backup storage, urd-backup, zfs receiving a copy of another system, urd. on urd-backup, I created the following pool zpool create -f urd-backup \ raidz2 c5t0d0 c5t1d0 c5t2d0 c5t3d0 c5t4d0 c5t5d0 c5t6d0 c5t7d0

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

2011-04-10 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-04-10 16:47, Nikola M. wrote: On 04/ 9/11 01:24 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: Hi, I just discovered that the system simply won't boot when there is no keyboard present, all I see is a dead boot splash without the rolling orange sausage. The intention of the system is to run

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

2011-04-09 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi, I just discovered that the system simply won't boot when there is no keyboard present, all I see is a dead boot splash without the rolling orange sausage. The intention of the system is to run it as a headless file server but I had to attach a keyboard to take care of regular HTSF errors

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

2011-03-28 Thread Robin Axelsson
I'm also happy with the init 5/6 commands but I'm a little annoyed that pressing the power button does not shut down the system. When I press it, the system conducts a 30 seconds countdown to shutdown and then nothing happens. I have not tested this thoroughly on b148 but it was a nuisance to

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

2011-02-20 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-02-20 10:21, Alexander Lesle wrote: Hello Robin Axelsson and List, On Februar, 20 2011, 00:15Robin Axelsson wrote in [1]: On 2011-02-19 19:26, Alexander Lesle wrote: Hello Robin Axelsson, am Samstag, 19. Februar 2011 um 02:14 hatRobin Axelsson u.a. in mid:4d5f197c.4060

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

2011-02-19 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-02-19 19:26, Alexander Lesle wrote: Hello Robin Axelsson, am Samstag, 19. Februar 2011 um 02:14 hatRobin Axelsson u.a. in mid:4d5f197c.4060...@student.chalmers.se geschrieben: I would recommend that you choose a motherboard with more PCIe x16 slots (unless you are absolutely sure

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot post to the OpenIndiana discussion list.

2011-02-18 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hi, some of my posts get bounced when I try to post or reply to posts in the mailing list. When it happened last time I traced the problem to a misconfigured microsoft/outlook server. The error message I get is this: Final-Recipient: rfc822;openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Action: failed

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

2011-02-18 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-02-19 01:12, Harry Putnam wrote: Jeppe Toustrupopenindi...@tenzer.dk writes: 2011/2/19 Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com: I'm a bit confused... does the `x' in each case stand for a controller? So Pata controllers support 2 drives, but SATA controllers only support 1? No, it's the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XDMCP not working

2011-02-14 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2011-02-13 18:35, Frank Middleton wrote: On 02/13/11 00:37, Robin Axelsson wrote: Hello I want to open up an XDMCP Session with my OpenIndiana machine from a remote computer on a local network but it doesn't work. I can only run multiple-window programs via PuTTy (in Xming for windows

[OpenIndiana-discuss] XDMCP not working

2011-02-12 Thread Robin Axelsson
Hello I want to open up an XDMCP Session with my OpenIndiana machine from a remote computer on a local network but it doesn't work. I can only run multiple-window programs via PuTTy (in Xming for windows) but when I want to establish a session, all I get is a gray screen. The following

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

2011-02-07 Thread Robin Axelsson
Could someone enlighten me as to what is wrong with WD's disks, and particularly what's wrong with their EARS disks? On 2011-02-07 12:52, Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote: On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I'm planning to upgrade my two mirrored 500 GB SATAII rpool disks to 2x2TB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] keyboard layout

2011-01-29 Thread Robin Axelsson
I have managed to get the keyboard right, at least over vnc when typing into xterm in X etc. But I have not yet managed to get the keyboard to agree with VirtualBox. If I run the virtual machines via the QT GUI in X over vnc the non-standard characters are not right no matter what settings I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] extended partions

2011-01-29 Thread Robin Axelsson
I don't think ZFS is very keen on extended partitions, at least not up to version 28 (OSOL b134). I tried once to format a logical partition inside an extended partition with ZFS but it didn't even recognize the extended partition. After changing it to a primary it was fine. So it is likely

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