Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] LSI card and Zfs

2013-05-14 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 05/14/2013 02:51 PM, Ram Chander wrote: Hi, I have MD1200 of three trays daisy chained and connected to Dell box. The Dell box has LSI-9207-8-e card which sees the dirves as jbod. But its not able to detect all drives. Few drives gives below error as failed to power up. The disks

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-17 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 04/17/2013 02:08 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] If you are IOPS constrained, then yes, raid-zn will be slower, simply because any read needs to hit all data drives in the stripe. Saso, I would expect you to know the answer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 04/16/2013 10:57 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Jay Heyl wrote: It's actually not all that difficult to saturate a 6Gb/s pathway with ZFS when there are multiple storage devices on the other end of that path. No single HDD today is going to come close to needing that full

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 04/16/2013 11:25 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Jay Heyl j...@frelled.us wrote: My question about the rationale behind the suggestion of mirrored SSD arrays was really meant to be more in relation to the question from the OP. I don't see how mirrored arrays of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 04/16/2013 11:37 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: If you are IOPS constrained, then yes, raid-zn will be slower, simply because any read needs to hit all data drives in the stripe. This is even worse on writes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 04/17/2013 12:08 AM, Richard Elling wrote: clarification below... On Apr 16, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/16/2013 11:37 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: If you are IOPS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-15 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 04/15/2013 03:30 PM, John Doe wrote: From: Günther Alka a...@hfg-gmuend.de I would think about the following - yes, i would build that from SSD - build the pool from multiple 10 disk Raid-Z2 vdevs, Slightly out of topic but, what is the status of the TRIM command and zfs...? ATM:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-14 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 04/14/2013 05:15 PM, Wim van den Berge wrote: Hello, We have been running OpenIndiana (and its various predecessors) as storage servers in production for the last couple of years. Over that time the majority of our storage infrastructure has been moved to Open Indiana to the point where

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access PCI configuration space in OpenIndiana

2013-03-27 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/27/2013 10:51 AM, Eric 姚宗澧 wrote: Hi all, Does anyone has experience in accessing PCI configuration space in OpenIndiana? I need to modify the register of specific Nic to make it stop in physical. Any idea will be appreciated. Hi Eric, You should try and ask around on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple devices appearing as one behind SAS expander

2013-03-21 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/21/2013 02:13 PM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: I have four 480GB SSDs I'm trying to re-add to my pool as L2ARC. They were all connected internally on the server, but now I have a dedicated SAS JBOD for the 2 1/2 SSDs in the system. The JBOD is a SuperMicro 2U with LSI SAS2X36 expander.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question regarding Supermicro motherboard compatibility

2013-03-21 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/21/2013 10:50 PM, Ian Collins wrote: {sorry about top-posting, crap webmail client!} I'm running Solaris on a X9DRH-7TF, which looks to be basically the same electronics except for the 10G NICs. Everything works well. Thanks for the info, I guess I shouldn't have any issues then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question regarding Supermicro motherboard compatibility

2013-03-21 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/21/2013 11:18 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 03/21/13 11:00 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 03/21/2013 10:50 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Thanks for the info, I guess I shouldn't have any issues then either (even though this is a revision C602J chipset, not C602 as in your case). I've also

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-03-20 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/20/2013 12:32 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: It would only bring a tear to my eye, because of how foolishly irresponsible that is. 3737 days of uptime means 10 years of never applying security patches and bugfixes. Whenever people are proud of a really long uptime, it's a

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

2013-03-17 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/17/2013 04:06 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Your counter-question baffles me a bit... but: Can you point at any part of that wiki page that actually deals with how to produce a 4kblocksize pool on a SATA, not a SCSI, drive that is actually 4k physical blocksize but reports having 512

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash brace expansion in non-C locales??

2013-03-12 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/12/2013 09:53 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I sort of expected echo {Z..Ö} to generate Z Å Ä Ö when LC_ALL was set to sv_SE.UTF-8 But it doesn't. Seems like a bug, or what?? Found while hacking some scripts for backup and indexing stuff. Major showstopper, actually. I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash brace expansion in non-C locales??

2013-03-12 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/12/2013 10:10 PM, Marcel Telka wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:02:27PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: I'm pretty sure nobody in bash development actually considers locale-specific letter ordering rules. Language-specific idiosyncrasies are a never ending stream of hurt and implementation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS Rollback Question

2013-03-08 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
The root file system of a zone is not kept in the zonepath but in zonepath/ROOT/zbe - look for that filesystem to snapshot/rollback, not the zonepath filesystem itself (which is just an empty container). Your snapshot listing below shows that. -- Saso On 03/08/2013 11:58 PM,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

2013-02-22 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/22/2013 02:16 AM, Timothy Coalson wrote: The first parity uses straight XOR on uint64_t, while the second parity performs the LFSR on all bytes in a uint64_t with some bitwise math (search for VDEV_RAIDZ_64MUL_2) that adds up to 8 operators by my count, followed by xor - using the LFSR

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

2013-02-21 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/20/2013 08:05 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: On an N40L running oi_151a7 w/ four ST2000DM001 drives I'm seeing a large drop in performance for RAIDZ2 vs RAIDZ1 which surprises me. The discussions google found were not entirely enlightening and not OI based. How much CPU does a small OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

2013-02-21 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/21/2013 07:27 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: I think last time this was asked, the consensus was that the implementation was based on linear feedback shift registers and xor, which happens to be a reed-solomon code (not as clear on this part, but what matters is what it is, not what it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

2013-02-21 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/21/2013 08:06 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/21/2013 07:27 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: I think last time this was asked, the consensus was that the implementation was based on linear feedback shift registers and xor, which happens to be a reed-solomon code (not as clear on this part

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ performance

2013-02-21 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/21/2013 07:27 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: I think last time this was asked, the consensus was that the implementation was based on linear feedback shift registers and xor, which happens to be a reed-solomon code (not as clear on this part, but what matters is what it is, not what it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/19/2013 12:41 PM, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: Moreover, providing security fixes has been a defined goal of OpenIndiana right from the beginning. See the FAQ: Q: Will OpenIndiana provide security and bug fixes to their stable releases? A: Yes, absolutely. We view this as one of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/19/2013 02:23 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: I believe RedHat and its spin-offs (Fedora as a bleeding edge experiment, and CentOS as a rebadged clone) have set a nice example here, especially the latter. All the source is open as GPL requires, and AFAIK CentOS is a rebuild of the same code in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/19/2013 03:12 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-02-19 14:38, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: You don't get access to RedHat's repos without paying. There are some portions of the code that CentOS doesn't ship (such as the policy enforcement libraries). In this respect, RHEL is closer to what Solaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-18 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/18/2013 05:18 AM, Grant Albitz wrote: I would like to discuss one more item: Based on the writes below vs the reads it seems like I am able to get more data out of a w/s as apposed to a read per second. I may just be misunderstanding the results but the disks themselves are rated for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-18 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/18/2013 01:42 PM, Grant Albitz wrote: The results below were done locally and are Gigabytes ps. I will try going back to the h310. Then you should definitely expect higher numbers. You can test to see if it is ZFS that's slowing you down by doing raw-device writes/reads, like so (don't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie question regarding graphical installer

2013-02-18 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/18/2013 02:47 PM, Martin Edgar wrote: Where does the graphical installer write the GRUB bootloader? If I choose to install OpenIndiana to an entire external (USB) HDD, will the bootloader be written to this same HDD Yes. Cheers, -- Saso ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-18 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/18/2013 10:08 PM, Ian Collins wrote: I agree with Sas's comments on the 710. If you have driver problems with a 310, try Solaris 11 as an experiment to verify performance, I have a number of Dells with 310 in JBOD mode running Solaris and they work well. That might actually not be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-17 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/17/2013 04:38 AM, Grant Albitz wrote: I just wanted to add that when I create a pool it is using ashift 9. Arent all ssds 4k drives at this point? In file-based datasets, ZFS uses a variable block size which automatically adjusts to the size of the write operation (from 512-bytes to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
Hi Grant, On 02/16/2013 05:14 PM, Grant Albitz wrote: Hi I am trying to track down a performance issue with my setup. Always be sure to do your performance testing on the machine itself first, before going on to test through more layers of the stack (i.e. iSCSI). What does iostat -xn 1 report

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/16/2013 11:37 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Have you tried the connecting to the volume form another IO host to eliminate vmware as the cause? Second that. The 9k MTU might also be hitting some NIC driver bugs - non-standard settings can, at times. Since the difference is only in the storage -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/16/2013 11:58 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/16/2013 11:37 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Have you tried the connecting to the volume form another IO host to eliminate vmware as the cause? Second that. The 9k MTU might also be hitting some NIC driver bugs - non-standard settings can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/17/2013 12:39 AM, Grant Albitz wrote: I am not sure that I can disable flow control since no switch is present. Is it turned on in the host by default? Flow control is a feature of the NIC and any two NICs can negotiate to have it turned on, you don't need a switch in between. See

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISCSI SSD Performance

2013-02-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/17/2013 12:52 AM, Grant Albitz wrote: Yes jim I actually used something similar to enable the 9000 mtu that's why I want familiar with the config file method. dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 InterfaceName Flowcontrol is currently off on the zfs host but enabled by default on esxi,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF svcadm restart-or-clear-or-start action

2013-02-12 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/12/2013 01:31 AM, Rainer Heilke wrote: This is essentially what I argued for years ago, and I was pretty much shot down. The response was basically a suggestion that I was being lazy by only wanting to type one SMF command instead of two or three. Sorry hear that. If many people use a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow zfs writes

2013-02-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/11/2013 09:54 PM, Robbie Crash wrote: If you weren't having any issues with speed and they've progressively gotten worse, I'd look at dedup. If you're using dedup, you better make sure you've got 2.5GB RAM for every TB of unique data you have, otherwise you'll be swapping your dedup

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] self encrypting disks

2013-02-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/11/2013 11:51 PM, Marion Hakanson wrote: richard.ell...@richardelling.com said: Soon, many, if not all, HDDs will be shipped as self encrypting. AFAIK, there is no OI project for managing the keys, however. I'm interested to know what the demand for these tools might be. -- richard

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF svcadm restart-or-clear-or-start action

2013-02-11 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/12/2013 12:12 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, While setting up systems there are occasions when an SMF service needs to be restarted - i.e. due to reconfiguration or its failure. The svcadm restart action only takes place for online services. I wonder if it is a reasonable RFE

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE on T1000?

2013-02-10 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/10/2013 10:33 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: So, how would I go about installing OpenSXCE on a T1000? Is there some sort of jumpstart available for it? In the past, I've attempted to hook up a SATA DVD drive to my T1000, but I couldn't get it booting, even after messing with the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Relocated root home directory

2013-02-09 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/09/2013 02:52 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, I found it not very convenient to have root's home directory as a part of rootfs - if I switch between different BEs, the homedir changes back and forth. It also consumes space in the snapshots, if a BE is cloned from a variant which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Relocated root home directory

2013-02-09 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/09/2013 08:55 PM, Roel_D wrote: Just a question out of interest: Let's say you put root's directory to another zfs dataset. This dataset has been backupped to an USB stick. Hang on, you don't encrypt your back ups? Seriously? No offense dude, but if you did that at my place, you'd find

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Relocated root home directory

2013-02-09 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/09/2013 10:59 PM, Roel_D wrote: It was hypothetical. I never backup ;-) You always end up with copies of old software ;-) I know this one, it's called the Torvalds method :-P Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs import fails

2013-02-07 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
You have an issue with conectivity to your drives on the Coraid HBA card. I suggest querying your HBA via its management tools to make sure you can discover all the drives on your network. Chances are, they're not all visible, which is why your pool is having trouble. -- Saso On 02/07/2013 01:49

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE will live

2013-02-07 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/07/2013 02:17 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: Dear community, I'm posting this from an Internet Cafe. Hi Martin, great to hear from you again! Did everything work for you? I'm currently getting the SPARC build farm for Illumos up and running. So far, your distro is running like a champ, no

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

2013-02-07 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/07/2013 11:28 PM, CJ Keist wrote: Here are actual numbers: # du -sh * 11G home zfs list data/students/GRAD/ECE/vwb NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT data/students/GRAD/ECE/vwb 13.6G 6.37G 13.6G /data/students/GRAD/ECE/vwb As you can see there

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs import fails

2013-02-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/06/2013 07:55 AM, Ram Chander wrote: Hi, I had a zpool thats exported on another system and when i try to import, it fails. Any idea how to recover ? format shows all the disks. root@host:~# zpool import -FfX pool1 cannot import 'pool1': one or more devices is currently

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to boot oi-dev-151a7-ai-x86.usb inot 64-Bit mode ?

2013-02-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
How did you determine that you are running in 32-bit? What is the output of isainfo -kv? If it prints something like: # isainfo -kv 64-bit amd64 kernel modules Then you *are* running 64-bit. Anyways, should you need to enforce 64-bit for whatever reason, it can be easily done by instructing the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to boot oi-dev-151a7-ai-x86.usb inot 64-Bit mode ?

2013-02-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
Sorry, I noticed that my post is irrelevant, I only skimmed your e-mail. If the ISO or USB installer only include the 32-bit kernel, then you cannot by definition boot into 64-bit mode (since there's no 64-bit kernel to load). Also, why would you want to boot the installer in 64-bit mode? The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/06/2013 02:30 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, I am currently helping evacuate data/OS from a legacy system that ran Solaris 10u3 (11/06) in a VM until recently - hypervisor host died - with tasks stuffed into a number of local zones, in whole roots over dedicated UFS SVM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] solaris10 branded zones

2013-02-06 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/06/2013 09:48 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-02-06 21:20, Roel_D wrote: If the old software/services running on the old solaris didn't rely on /usr or /etc installed software (like apache/mysql/java-based software) i would suggest to only copy the software directories

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/04/2013 07:31 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: Oh, and a little off topic here, but some of you all didn't appreciate my old habit of weekly reboots just to clear out the RAM, etc. a while back. Please don't think that anybody here was dissing you or anything. It's just that you had

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/04/2013 08:02 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/04/2013 07:31 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: Oh, and a little off topic here, but some of you all didn't appreciate my old habit of weekly reboots just to clear out

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: OpenSXCE on SF440 (missing network driver)

2013-02-01 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/01/2013 08:01 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote: Thank you for your answer! Would driver from Solaris 10 work and if yes how to get it from installed system (or installation DVD)? It should, Solaris' DDI is pretty stable. The other most likely possibility is that it either won't load or will

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-02-01 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/01/2013 05:23 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Do server platforms generally not have graphics or is it just inserted into a slot somewhere? or what? Sadly nowadays they do. I put sadly in quotes, because for some OSes having a graphics card in the machine is actually required to even be

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2013-01-25 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/25/2013 03:11 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk] :-D I'm here to entertain since I have not been able to spring for a ssd for use as a slog. :-D LOL, you mean you have a HDD slog device? :-D It's actually very

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

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

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

2013-01-24 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/24/2013 02:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: Based on my extensive work benchmarking zfs systems, I can say this: The default write performance on a plain old sas/sata card (without SSD) is horrible by comparison to the following alternatives: You get a huge increase

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vcenter server sharenfs issue

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vcenter server sharenfs issue

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

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

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk 2TB

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk 2TB

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk 2TB

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk 2TB

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] December 27th 1986

2013-01-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 01/19/2013 05:37 PM, Jan Owoc wrote: Hi, I have a home NAS that I'm running on an Asus E35M1-I (AMD E-350) motherboard. When I do a shutdown using init 5, and then physically walk over to power it on (without ever unplugging the power), sometimes the system powers up with the date set to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2012-11-18 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 11/17/2012 03:03 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: I've been lately looking around the net for high-availability and sync replication solutions for ZFS and came up pretty dry - seems like all the jazz is going around

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

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

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

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone use gcj?

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone use gcj?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on Dell R810

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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