Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-24 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 24/01/2018 22:55, Jerry Kemp wrote: Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana (pre-Hipster) system.  I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail=continue switch o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool replacing forever

2019-01-20 Thread Andrew Gabriel
will stay in the zpool until there's a clean scrub, after which zfs will collapse out the replacing-0 vdev. (In your case, you know there is no copy of the bad data so this won't help, but in general it can.) So to fix, delete the corrupt files, and any snapshots they&#

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool replacing forever

2019-01-21 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 21/01/2019 02:37, Gary Mills wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 08:16:44PM +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote: >> zfs is keeping the old disk around as a ghost, in case you can put it >> back in and zfs can find good copies of the corrupt data on it during >> the resilver. It w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS pool slow as molasses

2010-10-05 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Julian Wiesener wrote: On 10/ 5/10 10:13 PM, Paul Johnston wrote: Er what sort of name would you expect to see for a sata device? SATA devices normaly have a Taget, so it's c4t0d0 instead of c4d0. However, these are names, if you want to know what interface type is used, you should look on t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool command: some questions.

2010-11-21 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Anthony Renaud wrote: I am not sure of the consequences of the following zpool command: zpool create mypool /dev/dsk/c5t0d0p2 It turns the second primary FDISK partition on that disk into a zpool. (c5t0d0p2 is where I have the unbootable OpenSolaris partition from where I want to recover so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setup serial console on ttyc (the third serial port)

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew Gabriel
wessels wrote: Perhaps all described procedures work on ttya but I can't get a console on ttyc. ttyc (the third serial port) is a SerialOverLan port Sorry, but the kernel only recognizes ttya and ttyb (and usb-serial) as console= values, not ttyc. It's been a very long missing feature on So

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setup serial console on ttyc (the third serial port)

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew Gabriel
r the notice sofar. Anything else I should worry about? On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: wessels wrote: Perhaps all described procedures work on ttya but I can't get a console on ttyc. ttyc (the third serial port) is a SerialOverLan port Sorry, but the kernel only re

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setup serial console on ttyc (the third serial port)

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew Gabriel
well which need patching to make this work ? tia On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: I suspect it would be very easy to fix this in the kernel. I fixed the missing bits in the asy(7D) driver 7 or 8 years ago when I was adding 16650/16750 support. I think all that's left to fi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setup serial console on ttyc (the third serial port)

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew Gabriel
wessels wrote: Goodmorning, The output you requested is below. As stated before grub works fine on the third port with these lines: serial --unit=2 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=30 serial There are 3 ways (that I can think of) for an OS to identify if a system

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setup serial console on ttyc (the third serial port)

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew Gabriel
wessels wrote: while waiting for the build to complete I took some time to really look at the code, as I should have done in the first place. I think quite a bit more patching needs to be done for example boot_console also needs to be updated. Any more hints would be more than welcome. http://

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setup serial console on ttyc (the third serial port)

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew Gabriel
wessels wrote: Can you confirm a few thing for me? -consplat.c is the only file which needs patching? -kernel/misc/consconfig and kernel/misc/amd64/consconfig are the only two binaries which need to be updated Looks more like it should be /platform/i86pc/kernel/dacf/consconfig_dacf /platform/i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTPD and PPM issues?

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I have an openindiana virtual machine running under ESXi. The vmware tools are installed and timesync is disabled. I have ntpd configured and working with several servers in the us.pool.ntp.org subdomain. It all seems to work - comparing the time with 2 other virtual

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTPD and PPM issues?

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Andrew Gabriel wrote: Dan Swartzendruber wrote: I have an openindiana virtual machine running under ESXi. The vmware tools are installed and timesync is disabled. I have ntpd configured and working with several servers in the us.pool.ntp.org subdomain. It all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nokia N8-00

2011-06-04 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Olaf Bohlen wrote: Maxim writes: Hi Maxim, I've tried to set up mobile internet using Nokia N8-00 under OI b148, but looks like system doesn't see my device... I've expected that new device will be in /dev/N8 or smth like this as it described in http://blogs.oracle.com/jameslegg/entry/mobi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Advice for building SMF service for non-priviledged processes

2011-06-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Blake wrote: I am working on an SMF script to allow a non-root user to managed the Unicorn Ruby/Rails application server via SMF. But I'm having problems. We are also using RVM to manage rubies, so I need a way for the method script to simulate an interactive login so that RVM works properly.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Advice for building SMF service for non-priviledged processes

2011-06-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Andrew Gabriel wrote: Blake wrote: I am working on an SMF script to allow a non-root user to managed the Unicorn Ruby/Rails application server via SMF. But I'm having problems. We are also using RVM to manage rubies, so I need a way for the method script to simulate an interactive log

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

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Michael Stapleton wrote: While we are talking about 32 | 64 bit processes; Which one is better? Faster? More efficient? Initially, assuming a 32 verses 64 bit build doesn't change any algorithms... On x86, a 64 bit build of the same program will typically run ~50% faster if it's CPU-bound

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana in VMWare and usb devices

2011-06-26 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Gabriele Bulfon wrote: No way.USB CDC modem/fax under VMWare Esxi 4.1 does not work Everything looks fine under the OS (devices, dev/cua, messages from the USB management), but then tip does not attach as if the dev file is missing, or maybe just not responding Anyone does have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zone Privileges for a Normal User

2011-11-07 Thread Andrew Gabriel
zonecfg ) zdev2 zone? I appreciate the feedback. Regards, Deniz Rende -- Deniz Rende -- Andrew Gabriel ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] access to partition table inside zvol

2011-12-22 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Evgenii Lepikhin wrote: Hello, I'm new to OpenIndiana/Solaris and I have the question without answer: I exported ZFS volume with iSCSI and installed Windows on the exported volume. Now I have zvol with partition table inside (EFI/GPT) having two partitions created. How can I mount one of that par

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] access to partition table inside zvol

2011-12-29 Thread Andrew Gabriel
atic like the above should be used to handle the more common cases of partitions/slices. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install / Partition Help

2012-03-02 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Wallbank, Mark wrote: Hi I am trying to install openindiana (x86) and would like to customise the partitions/slices. I would like to have a solaris2 fdisk for the whole of the disk but when it comes to the format partitions I would like to have about 10 to 30 Gig at the start of the disk for t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about halting a zone

2012-05-08 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Jeppe Toustrup wrote: On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: I was reading about how to update non-global zones, and found a Solaris document which says the following: 1. Update the Global Zone 2. Reboot 3. Halt the non-global zone (zoneadm -z myzone halt) 4. Detach the zone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BTRFS for OI, anyone?

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Would BTRFS be a viable FS for Openindiana? I would be interested to know what feature(s) of it you want that you think are missing from OI? -- Andrew ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BTRFS for OI, anyone?

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Gabriel
James Carlson wrote: Each currently has advantages over the other in different departments. On balance, from what I've seen of BTRFS in Fedora, ZFS has much more over BTRFS than the reverse. But that's to be expected; ZFS is much more mature. Frankly, I don't expect that to be a useful comparis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-05 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Reginald Beardsley wrote: Having established that the stty behavior is a red herring produced by /bin/tcsh here is a precis of the situation (pwd is /etc): oi%rhb {180} /app/bin/rcsdiff remote ttydefs === RCS file: RCS/remote,v re

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-06 Thread Andrew Gabriel
The stty changes will be lost when the last stream closes and the port settings are reset, which is probably the very instant that the stty command which makes the changes exits in your example. So this will only work if something else is holding the port open. That's why I said try it when tip

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
James Carlson wrote: Reginald Beardsley wrote: I don't want any inbound connections. But the documentation I read suggested that one had to setup ttymon on the port. Possibly for no reason other than, "This is what I did when it finally worked." Where'd you read that? Even when it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-07 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Ben Taylor [mailto:bentaylor.sol...@gmail.com] Patching is a bit of arcane art. Some environments don't have test/acceptance/pre-prod with similar hardware and configurations, so minimizing impact is understandable, which means patching only what is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Write protected USB stick

2013-04-13 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Brogya'nyi Jo'zsef wrote: Hi I use a USB stick on my Openindiana and there was a power failure. After this my USB stick not work properly. When I tried to format it I received an error message. The fdisk and rmformat tell me the stick is write protected. How to change this status on my stick?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: I am not an expert of this subject , but with respect to my readings in some e-mails in different mailing lists and from some relevant pages in Wikipedia about SSD drives , the following points are mentioned about SSD disadvantages ( even for "Enterprise" labeled driv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using large (3-4 TB) USB disks for backups

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 26/03/2014 03:07, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Has anyone been able to ZFS format a 3-4 TB USB drive w/ OI so that it worked properly? I was defeated by a 3 TB Toshiba drive, but am hoping some other make might work w/o generating misaligned messages. It helps if you paste in the terminal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using large (3-4 TB) USB disks for backups

2014-03-26 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Have you got any other disk which can format as ashift=12? (You could even use an iSCSI LUN from another system with blocksize set to 4k.) If so, start by creating a zpool on that. Then attach your USB drive as a mirror, and it will have ashift=12. Then detach the original disk from the mirro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
he USB submirror into another laptop and boot from it. Never had a problem. I could even reattach the USB drive to my laptop and it would resilver automatically. Is the problem ZFS or USB or FMA? no idea. But the was a regression of sorts. I don't think Solar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sd-config-list= vid/pid string syntax in sd.conf

2014-03-30 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 29/03/2014 21:15, Reginald Beardsley wrote: The string matching logic in sd_sdconf_id_match() in sd.c is odd and seems to cause a good bit of confusion. In particular it does not conform to shell wildcard rules which I think is what most people would expect. Can anyone point to why the cur

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool errors a bit confusing

2014-04-06 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 06/04/2014 15:50, Harry Putnam wrote: One unexpected result is that vbox seems to create the same named discs under the normal directory for your vm discsbut they never grow beyond 4mb. All the while the same named discs out on the ext drive may grow to whatever size was set when created.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Exclusive IP zones under VMware

2014-04-21 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Sounds like similar problem as under Virtualbox. The emulated e1000g claims to support 15 mac addresses, but actually only the first mac address works, so frames addressed to the other mac addresses are not passed up. If the emulated e1000g correctly claimed to support only 1 mac address, then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Issue adding a zone to an older OI system

2014-07-29 Thread Andrew Gabriel
hasn't got far enough. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2x Xeon XS8600

2014-08-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ports for Sata discs. What you really want is AHCI and no RAID. Running it as an emulated IDE is rather sub-optimal, but maybe your only choice unless you go and buy a separate disk controller. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where Do I Get Source To Pic?

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 11/ 7/14 08:58 AM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: I need to obtain source to pic, because my Schillix system does not have it. http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/ does not have a pic subdirectory. It has eqn and tbl, and of course troff, but n

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where Do I Get Source To Pic?

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Andrew Gabriel wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 11/ 7/14 08:58 AM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: I need to obtain source to pic, because my Schillix system does not have it. http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/ does not have a pic subdirectory. It has eqn and tbl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where Do I Get Source To Pic? ; Mona Eyes

2014-11-09 Thread Andrew Gabriel
j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Andrew Gabriel would write on Sat Nov 8 12:30:47 2014: I looked around a bit further, and found that AT&T have opensourced their last unix system V version: http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/cgi-bin/download

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit and/or 64-bit programs (Was: Bash bug issue)

2014-11-11 Thread Andrew Gabriel
both 32 bit and 64 bit kernels so we don't need to do two builds, two lots of testing, install two binaries, etc. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit and/or 64-bit programs (Was: Bash bug issue)

2014-11-17 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Bruce Lilly wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Andrew Gabriel < illu...@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote We currently support 32 bit and 64 bit kernel. A bug fix needs to work on both 32 and 64 bit versions, so that would not be acceptable as a bug fix for this issue (if it was somethi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

2015-01-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Nexenta alone is probably around an Exabyte of licensed installations, and that's a mix of displaced traditional storage vendors, and new growth in old and new companies. There are many ZFS-based storage vendors in addition to Nexenta. The traditional 'big 8' storage vendors charged $9B for 9EB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

2015-01-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Schweiss, Chip wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Andrew Gabriel < illu...@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote: Since you mention Sun/Oracle, I don't see them pushing ZFS very much anymore, although I am aware their engineers still work on it. Oracle pushes ZFS hard and a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool defragmentation

2015-01-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
grub etc on it), and then zpool split off the old disk. It would be a good opportunity to move to a bigger rpool disk too. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/lis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool defragmentation

2015-01-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 01/16/15 03:47 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: On 01/16/2015 10:22 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: On 01/16/15 02:37 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: # zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ FRAGCAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 68G 49.5G 18.5G -50%72% 1.00x ONLINE - users

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool defragmentation

2015-01-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Timothy Coalson wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Andrew Gabriel < illu...@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote: On 01/16/15 03:47 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: On 01/16/2015 10:22 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: On 01/16/15 02:37 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I thought about cr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool defragmentation

2015-01-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::.. wrote: Hi All, If i read this correct, and one would have a heavily fragmented zpool ( doesn't matter if it's the rpool , or the data pool), and wanted to defrag , provided you have mirrors, remove the mirrored disks, remove the partition o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rpool defragmentation

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Your question about fragmentation brings up the same question as before - what are you trying to defragment? The FRAG column in zpool status relates to fragmentation of free space. If you take a disk which is 80% full and replace it with a disk which is twice the size, the pool's freespace will

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ror the mailing list discussion in a forum, that would open the discussions up to some younger people who won't follow a project via a mailing list. There is an IRC channel, #openindiana on chat.freenode.net -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster and puppet

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Grüninger wrote: Last Friday I made an installation of hipster in our corporate network. We use puppet for configuration management. Puppet set facts to classify the system and one of them is "operatingsystem". The value for operatingsystem is determined by evaluation of 'uname -v'. # Hipster: u

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: Privacy is keyword here. I consider constant delivery of discussion to my email as intrusion. That's what auto-foldering is for - have your mail client automatically move it to an openindiana folder so you don't see it until you want to. -- Andrew __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

2015-01-31 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Rainer Heilke wrote: Greetings; I need to build a new home server, but I need to get all 8 drives internal. Will Illumos/OpenIndiana support the Vantec UGT-ST310R SATA card? This is based on Sil3114 SATA controller chip. It might work if you reflash with the non-RAID firmware (which has to b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Jerry Kemp wrote: I thought that SATA expansion cards were always bad news when used with Solaris, and Solaris based distro's. He was really asking for SATA host bus adapters. There are tons of horror stories out there, primarily thru the ZFS mailing list. The bad news comes with using SATA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Jacob Ritorto wrote: Hi, My Solaris 11 install is getting a little long in the tooth and I still use this poor old machine kind of a lot for small development, pdp11 emulation and its real serial ports, etc. I would like to keep it because it's pretty low power, reliable as dirt, and still sup

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
in the SAS expanders, so it only impacts SATA drives, not SAS drives. Having said that, I haven't heard of anyone using RES2SV240 before - do you know if it uses standard LSI SAS expander chips, or something else? -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
xceedingly slow reading in the boot archive - it wasn't originally designed for reading in files of anything like that size, and is very non-optimal when doing so (takes many minutes). -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

2015-02-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Jacob Ritorto wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Do you have to stick with SPARC? Your Ultra 5 is going to be way slower than any current (and many old) x86 systems, which are supported by all the Illumos distributions. I don't have to; it&#

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hadoop+jcuda

2015-02-03 Thread Andrew Gabriel
jason matthews wrote: Hello world, has anyone tried running hadoop+jcuda for gpu acceleration on their hadoop cluster on any illumos derived OS? I am probably one of like eight people running such a cluster at scale, but it never hurts to ask. I'm not aware that there's any gpu driver avail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 64 bit Firefox

2015-02-07 Thread Andrew Gabriel
the ability to leak nearly 4Gbytes is quite enough and nicely self-limiting - I don't have enough memory for it to leak a whole 64 bit address space ;-) Don't let me put you off, but I'm just wondering what problem it solves? --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 32-bit support in OpenIndiana Hipster

2015-02-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello. We currently support (in some way) 32-bit systems. We avoid shipping 64-binaries in default path or use isaexec for such things. But do we really need it? I haven't seen PC (not speaking about server) without 64-bit CPU for at least 8 years. Dropping support f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

2015-02-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Marion Hakanson wrote: Has anyone out there actually got a drive > 2TB working via USB on an illumos distribution? My attempts so far have failed (oi151a7, oi151a9, and XStreamOS), with my 3TB drive in a USB-SATA enclosure appearing as a 2TB drive. The same drive/enclosure works perfectly when

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

2015-02-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
S+and+Advanced+Format+disks I did this on the N40L which is powered down at the moment, but there is probably more info on that. The notes quoted above are from my log book. Reg -------- On Mon, 2/16/15, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Subject: Re: [Open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Martin Bochnig

2015-04-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 15/04/2015 22:23, Ivar Janmaat wrote: Hello, In my humble opinion there are several questions which Illumos might want to answer because they are relevant to others as well. I supply some answers, but I suspect you are thinking Firefox is part of illumos, but it is not, so these questions

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMR disks

2015-05-01 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 01/05/2015 07:13, Nick Tan wrote: Hi all, Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR disk and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send would cause the disk to go offline. My guess is that zfs send is too fast and fills the drive write cac

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Any interest in Meetups in London?

2015-08-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 10/08/2015 19:38, Peter Tribble wrote: How much interest is there in a London-based illumos meetup? Enough to revive the now-defunct Solarians meetup group? http://www.meetup.com/solarians/ I would be interested (although I don't remember my Meetup passwd and I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic on hung zpool accessed via lofi

2015-09-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ushing the timing of the SCSI commands right down to the bottom of the stack (so delays in the software stack are not mistaken for bad drives), and to have FMA better analyse and handle errors when they do happen. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

2015-12-11 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 11/12/2015 20:45, Ian Collins wrote: Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: I have only occasional need to run problems larger than main memory > (16 GB at present), so I can't justify replacing all the DRAM for an > infrequent need. The drop in SSD prices has me contemplating ad

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox v5.1.0 on hipster lastest

2016-07-13 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 13/07/2016 22:24, Volker A. Brandt wrote: Adam Števko writes: anyone interested in packaging virtualbox? That would help everybody. I have not followed any of the upstream virtualbox mailing lists. Does anyone know why they publish only a SVR4 package for Solaris? That package is IPS-aware a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-20 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 20/01/2017 17:29, John D Groenveld wrote: In message , Fred Liu writ es: Nexenta has to co-work with hardware OEMs for nexentastor is just software. As long as I know, they rolled out they-called software-defined storage applianc es with Dell, PogoLinux, Supermicro etc. I even installed nexen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ISA card support in OI

2017-04-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
system's ACPI tables unless it's an integrated peripheral on the motherboard. Having said that, I don't have any system with ISA bus which has anywhere near enough memory to boot any current Solaris/Illumos software, so I can't test it. -- Andrew Gabriel ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS on Openindiana vs ZFS on oracle linux

2017-04-21 Thread Andrew Gabriel
x27;m not aware that Oracle Linux has native ZFS support at all. However, there are more than you mentioned - see http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Distributions -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS on Openindiana vs ZFS on oracle linux

2017-04-21 Thread Andrew Gabriel
An Oracle tech support rep. is the one who told me about the native support for ZFS in Oracle Linux. On 04/21/17 11:01, Andrew Gabriel wrote: On 21/04/2017 18:24, David Johnson wrote: Does anyone have any editorial comments on how well ZFS is handled on Openindiana vs. Oracle Linux? It looks like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dell r730xd + SATA

2017-04-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
SD into an otherwise all-SAS array. If you want to build a cheap array that actually works, you should use nearline SAS drives rather than SATA drives. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

2017-07-24 Thread Andrew Gabriel
For OpenZFS, there's a pull request open to add ZFS encryption. https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/124 It's had an enormous amount of review over the last year, including expert security review. Still going through testing. So hopefully, not far off. On 24/07/2017 18:48, Kai Windle wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool on the second partition of an external disk

2017-09-08 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 08/09/2017 14:44, James Carlson via openindiana-discuss wrote: On 09/07/17 16:50, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Ok, but what is the problem? What is the output and stderr of your zpool create cXtYdZp2 command? Does it gives any error? After more searching I concluded th