Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-28 Thread roland
thanks for the hint - i thought sata would be always hot-pluggable. i checked the specs for 3114 and they tell it supports hot-plug: http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?pid=28 i think i will try how a raid mirror behaves with linux, just to see if there is a difference. roland

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware Tools on ESXi for OpenSolaris

2009-03-28 Thread roland
check out http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ if you have problems installing the tools that come with esxi -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-28 Thread UNIX admin
yes: Tom Riddle and Brian (and Guy) are resuming work. That's really good news! But whatever they do: In any case it is not going to be a LiveCD/DVD distro very soon. So at least the subject is not entirely correct. Yes, that's what bothers me. If there is no downloadable, bootable image,

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Samba packages to use and, what do Usr, Kernel, Root packages me

2009-03-28 Thread a b
The reason that there's a distinction between root and usr bits is that Solaris (at least at one point) supported booting off of a small local disk (containing just /), and remote mounting /usr. I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back then) couldn't

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-28 Thread C.
UNIX admin wrote: Yes, that's what bothers me. If there is no downloadable, bootable image, how can a pile of prototype code be considered a distribution? Personally, I could see it this way, but it's just marketing so people get more interested. If it's known as a distro what's the real

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Samba packages to use and, what do Usr, Kernel, Root packages me

2009-03-28 Thread Casper . Dik
I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back then) couldn't handle / slices greater than 1GB, so if you stuck a 9GB disk inside of an IPX or an SS1+, you were forced to split / and /usr. Pwow, I feel old now. Nah, in the old days a disk was 35MB or perhaps

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware Tools on ESXi for OpenSolaris

2009-03-28 Thread Jonathan Wheeler
Ah, I know this one all too well. I agree, it's very annoying, and it breaks a ton of time sensitive stuff (such as courier-imap in my case) Fortunately, the engineers also know about it, and it's meant to have been fixed in snv_110 ( I haven't tested it yet)

[osol-discuss] Have an idea about ZFS improvements - step to the user. Is it actual?

2009-03-28 Thread Eugene Turkulevich
Hi, I have an idea about improvements of ZFS from the one side and improvements for of the GUI interface from the other side. Let me describe my idea. From the one side we have an ZFS on-th-fly snapshots, and starting from OpenSolaris 2008.11 we have TimeSlider user feature based on ZFS

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-28 Thread devzero
thanks for the hint - i tought sata would be always hot-pluggable. i checked the specs for 3114 - and yes - it supports hot-plug: http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?pid=28 i think i will try how a raid mirror behaves with linux, just to see if there is a difference. roland

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:02 AM, C. codest...@osunix.org wrote: UNIX admin wrote: Yes, that's what bothers me. If there is no downloadable, bootable image, how can a pile of prototype code be considered a distribution? Personally, I could see it this way, but it's just marketing so people

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Samba packages to use and, what do Usr, Kernel, Root packages me

2009-03-28 Thread Rich Burridge
casper@sun.com wrote: I remember those days very well; the 2.x PROM (wasn't even OpenBoot PROM back then) couldn't handle / slices greater than 1GB, so if you stuck a 9GB disk inside of an IPX or an SS1+, you were forced to split / and /usr. Pwow, I feel old now. Nah, in the old

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-28 Thread ken mays
--- On Sat, 3/28/09, UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com wrote: From: UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 5:16 AM yes: Tom Riddle

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
--- On Sat, 3/28/09, UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com wrote: From: UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 5:16 AM yes: Tom Riddle

[osol-discuss] package naming [was RE: Which Samba packages to use and, what do Usr, Kernel, Root packages me]

2009-03-28 Thread James Carlson
a b writes: and there are some obscure ones (such as the .u and .v architecture-specific packages). Aaahhh! Now things are getting to be really interesting! I love such arcane knowledge, if you don't mind, please share insight on what these meant, if you have any. They're still