Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> I want, like about 90% of the more literate home > computer users to put together a zfs file server for > my ever-growing home network. Very recently, one of Sun's bloggers started a blog about building a small and energy-efficient OpenSolaris/zfs-based home server: http://blogs.sun.com/cons

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> > or with RedHat 64bit. And then I paid for VMWare > > Workstation, and run my > it also puts me even further behind in learning to get the system > to run because then I'd have to pick up, learn and use VMWare > well enough to get zfs into a VM and reliably enough to not blow It doesn't have t

[osol-discuss] about Secondlife latest viewer on Solaris(OpenSolaris)

2009-11-22 Thread Masafumi Ohta
Hello, I would love to use Secondlife latest viewer on OpenSolaris.but I can't find any binaries and source codes, I checked http://wiki.secondlife.com and https://jira.secondlife.com/ I found patches for Secondlife sources for Solaris, but I haven't found the 'source' in them.. I much appr

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread R.G. Keen
That's a really good suggestion. I'll dig through that. It's a little clumsy, as the assumption is that you already have a system to run the discovery program on, and I'm trying to do the reverse of that, know what the chipsets are and deduce from that if they're supported. But a very useful a

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b127 ERROR: cannot find Java software, Exiting to shell

2009-11-22 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I get only information concerning the hard drive and > nothing about the optical drive. > I am using a Sony PCGA-DDRW3 Firewire optical drive, Yep, I can reproduce it. The problem is that the Solaris firewire drivers (hci1394 and friends) are not included in the SX:CE installer's /boot/x86.min

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
One more thing I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet, that may be of some use: the "device detection tool" http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ddtool/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-d

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread R.G. Keen
Just grafting back together a great reply I got to my original posting, which appeared in its own topic for some reason. > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Al Hopper > Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:23 PM > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] The 100,000th beginner question about a zfs serv

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread R.G. Keen
> You might look into asking the development team over > at Nexenta.org that specialize in ZFS-based NAS boxes > and have a storage product called NexentaStor > (http://www.nexenta.org). OK... doing background reading now... > Also, there is Andre Lue handling the EON NAS server > development. He

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread R.G. Keen
> My response is this: No, there is not enough effort > or resources available > from the volunteer community to have a well organized and thorough HCL. > There are no funds for opensolaris project to buy one of everything and test > it. It is difficult to organize all the unknown and random peop

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread R.G. Keen
> I totally agree with you, but as this is a community > project, it requires someone in the community to step > up and do it. Yeah, I know. I've worked with network volunteer efforts before. There are quite reasonable limitations on what you can expect. ... 8-) I have gotten over my frustration

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread ken mays
--- On Sat, 11/21/09, R.G. Keen wrote: > I believe that there are many people like me out in there > that would happily follow a cookbook to get a zfs server > running. I don't want to enjoy opensolaris as a hobby, I > want a server I can't get any other way. I think there are > others. > > (a)

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> I want, *snip* to put > together a zfs file server for my ever-growing home network. > > My issue is this. The HCL is substantially useless. My response is this: No, there is not enough effort or resources available from the volunteer community to have a well organized and thorough HCL. Ther

Re: [osol-discuss] Frustrated beyond belief trying to cobble together a zfs platform

2009-11-22 Thread Gary Gendel
> Rugrat wrote: > >There are several threads on opensolaris.org on > building a NAS box. > >A quick scan shows this blog: > Yes, I've read that one; also the several others in > other places on the web which have blogs about > building similar stuff. I've read many of those as > well. > > However,