Re: [smartos-discuss] troubleshooting smartos/supermicro

2014-03-04 Thread Joe Landman
On 03/04/2014 11:14 AM, Keith Wesolowski wrote: I can't emphasise this enough, so for the benefit of anyone reading this now or in archives: ALWAYS USE THE SERIAL-OVER-LAN CONSOLE! +1E100 -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.c

Re: [smartos-discuss] troubleshooting smartos/supermicro

2014-03-04 Thread Joe Landman
On 03/04/2014 12:37 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: thanks, keith. i eventually remembered to check the man page, and made a successful connection. i am currently trying to figure the best way of mangling grub to enable this, all without going onsite. Do this: 1) add this before your "title" lines

Re: [smartos-discuss] troubleshooting smartos/supermicro

2014-03-04 Thread Joe Landman
On 03/04/2014 01:57 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote: From: "Joe Landman" To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:05:15 PM Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] troubleshooting smartos/supermicro 1) use the ipmitool -I lanplus -H machine_ipmi_addr -U ADMIN -P

[smartos-discuss] is there an equivalent of /etc/system available in the gz?

2014-03-18 Thread Joe Landman
The short version is that I want to do some driver parameter tweaking for testing of a new hardware device. Traditionally we set parameters in /etc/system (for linux users, this is the rough equivalent of the /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/ files) to adjust how the system device driver

Re: [smartos-discuss] Question on hardware

2014-03-20 Thread Joe Landman
On 03/20/2014 12:28 PM, Len Weincier wrote: I am trawling through the SuperMicro catalog and there are so many trade offs and not really anything that stands out. I do like the the 2u option (E1R12L) that you have chosen at the moment as the best for now. What other options are there if you can

Re: [smartos-discuss] Question on hardware

2014-03-20 Thread Joe Landman
On 03/20/2014 01:00 PM, Keith Wesolowski wrote: The correct place for this to live is in libtopo. We've already done the work to wire up mpt_sas to the topo functionality, so that the disk-lights module will do the correct thing. Most likely all that Nice ... Let me start looking at that so

Re: [smartos-discuss] Congrats to Joyent

2016-06-16 Thread Joe Landman
On 06/16/2016 05:17 PM, Bryan Cantrill wrote: So the three of us who were engaged in that conversation (namely CEO Scott Hammond, VP of Product Bill Fine and me) each came back with our priorities. As you can imagine given my Oracle (mis)experience, my top priority was clear: that Triton,

Re: [smartos-discuss] Gitlab on LX zone - cannot allocate memory

2016-09-17 Thread Joe Landman
On 09/17/2016 07:30 PM, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: On 17 September 2016 at 15:39, Daniel Carosone wrote: I tried this a couple of weeks ago, with no luck either. I was getting some (apparently random) SIGBUS backtraces from ruby in amongst the logs. Linux allows for pretty flagrant memory over

Re: [smartos-discuss] Re: [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-21 Thread Joe Landman via smartos-discuss
On 05/21/2014 10:05 AM, Zhiwen Zheng via smartos-discuss wrote: 在 2014-5-21 上午12:15,"Keith Wesolowski" mailto:keith.wesolow...@joyent.com>>写道: > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:30:13PM +0800, Zhiwen Zheng wrote: > > > I tried to add suport for adaptec 6805H following the linux pm8001 driver. >

Re: [smartos-discuss] Re: [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-21 Thread Joe Landman via smartos-discuss
On 05/21/2014 10:24 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Basically GPL is an anathema to any project that doesn't share their ideology that ALL software must be free. I'd probably restate that is "... must be free in the same way." In many ways this is actually MORE restrictive than even proprietary co

Re: [smartos-discuss] [ANN] Project FiFo 0.6.1 release

2015-01-14 Thread Joe Landman via smartos-discuss
On 01/14/2015 08:19 AM, Heinz Nikolaus Gies via smartos-discuss wrote: Good news everyone! We’ve rolled out a new update of Project FiFo! Version 0.6.1 has some interesting features here are the highlights: * In zone CLI client (run snapshots / backups from within a zone). [1] * Support for ma

Re: [smartos-discuss] GlusterFS (or Something similar) on SmartOS

2015-02-08 Thread Joe Landman via smartos-discuss
On 02/08/2015 02:44 AM, Sam M via smartos-discuss wrote: Hello. I'm considering using Gluster or something similar on my VMs. I'd like to get the opinion of this community on whether this would be a good choice or if there's anything similar I should also consider. Hi Sam: We've used Glu