Re: [smartos-discuss] Network Problems under Yosemite->VMware Fusion->SmartOS->Zone

2016-02-16 Thread Paul Sture
ent-2479 http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_faq.pdf Scroll down to "2.12How can I use my wireless Ethernet card with SIMH?" -- Paul Sture --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://w

Re: [smartos-discuss] Network Problems under Yosemite->VMware Fusion->SmartOS->Zone

2016-02-16 Thread Paul Sture
ation from the first dialog *usually* persists, but not always. I haven't seen a second authorization request as part of a reboot for some time but don't know whether it's a workload thing or some update to OS X itself or Fusion. -- Paul Sture -

Re: [smartos-discuss] the partition size is fixed 1.86G in USB stick. Can it be enlarged?

2016-02-21 Thread Paul Sture
t does when you are trying to put a fixed size image onto one. * with the USB sticks I had available at the time, the shortfall varied from 9MB to 273MB -- Paul Sture --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now

Re: [smartos-discuss] the partition size is fixed 1.86G in USB stick. Can it be enlarged?

2016-02-21 Thread Paul Sture
On 22 Feb 2016, at 7:55, Paul Sture wrote: On 19 Feb 2016, at 14:42, Nahum Shalman wrote: After resizing you'd probably need to re-install grub... An alternative is to format the USB stick with a ZFS pool and boot that way (as a bonus you can then take snapshots and I've heard that

[smartos-discuss] Removing a filesystem from a native SmartOS zone

2016-06-03 Thread Paul Sture
I have added a filesystem to an native SmartOS zone and now wish to get rid of it. I'm sort of 99% sure that I did this about a year ago, but it's not working now. To add filesystem cat add_manage.json { "add_filesystems": [ { "type": "lofs", "source": "/tank/vm_configs/manage", "target":

Re: [smartos-discuss] Removing a filesystem from a native SmartOS zone

2016-06-03 Thread Paul Sture
fg to remove it. Regards Jorge On 2016-06-04 00:35, tommy wrote: I'd guess to define only "target" On 03 Jun 2016, at 23:52, Paul Sture wrote: I have added a filesystem to an native SmartOS zone and now wish to get rid of it. I'm sort of 99% sure that I did this about a

Re: [smartos-discuss] USB pass through to zone needed

2016-06-06 Thread Paul Sture
On 6 Jun 2016, at 19:40, Gareth Howell wrote: I’m monitoring this with interest. If I issue a shutdown to the global zone on the server, will the zones have had the chance to do a graceful shutdown before the global zone shuts down? I do regular shutdowns from the global zone and in my e

[smartos-discuss] VMware image does config OK, but on reboot puts me at grub> prompt

2016-06-28 Thread Paul Sture
I've downloaded the latest VMware image for SmartOS and the config on first boot went OK. The reboot however simply comes back to the grub> prompt. Any ideas where I should go from here? --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archi

Re: [smartos-discuss] VMware image does config OK, but on reboot puts me at grub> prompt

2016-06-28 Thread Paul Sture
On 28 Jun 2016, at 21:51, Jonathan Perkin wrote: * On 2016-06-28 at 20:47 BST, Paul Sture wrote: I've downloaded the latest VMware image for SmartOS and the config on first boot went OK. The reboot however simply comes back to the grub> prompt. Any ideas where I should go from here

Re: [smartos-discuss] Keyboard language not set on install

2016-06-29 Thread Paul Sture
On 28 Jun 2016, at 21:34, Carsten Kunze wrote: Hello, the installer asks for configuring the root password before the keyboard language is set. How to setup the correct keymap *before* the installer asks for the root password? I've had a look at this myself and haven't found any obvious way

Re: [smartos-discuss] VMware image does config OK, but on reboot puts me at grub> prompt

2016-07-01 Thread Paul Sture
On 29 Jun 2016, at 0:05, Paul Sture wrote: On 28 Jun 2016, at 21:51, Jonathan Perkin wrote: * On 2016-06-28 at 20:47 BST, Paul Sture wrote: I've downloaded the latest VMware image for SmartOS and the config on first boot went OK. The reboot however simply comes back to the grub>

Re: [smartos-discuss] zpool replace with a disk which has different physical blocksize

2016-07-19 Thread Paul Sture
What make and model are your existing disks? The WD Reds I have (2TB and 3TB models) for example are capable of 4096 byte transfers, but report themselves as only being capable of doing 512 byte transfers. If your existing disks do support 4K transfers (but report 512 bytes to the OS), you ha

Re: [smartos-discuss] "Fast" machine inexplicably slow

2016-08-06 Thread Paul Sture
On 7 Aug 2016, at 6:39, Michael Loftis wrote: > Half the RAM half the disk cache. Also more cores. If the build has been tuned to allocate x amount of RAM per process, more processes going at less RAM won't help. Is the instance of Ubuntu on the new machine really the same? Cores, RAM and swap t

Re: [smartos-discuss] debian-8: apt-get install gitlab-ce takes hours: ext4 extents

2016-08-10 Thread Paul Sture
On 9 Aug 2016, at 15:31, Stefan wrote: Dear List, with SmartOS Live Image v0.147+ build: 20160428T170316Z image: 2f56d126-20d0-11e5-9e5b-5f3ef6688aba (Debian 8) That's debian-8 version 20150702, a KVM image. the installation (particularly the unpacking) of gitlab # curl https://

Re: [smartos-discuss] Any SaltStack users around?

2016-09-07 Thread Paul Sture
Bearing in mind that I've only dabbled with SaltStack so far and haven't got anything like a working SaltStack system... The default timeout in the salt 'master' file is 5 seconds. I've had success by increasing that. Thanks for your installation instructions. I couldn't get the latest version

Re: [smartos-discuss] Standardized Benchmarks and various overheads.

2016-10-01 Thread Paul Sture
On 1 Oct 2016, at 2:00, Ian Collins wrote: On 10/ 1/16 12:43 PM, Matthew Parsons wrote: (Sorry for the delay in replying.) Please note I didn't ask "what matches my workload" or "please architect my setup for me" :P Mainly I just wanted something for a couple basic sanity checks that hardwar

Re: [smartos-discuss] Power Management on Modern CPUs

2016-10-05 Thread Paul Sture
On 6 Oct 2016, at 5:13, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 03:42:36AM +0100, Adam Richmond-Gordon wrote: > >> Thank you for pointing that out - I had it in my head that a single >> log device would be safe. > > There's only one failure mode (AFAIK) where a single log device will > cau

Re: [smartos-discuss] "vmadm delete" not deleting zfs mountpoints?

2016-10-31 Thread Paul Sture
On 31 Oct 2016, at 20:30, Matthew Parsons wrote: > (I hope I got the terminology right.) > > vmadm delete should remove most everything correct? > > On one host I currently have 2 (native) zones, but I've got multiple > /zones/UUID mountpoints that look like old zones/vms from previous testing. >

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS release-20161027

2016-10-31 Thread Paul Sture
The latest release I see now is 20161101T004406Z (released 5 hours ago) Changelog: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20161101T004406Z On 1 Nov 2016, at 0:16, Trent Mick wrote: All, A new build of SmartOS was done for last Thursday's release to fix: - htt

Re: [smartos-discuss] About install pkgin in global zone

2016-11-16 Thread Paul Sture
On 16 Nov 2016, at 13:33, Tiraen wrote: Good day, the question of such a plan With regard to this document https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/ His somebody checked on a newly installed server? for example: [root@mysqlstat /]# BOOTSTRAP_TAR="bootstrap-2016Q3-tools-20161020.tar.gz"

Re: [smartos-discuss] USB 3 / xHCI beta testing

2016-11-19 Thread Paul Sture
On 18 Nov 2016, at 22:26, Robert Mustacchi wrote: Hi, We are about to wrap the initial set of USB 3.x support. If you have some additional cycles to perform some testing of this (regardless of if your system has USB 3 or not), we'd appreciate it. If you do test it, and things are working, it

Re: [smartos-discuss] USB 3 / xHCI beta testing

2016-11-21 Thread Paul Sture
On 20 Nov 2016, at 19:51, Robert Mustacchi wrote: On 11/19/16 10:57 , Paul Sture wrote: On 18 Nov 2016, at 22:26, Robert Mustacchi wrote: Hi, We are about to wrap the initial set of USB 3.x support. If you have some additional cycles to perform some testing of this (regardless of if your

Re: [smartos-discuss] New host and CPU question

2016-12-06 Thread Paul Sture
On 6 Dec 2016, at 15:41, Nahum Shalman wrote: Yes, software in a zone making inferences based on how many cores it can see is problematic. ... Currently, yes, though depending on the software in question sometimes you can override the degree of parallelism that it will use by setting an

Re: [smartos-discuss] Vmware workstation

2016-12-24 Thread Paul Sture
I have VMware Fusion rather than Workstation, and here under Settings for the VM it's under: Processors and Memory -> Advanced -> Enable hypervisor applications in this virtual machine On 24 Dec 2016, at 16:11, Jorge Schrauwen wrote: I vaguely remember it being called 'Nested Virtualizatio

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS wont mount filesystem during fresh install

2017-01-14 Thread Paul Sture
On 14 Jan 2017, at 10:35, christian.krueckeme...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, when searching for an OS for my HP Microserver Gen8, I ran into SmartOS as the most promissing candidate. Sidenotes - Currently, to get things started, only one HDD is in the Microserver. - The Microserver runs with the l

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS wont mount filesystem during fresh install

2017-01-14 Thread Paul Sture
On 14 Jan 2017, at 11:06, Paul Sture wrote: Small correction follows: What I did with my Gen8 was to change the BIOS so that it doesn't use the HP RAID setup. I've got the BIOS setup in front of me now. In the BIOS I selected System Setup (F9), then System -> SATA Contr

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS wont mount filesystem during fresh install

2017-01-14 Thread Paul Sture
On 14 Jan 2017, at 11:19, Peter Kelm wrote: - Did you run through the SmartOS setup procedure on first boot? It should have asked you for which disks to use for the „zones“ pool, network configuration,… We haven’t done this for quite a while, so I can’t recall whether the installer asks to set

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS wont mount filesystem during fresh install

2017-01-14 Thread Paul Sture
On 14 Jan 2017, at 14:44, Peter Kelm wrote: Christian, Somehow I recall that zeroing the disk would not suffice. See: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Clean+Re-install Heh, I'm looking at that same page myself. In particular, import and destroy whatever zone was on that disk bef

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS base 16.4.1, minimal 16.4.1 and pkgbuild 16.4.1 images now available

2017-02-08 Thread Paul Sture
On 3 Feb 2017, at 19:07, Trent Mick wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Christopher Horrell wrote: ... The following 16.4.1 images are now available in https://images.joyent.com and the Joyent Public Cloud: ... pkgbuild 16.4. 10d649af0-e6ed-11e6-8689-7fb3356bad96

Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone else having issues with current Ansible?

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Sture
On 22 Feb 2017, at 20:08, Rob Seastrom wrote: Moreover, if you are goofing around with where you get your packages from by modifying /opt/local/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf as I do (I have an nginx cache running so as to be nice to Joyent and get somewhat faster transfers internally on the Nth

Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone else having issues with current Ansible?

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Sture
Thanks very much for your comprehensive reply. I am definitely going to try this, and will provide feedback. Cheers, Paul Sture On 23 Feb 2017, at 1:15, Rob Seastrom wrote: On Feb 22, 2017, at 2:47 PM, Paul Sture wrote: On 22 Feb 2017, at 20:08, Rob Seastrom wrote: Moreover, if you are

Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone else having issues with current Ansible?

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Sture
On 22 Feb 2017, at 20:53, Jonathan Perkin wrote: * On 2017-02-22 at 19:47 GMT, Paul Sture wrote: On 22 Feb 2017, at 20:08, Rob Seastrom wrote: Moreover, if you are goofing around with where you get your packages from by modifying /opt/local/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf as I do (I have an

Re: [smartos-discuss] pkgin fug on fresh 2016Q4 zone boatanchors the instance

2017-03-11 Thread Paul Sture
On 11 Mar 2017, at 8:55, Jacques Marneweck wrote: Hi Guys, On a fresh 2016Q4 zone I did "pkgin fug": Which image did you use, and for completeness, what version is the GZ using? (The output of 'cat /etc/motd' will provide that for the GZ version.) [root@dev01 ~]# pkgin fug reading local

Re: [smartos-discuss] pkgin fug on fresh 2016Q4 zone boatanchors the instance

2017-03-11 Thread Paul Sture
:-( 'uname -a' from a zone gives the version of the GZ. The 'cat /etc/motd' output within the zone was what I was after. What image UUID did you use for the zone? I'll see if I can reproduce it. On 11 March 2017 at 10:14, Paul Sture wrote: On 11 Mar 2017, at 8:55, Jac

Re: [smartos-discuss] Forking a pty

2017-03-18 Thread Paul Sture
On 18 Mar 2017, at 4:17, David Preece wrote: Hi, I'm running zlogin as a subprocess under Python (https://docs.python.org/3/library/pty.html). This happens by forking the pty then spawning pty.spawn in the child process. This has a callback function that takes a file descriptor from which it

Re: [smartos-discuss] sysinfo script modification question

2017-04-04 Thread Paul Sture
On 4 Apr 2017, at 8:37, Dale Ghent wrote: I have SMCI servers that have mangled or all-zero UUIDs as well. By "mangled", SMCI has made the extraordinarily poor choice on several of their X10 platforms to set the first 4 fields to 0 and the last 48 bits to the MAC address of one of the on-boar

[smartos-discuss] Saltstack disappeared from pkgin for GZ

2017-04-16 Thread Paul Sture
I have just upgrade one of my Global Zones to 2017Q1 and see that Salt is missing. It was in 2016Q3 and 2016Q4 Compare the following for confirmation: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/2016Q3/tools/All/ contains salt-2016.3.3.tgz https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/2016Q4/to

Re: [smartos-discuss] Saltstack disappeared from pkgin for GZ

2017-04-18 Thread Paul Sture
On 18 Apr 2017, at 15:28, Filip Hajny wrote: 16. 4. 2017 v 16:17, Paul Sture : I have just upgrade one of my Global Zones to 2017Q1 and see that Salt is missing. It was in 2016Q3 and 2016Q4 Compare the following for confirmation: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/2016Q3/tools/All

Re: [smartos-discuss] WARNING: 2016Q4 / 16.4.0 upgrade failures

2017-04-27 Thread Paul Sture
On 27 Apr 2017, at 7:35, Matthew Parsons wrote: > Just a heads-up that this bit me on a 16.3.1 image as well. (base-64, > 70e3ae72-96b6-11e6-9056-9737fd4d0764) Mostly a moot point w/ 16.4 series > out, but same (pkg_add) workaround, well, worked. (thank $DEITY for vm > snapshots) Another heads u

Re: [smartos-discuss] WARNING: 2016Q4 / 16.4.0 upgrade failures

2017-04-29 Thread Paul Sture
On 28 Apr 2017, at 10:36, Jonathan Perkin wrote: * On 2017-04-28 at 06:33 BST, Paul Sture wrote: c) The pkgin installation instructions at https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/#tools-install contain a SHA checksum for each package, plus the optional gpg method, but only

Re: [smartos-discuss] WARNING: 2016Q4 / 16.4.0 upgrade failures

2017-04-30 Thread Paul Sture
On 29 Apr 2017, at 23:36, Jonathan Perkin wrote: * On 2017-04-29 at 11:02 BST, Paul Sture wrote: On 28 Apr 2017, at 10:36, Jonathan Perkin wrote: * On 2017-04-28 at 06:33 BST, Paul Sture wrote: c) The pkgin installation instructions at https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos

Re: [smartos-discuss] Vnc

2017-05-11 Thread Paul Sture
On 11 May 2017, at 19:30, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: On 11 May 2017 at 06:27, Ján Poctavek wrote: If you need only to check if webserver is working, you can do it also from command line: #> telnet 80 GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.yourweb.tld (end with two enters) You should see a long html printin

Re: [smartos-discuss] Vnc

2017-05-11 Thread Paul Sture
On 11 May 2017, at 19:40, Paul Sture wrote: On 11 May 2017, at 19:30, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: On 11 May 2017 at 06:27, Ján Poctavek wrote: If you need only to check if webserver is working, you can do it also from command line: #> telnet 80 GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.yourweb.tld (end w

Re: [smartos-discuss] znapzend (or similar) in a pull configuration

2017-05-23 Thread Paul Sture
On 23 May 2017, at 15:53, Chris Ferebee wrote: Hi all, znapzend is wonderful for snapshots and backups. However, for backups of internet-facing zones, I would prefer a "pull" rather than "push" configuration, such that the backup host initiates the connection to the live host, rather than th

Re: [smartos-discuss] imgadm and authenticated proxy

2017-07-01 Thread Paul Sture
On 1 Jul 2017, at 16:36, Paul Jochum wrote: Hi Shridhar: I run smartos behind a proxy also (but an unauthenticated proxy server), and I am able to run imgadm commands by using the following syntax: * http_proxy=http://proxy.company.com:8000 imgadm avail * http_proxy=http://proxy.compa

Re: [smartos-discuss] imgadm and authenticated proxy

2017-07-01 Thread Paul Sture
"sha1": "915bab804857f4784e3a10a5bd28aea63c17bb18", # openssl sha1 base-32-17.1.0.zfs.gz SHA1(base-32-17.1.0.zfs.gz)= 915bab804857f4784e3a10a5bd28aea63c17bb18 # digest -a sha1 base-32-17.1.0.zfs.gz 915bab804857f4784e3a10a5bd28aea63c17bb18 On July 1, 2017 at 10:56:34

Re: [smartos-discuss] vmadm create times out (but zone eventually starts) on DL360g6

2017-08-18 Thread Paul Sture
On 18 Aug 2017, at 3:31, Rob Seastrom wrote: OK, must be the disk subsystem right? Picked up some HP H220s (SAS2308 aka 9207s) and reflashed to IT mode. System boots but throws an odd error in the middle of booting: "warning: KCS error: ff" - Google tells me little except that maybe bmc is

Re: [smartos-discuss] Not understanding

2017-09-03 Thread Paul Sture
On 3 Sep 2017, at 8:26, Michael Cooper wrote: Yes I am going to try again, I think it was probably a bad usb stick I bought some new ones. You need to be patient. On my old HP Microserver N40L it takes about 10 minutes to boot from a USB stick. That system, incidentally, is an AMD CPU. T

Re: [smartos-discuss] smartos 无法创建用户

2017-09-06 Thread Paul Sture
On 7 Sep 2017, at 6:05, 刘 沣鑫 wrote: > Hi > > I intend to install git in the global zone > > > pkgin install git > > > Prompt error : > > installing git-2.14.1... > cyrus-sasl-2.1.26nb6: Creating user ``cyrus'' > === 'pkgin in

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS release-20170914

2017-09-16 Thread Paul Sture
Hi Cody, I didn't find release-201700914 when I looked yesterday; release-20170916 is currently the latest. Changelog for that here: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20170916T185915Z Regards, Paul Sture On 16 Sep 2017, at 6:20, Cody Mello

Re: [smartos-discuss] vmadm send -> receive not working

2017-10-11 Thread Paul Sture
On 10 Oct 2017, at 16:44, Chad M Stewart wrote: I’m trying to move a bunch of zones from a failing server to a new one. Both are running the same SmartOS version (I’m using this version as I want to use project-fifo and from what I read this is the latest version suggested.) # uname -a Su

Re: [smartos-discuss] P410i failure or bug

2017-11-28 Thread Paul Sture
On 28 Nov 2017, at 11:09, Nigel Magnay wrote: > So I managed after much faff to find out which disk that was. After pulling > it out, the system no longer reboots every 15 mins or so (albeit I now have > a degraded pool). > > It feels therefore like there's a bug somewhere - is this just the P410i

Re: [smartos-discuss] Set up shared filesystem between multiple zones

2017-12-04 Thread Paul Sture
On 5 Dec 2017, at 3:38, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Dec 4, 2017, at 5:53 PM, Brian Bennett wrote: Chad, Welcome to SmartOS! First of all, I'd like to say that for the global zone especially, make sure to use SmartOS documentation first, and foremost. If there's a SmartOS specific

Re: [smartos-discuss] Meaning of "compute_node_ntp_hosts" and spurious DHCP in Ethernet interface

2017-12-15 Thread Paul Sture
On 15 Dec 2017, at 13:27, Jesus Cea wrote: That said, I still don't know what "compute_node_ntp_hosts=dhcp" in "/usbkey/config" means. Any hint? Yes, it's telling the system to use dhcp to get the IP address of the time server Here's the appropriate piece from a GZ I have, which is configur

Re: [smartos-discuss] Meaning of "compute_node_ntp_hosts" and spurious DHCP in Ethernet interface

2017-12-15 Thread Paul Sture
On 15 Dec 2017, at 13:57, Jesus Cea wrote: > On 15/12/17 13:37, Paul Sture wrote: >> Here's the appropriate piece from a GZ I have, which is configured with >> a fixed IP address: >> >>     ntp_hosts=0.smartos.pool.ntp.org >>     compute_node

Re: [smartos-discuss] Meaning of "compute_node_ntp_hosts" and spurious DHCP in Ethernet interface

2017-12-16 Thread Paul Sture
On 15 Dec 2017, at 14:05, Jesus Cea wrote: On 15/12/17 14:01, Paul Sture wrote: So, is your "compute_node_ntp_hosts" the same that your "admin_ip"?. Yes. admin_gateway to # grep '172.16.1.50' /usbkey/config admin_ip=172.16.1.50 admin_gateway=172.16.1.50 comp

Re: [smartos-discuss] Remove ZIL from zones pool?

2018-01-19 Thread Paul Sture
On 19 Jan 2018, at 12:10, Jonathan Perkin wrote: GNU parted is pretty small so it could be argued it wouldn't have much of an impact, but the principles remain the same. This is why we prefer to add software to the GZ tools set, available here: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/#t

Re: [smartos-discuss] Remove ZIL from zones pool?

2018-01-19 Thread Paul Sture
On 19 Jan 2018, at 16:06, Rob Seastrom wrote: There's no svn or git in the global zone either... Those would be nice, but I never thought to ask, just created an IPv6-only zone which holds the checked out repos... git is in the GZ tools package, but you have to install that in the GZ and th

Re: [smartos-discuss] Remove ZIL from zones pool?

2018-01-19 Thread Paul Sture
On 19 Jan 2018, at 17:19, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > It's spelled subversion but isn't there yet, will add it to the list > as well. Oops. Thanks very much. --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://

Re: [smartos-discuss] Remove ZIL from zones pool?

2018-01-19 Thread Paul Sture
On 19 Jan 2018, at 13:10, Jonathan Perkin wrote: > I'll add tree and mercurial to the list now, should be available in > 2017Q4 later. There now, as is Subversion. Many thanks. With 2017Q4-tools already installed, a simple 'pkgin up' brought them in. ---

Re: [smartos-discuss] Remove ZIL from zones pool?

2018-01-19 Thread Paul Sture
On 19 Jan 2018, at 20:22, Chris Ferebee wrote: Am 19.01.2018 um 20:00 schrieb Jim Wiggs : As I mentioned in a previous reply, I was not aware that ZIL is now recoverable. My experience with ZFS for KVM workloads has been solely on Linux, using ZVOLs for my disk images. The word there was a

Re: [smartos-discuss] pkgsrc local cache

2018-01-20 Thread Paul Sture
Also see Rob Seastrom's post describing the use of nginx caching at https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/2017/02/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/20:129/20170222191558:3DBA6086-F95D-11E6-931E-2128BCDDB970/ And the same as Jorge, it's still on my todo list... On 20 Jan 2018, at 18:47, Jorge S

Re: [smartos-discuss] pkgsrc local cache

2018-01-30 Thread Paul Sture
On 20 Jan 2018, at 18:47, Jorge Schrauwen wrote: I have this blog post saved: http://www.daveeddy.com/2015/07/19/smartos-pkgsrc-caching-proxy/ I haven't done it my self but it's on my todo list. Now off my todo list :-) It works nicely, but some observations: 1. The supplied SMF manifest i

Re: [smartos-discuss] Scripting question Bash

2018-02-02 Thread Paul Sture
On 2 Feb 2018, at 20:43, George Linn via smartos-discuss wrote: Just out of curiosity, from a bash script the following works as expected: /usr/sbin/vmadm list | /usr/bin/grep myzonealias | /usr/bin/cut -d" " -f1 This doesn't answer your question about additional processes, but the above com

Re: [smartos-discuss] Scripting question Bash

2018-02-02 Thread Paul Sture
On 2 Feb 2018, at 21:31, Joshua M. Clulow wrote: > On 2 February 2018 at 11:59, Paul Sture wrote: >> /usr/sbin/vmadm list -Ho uuid alias=myzonealias > > Even better is probably: "vmadm lookup -1 alias=myzonealias" > Agreed, and the '-1' produces an err

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

2018-02-03 Thread Paul Sture
On 3 Feb 2018, at 17:46, Chris Ferebee wrote: Am 02.02.2018 um 20:26 schrieb Volker A. Brandt (Volker A. Brandt) : Gareth Howell writes: I rebooted in to recovery mode and swapped the pools as suggested. The system now boots using the new ones pool but it fails to start the local file syste

Re: [smartos-discuss] EU mirror of SmartOS images

2018-03-07 Thread Paul Sture
On 7 Mar 2018, at 12:26, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Jonathan Perkin writes: >> To help ease the problem until this is resolved I've set up a mirror >> of the latest SmartOS release, plus the latest SmartOS images, here: >> >> https://pkgsrc-eu-ams.joyent.com/images/ > > Very nice! Thank you! > >

Re: [smartos-discuss] smartos-latest is over a month old?

2018-03-15 Thread Paul Sture
20180315T080815Z has landed Output from a daily job I run: Source URLs: platform: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20180315T080815Z/platform-20180315T080815Z.tgz usb: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/20180315T080815Z/smartos-20180315T080

Re: [smartos-discuss] pkgsrc-2018Q1 breaks SaltStack

2018-04-15 Thread Paul Sture
# salt --version salt 2017.7.4 (Nitrogen) # salt orange test.ping [WARNING ] /opt/tools/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/utils/async.py:56: DeprecationWarning: zmq.eventloop.ioloop is deprecated in pyzmq 17. pyzmq now works with default tornado and asyncio eventloops. self.io_loop = LOOP_CLA

Re: [smartos-discuss] ZFS Encryption

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Sture
On 16 Apr 2018, at 18:40, Alex Wilson wrote: We intend to integrate this into the stack as much as we can, and RFD77 has more details: https://github.com/joyent/rfd/blob/master/rfd/0077/README.adoc Basically our recommendation is going to be to use hardware tokens (Yubikeys or other PIV-compat

Re: [smartos-discuss] Reprovisioning Best Practices

2018-04-18 Thread Paul Sture
On 18 Apr 2018, at 17:32, Rob Seastrom wrote: On Apr 18, 2018, at 9:23 AM, Jussi Sallinen wrote: The actual email data resides in a delegated dataset mounted on /data. Delegated or loopback-mounted? I loopback-mount my (persistent) email stuff on /home. I loopback-mount my data files an

Re: [smartos-discuss] 32-bit or 64-bit – still a question?

2018-05-14 Thread Paul Sture
On 14 May 2018, at 10:14, Jonathan Perkin wrote: * On 2018-05-14 at 07:09 BST, Michael Nisi wrote: Would you run Node.js, LevelDB (https://github.com/Level/levelup) based caches in my case, on 32-bit or 64-bit SmartOS containers? These servers are plain HTTP APIs behind an HAProxy front-end.

Re: [smartos-discuss] accessing .zfs/snapshot via lofs in an lxzone

2018-06-01 Thread Paul Sture
On 31 May 2018, at 9:02, Tobias Oetiker wrote: Hi All I am trying to access .zfs/snapshot from within an lxzone (on omnios) while I can cd into the snapshot directory, all access to the actual snapshots is blocked. no 'stat' no 'chdir' ... I always get 'operation not permitted' Hi Tobi, I h

Re: [smartos-discuss] *brainstorm* -- orchestate VM boots

2018-07-06 Thread Paul Sture
On 6 Jul 2018, at 13:04, Fred Liu wrote: Hi, Not sure there are already similar discussions here. As far as I know, if I just reboot smartos, the server will *simultaneously* boot all the VMs in running status before the reboot. That will give the following issues: 1): huge io pressure on st

Re: [smartos-discuss] *brainstorm* -- orchestate VM boots

2018-07-06 Thread Paul Sture
;label": "package build", "owner": "psture", "priority": 0 } Sorry, like I said, I'm not having a good afternoon and I'm stuck... On 2018-07-06 14:31, Paul Sture wrote: On 6 Jul 2018, at 13:04, Fred Liu wrote: Hi, Not sure there are alre

Re: [smartos-discuss] *brainstorm* -- orchestate VM boots

2018-07-06 Thread Paul Sture
uot;: 0}}"; done On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Paul Sture wrote: On 6 Jul 2018, at 15:54, Tamás Gérczei wrote: Hi, Yup, this is a rudimentary implementation of what Jussi had said. I still use it myself, it still works as far as I can tell. Let me know how it fares! Well, I'm

Re: [smartos-discuss] *brainstorm* -- orchestate VM boots

2018-07-06 Thread Paul Sture
On 6 Jul 2018, at 21:56, Tamás Gérczei wrote: Sorry Paul and thanks Nicholas, Yes - the service manifests indeed belong under /opt/custom/smf/ so that they are imported automatically by SmartOS and I have have the method script saved as /opt/custom/bin/svc-guesthandler - the latter is configu