Re: Request for suggestion for setting up a server with 4 HDDs

2011-12-27 Thread Siju George
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > >   Insofar as I can tell the site is up, accessed from the outside internet. > It is up now. Last 2 days when ever I checked it seemed down. Thanks --Siju

Re: Dragonflybsd site seems to go down frequently!

2011-12-27 Thread Justin Sherrill
It would be safe to do so. Shiningsilence.com has been running DragonFly for maybe... 5 years now? I had 1 crash back in the 2.8 timeframe, I think it was. If you stick to stable releases, you will be ok. That's what those versions are for, after all. On Dec 27, 2011 11:21 AM, "Zenny" wrote:

Re: bug in du: truncates filenames

2011-12-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 26 December 2011 18:05:16 Matthew Dillon wrote: > What's probably happening is the snapshot caught a flush inbetween its > directory entry creation and its inode creation. There is probably a > directory entry for the files in question but no inode. > > It isn't supposed

Re: Request for suggestion for setting up a server with 4 HDDs

2011-12-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Thanks for the pointer, but again the dragonflybsd site is down (GMT :08:53:45 Decemeber 27, 2011) to access the link Justin pointed to: :leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2009-12/msg00068.html. :-( Insofar as I can tell the site is up, accessed from the outside internet.

Re: Request for suggestion for setting up a server with 4 HDDs

2011-12-27 Thread Samuel J. Greear
Mirror, slightly dated it seems: http://dragonflyweb.evilprojects.net/ Sam On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Zenny wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, but again the dragonflybsd site is down (GMT > 08:53:45 Decemeber 27, 2011) to access the link Justin pointed to: > leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchiv

Re: Request for suggestion for setting up a server with 4 HDDs

2011-12-27 Thread Zenny
Thanks for the pointer, but again the dragonflybsd site is down (GMT 08:53:45 Decemeber 27, 2011) to access the link Justin pointed to: leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2009-12/msg00068.html. :-( On 12/26/11, Siju George wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Zenny wrote: >> I could

Re: Dragonflybsd site seems to go down frequently!

2011-12-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Again the site is down (GMT 08:53:45 Decemeber 27, 2011). Make me :worry whether I could really go for a dfbsd production server?!!! And there will probably be downtime in the future. The machines behind our web site typically run the absolute latest development code and we expect

Re: Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

2011-12-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
Definitely not hammer volume add, that's too experimental. Soft-raid is a bit of a joke in my view, since it typically ties you to a particular motherboard and bios (making it difficult to physically move disks to another machine if the mobo or psu dies), and as with all soft-ra

Re: Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

2011-12-27 Thread McLone
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 15:41, Zenny wrote: > (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2009-12/msg00068.html). you need raid 0, right? i'd do volume-add if all you need is simple fileserver. In case you absolutely need striping (to split system's job between multiple spindles), i'd do na

Re: Dragonflybsd site seems to go down frequently!

2011-12-27 Thread Zenny
Again the site is down (GMT 08:53:45 Decemeber 27, 2011). Make me worry whether I could really go for a dfbsd production server?!!! On 12/26/11, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Is it only me or others also experience frequent downtime with the > :downtime. I experienced downtime several times and right

Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

2011-12-27 Thread Zenny
I am just wondering which is better to work with HAMMER. I found 1) softraid with natacontrol ( http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/howtos/howtosoftwareraid/) and 2) hammer volume-add (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2009-12/msg00068.html). Both links inaccessible at the time o