Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root as role vs. user and rsync
On 5/6/12 8:04 AM, "Jeppe Toustrup" wrote: >2. SSH in as dedicated unprivileged user, which then have permissions >to run rsync with root permissions though sudo. This is how I do it, which also has the advantage of letting me give sudo permissions to run specific scripts that (for example) quiesce a database, snapshot the filesystem, reactivate the database, mount the snapshot, and then perform further operations on the snapshot while the database is humming along. Makes backup windows much more manageable -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any OI experiences with SuperMicro X9DR7-LN4F?
The two concerns I have are the LSI SAS controller (LSI 2308) and the Intel i350 4-port GigE network (which doesn't appear to have drivers under OI151a but does under Solaris 11). I'm looking for a motherboard that works well with the onboard SAS because I'm trying to fit it in 1U and still have room for a fibre channel card. I know I can fall back to a Socket 1366 motherboard if necessary but I hate to buy an older CPU now that the E5 Xeons are out -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice
On 8/24/12 10:54 AM, "Dan Swartzendruber" wrote: >A little caveat here: if you haven't read the right articles on the >right forums, it seems the application that has to be run to reflash >this can be cantankerous about which motherboards it runs (believe it or >not.) The current app is problematic if you're using it with a modern motherboard. On the other hand, if you can boot into Windows you can use the P7 version (found at P7_9211_8i_Package_For_P7_Firmware_BIOS_Upgrade_on_MSDOS_and_Windows.zip) to flash it to IT firmware, and then can upgrade to a modern firmware. It's a little (okay, a LOT) goofy, but it works. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] HFS+ (Apple file system) read/write support on Illumos -- interest levels?
At $DAYJOB we have a need to get files from Mac-formatted (HFS+) volumes from video record appliances onto ZFS-based storage towers (because when you're talking about the only video recordings of a major corporate meeting, "probably OK" filesystems aren't enough). Right now we do it via a Mac -- hook drive to Mac, mount ZFS filesystem via CIFS, and copy-- but that's a bit of a pain in the rear; it would be a lot easier to be able to hook drives directly to an OI tower and copy the files that way. In an ideal world we'd also be able to write to HFS+ drives, but I understand that's trickier. FUSE is not really an option because we need performance -- when you're copying 450GB of video files so you can put the tower on a truck and get yourself to the airport that's kind of a big deal. Similarly, although Linux has that level of HFS+ support I don't trust either ZFS on Linux or BTRFS nearly as much as I trust ZFS. 1) Is there anybody else who has interest in this capability? I'd like to talk about pooling money for a bounty. (This is complicated by the fact that I have no idea what a reasonable amount for a bounty is, because I have no idea how much work is involved.) 2) Alternately, is there a developer who'd like to take on this project on a contract basis, with the understanding that the source would be released to the community? -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HFS+ (Apple file system) read/write support on Illumos -- interest levels?
On 9/15/12 12:15 AM, "Magnus" wrote: >I know we're supposed to be promoting Illumos solutions and whatnot, but >why not run ZFS directly on your Macs? It won't work for the boot drive >but it'll work for the external storage you're attaching. You can zfs >send | zfs receive to an OI tower for deep archiving if you'd prefer. > >http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com Yeah, that came out the day I finally got tired of waiting for it to ship and went with my plan B. Timing is everything. :^) I'll be testing the Zevo solution and see how it works with RAIDZ2 on Mac Pros (after I figure out how many drives I can cram in there -- wonder if the PS will drive 8x2.5" drives as well as the 4 3.5" drives). Thanks for the pointer. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD
On 1/7/14 11:15 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)" wrote: >The main point is, a port multiplier might be useful if it's *outside* >your system. Supposing you have an external enclosure that holds 4 >drives or something like that... You might say, "I have SATA 6Gbit bus >which is good enough for the 4 drives in that enclosure." And I would >tend to agree, if they let you run a single 6Gbit SATA cable to the >enclosure and then internally they use a SATA port multiplier, that would >be pretty nice. But when I look around, I don't see any 4-drive >enclosures that use a single upstream 6Gbit ESATA bus... Sans Digital makes one-- their part number TR4M6GNC, selling at NewEgg for $134.99. I'd never use one myself, because they seem to be a recipe for weird flakiness and I/O hangs, and ZFS does not deal well with SATA kinda-sorta-maybe failure modes. But they exist. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE
I think at this point discussion of OpenSXCE business plans, criticism of the OpenSXCE community development, political discussions, and pretty much any discussion of OpenSXCE (except in the context of features that would be worth re-engineering for OpenIndiana) would all count as off-topic for this list. I sincerely wish nothing but the best for Martin, but I don't see further OpenSXCE discussion on this list as productive. (I am not a moderator, just a random list user who would like to avoid acrimony on this list.) -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI (was Bash Bug issue)
At the risk of sounding like the corporate hack I doubtless am... what's the OI "elevator pitch" -- the 10-second explanation of why OI exists, and why I should use it vs another Illumos variant? NexentaStor - "ZFS storage appliances" OmniOS - "Enterprise server, open and free, with commercial support" SmartOS - "Cloud OS using zones, DTrace and ZFS" OI - ??? I have a couple of OI servers because a couple of years ago that looked like the natural path forward from OpenSolaris. Now, it's hard to see why I should deploy a new server with OI vs OmniOS. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI (was Bash Bug issue)
On 10/9/14 5:13 PM, "The Outsider" wrote: >Hmm i am sorry. I seem to have missed that. >Last time i installed and tested it i needed to get a registrationkey and >wasn't allowed to use nexenta for business without paying a quite high >amount of euros. > >But that was 3 years ago. Open source != free-as-in-beer -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Re: Support for USB3?
On 11/3/15, 7:51 PM, "Garrett D'Amore" wrote: >I¹ve talked about this for years, but never seem to find the time to do >the >job Hypothetically, what would be a ballpark guesstimate for time required if someone were to be tentatively working toward possible corporate sponsorship of that enhancement? (I THINK I achieved weasel-word bingo in that question, but feel free to suggest any I left out.) -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?
On 11/4/15, 11:54 PM, "Nikola M" wrote: >USB is not that good for high profile use anyway. >USB does not do checking of data during transwer (came to the light when >using USB wireless adapters). >ZFS helps there with checksums, but for regular things I would stick to >SAS and SATA. True, but when you occasionally need to move a couple TB cross-country a USB3 hard drive shipped overnight delivery is often less painful than using zfs send. ;-) -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
