Smartmontools + Highpoint hptrr?

2009-09-13 Thread Daniel Eriksson
tmontools port and a direct checkout from their SVN, and I'm getting very similar error messages. From the changelog and the manpage it looks like some work has been done to make this work. /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: ZFS and DMA read error

2009-09-07 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Mark Stapper wrote: > So I see. Could this be why I haven't had any read errors anymore? > (After the zpool scrub that is) Possibly, but in that case the SMART selftest should pass also. Have you tried a selftest after you did the scrub? /Dani

RE: ZFS and DMA read error

2009-09-07 Thread Daniel Eriksson
ests? In this case it's not really clearing the drive you are aiming for, it is to write to every sector. If you have a failed sector (which you do), writing to it will force the drive firmware to remap the sector. As far as I know, most drives will not remap an unreadable sector until it is writt

RE: ZFS and DMA read error

2009-09-03 Thread Daniel Eriksson
is I would then run a 'zpool scrub ...'. If the scrub finishes without checksum errors and without any ATA-related errors the drive is probably in good enough condition to keep using, but watch out for more ATA errors. If the drive is dying it won't be

RE: No Device Node assigned for HD?

2009-08-23 Thread Daniel Eriksson
nectors. If you do #1 then you need a RocketRAID card to access the data on the drive. /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

RE: No Device Node assigned for HD?

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel Eriksson
create a partition table on it, then reconnect it to your RR2310 card. Partition table example: # gpart create -t GPT adXX # gpart add -b YY -s ZZ -t freebsd-ufs adXX /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

RE: "Fixing" a RAID

2008-06-19 Thread Daniel Eriksson
alfway through with a division-by-zero error. I haven't tried it on any 500 GB drives yet. /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-12 Thread Daniel Eriksson
problem and if it would affect a typical web server. It does not seem to affect any of my fileservers (exporting NFS). /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

RE: raid6 on freebsd7 only showing 61GB instead of 4TB

2008-05-16 Thread Daniel Eriksson
"1024M" vm.kmem_size_max="1024M" vfs.zfs.arc_max="512M" vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 5. edit /etc/rc.conf and add zfs_enable="YES" 6. reboot 7. be happy! (With 16 GB memory you can probably use larger values for slightly better performance in step #4 above.) /

RE: Promise RAID array and mounting questions

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Eriksson
cause of its size. I'm not sure how well gjournal handles fsck of large filesystems. Personally I'm going with ZFS for my next large array (8x750GB). /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

RE: smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Why are you not using the supplied scripts and configuration knobs to start Sendmail? It works just fine for 99% of FreeBSD users (my guess), so what makes your environment so special that your needs cannot be met without custom scripts? /Daniel Eriksson

RE: smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-11 Thread Daniel Eriksson
p) and change the smart host line like you already have done: define(`SMART_HOST', `mx2.optonline.net')dnl * make all install restart * try to send mail again /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Migrating a file system with minimal downtime

2007-10-30 Thread Daniel Eriksson
6. restart the jails This should work, right? Or am I missing something? (One of the jails is a mysql server, the rest are www servers.) /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

RE: php5-extensions and xorg libraries

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel Eriksson
(analog, webalizer, php with the gd extension, ...). I just installed a new webserver with multiple jails to keep the different sites compartmentalized, and avoiding the xorg-libs saved me a ton of space and compile time. /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-

RE: Upper limit on mount points?

2007-05-16 Thread Daniel Eriksson
imit on the number of mountpoint. > > Google hasn't been much help, and I thought I'd ask here before I dug in to > the sourcecode. I'm wondering if there's an upper limit (either hard or > practical) on the number of mountpoints on a system? I have a box running 6-STA

RE: Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

2007-03-31 Thread Daniel Eriksson
I've started using GPT for everything but the system disk. To add a GPT table to a new disk and create a partition in that table that spans the entire disk, all you need to do is this: # gpt create /dev/adX # gpt add /dev/adX # newfs -O2 -U /dev/adXp1 Done! /Daniel Eri

RE: gjournal and zfs, questions

2007-03-06 Thread Daniel Eriksson
when zfs will hit the regular CVS tree? /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

gjournal and zfs, questions

2007-03-06 Thread Daniel Eriksson
but zfs is only for current afaik.) When will gjournal and zfs be committed to the CVS tree? Will either of them be merged to STABLE? /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

RE: PHP Session Errors

2005-08-28 Thread Daniel Eriksson
stall what you need. /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Forwarding mail to another server

2005-08-26 Thread Daniel Eriksson
u could try is to use square brackets around the mailrelay, like so: define(`SMART_HOST', `[mailrelay.myisp.com]') This will force Sendmail to connect directly to that host, instead of doing a DNS lookup for MX pointers. /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd

RE: Forwarding mail to another server

2005-08-26 Thread Daniel Eriksson
mydomain.com.mc) edit this file and uncomment the SMART_HOST line and insert an SMTP server that will relay mail for you example: define(`SMART_HOST', `mailrelay.myisp.com') make cf install restart Done! /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions

Polling mode vs. net.isr.enable

2005-03-09 Thread Daniel Eriksson
. However, polling mode means no interrupts so the ISR is never called(?). /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Dummynet traffic shaping question (TCP-ACK prioritization)

2005-03-06 Thread Daniel Eriksson
ream speed during full upstream saturation). My question is: Do I need to tell the pipe how fat it is (${fwcmd} pipe 1 config bw 10Mbit/s) to get the queue prioritization to work properly, or is it OK to leave out the speed and just let it run full tilt? /Danie

RE: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Daniel Eriksson
ave not noticed any significant slowdown. Under what usecase(s) is it slow? (My usage is mainly for medium to large files, with <200 files per directory.) /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

ciss and SmartArray 5300, performance expectations?

2004-10-21 Thread Daniel Eriksson
rk properly in my server (with regards to building arrays from BIOS and similar tasks). How about firmware upgrades of the card and/or the discs? Can that be done without a Proliant server? I would appreciate any information! /Daniel Eriksson ___ [EMAI

RE: cue images

2004-06-27 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > What international standard describes their format? > > Windows is not a standard. Many times a de-facto standard is just as important/valid as a "real" standard. /Daniel Eriksson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: fsck'ing a Vinum RAID5 volume (and a stale drive)

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Eriksson
hey are all (?) outside of the normal procedures for using and maintaining RAID arrays. /Daniel Eriksson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: fsck'ing a Vinum RAID5 volume (and a stale drive)

2004-06-25 Thread Daniel Eriksson
ee no errors at all. If the disc isn't physically broken, then the proper way to get your array back to the original "all up" state, you should run a "vinum start backup.p0.s3". I'm not sure if this will rebuild all the data

Multiple choices for RAID-0, best performance?

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel Eriksson
affected a lot depending on what controller is used? For example would there be any performance difference (transfer speed and/or system resource usage) between ataraid on a HPT374-based card (such as the Highpoint RocketRAID 454) and one of the new Promise cards (which we have really good drivers for