Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-19 Thread Dave Pooser
dual disks and ZFS can handle redundancy and recovery. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Dave Pooser
spond to this thread at all; once the OP threw the bait out there people were bound to get angry and defensive. But Vadim's post resonated with me, as he covered many of the reasons I'd decided to retire FreeBSD in my company, so I figured I'd add one more perspective. -- Dave Poo

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Dave Pooser
mmunity a ton of weight because *every* technical mailing list has some bitter losers with no social skills, but it might be food for thought, if you ever do that sort of thing. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriv

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Dave Pooser
stem creates a ZFS snapshot automatically before any major updates to let you revert to not just an earlier kernel but an earlier world?) Just my $.02. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pre

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

2011-06-25 Thread Dave Pooser
here are two different firmware options. The "IT" firmware disables the integrated RAID and makes them true HBAs; the "IR" firmware activates the integrated RAID. Buy the cards, flash 'em with the IT firmware and you're good to go. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chie

Best SATA/SAS controller for ZFS on FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE?

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Pooser
ent: 0x16 May 11 18:00:08 backbone kernel: mpt1: mpt_cam_event: 0x12 May 11 18:00:08 backbone kernel: mpt1: mpt_cam_event: 0x16 -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "If you think bringing a wet noodle to an Amish rake fight makes you 'better armed' for it, then you have a

Ongoing JRE support in FreeBSD?

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Pooser
a solid platform for Java deployment going forward, or am I better off taking the road more traveled and deploying on Linux? -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions It's the o

Re: PostgreSQL + 8.1 RELEASE + DTrace = pain?

2010-12-14 Thread Dave Pooser
On 12/6/10 11:29 PM, "Dave Pooser" wrote: > I used pkg_delete to > remove the postgresql packages (server and client), recompiled the kernel to > include DTrace and eliminate some unused drivers, updated loader.conf to > bring up dtraceall at boot, did a make clean an

PostgreSQL + 8.1 RELEASE + DTrace = pain?

2010-12-06 Thread Dave Pooser
DTrace, and built postgresql90-server again. It appeared to work fine, but now I'm getting segfaults when I try to launch it. Am I doing something obviously stupid here? Is there a good source for troubleshooting steps? What other information should I be posting to help y'all help me fig