Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-20 Thread krad
On 18 February 2010 11:24, Christian Baer wrote: > krad schrieb: > > > On another point make sure your p4 has plenty of ram preferably 4gb, but > at > > least 2 > > Exactly what good will that much RAM do for a 32Bit-CPU? > > Regards, > Chris > ___ > fre

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Baer
krad schrieb: > On another point make sure your p4 has plenty of ram preferably 4gb, but at > least 2 Exactly what good will that much RAM do for a 32Bit-CPU? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/02/2010 00:28, Ghirai wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 > mailinglist wrote: > >> UFS on the other hand will work just fine on 32bit systems and >> smaller and older machines. (The limitation with UFS is a maximum >> 2TB filesystem s

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread Ghirai
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 mailinglist wrote: > UFS on the other hand will work just fine on 32bit systems and > smaller and older machines. (The limitation with UFS is a maximum > 2TB filesystem size, but I suspect this will not cause you any > practical > > difficulties.) UFS2 has a

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread mailinglist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does your old P4 support 64-bit operation? Does it have 2GB RAM or more? If not, then you might want to reconsider using ZFS. It's not that it won't or can't be made to work given those limitations, but you'll find it hard work to get it runnin

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/02/2010 00:11, mailinglist wrote: > I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 > TB external USB drive connected to that I use as a file server. That > PC is running XP. It has recently become infected

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-17 Thread krad
On 18 February 2010 00:11, mailinglist wrote: > I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 TB > external USB drive connected to that I use as a file server. That PC is > running XP. It has recently become infected with some sort of virus. I'd &

FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-17 Thread mailinglist
I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 TB external USB drive connected to that I use as a file server. That PC is running XP. It has recently become infected with some sort of virus. I'd like to replace it with FreeBSD running ZFS + Samba (I need to

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2010-01-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:41:04PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi Roland, > > many thanks for the response!!! :-) You're welcome! > I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do.. > > In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult > to understand!!

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2010-01-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Just to give a quick overview of what is being used currently: test# du -sch etc 1.7Metc 1.7Mtotal test# du -sch var 1.0Mvar 1.0Mtotal test# du -sch tmp 10Ktmp 10Ktotal test# du -sch usr 1.0Gusr 1.0Gtotal I think I could get away with 500MB for /var and /tmp and h

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2010-01-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi Roland, many thanks for the response!!! :-) I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do.. In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult to understand!!! I now have a test machine setup which I built nano and Bind 9.6.1 from the ports colle

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Kaya Saman
Roland: If you can afford it, and if your laptop has a USB port, buy one of those external harddisks. Plenty of room for music and movies... Also great for backups! Can't afford :-( I have many disks like that where I bought really cool enclosures and the drives separately but currently am

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:06:09PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > lot's of different pieces of advice rolling in now! > > I guess what I will do as I have a small hard disk for what I want to do > which is to get rid of my music and few movies which are stored on my > laptop currently, is create sep

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > > > > > > Many thanks guys for all the advice :-) > > > It is really appreciated! > > > ... >

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks again for all suggestions! :-) [...] For my desktop, with around 450 ports installed, I have the following lay-out; Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a484M 93M353M21%/ /dev/ad4s1g.eli373G168G175G49%/ho

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > [...] > > > >What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: > > > ># ln -s /usr/home /home > > > >ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from > >the root partition. > > > >So the only slices you need are /, /usr,

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > [...] > > > > What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: > > > > # ln -s /usr/home /home > > > > ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from > > the root partition. > > > > So the only slices you need are /, /

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > > > > Many thanks guys for all the advice :-) > > It is really appreciated! > > ... > > > > I reckon the proposed disk usage spec from the FreeBSD hand book should >

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > > [...] > > > >What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: > > > ># ln -s /usr/home /home > > > >ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from > >the root partition. > > > >So the only slices you need are /, /usr

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Kaya Saman wrote: How I'd slice up the disk: 2GB for / 2GB for swap 2GB for /var 34GB for /usr Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to have /var and /usr filesystems separate?? It's not required, it's just nice to do if the disk space is

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: # ln -s /usr/home /home ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from the root partition. So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap. How I'd slice up the disk: 2GB for / 2GB for swap 2GB for /var 34GB fo

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > > > Many thanks guys for all the advice :-) > > It is really appreciated! > > Sorry haven't snipped more stuff into this mail but things are a bit > hectic here but what I will say is this; in a few hours once the BSD 8 > DVD IS

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Kaya Saman
Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by devic

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > > Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to > > check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by > > device ID. > > Example af

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal > are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
tkde'. Thats the command to start kde. > I am looking to setup a small file server which I will use as DNS and > NTP server also. The reason for selecting FreeBSD is that the system I > about to install onto doesn't have much memory (not sure how much but > probably in th

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] add dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem. [...] I will give this a go soon :-) That's what I do with mine under FreeBSD, for both servers and workstations. Having both servers and workstations is cool as both of

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:23, Kaya Saman wrote: So, given what you've written below, you probably know more about this stuff than I do. Cool. I will echo the advice already given, however: add dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem.

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently >> installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I >> tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx com

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Kurt Buff wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman wrote: I see I didn't completely read your original message. Indulge me a moment while I ramble here, and probably expose my ignorance... Xorg/X11 <> Gnome Gnome runs on Xorg: Xorg/Xfree runs X11 Xfree is now obsolete as Xor

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
The most common cause is that either hald (sysutils/hal) or dbus (devel/dbus) isn't running. Xorg needs them both to detect mouse and keyboard. Add dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" to rc.conf to get them to start automatically. We'll see what the issue actually is - as I mentione

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
but I seem to have better luck, though it takes much longer, if I use 'make install' from the ports tree. > Sorry am not used to doing things from scratch but soon I will get the hang > of it - just give me a couple of days to get the file server I am on about > up and running the

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Pieter de Goeje
I know this is really ad-hoc and > frowned upon way of asking which will probably earn me minus brownie > points but just wanted a quick idea of what maybe so when the time comes > I can investigate further! > > The second and main question that I wish to ask is more to do with > pe

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
t soon I will get the hang of it - just give me a couple of days to get the file server I am on about up and running then will transfer the stuff clogging my notebooks HD over there and install a VM through Vbox and really have a go at understanding the GUI. I did play around with FreeBSIE

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
I would say ufs2 easily wins, but remember this is the freebsd-questions list ;) There are some differences though, ufs2 uses softupdates, not journaling(journaling is available and easy to implement via gjournal). Softupdates I believe are a little faster than journaling, but it's drawba

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:42, Kaya Saman wrote: > >> >> Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal >> are started at boot.  Follow the handbook for best results. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html > > I'm sure I started them as this doc

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > I know how strong UFS v.1 is as I use it with Solaris 9, but how about UFS > v.2 which is what FreeBSD runs?? When compared with ext3 from a > performance/reliability perspective which one comes on top? > I would say ufs2 easily wins, but reme

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html I'm sure I started them as this doc is exactly what I followed.. I think if I recall correct

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Adam Vande More
you need to make sure dbus and hal are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html > > The second and main question that I wish to ask is more to do with peoples > opinions or experienced BSD users advice: > > I am look

New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Kaya Saman
s but just wanted a quick idea of what maybe so when the time comes I can investigate further! The second and main question that I wish to ask is more to do with peoples opinions or experienced BSD users advice: I am looking to setup a small file server which I will use as DNS and NTP se

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-21 Thread David Davis
Hi Guys, I just wanted to mention that George's changes should be incorporated into the official FreeNAS build of 0.7 (it's RC1 right now) when it comes out, so using our custom image should only be a temporary thing should you choose to go the A2000 route. Regards, David Davis Software E

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread George Hartzell
Tim Judd writes: > On 7/19/09, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav > > wrote: > >> What kind of RAID chassis, computer system should I get for this setup? > >> Would a soekris be sufficient, or is that overkill? > > > > Or should I just buy a b

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: >> I would like to setup a home fileserver running FreeNAS (which itself runs >> on FreeBSD 7.2). Can someone recommend hardware for this? >> >> I know I'd have to get 3 harddrives. Two will be at home running RAID1, and >> the third will be mirrore

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > I would like to setup a home fileserver running FreeNAS (which itself runs > on FreeBSD 7.2). Can someone recommend hardware for this? > > I know I'd have to get 3 harddrives. Two will be at home running RAID1, and > the third will be mirrored about once per quarter and

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/19/09, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav > wrote: >> What kind of RAID chassis, computer system should I get for this setup? >> Would a soekris be sufficient, or is that overkill? > > Or should I just buy a barebones headless desktop PC (Dell has

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > What kind of RAID chassis, computer system should I get for this setup? Would > a soekris be sufficient, or is that overkill? Or should I just buy a barebones headless desktop PC (Dell has them cheap now for $241) for this task? __

FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
I would like to setup a home fileserver running FreeNAS (which itself runs on FreeBSD 7.2). Can someone recommend hardware for this? I know I'd have to get 3 harddrives. Two will be at home running RAID1, and the third will be mirrored about once per quarter and brought offsite. What kind of RAID

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
If you want to use gmirror + gjournal on the root filesystem (/), be sure to use FreeBSD 7.2. A bug prevented the system to boot on unclean shutdown because the replay of the journal took too much time and FreeBSD wanted to mount non-existant (yet) devices. It caused me a lot of trouble when I inst

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread DA Forsyth
On 8 Jun 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2": > Message: 13 > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:18:09 +0200 (CEST) > From: Wojciech Puchar > > SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just > > fine. What are you

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth wrote: > > I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: > > http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ > > Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server > to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board > was a

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth wrote: > > I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: > > http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ > > Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server > to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board > was a

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. Core2 is actually only a bit faster per clock cycle than PIII, but you ha

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread DA Forsyth
> I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: > http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. Both ran

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-06 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar : >> Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if >> the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of >> that >> even when under load. >> >> In fact a typical modern desktop computer will, when idle, draw less than >> 100W

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:31:16AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if > > the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of that > > even when under load. > > > > In fact a typical modern desktop computer

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of that even when under load. In fact a typical modern desktop computer will, when idle, draw less than 100W for the whole system. It is not even difficul

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:43:23AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a > > normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny > > thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed > > to draw u

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST enabled. This power draw unless CPU are c

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/5/09, Gabriel Lavoie wrote: > Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a > normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny > thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed > to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST en

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST enabled. This power draw on Intel 45nm CPUs

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Gabriel Lavoie : > I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: > > http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ > What a waste... How much power does that chug?? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
ere with a similar > configuration > and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server > using samba. > >  What i mainly try to achieve, talking in storage space, is 2 HDD of 1TB in > mirroring using gmirror(8) and 1 separate HDD of 500Gb. > >  So do

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is really pentium 4 "downlevel" hardware? sound like a joke to me. Not really. But considering how everyone is buying Core Duos and quads these days, you can get decent P4s for free. could you please tell me where i can get P4 machine for free? :) __

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Please note that "slightly downlevel..." was meant to refer to a combination of older Netburst architecture and consumer retail motherboard. The Core Xeons that replaced the old Netburst processors are much better performers. In a true datacenter server

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you >> performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't >> touch. >> > is really pentium 4 "downlevel" hardware? sound like a joke to me. Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Pleas

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you >> performance >> on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. >> > is really pentium 4 "downlevel" hardware? sound like a joke to me. > > Not really. But considering how everyone is buy

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. is really pentium 4 "downlevel" hardware? sound like a joke to me. i made all-need server for small office (8 people) using PIII/500 and 384 MB RAM. i

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Valentin Bud wrote: > Hello community, > > I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 > CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. > > I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar > configuration > and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
10 times more power than needed. disks speed is the only limit I have a P-II at 400 MHz running as a file server. See about 5 MB/sec on it depends from both sides ability, but pentium 100 with SDRAM memory can saturate 100Mbit/s network running FreeBSD 6.2

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
dle the load? The server > > 10 times more power than needed. disks speed is the only limit I have a P-II at 400 MHz running as a file server. See about 5 MB/sec on most file transfers. Has one of the original 15GB IBM Deskstar drives, and a much slower 6 GB WD drive. Both on ATA16 interfaces.

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Valentin Bud : > Hello community, > >  I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 > CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. > >  I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar > configuration > and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. this is not old - very powerfull machine. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Valentin Bud wrote: > Hello community, > > I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 > CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. > > I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar > configuration > and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
ing FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server > and Print Server using samba. > > What i mainly try to achieve, talking in storage space, is 2 HDD of > 1TB in mirroring using gmirror(8) and 1 separate HDD of 500Gb. > > So do you think the system I've mentioned would handle the

Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba. What i mainly try to

Building file server for multi-tera capacity

2009-04-16 Thread Valerio Daelli
Hi we plan a FreeBSD server which can host at least 20 Terabyte of data. The system will be shipped with FreeBSD 7 or 8 and will be based on a NexSAN SAS Beast. We would like to know if anybody has tried FreeBSD with NexSAN products and particularly if he has a suggestion about a solid HBA. Also

Re: Shuttle for a BSD file server?

2009-02-01 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm planning to build a new home file server for myself, starting with > about 2TB of RAID6 space, but with room to grow in the future. Most of > that will be on SATA drives, but I may throw in two SAS d

Re: Shuttle for a BSD file server?

2009-01-30 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Michael Powell > wrote: >> I'm not really answering the direct question, per se, but there is a data >> point you may wish to know a little more about. There exists a difference in >> hard drives, ala "Enter

Re: Shuttle for a BSD file server?

2009-01-30 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Michael Powell wrote: > I'm not really answering the direct question, per se, but there is a data > point you may wish to know a little more about. There exists a difference in > hard drives, ala "Enterprise" vs "Desktop". The difference is in the length > of the t

Re: Shuttle for a BSD file server?

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Powell
Maxim Khitrov wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm planning to build a new home file server for myself, starting with > about 2TB of RAID6 space, but with room to grow in the future. Most of > that will be on SATA drives, but I may throw in two SAS drives in > RAID1 for the base

Shuttle for a BSD file server?

2009-01-29 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Greetings, I'm planning to build a new home file server for myself, starting with about 2TB of RAID6 space, but with room to grow in the future. Most of that will be on SATA drives, but I may throw in two SAS drives in RAID1 for the base OS, hence the SAS raid controller and enclosure

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-26 Thread Marcel Grandemange
June 26, 2008 4:44 PM To: 'Derek Ragona'; 'Marcel Grandemange' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Unstable File Server I have had those exact problems with my removable tray. Try eliminating the tray for a while and see... -Original Message- From: [

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-26 Thread George Vagner
@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Unstable File Server At 10:59 AM 6/25/2008, Marcel Grandemange wrote: >The raid card is an Adaptec 2420sa, however devices on that controller never >have shown troubles. > > > >To give a breakdown: > > > >Mount points: > > > >/de

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Marcel Grandemange
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:23 PM To: Marcel Grandemange Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Unstable File Server At 10:59 AM 6/25/2008, Marcel Grandemange wrote: The raid card is an Adaptec 2420sa, however devices on that controller never have sh

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
l chip changes) will work with FreeBSD. I would say your problem is either the RAID card or the drive(s). I would try diagnostics on the drives from the manufacturer's websites. If the drives pass these tests I would replace the RAID card since you already tried new cables.

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Marcel Grandemange
5 13:47:07 gw2 kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly Device ad2 is an IDE device and is on same cable as DVDROM however the Drive itself is master. I replaced ad2 with an old 20Gb and it behaved itself however other devices still

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
2008 4:19 PM To: Marcel Grandemange Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unstable File Server Marcel Grandemange wrote: > Good day! > > I hope someone might be able to assist me over here! > > > > I have a multipurpose FreeBSD server, and one of the roles is being

RE: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Marcel Grandemange
: Tim Daneliuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 4:19 PM To: Marcel Grandemange Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unstable File Server Marcel Grandemange wrote: > Good day! > > I hope someone might be able to assist me over here! > > > > I h

Re: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Marcel Grandemange wrote: Good day! I hope someone might be able to assist me over here! I have a multipurpose FreeBSD server, and one of the roles is being a file server. This role however seems to continuously bring the machine to it's knees. I have tried seeking help else

Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Marcel Grandemange
Good day! I hope someone might be able to assist me over here! I have a multipurpose FreeBSD server, and one of the roles is being a file server. This role however seems to continuously bring the machine to it's knees. I have tried seeking help elsewhere namely

FW: Unstable File Server

2008-06-25 Thread Marcel Grandemange
Good day! I hope someone might be able to assist me over here! I have a multipurpose FreeBSD server, and one of the roles is being a file server. This role however seems to continuously bring the machine to it's knees. I have tried seeking help elsewhere namely

Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-26 Thread Nenad Mihajlovic
I found it. I'll try it out, and see what we get. Interesting thing is, that i went again to verify the finds that i wrote in my letter, and it is not the ping itself that increases performance, but the fact of multiple connections - while pinging from console (ping -f), the behaviour stays

Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
address from the fileserver, i get performance increase in the transfer speed - the bigger the traffic i generate, the better the results, which max out at 25-27 MB/sec with flood ping. Has anyone else experienced any similar behaviour? yes. there was (but at 100Mbit/s) autonegotiation problem

Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
iend of mine started using the machine to do the actual > work - basic editing of the wedding videos. > > When trying to upload the single file to file server, he was getting > the varying speed of 5-13 MBps, from his machine to file server - > which is unacceptably low for any

FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Nenad Mihajlovic
le to file server, he was getting the varying speed of 5-13 MBps, from his machine to file server - which is unacceptably low for any kind of transfer speed. Interestingly enough, when he tried to copy _TWO_ files to file server, the transfer speed vould jump to the 25-27 MB/sec and keep

FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Nenad Mihajlovic
le to file server, he was getting the varying speed of 5-13 MBps, from his machine to file server - which is unacceptably low for any kind of transfer speed. Interestingly enough, when he tried to copy _TWO_ files to file server, the transfer speed vould jump to the 25-27 MB/sec and keep

Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Derek Ragona
trying to upload the single file to file server, he was getting the varying speed of 5-13 MBps, from his machine to file server - which is unacceptably low for any kind of transfer speed. Interestingly enough, when he tried to copy _TWO_ files to file server, the transfer speed vould jump to the 25

FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Nenad Mihajlovic
le to file server, he was getting the varying speed of 5-13 MBps, from his machine to file server - which is unacceptably low for any kind of transfer speed. Interestingly enough, when he tried to copy _TWO_ files to file server, the transfer speed vould jump to the 25-27 MB/sec and keep

quota on samba file server

2007-06-23 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I have Freebsd 6.2 installed with file quota on. Today I have installed samba and enbaled network share for Windows machines. Now I would like to set quota for this share. I am not sure if I should do this from the swat panel or set the quota via command line in freebsd? All hints gladly w

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:42:17PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote: > Ivan Carey wrote: > > > > Hello, > > What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server? > > I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU > > installed (this mother

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