Re: Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

2011-06-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 26), Joshua Isom said: > On 6/25/2011 9:32 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:17, Joshua Isom wrote: > >> I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for > >> the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from > >>

Re: Performance of a USB ZIL for ZFS

2011-06-26 Thread Robert Simmons
On 25 Jun 2011, at 19:17, Joshua Isom wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had tried using a decent USB flash drive for > the ZIL. I know it'd be hard finding one fast enough, but some from > patriot seem like they might be suitable for home use. Part of the > idea is to just minimize hard drive t

negative sbsize

2011-06-26 Thread Jimmie James
After the last firefox update and flash, I've been getting thousands and thousands of "kernel: negative sbsize for uid = 1001" in my logs, and google appears to show a bug from 2001, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27275 with no solution. Flash sites now crawl, hang firefox, midori a

I have a error in freebsd 8.2, an internal system error has ocurred

2011-06-26 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
Hi guys!, i am new on freebsd, but i had installed freebsd 8.2 with graphical interface (gnome), i was very happy, but suddendly i saw a message, exactly the message said: we were not expecting has ocurred ..., look the photo, i don't understand exactly, 30 min the message appears, is dangerous the

cvs vs. DVD

2011-06-26 Thread wayne mitchell
hey, be warned, you are dealing with a 'newbie' i have one machine that has internet access and another that does not both machines were installed with FreeBSD_RELEASE_8_1 with a DVD i am now using cvsup to upgrade the RELENG_8_1_RELEASE tree my second machine does not have working ethernet how

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-26 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:47:26 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > d...@safeport.com wrote: > > > If FreeBSD can be installed in an extended partition, > > that would be a very useful howto. > > _Installing_ it in an "extended partition" is easy enough. > geom(8) understands "extended partitions"

Re: cvs vs. DVD

2011-06-26 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, June 26, 2011 a las 07:02:57PM +0100, wayne mitchell escribió: > hey, > be warned, you are dealing with a 'newbie' > i have one machine that has internet access and another that does not > both machines were installed with FreeBSD_RELEASE_8_1 with a DVD > i am now using cvsup to up

Re: cvs vs. DVD

2011-06-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/06/2011 19:02, wayne mitchell wrote: > be warned, you are dealing with a 'newbie' > i have one machine that has internet access and another that does not > both machines were installed with FreeBSD_RELEASE_8_1 with a DVD > i am now using cvsup to upgrade the RELENG_8_1_RELEASE tree > > my s

Re: cvs vs. DVD

2011-06-26 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, wayne mitchell wrote: hey, be warned, you are dealing with a 'newbie' Be warned, I don't know the official best practices response. I'm just telling you what I would do^H^Htry in your circumstances. i have one machine that has internet access and another that does n

what is the RIGHT(TM) way to configure background DHCP?

2011-06-26 Thread deeptec...@gmail.com
as of recent times, on my network, the DHCP server takes a very long time (>30s) to reply, slowing down the boot process. so i've decided to put the DHCP client in the background (via rc.conf) during the boot process. attempt 1: #background_dhclient="YES" #background_dhclient_sk0="YES" with this,

Traffic ignore security policies for SA in IPSec site-to-site connection

2011-06-26 Thread NutipA
First af all, I apologize if I chose the wrong mailing list. I need to establish IPSec site-to-site connection between two offices as it shown below: LAN1 (192.168.1.0/24) | FreeBSD 8.2 (192.168.1.2) + ipfw NAT over PPTP(X.X.X.X) | | internet | | FreeBSD 8.2 (192.168.1.2) + ipfw NAT over PPPoE(

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-06-26 Thread Devin Teske
On Apr 23, 2011, at 4:42 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:54:51AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:52:44 -0700 >> "Devin Teske" wrote: >> >>> Looks like `--hline' is not supported anymore. Thinking this should >>> either be patched or documented in ERRATA/

Using a "special" proxy for ports

2011-06-26 Thread Dennis Glatting
I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty hosts for a year or more. I've decided to do this using Squid and to take advantage of Squid's cache when updating common ports across those hosts. (BTW, at another site I used rsync to sync /usr/ports/distfiles across the

fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE) on a 500gb drive. Just did a freebsd-update from 8.1 to 8.2, just doing the second boot to do 'freebsd-update install' for the second time, and got dumped into the mountroot prompt. AFAICT, I managed somehow to write something

Re: pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 gives wrong -I dir

2011-06-26 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, June 25, 2011 a las 07:20:52PM -0500, Dan Nelson escribió: > Checking Solaris and SUSE Linux, I see a similar pair of directories: > > solaris$ pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 > -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include > > linux$ pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 > -I/usr/in