Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail

2008-04-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Unga wrote: Hi all I'm looking for papers or documentation covering details of the UFS2 Journaling implementation of the FreeBSD. Please give me links to them if you guys know any. Many thanks in advance. There's no such thing as UFS2 Journalling in FreeBSD (yet). There's "gjournal" which i

Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail

2008-04-18 Thread Ivan Voras
> Ivan, thanks for the links. What I mean is configure > journaling via gjournal(8) for the UFS file system. Just follow the example in gjournal(8) :) > I have following questions in this regard: > > 1. "Pawel (pjd) has reimplemented gjournal with hooks > in the file system code so it can p

Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail

2008-04-19 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/4/19 Unga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --- Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No, gjournal is a layer below the file system (think > > of it as a virtual disk drive) that does > journalling. > > You need to create a file system on top of g

Re: Sidetracked: why gjournal over soft-updates (Was: Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail)

2008-04-19 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/4/19 Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 18 April 2008 17:40:04 Ivan Voras wrote: > > > > 5. "Some UFS implementations avoid journaling and > > > instead implement soft updates: they order their > > > writes in such a way that the on-disk f

Re: gmirror, geli, gjournal performance

2008-04-19 Thread Ivan Voras
hideo wrote: Hi everyone, I was replacing a disk in a gmirror+geli pair and decided to compare the performance of gmirror+geli+gjournal before adding the new disk. When using these three together is the appropriate order to 1) fdisk and label 2) mirror the disk, 3) geli the partitions, and 4) u

Re: vpn + samba

2008-04-20 Thread Ivan Voras
alexus wrote: hi i need to get vpn + samba working by vpn i mean a remote user being on the road can connect to box and use samba file sharing, most of our users use vista, some xp See and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openvpn and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cifs signature.asc Description

Re: OpenBSD -> FreeBSD migration

2008-04-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Wright wrote: > > Hi All; > > I want to migrate a system from OpenBSD 4.2 (ie; the current version) > to FreeBSD (7.0). I have poked around on the archives a little > to determine how best to do this, and I want to make sure that > my understanding (summarized below) is indeed correct. I

Re: When's FreeBSD going to catch up in the world of virtualization.

2008-04-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Peter Brezny wrote: I'm a die hard FreeBSD user. For the past 10 years (since version 2.8 was released) it's been in production on all of my servers. Now however, I'm forced to use linux as the host OS for Vmware as there currently seems to be no current support for FreeBSD as the Host OS for p

Re: USB wireless AP?

2008-04-23 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/4/23 Martes G Wigglesworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a particular reason that the USB adapter concept is needed for > your application? Yes - there are no other ports to extend the (small, embedded) computer with. ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: USB wireless AP?

2008-04-23 Thread Ivan Voras
I've found a perfect match for my needs: D-Link DWL-G122, with the "rum" driver. Not a single problem so far, everything works as documented. Truly a plug and play experience. I'm just curious about one more thing: I wish to set up a "b/g" network, so both b and g devices can connect. Apparent

rum driver panic [ was: Re: USB wireless AP? ]

2008-04-23 Thread Ivan Voras
John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:57:28 am Ivan Voras wrote: I've found a perfect match for my needs: D-Link DWL-G122, with the "rum" driver. Not a single problem so far, everything works as documented. Truly a plug and play experience. I'm just curious abo

Re: brindging ath0 with re0 working, kinda, almost

2008-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Reinhold wrote: > I have a bridge set up on re0 and ath0 to get bridge0, here is my ifconfig > > ath0: flags=8943 metric 0 > mtu 2290 > rl0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > bridge0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > The bridge is working in that both lan and wlan can access the internet > perfectl

Re: brindging ath0 with re0 working, kinda, almost

2008-04-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Reinhold wrote: > Any help would be appreciated. I don't have any more suggestions, except the obvious: is there a firewall somewhere in there, and are the routing tables ok? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Software RAID and Logical Volume in Linux versus FreeBSD

2008-04-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Matt Proud wrote: > Hi all, > > I have used FreeBSD for a long time very casually but have never explored > any of its software RAID or volume management features---at least to a > degree to which I feel comfortable with them. What I would like to know with > this post is 1.) whether there exists

Re: Group of the newly created files and directories

2008-05-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Unga wrote: > Hi > > I have noticed in FreeBSD, the group of the newly > created files and directories are assumed by default > of the group of the parent directory! Yes, this is the difference between SYSV and BSD systems - each variant has its own arguments in favour so this behaviour is not li

Re: Questions from a Total samba Novice.

2008-05-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin McCormick wrote: > I just found out that I will need to copy some files > from a FreeBSD system to a Windows shared drive on our network so that > Windows users can have access to the files. > > After reading a little documentation and talking to a > cowworker, I was under the i

Re: FreeBSD 7 on Windows 2008 (Hyper-V)

2008-05-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Natham wrote: > Hi: > > Im trying to set up a FreeBSD VM under Hyper-V but i the instalation > do not start. i try x86 and x64 boot disk only (for a net install). > The error i got is "cant load kernel". > > Im a novice on FreeBSD but i have set up a few small server with it. Any idea? You didn'

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2) ZFS RAID-z turns your X drives to single drive performance both on read and write. every normal RAID-5 implementation will give you random read speed of X-1 times single drive speed, while slow random write speeds (but still at least half of single drive). but this is

Re: Apache FastCGI display Website not correct

2011-03-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/03/2011 20:22, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i use fastcgi with PHP-FPM on Apache 2.2.17. When i go on Website with FastCGI then the page load not complete. http://mail.silviosiefke.de/fastcgi_apache.png When i run with FCGID then the page load complete. http://mail.silviosiefke.de/fcgid

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global default? Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without having a configuration swit

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 7 March 2011 19:44, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: >>> >>> Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off >>> in >>> ports that I install

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Ivan Voras
On 17 March 2011 16:10, Lars Eighner wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Krutov Mikle wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:32:59PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> >>> On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: >>>> >>>> Using the -C switch with p

Re: FreeBSD Boot

2011-03-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/03/2011 13:48, Michael Klapheke wrote: Hi. I know this subject has been addressed in other posts, but I cannot seem to get it to work. I have inherited a FreeBSD server and I cannot get it to boot properly. I read the articles on avoiding having to press the F1 key, and I tried to foll

Re: gmirror and normal users?

2011-04-08 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/04/2011 16:43, Christopher Hilton wrote: Should a normal user be able to successfully: $ gmirror remove /dev/mirror/gm0 /dev/ad6 Or is this something that's just unlocked because I haven't mounted the drive yet? $ uname -a FreeBSD deathstar.example.com 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABL

Re: ZFS Striping and Optimizing Capabilities

2011-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/04/2011 06:27, Chris Telting wrote: Just a few questions about what ZFS actually does. So if anyone has intimate knowledge about ZFS's implementation on Freebsd I'm sure I and others would appreciate the answers. When you add a second and or thrid drive/partition to a zpool I'm assuming th

Re: ZFS performance strangeness

2011-04-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12/04/2011 13:33, Lars Wilke wrote: Now i upgraded one machine to 8.2R and i get very good write performance over NFS but read performance drops to a ridiciously low value, around 1-2 MB/s. While writes are around 100MB/s. The network is a dedicated If you don't get any answer here, try pos

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread Ivan Voras
On 14/04/2011 12:14, Dennis Nikiforov wrote: There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. Some ideas: 1) You can run 32-bit applications on 64-bit FreeBSD (and / or set up a 32-bit jail) 2) You can try booting a snapshot of

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/07/2011 20:11, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: I've seen exactly this problem with multi-threaded math libraries, as well. Using parallel GotoBLAS on FreeBSD gives terrible performance because the threads keep migrating between CPUs, causing frequent cache misses. On both schedulers? __

Re: ZFSv28+NFSv4 poor file creation performance, "sync=disabled" has no effect

2011-09-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 31/08/2011 23:45, David Brodbeck wrote: I'm testing FreeBSD 9.0-BETA with an eye toward eventually using FreeBSD 9.0 to replace some existing OpenSolaris 2008.11 installations. I've found NFS file creation performance (as measured by Bonnie++) is equally slow for both with default settings.

Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

2011-09-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 16/09/2011 12:31, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: > A. TEST1: dd bs=1024 if=/dev/zero of=/data/t1 count=1M > > 1. ZFS performed the worst, averaging 67MB/sec > 2. UFS + gjournal did around 130MB/sec > 3. UFS did around 190MB/sec > > B. TEST2 ( random file creation ): bonnie++ -d /data -c 10

Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

2011-09-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 16/09/2011 13:30, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: > Is zfs supposed to be faster if you let it manage the disks directly ? > Not necessarily faster (in fact, RAID-Z variants have known limitations which are not so pronounced in RAID5/6), but definitely more convenient and in some respects s

Re: UFS journal size

2011-09-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/09/2011 11:48, Ross wrote: > Quoting the manpage: > > -s jsize Specifies size of the journal if only one provider is >used for both data and journal. The default is one >gigabyte. Size should be chosen based on provider's >

Re: load average with multi-core CPU's

2011-09-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 22/09/2011 22:59, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > It is the number of task waiting in queue to be runbut IO is > important...if 2 processes are waiting for IO and it is completely > saturated they will be kept in queue so load will get higher No, this is how Linux does the calculation. For FreeB

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 25/09/2011 17:04, Mark Felder wrote: > I have an Opteron machine that on both 7.x and 8.x it displays this > behavior. The only fix was to boot from USB and it would get past it. > Weird. Was it also an LSI controller? I had the same problem a month ago. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: Dell Poweredge 1950 III (PE_SC3): replacement SAS controller to acceess drives >= 3TB

2011-10-13 Thread Ivan Voras
On 13/10/2011 12:16, O. Hartmann wrote: > > I'm a bit afraid of buying something "out of the blue" since the > dimensions of this little controller board seems small. I hope someone > already made a decission to buy such a replacement for their similar or > exact the same system and can help me o

Re: ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 19/10/2011 16:30, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Albert Shih wrote: >> Hi >> >> Sorry to cross-posting. I don't knwon which mailing-list I should post this >> message. >> >> I'll would like to use FreeBSD with ZFS on some Dell server with some >> MD1200 (classique DA

Re: Bad sector in UFS2 journal area

2011-10-20 Thread Ivan Voras
On 20/10/2011 05:49, Ross wrote: > I don't actually have this problem, I'm just curious. What will happen > if read fails on sector in UFS2 journal area? Sector won't get > remapped until write, so reads will be failing until then. > > I've had experience with bad sectors with non-journaled filesy

Re: geli + journal

2011-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 15/11/2011 19:33, Коньков Евгений wrote: > Здравствуйте, RW. > > Вы писали 15 ноября 2011 г., 1:50:54: > > R> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:06:00 +0200 > R> Коньков Евгений wrote: > >>> catch idea, but some question: >>> in this situation .eli.journal journal device will not be encrypted? >>> can

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/07/2013 22:28, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all > with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage "don't fix > what ain't broken", but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db > files get corrupted on occasion. > > I could

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/07/2013 13:55, Mark Felder wrote: > If twitter was built upon a WORM database instead of MySQL they could > host the entirety of twitter on a handful of servers instead of the > gross MySQL+Cassandra mess they're fighting with today. I'd say their problem is not exactly solvable by only cho

Re: Zfs encryption property for freebsd 8.3

2013-09-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/09/2013 14:14, Emre Çamalan wrote: > Hi, > I want to encrypt some disk on my server with Zfs encryption property but it > is not available. > > Are there anybody have got an experience about this? It can't happen because Oracle has stopped open sourcing ZFS. http://forums.freebsd.org/show

Re: Soekris for a Trac server

2013-10-04 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/10/2013 08:22, Michael wrote: > Also I am bit unsure about the setup I should pick: we are a hand of > users for the service and I would like to know if a 64-MB Ram and a > 166Mhz setup could do, or if I definitely should consider a faster CPU > or more RAM. Given my actual jail based setup,

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. Is this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdconfig what you are

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-12 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/11/10 21:22, Alejandro Imass wrote: 1) Would damage to the 2 disks cause damae on the other 2? Not likely but in your situation it might damage the controller, in which nothing you do to the drives will help. In the worst case, the controller then might in turn damage the drives. __

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-12 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12 October 2010 15:30, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: >> On 10/11/10 21:22, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> >>> 1) Would damage to the 2 disks cause damae on the other 2? >> >> Not likely but in your situation it m

Re: Jail question

2010-10-18 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/14/10 18:20, Matthew Law wrote: I have a single box on which I would like to run openvpn, smtp (postfix, dspam, greylist, clamav), imap (dovecot) apache22 and bind. This box also acts as a network gateway so it would give an attacker carte blanche to the internal nets if it was compromised

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/25/10 03:05, Kenton Varda wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to write some code which monitors a possibly-large directory > tree for changes. Specifically, it's a build system, and I want it to > automatically start rebuilding whenever I modify a source file. > > So far the approach I've tak

Re: fsync: Linux vs FreeBSD

2010-10-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/26/10 21:17, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Someone recently posted on one of the PostgreSQL Blogs concerning fsync on Linux/Windows/Mac OS X, but failed to make any comments on any of the BSDs ... the post has to do with how fsync works on the

Re: Android usb tethering

2010-11-01 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/01/10 15:42, Mark Atkinson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/2010 03:54, freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Anyone tried the data tethering feature on the Android phones? I have, it works. Attaching via usb in the proper mode should

Re: Kernel panics?

2010-11-04 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/04/10 12:35, Richard Morse wrote: > Hi! I'm having a problem with an 8.1-RELEASE #0 amd64 machine. Looks like too many different problem all at once. Almost certainly there's a hardware problem somewhere. Try running memtest86 > Three weeks ago, it had a kernel panic, which I was too tired

Re: UFS

2010-11-08 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/08/10 11:01, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > In my opinion, the only chance to get back the data would be to plug an > additional drive, make a huge swap file... > Knowing that context switching, on such an amount of RAM ... that would at > least take days. > > > In doubt: am I missing somethi

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/10/10 13:24, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello out there, > > well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based > systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in > severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a > kind of Linux facili

Re: How to obtain what swi1:net is doing?

2010-11-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/11/10 20:20, Коньков Евгений wrote: Hi, all "How to obtain what swi1:net is doing?" The short answer is: depending on what your network card is, it could be everything related to TCP/IP-level processing. In your case, you are doing a lot of work in netgraph and dummynet, probably sh

Re: Re[2]: How to obtain what swi1:net is doing?

2010-11-13 Thread Ivan Voras
2010/11/13 Коньков Евгений : > IV> net.isr.direct_force=0 > IV> net.isr.maxthreads=2 > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs > FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 SMT threads >  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0 >  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1 >  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  4 >  cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  

Re: ZFS and 4k sector drives

2010-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/15/10 20:24, Wojciech Puchar wrote: work with ZFS raidz2 pools. It seems that most of the 4k sector drives are using emulation, and reporting 512 byte sectors to the OS instead of their native 4k size. I know someone who had an issue trying to insert one of these drives into a running ZFS p

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/16/10 20:23, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: Actually, I don't see anything incorrect in the above archive post. I do. Cherry picking ZFS deficiencies without addressing the proper documented way to work around them or at even acknowle

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/15/10 21:06, Chris Rees wrote: On 15 November 2010 19:59, Peter Boosten wrote: He's consistent in any case (a quick google search reveals this 2008 message): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg192926.html Consistent, but still just spouting uninformed FUD. A

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12/01/10 21:23, David DEMELIER wrote: > Yes it is just exercises, I heard bsdlabel was grow up so I wanted to > test, now I don't really understand why it's fixed to 20 only. I also It turns out that something like 22.75 bsdlabel partition table entries fit in a 512 byte sector, so this was ro

Re: A jail with a dash in its name

2010-12-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/12/2010 12:23, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, krad wrote: i'd stay away from characters like that. It should be ok in theory to use but in my experience it is more likely to cause problems in the future There's no problem of having a dash in a hostname, so

Re: sqlite3 and sqlite34

2011-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/01/2011 09:57, prad wrote: i'm still on freebsd 7.2 and am wanting to try sqlite. however, in the ftp-archive.freebsd.org repository i see these two versions both of which i can install and seem to work: sqlite3-3.6.11.tbz (this has a non sqlite34-3.4.2.tbz one site said something about 3

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Ivan Voras
On 13/01/2011 21:28, David Demelier wrote: Hello folks, I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is possible. If you haven't removed it, a line in /etc/rc.conf should be written by sys

Re: upgrading a dozen of servers from 7.0 to 8.1

2011-01-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/01/2011 14:54, Radomskiy Yuriy wrote: how can upgrading to apache 2.2 + php5.3 be done with minimal downtime? That's the more important question. I think that upgrading the configuration of your software will take more time than upgrading FreeBSD. For example: apache22 port has a diff

Re: Using Megabyte, Gigabyte, ... in fdisk

2011-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/02/2011 14:09, Bahman Kahinpour wrote: Hello, I have a small question. How may I use Kilobyte, Megabyte, ... in "fdisk" interactive mode? It is best not to use fdisk at all until it gets rewritten. Use gpart. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: 4k drives and zfs

2011-02-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/02/2011 05:52, krad wrote: Hi All, A quick question. Im upgrading my filer at home to have 2x 2tb samsung F4EG drives. I believe these are 4k drives. I'm intending to use the gnop trick to get zfs ashift to 12. Will this make my pool unbootable. I have read a few threads aluding to this.

Re: Why does printf(9) hang network?

2011-02-05 Thread Ivan Voras
On 05/02/2011 21:22, dieter...@engineer.com wrote: Why would doing a printf(9) in a device driver (usb, firewire, probably others) cause an obscenely long lockout on /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_sockbuf.c:148 (sx:so_rcv_sx) ? You should ask this question on freebsd-hackers@. Printf(9) alone isn't

Re: geli - selecting cipher

2012-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 26/07/2012 04:14, RW wrote: > I asked a similar questions to the OPs in the geom list and didn't get > an answer. Geli doesn't need or isn't using any advantages of XTS. And > CBC in geli is actually equivalent to ESSIV (see the previously linked > wikipedia page). Hi, You didn't get an answ

Re: reduce priority of large port builds, e.g. firefox, gcc4x

2012-08-29 Thread Ivan Voras
On 29/08/2012 15:56, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Is it possible to reduce priority > of port building processes with > something like "nice +19 make" (tcsh syntax)? Sure, I do it all the time. You may even want to make a shell alias in your cshrc, i.e. alias make nice +19 make (or something like

Re: geom - help ...

2006-09-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Basically, I have 5x72G drives ... I'd *love* to do RAID5 with them, but that doesn't appear to be available right now Maybe you could try geom_raid3 instead? It's pretty nice, especially for databases. The only caveat is that you cannot boot off it if you use all the

Re: geom - help ...

2006-09-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > This is RAID3, RAID4 is totally different. They are similar, at least in definitions I could find. Both use a dedicated parity disk, RAID3 stripes "bytes" while RAID3 stripes "blocks". Because geom_raid3 stripes at sector level, I think it's more similar to RAID4. Of

Re: GELI cripto USB disk and fsck

2007-07-11 Thread Ivan Voras
DSA - JCR wrote: 1.- The main filesystem / get overfilled, it was 108% used !! because the USB disk files were in the mounted directory (/usb2). My question is, how is this possible? it was full and more, where were the files?? If you're asking "why 108%" the answer is that 8% of total availab

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Christopher Key wrote: I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MBR. Ok. Let's call

Re: ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?

2007-08-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:34:22PM -0700, ann kok wrote: thank you Can I limit the bandwidth by user what they use any program to download and upload? The pf firewall can do this. Filter packets by user, then assign them to an appropriate queue. Read pf.conf(5). You'll hav

Re: Memcached Daemon Startup Issues

2007-08-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Peter Pluta wrote: Peter Pluta wrote: I installed memcached and since it doesn't have a config file I entered the flags into rc.conf, but when I start it with the rc.d scripts, it always runs as nobody, instead of the user I specified with -u . The man page says "only when run as root". This c

Re: Disk errors when copying

2007-09-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Richard Tobin wrote: When copy between disks (ad10 ->ad8), I get errors: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=435128800 ad10: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51 error=10 LBA=435128800 g_vfs_done():ad10s2g[READ(offset=175562145792, length=131072)]error = 5 I don't get t

Re: Linuxulator and SSE

2007-09-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Hello, list! I'm trying to get Bibble to run under the Linuxulator on FreeBSD, but it keeps complaining about missing SSE support. What does the top of dmesg (generated during boot) tells you about the processor? If it doesn't list "SSE" under the list of featur

Re: 6.2 Hangs Probing Floppy During Boot

2007-09-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Tim Daneliuk wrote: During the boot probe, FreeBSD 6.2 (Release or -STABLE) hangs for several minutes while probing the floppy. Eventually, it does get through it, but it takes a lng time. Disabling the floppy in the machine BIOS makes the problem go away because FBSD sees no flop

Re: passwd(1), pam_ldap and old PRs

2007-09-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Jonathan McKeown wrote: There are two relevant PRs, one open (bin/71290)and one suspended (bin/59638). ... You may want to try asking this on current@ and hackers@ lists. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Hello

2007-09-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Using sysinstall I enabled anonymous FTP, with uploads allowed in the folder /incoming. Uploading works a treat, however the files don't have permissions to be downloaded again (by anon user). I know I could change this by executing a cron job every two minutes that woul

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Installation Problems

2007-09-07 Thread Ivan Voras
G. Yager wrote: the whole project, because apparently I can't get all of the components installed to make X or KDE work correctly. Please help! Here are the steps for you (run them as root user): 1) Install a base system without packages, configure it to your liking 2) Execute "portsnap fetc

Re: natd / ipfw services on internal interface

2007-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe wrote: I have a question about natd/ and ipfw. I am running natd on my external interface and I have some services on my internal interface. The services seem to be getting their ip addresses nat'd and some of them work and some of them dont. Any idea how to prevent things from going in

Re: Net-snmp dying with an "ld-elf" error at start on brand new FreeBSD install

2007-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Philip B wrote: Starting snmpd. /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/sbin/snmpd: Undefined symbol "PL_markstack_ptr" I've Googled on "PL_markstack_ptr snmpd" and got back only 5 hits, none which seem to explain this problem at runtime. I don't know even where to begin to dig. It's usually

Re: GEOM ELI: MD5 hash mismatch for /dev/mirror/gm0s1f

2007-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas Hobbes wrote: Hi, what is this kind of error's meaning? Usually it means your data is corrupted. Some possible reasons are: - bad sectors or media deficiencies - power failures or fluctuations that affected the drive and/or the controller - bad cables - bugs, either in hardware (moth

Re: LVS (IPVS) on 6.2?

2007-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Ovi wrote: Hello I've tried to compile ipvs port on 6.2 but it seems it works only on 5.3 and 5.4. Anybody have an ideea if is a similar project to IPVS (LVS's Linux) on 6.2? I don't know about LVS/IPVS but its function seems similar to what CARP does: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?que

Re: how to change next boot from windows to freebsd?

2007-09-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, I am not sure but cygwin could be of help here. Not very likely. The OP might want to try using the Windows boot loader (ntldr) instead of FreeBSD's, as it is configured by a text file (c:\boot.ini) which can be edited from both FreeBSD and Windows. There are seve

Re: Problem with FreeBSD and external storage

2007-09-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Miguel Angelo wrote: Hi, I'm trying to put external disks(storage) in my FreeBSD server, but, i only can't see the disks that was allocated. I think that is necessary sometype of confugurations, because the hba was installed and all procedures necessary too. For information.

Re: Does FreeBSD support UTF-8 locale well?

2007-09-19 Thread Ivan Voras
ronggui wrote: In terms of UTF-8 support, Linux seems better than FreeBSD. How do you guys think? Yes. FreeBSD's UTF-8 support is really bad, and it's practically nonexistant when you look at things like collation. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: hardware reality check - server

2007-09-20 Thread Ivan Voras
kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... some input about this hardware on fbsd 6.2 would be appreciated. just would like to know if anybody has tried successfully something like this before: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1 Intel Quad-Core

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-20 Thread Ivan Voras
NetOpsCenter wrote: I have been using FreeBSD 7.0 since Jan 8 2007 CURRENT on this box which is a desktop for browsing and email with a Dual core AMD CPU setup. It rocks. I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old hardware and it is rock solid. I believe the FreeBSD

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-21 Thread Ivan Voras
On 21/09/2007, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use 7.0 on about 70 machines that are extremely heavily loaded, all > running ULE, ranging from single through to 8 CPUs, some using ZFS, etc. > I don't see these problems you are claiming, so you'll have to do some > more detective wor

Re: SMP system threading performance question

2007-02-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Frank Altpeter wrote: > It might be a complete trivial problem, but i don't see the point (yet) > ... but it never gets over the "50.0% idle" mark and i never see cpu1 > doing anything, no matter how many parallel processes are running It's a common question, you should have searched the lists a

Re: A bottleneck in gstripe?

2007-02-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: > I built a gstripe volume with 4 drives and a 128KB stripesize. When running > one particular application, gstat reports that stripe/stripe1 is 99% busy, > although its four drives are running at less than 30% each. Am I > misinterpreting the numbers - maybe the total is

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Steve Franks wrote: > How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find > anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an > issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? fsck will tell you the level of fragmentation on the file system: > fsck /usr **

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, March 1, 2007 3:35 pm, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Steve Franks wrote: >>> How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find >>> anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an >>> issue on UFS? Ca

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 352462 files, 2525857 used, 875044 free (115156 frags, 94986 blocks, >> 3.4% fragmentation) > > Just to reiterate: > "Fragmentation" on a Windows filesystem is _not_ the same as "

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I believe that a "fragmented file" in common usage refers to a file >> which is not stored continuously on the drive - i.e. it occupies more >> than one continuous region. Ho

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > If you know the standard computer science terminology, it can be > described quite tersely. UFS fragmentation is a way of avoiding > internal fragmentation from wasting too much space. MS-DOS-FS > fragmentation is an example of external fragmentation in the storage > spac

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
jekillen wrote: > a Mac disc. I am just curious as to how the HFS and HFS+ file systems fit > into this picture. Particularly since OSX is essentially a Unix 'like' > system > but still uses HFS+ > Just for some perspective and idle curiosity. As you said, HFS(+) is not a native unix file system,

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Jerry McAllister wrote: > Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need: > dump + rm -rf * + restore This is nitpicking so ignore it: deleting all files on UFS2 volume won't restore it to it's pristine state because inodes are lazily initialized. It doesn't have anything t

Re: gjournal and zfs, questions

2007-03-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Daniel Eriksson wrote: > When will gjournal and zfs be committed to the CVS tree? Will either of > them be merged to STABLE? GJournal aready is: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/journal/g_journal.c?rev=1.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup It's unlikely they will be merged to 6

Re: gjournal and zfs, questions

2007-03-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > >> GJournal aready is: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/journal/g_j >> ournal.c?rev=1.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > > Thank you for the info! > > zfs looks more interesting, but hav

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