Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > It's theoretical as I have not investigated how to create sparse files > on FreeBSD, nor have I done this. It's based on several posts to the > zfs-discuss mailing list where several people have done this on > OpenSolaris. > Easiest way to

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/23/2010 10:51 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/23/2010 10:42 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 24/07/2010, at 11:55, Freddie Cash wrote: It's theoretical as I have not investigated how to create sparse files on FreeBSD, nor have I done this. It's based on several posts to the zfs-discuss mailing

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/23/2010 10:42 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 24/07/2010, at 11:55, Freddie Cash wrote: It's theoretical as I have not investigated how to create sparse files on FreeBSD, nor have I done this. It's based on several posts to the zfs-discuss mailing list where several people have done this on

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 24/07/2010, at 11:55, Freddie Cash wrote: > It's theoretical as I have not investigated how to create sparse files > on FreeBSD, nor have I done this. It's based on several posts to the > zfs-discuss mailing list where several people have done this on > OpenSolaris. FYI you would do.. truncat

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/23/2010 10:25 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Pawell and I had an online chat about part of my strategy. To be clear: I have a 5x2TB raidz1 array. I have 2x2TB empty HDD My goal was to go to raidz2 by: - copy data to empty HDD - redo the zpo

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Mahlon-- > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > > Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading > > ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. > > Similar errors as bef

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > Pawell and I had an online chat about part of my strategy.  To be clear: > > I have a 5x2TB raidz1 array. > > I have 2x2TB empty HDD > > My goal was to go to raidz2 by: > - copy data to empty HDD > - redo the zpool to be raidz2 > - copy back t

FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Available

2010-07-23 Thread Ken Smith
For those of you who don't subscribe to the freebsd-announce list: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/announce.html Enjoy. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensm...@buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere.

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 9:22 PM, Pawel Tyll wrote: I do not think I can adjust the existing zpool on the fly. I think I need to copy everything elsewhere (i.e the 2 empty drives). Then start the new zpool from scratch. You can, and you should (for educational purposes if not for fun :>), unless you wis

Re: Floppy driver broken on 8.1-PRERELEASE?

2010-07-23 Thread perryh
Holm Tiffe wrote: > Why I can't read 1440K blocks from the floppy anymore? Perhaps something changed in the DMA driver, such that it is no longer able to handle a request exceeding 65K (which was the hardwired limit of the "original" PC DMA controller). I've long used bs=120b for floppies, and n

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 8:47 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Thank you to all the helpful discussion. It's been very helpful and educational. Based on the advice and suggestions, I'm going to adjust my original plan as follows. NOTE: glabel will not be used. First, create a new GUID Partition Table partition sc

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread John Hawkes-Reed
On 23/07/2010 19:04, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, John Hawkes-Reed wrote: JH> Since I still have the medium-sized ZFS array on the bench, testing this GPT JH> setup seemed like a good idea. JH> JH> The hardware's a Supermicro X8DTL-iF m/b + 12Gb memory, 2x 5502 Xeons, 3x JH>

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, John Hawkes-Reed wrote: JH> Since I still have the medium-sized ZFS array on the bench, testing this GPT JH> setup seemed like a good idea. JH> JH> The hardware's a Supermicro X8DTL-iF m/b + 12Gb memory, 2x 5502 Xeons, 3x JH> Supermicro USASLP-L8I 3G SAS controllers and 24x H

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Pawel Tyll wrote: >> I do not think I can adjust the existing zpool on the fly.  I think I >> need to copy everything elsewhere (i.e the 2 empty drives).  Then start >> the new zpool from scratch. > You can, and you should (for educational purposes if not for fun :

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Mahlon-- > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > > Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading > > ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. > > Similar errors as bef

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Mahlon-- > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > > Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading > > ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. > > Similar errors as bef

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread John Hawkes-Reed
Dan Langille wrote: Thank you to all the helpful discussion. It's been very helpful and educational. Based on the advice and suggestions, I'm going to adjust my original plan as follows. [ ... ] Since I still have the medium-sized ZFS array on the bench, testing this GPT setup seemed like

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 9:51 PM, Pawel Tyll wrote: So... the smaller size won't mess things up... If by smaller size you mean smaller size of existing drives/partitions, then growing zpools by replacing smaller vdevs with larger ones is supported and works. What isn't supported is basically everything else

Re: 900.tcpwrap and stale log messages

2010-07-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:48:16AM +0100, Jonathan Belson wrote: > Early this morning I read through the daily status e-mails from a > server I administer. I was unpleasantly surprised to see a refused > ssh connection from an external IP address, which shouldn't be > possible since the machine is

Floppy driver broken on 8.1-PRERELEASE?

2010-07-23 Thread Holm Tiffe
Hi guys, can please someone explain what the heck this is good for? $ uname -a FreeBSD unicorn.tsht.lan 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #9: Wed Jul 7 15:31:25 CEST 2010 r...@unicorn.tsht.lan:/data/FreeBSD/obj/data/FreeBSD/src/sys/UNICORN i386 $ fdformat /dev/fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd

900.tcpwrap and stale log messages

2010-07-23 Thread Jonathan Belson
Hiya Early this morning I read through the daily status e-mails from a server I administer. I was unpleasantly surprised to see a refused ssh connection from an external IP address, which shouldn't be possible since the machine is only accessible via a VPN :-O It wasn't until after I'd spok

Re: WITNESS is the culprit was Re: latest 8.1 hangs on xpt_config

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Braniss
> That's hardly a solution or reason. of course it's not, just that last successful boot had WITNESS configured, and with the latest patches it hang, compiling without WITNESS allowed the boot to proceed. > Still please try the patch (or fresh > 8-STABLE wit

Re: WITNESS is the culprit was Re: latest 8.1 hangs on xpt_config

2010-07-23 Thread Alexander Motin
Daniel Braniss wrote: >> Daniel Braniss wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:35:55AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: > It seems that the latest changes (last 7 days) introduced this problem: > ... > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config > run_inter

WITNESS is the culprit was Re: latest 8.1 hangs on xpt_config

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Braniss
> Daniel Braniss wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:35:55AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: > >>> It seems that the latest changes (last 7 days) introduced this problem: > >>> ... > >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config > >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: stil

Re: latest 8.1 hangs on xpt_config

2010-07-23 Thread Alexander Motin
Daniel Braniss wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:35:55AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: >>> It seems that the latest changes (last 7 days) introduced this problem: >>> ... >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting af

Re: latest 8.1 hangs on xpt_config

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:35:55AM +0300, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > It seems that the latest changes (last 7 days) introduced this problem: > > ... > > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config > > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt