Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Miroslav Lachman wrote on 04/17/2020 08:17: Looking at server specs, the R6515's NVME support is only through the PERC S150 RAID controller.  If that's the case, I'm pretty sure you're out of luck.  The PERC S-series controllers are software-based RAID that require Dell's Windows or Linux driv

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Chris wrote on 04/17/2020 05:51: On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:57:21 -0700 Mel Pilgrim list_free...@bluerosetech.com said On 2020-04-16 12:30, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: >> >> >> On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Chris
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:57:21 -0700 Mel Pilgrim list_free...@bluerosetech.com said On 2020-04-16 12:30, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: >> >> >> On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: > >> I would try booting via

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Mel Pilgrim
On 2020-04-16 12:30, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: I would try booting via UEFI if you can.  I just installed a laptop yesterday which has a nvme root device, it was detecte

Re: Issue with gpart "Device Busy"

2020-04-16 Thread ian
Thank you for the advices, however it turns out it was user error.. I swapped the drive in from an apple machine, the new drive took ada0 and my existing drive moved to ada1. I’m just playing with ZFS at the moment and what I didn’t realise is that the system swap was still assigned to ada0p2 b

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 23:06: iDRAC does not allow me to do anything with the drives. But I booted Linux SystemRescueCd and nvme devices are there visible in /dev/ printscreen https://ibb.co/sj22Nwg So I think the HW is OK, but FreeBSD does not recognize the controller? might be in

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Chris
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:57:10 +0200 Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz said Chuck Tuffli wrote on 04/16/2020 22:29: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:30 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: >> >> Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: >>> >>> >>> On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Pete Wright
On 4/16/20 1:57 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Chuck Tuffli wrote on 04/16/2020 22:29: On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:30 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: I

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Chuck Tuffli wrote on 04/16/2020 22:29: On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:30 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: I would try booting via UEFI if you can. I just

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Chuck Tuffli
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:30 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: > > Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: > > > > > > On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > >> Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: > > > I would try booting via UEFI if you can. I just installed a laptop > > y

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Navdeep Parhar wrote on 04/16/2020 21:51: On 4/16/20 12:30 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: I would try booting via UEFI if you can.  I just installed a laptop yesterday w

Re: Issue with gpart "Device Busy"

2020-04-16 Thread Paul Mather
On Apr 15, 2020, at 2:35 PM, i...@dijix.com wrote: I have an issue with gpart, it will not let me delete partition ada0p2 responding with “Device Busy” The man page gpart(8) says this may be shown if a partition exists but I cannot seem to delete partition 2 in my case via gpart delete or gpa

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Navdeep Parhar
On 4/16/20 12:30 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: >> >> >> On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: > >> I would try booting via UEFI if you can.  I just installed a laptop >> yesterday which has a nvme root device,

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Pete Wright wrote on 04/16/2020 20:23: On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: I would try booting via UEFI if you can.  I just installed a laptop yesterday which has a nvme root device, it was detected by the 12-STABLE snapshot I used to boot fr

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 4/16/20 12:23 PM, Pete Wright wrote: I would try booting via UEFI if you can.  I just installed a laptop yesterday which has a nvme root device, it was detected by the 12-STABLE snapshot I used to boot from.  no other modifications were necessary on my end. I can confirm, NVMe drives tend

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Mel Pilgrim
On 2020-04-16 11:12, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: Hi! I was requested to install FreeBSD 11.3 on a new Dell machine with only 2 NVME drives in ZFS mirror. The problem is that installer does not see the drives. Are there any special procedure to use NVME driv

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/16/2020 13:23, Pete Wright wrote: > > > On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >> Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: >>> Hi! >>> I was requested to install FreeBSD 11.3 on a new Dell machine with only 2 NVME drives in ZFS mirror. The problem is that installer does not

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Pete Wright
On 4/16/20 11:12 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: Hi! I was requested to install FreeBSD 11.3 on a new Dell machine with only 2 NVME drives in ZFS mirror. The problem is that installer does not see the drives. Are there any special procedure to use NVME dr

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Kurt Jaeger wrote on 04/16/2020 20:07: Hi! I was requested to install FreeBSD 11.3 on a new Dell machine with only 2 NVME drives in ZFS mirror. The problem is that installer does not see the drives. Are there any special procedure to use NVME drives for installation a later for booting? I use

support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
I was requested to install FreeBSD 11.3 on a new Dell machine with only 2 NVME drives in ZFS mirror. The problem is that installer does not see the drives. Are there any special procedure to use NVME drives for installation a later for booting? Drives are described in iDRAC: Device Descriptio

Re: Issue with gpart "Device Busy"

2020-04-16 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 15.04.2020 um 20:35 schrieb i...@dijix.com: I have an issue with gpart, it will not let me delete partition ada0p2 responding with “Device Busy” The man page gpart(8) says this may be shown if a partition exists but I cannot seem to delete partition 2 in my case via gpart delete or gpart des

Re: What was the intention about "jail -e" in the first place ?

2020-04-16 Thread David Marec
Le 16/04/2020 à 16:22, Eugene Grosbein a écrit : >> But,how was "jail -e" intending to be used, actually ? > > "jail -e" mode is used by periodic/weekly/340.noid script to differentiate parts of mounted file trees > belonging to the host and to the configured full-blown jails, no matter started

Re: What was the intention about "jail -e" in the first place ?

2020-04-16 Thread Eugene Grosbein
16.04.2020 16:31, David Marec wrote: > The manpage and usage output doesn't match. > > The manpage tells us that this option should be used alone on the command > line, as any other command will be discarded. > > The usage ouput does not mention the "-r" flag but "cmr" (with a typo). > > Both

What was the intention about "jail -e" in the first place ?

2020-04-16 Thread David Marec
The manpage and usage output doesn't match. The manpage tells us that this option should be used alone on the command line, as any other command will be discarded. The usage ouput does not mention the "-r" flag but "cmr" (with a typo). Both suggest that the user can request information about

Re: CFT: if_bridge performance improvements

2020-04-16 Thread Kristof Provost
On 16 Apr 2020, at 10:36, Peter Blok wrote: Another issue I found with pf was with "set skip on bridge”. It doesn’t work on the interface group, unless a bridge exists prior to enabling pf. Makes sense, but I didn’t think of it. Other rules work fine with interface groups. I am aware of this

Re: CFT: if_bridge performance improvements

2020-04-16 Thread peter . blok
Hi Mark/Kristof, I have been using ng_bridge for more than a year. It was very stable and it allowed to have members with different MTU. My jails were using jng to setup the bridge and I changed iohyve to use ng_bridge. But I recently switched to if_bridge. I needed to have pf work on a member

Re: CFT: if_bridge performance improvements

2020-04-16 Thread Kristof Provost
Hi Mark, I wouldn’t expect these changes to make a difference in the performance of this setup. My work mostly affects setups with multi-core systems that see a lot of traffic. Even before these changes I’d expect the if_bridge code to saturate a wifi link easily. I also wouldn’t expect ng_b

Re: CFT: if_bridge performance improvements

2020-04-16 Thread Kristof Provost
On 16 Apr 2020, at 8:34, Pavel Timofeev wrote: Hi! Thank you for your work! Do you know if epair suffers from the same issue as tap? I’ve not tested it, but I believe that epair scales significantly better than tap. It has a per-cpu mutex (or more accurately, a mutex in each of its per-cpu str