Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-17 Thread Karl Denninger
i groups" trivial in /etc/rc.conf for attachment at boot time irrespective of whether they physically come up in the same place (again typically yes, but in the case of a failure or you plug it into a different adapter.) -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.

Re: freebsd-update and speed

2021-04-15 Thread Karl Denninger
] Applying patches... done. Fetching 326 files... This does not seem very reassuring to me. :( It already got the others, so it now only has to fetch 326 more. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime

Re: possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

2021-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
On 3/30/2021 12:02, Gary Palmer wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:55:24AM -0400, Karl Denninger wrote: On 3/30/2021 11:22, Guido Falsi via freebsd-stable wrote: On 30/03/21 15:35, tech-lists wrote: Hi, Recently there was https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2021-March/010380

Re: possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

2021-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
freebsd-update and pkg to keep current with security-related items. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

2021-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
d/buildkernel from source.  I can confirm that 12.2-STABLE *does* have the patch as I checked it recently. From a system I cross-build for an updated yesterday: $ uname -v FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE stable/12-n232909-4fd5354e85e KSD-SMP $ openssl version OpenSSL 1.1.1k-freebsd  25 Mar 2021 -- Karl Den

Re: possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

2021-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
ier 1 support can be upgraded by freebsd-update. See https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/index.html for more info. If unsupported, FreeBSD must be upgraded by source. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/

Re: How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

2021-02-26 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/26/2021 10:22, Ed Maste wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 16:57, Karl Denninger wrote: The time (and present items) on a given machine to know whether it is covered by a given advisory under the "svn view of the world" is one command, and no sources. That is, if the advisory say

Re: How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

2021-02-25 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/25/2021 15:56, Warner Losh wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 6:37 AM Karl Denninger <mailto:k...@denninger.net>> wrote: On 2/25/2021 04:30, Olivier Certner wrote: >> Neither command is what I'd call 'intuitive', so it would have taken me a >&

Re: How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

2021-02-25 Thread Karl Denninger
security-related things up to date and something the project should find a way to fix before rolling the next -RELEASE. (Yeah, I know that's almost-certain to not happen but it's not like this issue wasn't known since moving things over to git.) -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

2020-12-23 Thread Karl Denninger
"git stash apply" to the *new* branch, assuming that makes sense to do (e.g. a kernel configuration file, etc.) "Stash" maintains a stack which can be manipulated as well (so a "stash" if you already "stash"ed and did not drop it creates a second on

Re: URGENT: Microsoft overwrites boot loader!

2020-07-16 Thread Karl Denninger
; loaders? Microsoft does this on any of their "Feature" updates.  I managed to figure out how to arrange my EFI setup so that all I have to do is restore the index in the BIOS to point back at REFIND, and everything else is still there. But if you stick the FreeBSD loader wh

Re: 12.1p7 no longer boots after doing zpool upgrade -a

2020-07-09 Thread Karl Denninger
;Windows boots immediately and only", so I have to go back and reset it whenever Microslug looses one of those on me.  If I had cause to update the loader for FreeBSD then I'd just mount the partition and copy it over. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: support of PCIe NVME drives

2020-04-16 Thread Karl Denninger
nvme root device, it was detected by the > 12-STABLE snapshot I used to boot from.  no other modifications were > necessary on my end. > > -pete > Yeah my Lenovo Carbon X1 has an nVME drive in it, and nothing else - 12-Stable found it immediately and works fine. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Running FreeBSD on M.2 SSD

2020-02-25 Thread Karl Denninger
a being comingled on an allocated block with something important; if the read/erase/write cycle interrupts you're cooked as the "other" data that was not being modified gets destroyed too!) -- the Intels are one of the very, very few that have passed it. -- -- Karl Denni

Re: Running FreeBSD on M.2 SSD

2020-02-25 Thread Karl Denninger
in10; it is using Microsoft's "built-in" stuff. Zero problems and I beat on it pretty-heavily. -- -- Karl Denninger /The Market-Ticker/ S/MIME Email accepted and preferred smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: ZFS and power management

2020-01-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On 1/5/2020 16:10, Peter wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:22:16 +0100, Karl Denninger > wrote: > >> I'm curious if anyone has come up with a way to do this... >> >> I have a system here that has two pools -- one comprised of SSD disks >> that are the "mos

ZFS and power management

2019-12-18 Thread Karl Denninger
disks were spun down during 95% of the time the box is up, but with the "standard" way ZFS does things that doesn't appear to be possible. Has anyone taken a crack at changing the paradigm (e.g. using the automounter, perhaps?) to get around this? -- Karl Denninger k...@denninge

Re: Kernel panic in zfs code; 12-STABLE

2019-07-18 Thread Karl Denninger
On 7/18/2019 15:35, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 7/18/2019 15:19, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >> 19.07.2019 3:13, Karl Denninger wrote: >> >>> FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE #2 r349024M: Thu Jun 13 18:01:16 CDT 2019 >>> k...@newfs.denninger.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/K

Re: Kernel panic in zfs code; 12-STABLE

2019-07-18 Thread Karl Denninger
On 7/18/2019 15:19, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 19.07.2019 3:13, Karl Denninger wrote: > >> FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE #2 r349024M: Thu Jun 13 18:01:16 CDT 2019 >> k...@newfs.denninger.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/KSD-SMP >> >> Note -- no patches of any sort in the

Kernel panic in zfs code; 12-STABLE

2019-07-18 Thread Karl Denninger
e should be no "TRIM" attempts to them.  In theory. I have the dump if someone wants me to run anything specific against it in terms of stack frames, etc. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-09 Thread Karl Denninger
On 5/8/2019 19:28, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:28:57AM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: >> If you have pool(s) that are taking *two weeks* to run a scrub IMHO >> either something is badly wrong or you need to rethink organization of >> the pool structure

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-08 Thread Karl Denninger
On 5/8/2019 11:53, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:31 AM Karl Denninger wrote: > >> I have a system here with about the same amount of net storage on it as >> you did. It runs scrubs regularly; none of them take more than 8 hours >> on *any* of the pools.

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-08 Thread Karl Denninger
f *all* copies are destroyed or inconsistent to the degree that they're unusable it's extremely likely that if you do get some sort of "disaster recovery" tool working you're going to find out that what you thought was a metadata problem is really a "you're hosed; the data is also gone" sort of problem. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: ZFS...

2019-05-07 Thread Karl Denninger
#x27;ve never had that happen then consider yourself blessed; it's NOT fun to manage in a UFS environment and often winds up leading to a "restore from backup" scenario.  (To be fair it can be with ZFS too if you're foolish enough to upgrade the pool before being sure you

Re: ZFS...

2019-04-30 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/30/2019 20:59, Michelle Sullivan wrote >> On 01 May 2019, at 11:33, Karl Denninger wrote: >> >>> On 4/30/2019 19:14, Michelle Sullivan wrote: >>> >>> Michelle Sullivan >>> http://www.mhix.org/ >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >

Re: ZFS...

2019-04-30 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/30/2019 19:14, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > > Michelle Sullivan > http://www.mhix.org/ > Sent from my iPad > >> On 01 May 2019, at 01:15, Karl Denninger wrote: >> >> >> IMHO non-ECC memory systems are ok for personal desktop and laptop >> machines

Re: ZFS...

2019-04-30 Thread Karl Denninger
ively do about it either.  This sort of "cheat" is much-more likely to be present in consumer drives than ones sold for either enterprise or NAS purposes and it's quite difficult to accurately test for this sort of thing on an individual basis too. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: ZFS...

2019-04-30 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/30/2019 08:38, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 4/30/2019 03:09, Michelle Sullivan wrote: >>> Consider.. >>> >>> If one triggers such a fault on a production server, how can one >>> justify transferring from backup multiple

Re: ZFS...

2019-04-30 Thread Karl Denninger
aults are and how to design such that a fault which can destroy the data set does not propagate to the redundant copies before it is detected. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: ZFS...

2019-04-30 Thread Karl Denninger
ent but there is no such thing as "can never be corrupted by any set of events."  Backup strategies for moderately large (e.g. many Terabytes) to very large (e.g. Petabytes and beyond) get quite complex but they're also very necessary. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20) [[UPDATE w/more tests]]

2019-04-28 Thread Karl Denninger
removal is attempted. > >     Regards >     Steve > > On 20/04/2019 18:35, Karl Denninger wrote: >> >> On 4/20/2019 10:50, Steven Hartland wrote: >>> Have you eliminated geli as possible source? >> No; I could conceivably do so by re-creating another backup volume >>

Pkg upgrade for 12-STABLE builds in "Latest" broken?

2019-04-26 Thread Karl Denninger
of packages to be upgraded: 1 4 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/dovecot-2.3.5.txz: Not Found [\u@NewFS /home/karl]# -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-20 Thread Karl Denninger
ed? > > Would be interesting to add a zpool scrub to confirm this isn't the > case before the disk removal is attempted. > >     Regards >     Steve > > On 20/04/2019 18:35, Karl Denninger wrote: >> >> On 4/20/2019 10:50, Steven Hartland wrote: >&g

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-20 Thread Karl Denninger
ore going to standby even though it was told to.) > > mps0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem > 0xfaf3c000-0xfaf3,0xfaf4-0xfaf7 irq 26 at device 0.0 on pci3 > mps0: Firmware: 11.00.00.00, Driver: 21.02.00.00-fbsd > mps0: IOCCapabilities: > 185c > >     Regards >     Steve >

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-20 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/13/2019 06:00, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 4/11/2019 13:57, Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 4/11/2019 13:52, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:41 AM Karl Denninger wrote: >>> >>> >>>> In this specific case the adapter in qu

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-13 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/11/2019 13:57, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 4/11/2019 13:52, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:41 AM Karl Denninger wrote: >> >> >>> In this specific case the adapter in question is... >>> >>> mps0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-11 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/11/2019 13:52, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:41 AM Karl Denninger wrote: > > >> In this specific case the adapter in question is... >> >> mps0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem >> 0xfbb3c000-0xfbb3,0xfbb4-0xfbb7 irq 30 at dev

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/10/2019 08:45, Andriy Gapon wrote: > On 10/04/2019 04:09, Karl Denninger wrote: >> Specifically, I *explicitly* OFFLINE the disk in question, which is a >> controlled operation and *should* result in a cache flush out of the ZFS >> code into the drive before it is OFFLINE

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-09 Thread Karl Denninger
a small amount of bad data. > 32 k or 40k or somesuch. In my cranial schema of things, I've chalked it > up to out-of-order writing of the drives ... or other such behavior s.t. > ZFS doesn't know exactly what has been written. I've often wondered if the > fix would be to

Re: Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-09 Thread Karl Denninger
On 4/9/2019 15:04, Andriy Gapon wrote: > On 09/04/2019 22:01, Karl Denninger wrote: >> the resilver JUST COMPLETED with no errors which means the ENTIRE DISK'S >> IN USE AREA was examined, compared, and blocks not on the "new member" >> or changed copied over

Concern: ZFS Mirror issues (12.STABLE and firmware 19 .v. 20)

2019-04-09 Thread Karl Denninger
strongly urged to flash the card forward to 20.00.07.00 before upgrading or installing.  If you get a surprise of this sort and have no second copy that is not impacted you could find yourself severely hosed. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Observations from a ZFS reorganization on 12-STABLE

2019-03-18 Thread Karl Denninger
ed out issues as there's a risk of severe pathological behavior arising that's worse than the original problem. 11.1 and before (I didn't have enough operational experience with 11.2 to know, as I went to 12.x from mostly-11.1 installs around here) were essentially unusable in my workloa

Re: Observations from a ZFS reorganization on 12-STABLE

2019-03-18 Thread Karl Denninger
the point that I was getting "stalls" that in some cases went on for 10 or more seconds due to things like your shell being evicted to swap to make room for arc, which is flat-out nuts.  That, at least, doesn't appear to be a problem with 12. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Observations from a ZFS reorganization on 12-STABLE

2019-03-17 Thread Karl Denninger
it for my workloads with everything "running normally" has materially decreased with 12.x. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Coffee Lake Xeons...

2019-02-18 Thread Karl Denninger
ere Xeon board.  The goal is to gain CPU, memory and I/O bandwidth (collectively "performance"), keep forward optionality for network performance improvements while materially reducing power consumption/./ -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Mar

Re: Binary update to -STABLE? And if so, what do I get?

2019-02-13 Thread Karl Denninger
fix included or > 12.1 is released, or you fetch the source with the fix included, > and build from source. Got it -- thanks.  Wait it shall be. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Binary update to -STABLE? And if so, what do I get?

2019-02-13 Thread Karl Denninger
The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: kernel/generic-dbg world/base-dbg world/doc world/lib32-dbg Does this look reasonable (y/n)? -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: 11.2-STABLE kernel wired memory leak

2019-02-13 Thread Karl Denninger
158,072,832    284,950,528 535,584,768    zio_buf_512 255,641,088    279,943,680 713,552,840    dnode_t     373,756,656    339,796,184 3,849,744,384  abd_chunk   3,848,310,784  1,433,600 8,418,769,848  TOTAL   6,459,507,936  1,959,261,912 So far running 12-STABLE "neat" is behaving well for me -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: 11.2-STABLE kernel wired memory leak

2019-02-12 Thread Karl Denninger
e one later" therefore prioritizing taking two *definite* disk I/Os or one definite I/O now and one possible one later instead of one *possible* disk I/O later is always a net lose -- and thus IMHO substantial effort should be made to avoid doing that. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.

Re: Oddball error from "batch"

2019-02-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/10/2019 16:01, Karl Denninger wrote: > Note -- working fine on 11.1 and 11.2, upgraded machine to 12.0-STABLE > and everything is ok that I'm aware of *except*. > > # batch > who > df > ^D > > Job 170 will be executed using /bin/sh > > Then the time c

Oddball error from "batch"

2019-02-10 Thread Karl Denninger
a24c3 After the error the file isn't there.  It was removed (as one would expect when the job is complete.) What the blankety-blank?! -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Des

Re: Geli prompts on gptzfsboot (Was:: Serious ZFS Bootcode Problem (GPT NON-UEFI -- RESOLVED)

2019-02-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/10/2019 12:40, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2019-02-10 at 12:35 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 2/10/2019 12:01, Ian Lepore wrote: >>> On Sun, 2019-02-10 at 11:54 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: >>>> On 2/10/2019 11:50, Ian Lepore wrote: >>>>> On S

Re: Geli prompts on gptzfsboot (Was:: Serious ZFS Bootcode Problem (GPT NON-UEFI -- RESOLVED)

2019-02-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/10/2019 12:01, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2019-02-10 at 11:54 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 2/10/2019 11:50, Ian Lepore wrote: >>> On Sun, 2019-02-10 at 11:37 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: >>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> BTW am I

Re: Fwd: Serious ZFS Bootcode Problem (GPT NON-UEFI)

2019-02-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/10/2019 11:50, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2019-02-10 at 11:37 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 2/10/2019 09:28, Allan Jude wrote: >>> Are you sure it is non-UEFI? As the instructions you followed, >>> overwriting da0p1 with gptzfsboot, will make quite a mess if

Re: Fwd: Serious ZFS Bootcode Problem (GPT NON-UEFI)

2019-02-10 Thread Karl Denninger
sboot did *not* get the ability to read geli-encrypted pools in 12.0?  The UEFI loader does know how (which I'm using on my laptop) but I was under the impression that for non-UEFI systems you still needed the unencrypted boot partition from which to load the kernel. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Serious ZFS Bootcode Problem (GPT NON-UEFI)

2019-02-09 Thread Karl Denninger
s me anything that's more-sane, but right now this looks pretty bad. BTW just to be absolutely sure I blew away the entire /usr/obj directory and rebuilt -- same size and checksum on the binary that I have installed, so. Not sure what's going on here -- did something get moved

Re: 9211 (LSI/SAS) issues on 11.2-STABLE

2019-02-06 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/6/2019 09:18, Borja Marcos wrote: >> On 5 Feb 2019, at 23:49, Karl Denninger wrote: >> >> BTW under 12.0-STABLE (built this afternoon after the advisories came >> out, with the patches) it's MUCH worse. I get the same device resets >> BUT it's follo

Re: 9211 (LSI/SAS) issues on 11.2-STABLE

2019-02-05 Thread Karl Denninger
see if I can obtain a proper crash dump on this. I think it's fair to assume that 12.0-STABLE should not panic on a disk problem (unless of course the problem is trying to page something back in -- it's not, the drive that aborts and resets is on a data pack doing a scrub) On 2/5/20

Re: 9211 (LSI/SAS) issues on 11.2-STABLE

2019-02-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/5/2019 09:22, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 2/2/2019 12:02, Karl Denninger wrote: >> I recently started having some really oddball things  happening under >> stress.  This coincided with the machine being updated to 11.2-STABLE >> (FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE #1 r342918:) from 11.

Re: 9211 (LSI/SAS) issues on 11.2-STABLE

2019-02-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/2/2019 12:02, Karl Denninger wrote: > I recently started having some really oddball things  happening under > stress.  This coincided with the machine being updated to 11.2-STABLE > (FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE #1 r342918:) from 11.1. > > Specifically, I get "errors" lik

9211 (LSI/SAS) issues on 11.2-STABLE

2019-02-02 Thread Karl Denninger
eset and detach within a few minutes by running scrubs so if there are things I can try (I have a sandbox machine with the same hardware in it that won't make me cry much if I blow it up) that would great. Thanks! -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net&g

Re: Not sure if this is the correct place.... (laptop, dual-boot EFI)

2019-01-27 Thread Karl Denninger
lps others.  It runs very nicely on 12-RELEASE -- the only thing I've noted thus far is the expected lack of 5g WiFi support. On 1/26/2019 15:04, Karl Denninger wrote: > Nevermind! > > I set the "-g" flag on the provider and voila.  Up she comes; the > loader figu

Re: Not sure if this is the correct place.... (laptop, dual-boot EFI)

2019-01-26 Thread Karl Denninger
with the system.")  Maybe this will be a nothingburger too (which would be great if true.) I'm going to write this one up when I've got it all solid and post it on my blog; hopefully it will help others. On 1/26/2019 14:26, Karl Denninger wrote: >  1/26/2019 14:10, Warner L

Re: Not sure if this is the correct place.... (laptop, dual-boot EFI)

2019-01-26 Thread Karl Denninger
 1/26/2019 14:10, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 1:01 PM Karl Denninger <mailto:k...@denninger.net>> wrote: > > Further question  does boot1.efi (which I assume has to be > placed on > the EFI partition and then something like rEFInd

Re: Not sure if this is the correct place.... (laptop, dual-boot EFI)

2019-01-26 Thread Karl Denninger
support on the 6th gen Carbon, it'd be great to > hear how it goes. > > Have fun! > > Kamila > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, 06:54 Kyle Evans, wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:30 PM Jonathan Chen wrote: >>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 13:00, Karl Denninger wrote:

Not sure if this is the correct place.... (laptop, dual-boot EFI)

2019-01-25 Thread Karl Denninger
Carbon Gen 6 is listed as working in the laptop database. Thanks in advance! -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

11.2-STABLE and MMC problems on pcEngines apu2c0

2018-12-10 Thread Karl Denninger
c fe80:2::396c:673e:9cf:ba21, dst 2600:1402:16::17db:a212, nxt 6, rcvif igb1, outif igb0 cannot forward src fe80:2::396c:673e:9cf:ba21, dst 2600:1402:16::17db:a212, nxt 6, rcvif igb1, outif igb0 cannot forward src fe80:2::396c:673e:9cf:ba21, dst 2600:1402:16::17db:a212, nxt 6, rcvif igb1, outif igb0 ca

Re: Random freezes of my FreeBSD droplet (DigitalOcean)

2017-11-22 Thread Karl Denninger
;> >> It's entirely possible to run a stable VM using that configuration so you >> haven't provided enough details to give any real help. A common foot >> shooting method is putting swap on zvol, but the possibilities are endless. >> >> -- >> Adam

Re: Installing amd64 FreeBSD 11.1 in dual-boot with Windows 7 on an MBR partitioned disk

2017-10-07 Thread Karl Denninger
full, from-scratch reload) you run the risk of it declaring your license invalid!  You can /probably /get around that by getting in touch with Microsoft but why do so without good reason? -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Installing amd64 FreeBSD 11.1 in dual-boot with Windows 7 on an MBR partitioned disk

2017-10-07 Thread Karl Denninger
, but I suspect it's a fairly uncommon set of circumstances.  Far more troublesome in the EFI world is the fact that "out-of-the-box" multi-boot in an EFI environment is a five-alarm pain in the butt although there are EFI boot managers that make it reasonable. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Installing amd64 FreeBSD 11.1 in dual-boot with Windows 7 on an MBR partitioned disk

2017-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
On 10/6/2017 10:42, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 10/6/2017 10:17, Rostislav Krasny wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I try to install amd64 FreeBSD 11.1 in dual-boot with Windows 7 on an >> MBR partitioned disk and I can't make it bootable. My Windows 7 uses >> i

Re: Installing amd64 FreeBSD 11.1 in dual-boot with Windows 7 on an MBR partitioned disk

2017-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
partition and, on most machines, a "recovery" partition.  That usually leaves partition 3 free which is where I stuck FreeBSD.   Note that you must then set up slices on Partition 3 (e.g. root/usr/swap) as usual. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The M

Re: issues with powerd/freq_levels

2017-08-02 Thread Karl Denninger
MHz load 4%, current freq 600 MHz ( 2), wanted freq 600 MHz load 0%, current freq 600 MHz ( 2), wanted freq 600 MHz load 14%, current freq 600 MHz ( 2), wanted freq 600 MHz dev.cpu.3.temperature: 58.5C dev.cpu.2.temperature: 58.5C dev.cpu.1.temperature: 58.5C dev.cpu.0.temperature: 58.5

Re: issues with powerd/freq_levels

2017-08-01 Thread Karl Denninger
i controller), or external USB. 1 SATA + power connector. * 12V DC, about 6 to 12W depending on CPU load. Jack = 2.5 mm, center positive * Connectivity: 2 or 3 Gigabit Ethernet channels (Intel i211AT on apu2b2, i210AT on apu2b4) * I/O: DB9 serial port, 2 USB 3.0 external + + 2 USB 2.

Re: issues with powerd/freq_levels

2017-07-31 Thread Karl Denninger
1.cx_usage: 100.00% last 29us dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C2 dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/1/0 dev.cpu.0.cx_method: C1/hlt C2/io dev.cpu.0.cx_usage_counters: 2261916773 3038 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 99.99% 0.00% last 378us dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C2 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/1/0 C2/2/400 These are fanless, 4-core devices that are pretty cool -- they've got AES instructions in them and thus make very nice VPN gateways running something like Strongswan, and come with either 2 or 3 gigabit interfaces on the board. Oh, and they run on 12V. Powerd is logging this, however... hwpstate0: set freq failed, err 6 hwpstate0: set freq failed, err 6 H -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Interesting permissions difference on NanoBSD build

2017-06-16 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/16/2017 09:55, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 6/16/2017 08:21, Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 6/16/2017 07:52, Guido Falsi wrote: >>> On 06/16/17 14:25, Karl Denninger wrote: >>>> I've recently started playing with the "base" NanoBSD script

Re: Interesting permissions difference on NanoBSD build

2017-06-16 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/16/2017 08:21, Karl Denninger wrote: > On 6/16/2017 07:52, Guido Falsi wrote: >> On 06/16/17 14:25, Karl Denninger wrote: >>> I've recently started playing with the "base" NanoBSD scripts and have >>> run into an interesting issue. >> [...] >

Re: Interesting permissions difference on NanoBSD build

2017-06-16 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/16/2017 07:52, Guido Falsi wrote: > On 06/16/17 14:25, Karl Denninger wrote: >> I've recently started playing with the "base" NanoBSD scripts and have >> run into an interesting issue. > [...] >> Note the missing "r" bit for "other" i

Interesting permissions difference on NanoBSD build

2017-06-16 Thread Karl Denninger
NanoBSD build you wind up with some "interesting" behavior when that user logs in! I'm assuming this is unintentional but wondering where it comes from (and whether it needs / should be fixed); it's easy to fix it, of course, once the embedded system boots but you need to (obvio

Re: FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0 r286666: Panic and crash

2017-02-06 Thread Karl Denninger
it is. This one has bit me with sd cards in small embedded-style machines (where turning off softupdates makes things VERY slow) and at some point I may look into developing a patch to forcibly-detach the volume instead. That obviously won't help you if the system volume is the one the err

Re: Ugh -- attempted to update this morning, and got a nasty panic in ZFS....

2017-01-11 Thread Karl Denninger
A second attempt to come up on the new kernel was successful -- so this had to be due to queued I/Os that were pending at the time of the shutdown On 1/11/2017 08:31, Karl Denninger wrote: > During the reboot, immediately after the daemons started up on the > machine (the boot got

Ugh -- attempted to update this morning, and got a nasty panic in ZFS....

2017-01-11 Thread Karl Denninger
would be of help. The prompt to do this in the first place was the openssh CVE that was recently issued. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Repeatable panic on ZFS filesystem (used for backups); 11.0-STABLE

2016-11-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On 10/17/2016 18:32, Steven Hartland wrote: > > On 17/10/2016 22:50, Karl Denninger wrote: >> I will make some effort on the sandbox machine to see if I can come up >> with a way to replicate this. I do have plenty of spare larger drives >> laying around that used t

Re: Repeatable panic on ZFS filesystem (used for backups); 11.0-STABLE

2016-10-18 Thread Karl Denninger
On 10/17/2016 18:32, Steven Hartland wrote: > > > On 17/10/2016 22:50, Karl Denninger wrote: >> I will make some effort on the sandbox machine to see if I can come up >> with a way to replicate this. I do have plenty of spare larger drives >> laying around that use

Re: Repeatable panic on ZFS filesystem (used for backups); 11.0-STABLE

2016-10-17 Thread Karl Denninger
r I'm reticent to spend any real time on it. What's in-process in this regard, if you happen to have a reference? On 10/17/2016 16:40, Steven Hartland wrote: > Setting those values will only effect what's queued to the device not > what's actually outstanding. > > On 17

Re: Repeatable panic on ZFS filesystem (used for backups); 11.0-STABLE

2016-10-17 Thread Karl Denninger
basis down quite-dramatically did *not* prevent it from happening -- and if it was simply stack depth related I would have expected that to put a stop to it. On 10/17/2016 15:16, Steven Hartland wrote: > Be good to confirm its not an infinite loop by giving it a good bump > first. > >

Re: Repeatable panic on ZFS filesystem (used for backups); 11.0-STABLE

2016-10-17 Thread Karl Denninger
ot/loader.conf > kern.kstack_pages="6" > > Default on amd64 is 4 IIRC > > On 17/10/2016 19:08, Karl Denninger wrote: >> The target (and devices that trigger this) are a pair of 4Gb 7200RPM >> SATA rotating rust drives (zmirror) with each provider geli-encrypted >>

Re: Repeatable panic on ZFS filesystem (used for backups); 11.0-STABLE

2016-10-17 Thread Karl Denninger
one" On 10/17/2016 12:43, Warner Losh wrote: > what's your underlying media? > > Warner > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Karl Denninger wrote: >> Update from my test system: >> >> Setting vfs.zfs.vdev_trim_max_active to 10 (from default

Re: Repeatable panic on ZFS filesystem (used for backups); 11.0-STABLE

2016-10-17 Thread Karl Denninger
actually mount it without the machine blowing up!) is fine. THIS (OBVIOUSLY) NEEDS ATTENTION! On 10/17/2016 09:17, Karl Denninger wrote: > This is a situation I've had happen before, and reported -- it appeared > to be a kernel stack overflow, and it has gotten materially worse on > 11.0-S

Repeatable panic on ZFS filesystem (used for backups); 11.0-STABLE

2016-10-17 Thread Karl Denninger
ception.S:611 #201 0x in ?? () Current language: auto; currently minimal (kgdb) -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Errata notice for 11.0 -- question

2016-10-15 Thread Karl Denninger
2. Should I take this machine down immediately to reboot it with vm.pmap.pcid_enabled=0 in /boot/loader.conf? A svn log perusal didn't see anything post the errata date that appears to be related which makes me wonder. Thanks in advance! -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.n

Re: FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 regression with regard to mouse integration in VirtualBox 5.1.4

2016-08-23 Thread Karl Denninger
bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211884 -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Delay with 11.0-RC2 builds

2016-08-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On 8/22/2016 23:01, Glen Barber wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:53:06PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 8/22/2016 22:43, Glen Barber wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:30:24PM +, Glen Barber wrote: >>>> Two issues have been brought to our attent

Re: Delay with 11.0-RC2 builds

2016-08-22 Thread Karl Denninger
that this impacts a system that is booting and needs manual intervention, which is not a good place to a have a problem https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211884 -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Very odd behavior with RC2

2016-08-15 Thread Karl Denninger
On 8/15/2016 15:52, Karl Denninger wrote: > FreeBSD 11.0-PRERELEASE #2 r304166: Mon Aug 15 13:17:09 CDT 2016 > k...@newfs.denninger.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KSD-SMP > > Symptoms: > > This machine is on a SuperMicro board with the integrated KVM. > > After updating t

Very odd behavior with RC2

2016-08-15 Thread Karl Denninger
detach and reattach of the virtual keyboard to the system, and it would then work. Just a heads-up as this was wildly unexpected and needless to say caused me quite a bit of heartburn trying to perform the upgrade and mergemaster! -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.

Re: Postfix and tcpwrappers?

2016-07-25 Thread Karl Denninger
On 7/25/2016 14:48, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > On 25-7-2016 19:32, Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 7/25/2016 12:04, Ronald Klop wrote: >>> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:48:25 +0200, Karl Denninger >>> wrote: >>> >>>> This may not belong in "stable&qu

Re: Postfix and tcpwrappers?

2016-07-25 Thread Karl Denninger
ead so I switched over to that. I was rather curious, however, if/why postfix wasn't integrated with the hosts.allow file as are many other system services (or if I just missed the config option to turn it on) since it's offered by FreeBSD as a "stock sendmail replacement"

Re: Postfix and tcpwrappers?

2016-07-25 Thread Karl Denninger
On 7/25/2016 12:04, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:48:25 +0200, Karl Denninger > wrote: > >> This may not belong in "stable", but since Postfix is one of the >> high-performance alternatives to sendmail >> >> Question is this -- I have s

Postfix and tcpwrappers?

2016-07-25 Thread Karl Denninger
it is not linked with the tcp wrappers. A quick look at the config for postfix doesn't disclose an obvious configuration solutiondid I miss it? -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ smime.p7

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