SOLVED (was: re0 died last night; here's how I half-revived it)

Jun 9, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: I have a FreeBSD 8-STABLE system that's been running stably since I last upgraded and rebooted on May 8. Yesterday, I updated /usr/src to get ZFS v28 and also seem to have gotten rid of my nice, solid re0 network interface: re0: port 0xb

re0 died last night; here's how I half-revived it

I have a FreeBSD 8-STABLE system that's been running stably since I last upgraded and rebooted on May 8. Yesterday, I updated /usr/src to get ZFS v28 and also seem to have gotten rid of my nice, solid re0 network interface: re0: port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xea21-0xea210fff,0xea20-0xe

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

;s probably the best alternative. Again, I could see that being used for a lot of things. It would be a nice general solution that wouldn't touch any (or very little) non-FreeBSD code. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

ually the easy part. From the scripts I downloaded at the link in the original post, I have that running in production on my system today. There's also an auto-scrub script: http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/new_opensolaris_zfs_auto_scrub Tha

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

rstand that it comes down to a philosophical difference, but I dislike the idea of every subsystem implementing similar logic instead of having it done once (and well) as a system-wide feature. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

pruning is enabled but not configured." exit 2 fi for filesystem in $filesystems ; do zfs list -H -o name -t snapshot | grep -E "^ $filesystem@(hourly|daily|weekly|monthly)" | xargs -n1 zfs destroy d

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

filled up to destroy your precious snapshots :-) Very true, but I don't mind if it destroys the ones I told it that I don't care about anymore. :-) -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

te and destroy your own snapshots as needed, but the OS would manage these on its own. Again, this is how I would handle it in a vacuum if I didn't know or care how anyone else wanted to use it. Still, I think those might be reasonable assumptions. -- Kirk Strauser __

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

dea was to keep as much as possible out of the kernel so that it wouldn't add additional complexity for people who don't use it (but it certainly wouldn't offend me any to find it in there :-) ). -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

ot;4 hours ago" snapshot, then reboot. Voila! It never happened. Accidentally deleted /etc/passwd? Retrieve the version from /.zfs/snapshot/weekly-2010-21/etc/passwd . Just realized that you deleted an important file 3 months ago and only keep 2 weeks worth of backups? No problem, as long as

Re: Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

ainly an option, and easy to implement in a shell script. It just wouldn't work in the case where a bunch of data comes in between runs of that script, and that's why I wanted something lower- level. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-sta

Make ZFS auto-destroy snapshots when the out of space?

I found some nice scripts to regularly snapshot all the filesystems in my ZFS pool at http://www.neces.com/blog/technology/integrating-freebsd-zfs-and-periodic-snapshots-and-scrubs . One thing bothers me, though: I have to intentionally set how many months' worth of snapshots I want to keep. To

Re: ZFS isntall requirements

) > ===> sys/boot/i386/loader (install) > make: don't know how to make > /usr/obj/mnt4/usr/src7/src/tmp/usr/lib/libzfs.a. Stop ISTR that the build was temporarily broken several days ago. Have you csup'ed your src very recently? -- Kirk Strauser ___

Re: ZFS MFC heads up

. Making a clone doesn't exactly do the same thing.. FWIW, I love sysutils/ezjail. It uses nullfs to mount many jails on top of the same read-only base system, and provides a way ("ezjail-admin update -i") to upgrade that base system with

Re: ZFS MFC heads down

On Wednesday 20 May 2009 06:43:13 pm Kip Macy wrote: > The MFC went in r192498. Please let me know if you have any problems. So far so good here (amd64, Core2 Duo, ICH9 SATA) but I'm too chicken to upgrade the on-disk format yet. -- Kirk

Re: maximum mmap()

ith it? :-) -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: [FreeBSD] Fix for ServerWorks HT1000 in upcoming 7.1?

ptime of 101 days with moderately heavy load. -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: share/dict/freebsd - installathon

on't mind it, then I'm not sure why you were asking. -- Kirk Strauser pgpsRZ31wl7PY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts

s is a known bug in the drivers (i.e. nvidia is aware > of the problem)? Not a clue. I just figured it out and have been stress testing since then. -- Kirk Strauser pgpcNfvf15HHI.pgp Description: PGP signature

nvidia-driver-1.0.8776 was giving me READ_DMA timeouts

as stable as Windows ME on an overclocked Cyrix. I'm posting this here mainly for the benefit of anyone else who might be having similar problems. -- Kirk Strauser pgpXUC6NzDlPr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

aster than PostgreSQL would be). -- Kirk Strauser pgpM59fWmS0aK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

rive can remap a pretty large number internally, but once that pool is exhausted (and the number of errors is still growing exponentially), there's not a lot of life left. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.

Re: Please confirm: top(1) cpu time broken on FreeBSD 6.1 (RELEASE/STABLE) SMP ?

not every one present. -- Kirk Strauser pgpyrRAkt67B2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Ports via CVS?

, do you use CVS to synchronize your ports tree with FreeBSD's copy, and if so, why not cvsup or portsnap instead? I also use rsync to lock multiple machines on my LAN to a "master" ports and src server - something you might consider if you're using CVS to manage lo

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

ack is to increasing it, or why it was so low in the first place. For that matter, why does this stuff have to be manually configured? Couldn't the kernel automatically expand a lot of these numbers as needed? -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-stab

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 16:19, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > I meant 'kern.ipc.shmall', which used to be 'kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs'. :-( That did it! Bumping kern.ipc.shmall to 65536 got me back up and running with enough shared_memory to get my jobs

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

eally* like to find is an explanation of how to set those numbers. I'm using a single Xeon with 3GB of RAM and have no idea how high to set those, or whether a particular value is too high. Then again, once I figure it out I guess I should have a fair a

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

y kernel config file) changed between the previous reboot and the one that installed 6.1. At any rate, the kern.ipc.shmmax is much, much greater than the 64MB that I'd been using before for shared_buffers (8192 buffers * 8 KB/buffer). -- Kirk Strauser _

PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

s behavior when upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1? Any ideas for a fix? I apologize for not having a logfiles, but I was pretty much in a panic to get it back up and running ASAP and didn't think about it until it was too late. -- Kirk Strauser ___ free

Re: make.conf for 6.0

er than attempting to hand-update the old copy. -- Kirk Strauser pgpKEpteMnBLy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RSS feeds for UPDATINGs

On Thursday 23 June 2005 04:57, Alex Kapranoff wrote: > If anyone is interested, he(she) can now use my home-grown rss 2.0 feeds. > They are synced to CVS once a day. Thank you, thank you, thank you! That's an excellent idea, and pretty obvious in retrospect. -- Ki

Re: New Server - To 5.x or Not To 5.x

s/distfiles read-only from another server via smbfs. Then, I use unionfs to mount /usr/ports/localdistfiles above /usr/ports/distfiles. This is hardly in the same league as running a database or mailserver through unionfs, but it certainly seems stable enough for my limited needs. -- Ki

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

through the hard parts. Thanks again, -- Kirk Strauser pgpdqSojuEGWD.pgp Description: PGP signature

OT: Postmaster

Please don't send mailing list messages to postmaster. Many of us filter that as a magic address and therefore find spurious messages outside of where they're supposed to be. Thanks! pgpaIASkkjKSU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

lity 800 +Timecounter "TSC" frequency 334093741 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec lo0: bpf attached ata0-master: pio=0x0c wdma=0x22 udma=0x44 cable=80pin Any other ideas of what I might try? The draw of the Gentoo is strengthening, but I really don't want to go

Re: cron stops silently

is btw). Me too -- Kirk Strauser pgpLsKczivuH1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

. Pardon my ignorance, but should I be somehow requesting that my cbb device get bound to IRQ 11 instead of 10? There's no line containing "cbb" in /boot/device.hints; should I add one? -- Kirk Strauser pgpvNLWdUrcKr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

1 0 irq8: rtc 96004127 irq13: npx01 0 irq14: ata0 2777 3 irq15: ata1 50 0 Total 175014233 -- Kirk

wi0 is always status: no carrier

s network. I can see plenty of traffic from the other machines, but absolutely nothing from the laptop. My /boot/loader.conf looks like: hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" hint.apic.0.disabled="1" hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd800 Is there something else I'm blatantly missing? -- Kirk Strauser pgp9kYEVrUpMN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

BUGS This does not work at all at the moment. I'll give it a shot anyway, though, and pray for out-of-date man pages. :-) -- Kirk Strauser pgphrMwiFdebe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

ted (as it would do under NetBSD and Linux when it's being probed). In fact, I get no debugging information at all, whether from /var/log/messages or via dmesg. Any ideas where I could go from here? -- Kirk Strauser pgpzjrRmiDCkK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 04:15 pm, Warner Losh wrote: > On Monday 09 May 2005 09:42, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> Anyone? I've just re-installed NetBSD 2.0.2 for the sake of having a BSD >> on it until I can possibly make FreeBSD to work, but that's certainly not >>

Re: Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

On Monday 09 May 2005 09:42, Kirk Strauser wrote: > The same setup can boot NetBSD and Linux to get full use of the card by > disabling the Cardbus drivers in favor of the PCMCIA ones (ie, by running > "config" on NetBSD and typing "disable cbb", or by building a c

Use PCMCIA instead of CardBus?

appropriate settings). I can't seem to get the same results from FreeBSD, though. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser pgpIP7IKFd6uL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

s, so you can use extra optimizations on it that depend on adherence to those rules". -- Kirk Strauser pgpvgmP4PacCR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

the OpenSSL benchmarks. -- Kirk Strauser pgpZr2iHTkB9h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 4.x can't read 5.x dump?

d expect your security framework to still be intact - at least not without *lots* of warnings. -- Kirk Strauser pgpPgmSMhN3Us.pgp Description: PGP signature

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Re: v6 in tonight's cvsup

At 2003-09-02T03:04:16Z, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hosts with v6 enabled get lock-ups. Oh dear. My car and my wife's minivan both have v-6es. Should I be worried? > but two of them got very very net soggy. That's a new one. -- Kirk Strauser pgp

Re: /var error

nt chance of identifying the file in question, which > is problematic when it doesn't have a name OK, I can live with that. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with telnet

eal with Kerberos, you should permanently lose telnet. Seriously. SSH does everything telnet will and doesn't have the gaping security hole of transferring plaintext data across a network. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: If you shop on the internet, please read this,,, then forward.

ithout their written > permission? Happy Holidays! I have mixed feelings about that one. First, I hate spam as much as (or more than) the next guy. Still, at least this guy wasn't trying to sell anything, and he seemed to be honest about the whole deal. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, e

Re: Do VIA 83C572 USB controllers suck or is it just me?

lems. I may be extremely lucky, but that wouldn't fit with my other life experiences. :) -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message