Re: NFSv4 - how to set up at FreeBSD 8.1 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Freddie Cash
0/24 Never tried it with the V4: line anywhere but at the end of the file. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: geom_label, fstab without device names & swap partition?

2011-01-12 Thread Freddie Cash
uot;/dev/ad0s1b" whatever name it has now? Use glabel(8) to label the device: # glabel label swap ada0s1b Then point to the label in /etc/fstab: /dev/label/swapswap sw ... -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: geom_label, fstab without device names & swap partition?

2011-01-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Mark Saad wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: >> 2011/1/12 Lev Serebryakov : >>>  Now, with "newfs -L name", geom_label and /dev/ufs/* it is possible >>> to not use device names for FSes in "/

Re: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not?

2011-01-13 Thread Freddie Cash
quot; "checksum"; action "logger -p kern.warn 'ZFS: checksum mismatch, zpool=$pool path=$vdev_path offset=$zio_offset size=$zio_size'"; }; So it's very (relatively) easy to configure devd to do this. We just need some scripts to plug into the action lines above. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: Living on gmirror: need to reincarnate /etc/rc.early

2011-01-25 Thread Freddie Cash
the phone to somebody who > would prefer to play^H^H^H do something else instead. Hrm, sounds like a need for an /etc/rc.d/modules, configured to run at a suitably early time in the rcorder. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@f

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Freddie Cash
ross them, then you will be limited to a single links bandwidth. But you will be extremely safe. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: 8.2-RELEASE - gmirror and gpart issue. Metadata overlap?

2011-02-28 Thread Freddie Cash
the same as partitioning a disk (ad0), and then newfs-ing the disk (ad0), and wondering where your partitions went. :) (I believe option 1 above is what's causing issues in this thread.) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-

Re: About "panic: bufwrite: buffer is not busy???"

2011-03-08 Thread Freddie Cash
ery other time I start hastd. hastd creates the 12 GEOM providers used to create a ZFS pool. A simple "service hastd onestart" will generate the panic. Is there any extra info that needed to help track this down? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-24 Thread Freddie Cash
faith in my abilities here. :( Or point out where I'm doing things wrong so I can correct the issues. Thanks. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Freddie Cash
ttings into /etc/rc.conf like so: cloned_interfaces="lagg0" ifconfig_em0="up" ifconfig_em1="up" ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto round-robin laggport em0 laggport em1 inet 192.168.0.1/24" Change laggproto to suit your needs. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Rumen Telbizov wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Denny Schierz wrote: >> > So, how complicated is load balancing with two Gb Network cards? :-) Ok, >> > that should be a

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:36:32PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: >> I've tried with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, 8-STABLE, 8-STABLE w/ZFSv28 >> patches, and 9-CURRENT (after the ZFSv28 commit).  Things work well >>

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Freddie Cash
o install a small, write-optimised, SLC-based SSD to the system as a separate log (SLOG/ZIL) device. NFS is a very sync-heavy protocol, and having a super-fast ZIL sitting on a separate SSD will greatly improve things. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com __

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:52:08 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote: > >  FC> hastd backtrace is here: >  FC> http://www.sd73.bc.ca/downloads/crash/hast-backtrace.png > > It is not a hastd crash, but a kernel crash triggered

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-01 Thread Freddie Cash
t under 2 TB of deduped data in the pool, without any lockups. So far, so good. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-04 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:36:32PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: >> [Not sure which list is most appropriate since it's using HAST + ZFS >> on -RELEASE, -STABLE, and -CURRENT.  Feel free to trim the CC: on >> re

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-05 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:08:16 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote: > >  FC> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek > wrote: >  >> >  >> I just committed a fix for a problem that might look like a deadlock.

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:08:16 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote: >  FC> Once the deadlock patches above are MFC'd to -STABLE, I can do an >  FC> upgrade cycle and test them. > > Committed to STABLE. Updated src tree to

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Freddie Cash
nding on the motherboard, it may even include support for keyboard/video/mouse redirection and serial-over-lan and all that other remote management stuff. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Freddie Cash
d to document it here. Let me know if there's anything incorrect. https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22125 -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stab

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Edho P Arief wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Daniel Kalchev wrote: >> >> >> On 28.04.11 01:30, Freddie Cash wrote: >>> >>> gmirror doesn't touch the start of the disk, but saves it's metadata >>&

Re: PCIe SATA HBA for ZFS on -STABLE

2011-05-31 Thread Freddie Cash
hey are only ~$120 CDN at places like cdw.ca and newegg.ca. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: PCIe SATA HBA for ZFS on -STABLE

2011-06-01 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:34 PM, TJ Varghese wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> > What do people recommend for 8-STABLE as a PCIe SATA II HBA for someone >> > using

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-25 Thread Freddie Cash
under $300 CDN, you really can't do much better. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: running newsyslog fiveminly

2011-07-31 Thread Freddie Cash
ll wants to process my file at 00:05 despite @T > time specification. Is it broken? > > Eugene Grosbein > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: How to update like Debian

2011-09-29 Thread Freddie Cash
"rm -rf /usr/ports/*"). That's about as close to a Debian-like experience as you'll get. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: 8.1 xl + dual-speed Netgear hub = yoyo

2011-10-24 Thread Freddie Cash
connections and 100 Mbps connection (dual meaning two). ;) 3Com OfficeConnect hubs are all labelled "dual-speed". With the advent of switches, the "dual-speed" moniker was pretty much universally dropped in favour of just listing th

r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-02 Thread Freddie Cash
c.conf and rebuilding world gives the same error. And, running "make -DNONE_CIPHER_ENABLED all install" under /usr/src/secure/usr.bin/ssh/ also gives the same error. What am I missing? What's the magic incantation to add the None cipher to base ssh? -- Fredd

Re: r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-02 Thread Freddie Cash
I missed the mention of CFLAGS in the commit message, which is why it wasn't working for me. :) I'm going to go with over-excitement due to too much coffee for this one. :) I'm testing out the make.conf snippet you posted now. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___

Re: r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-05 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:57:48PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > > Looking through the commit messages for stable/8 and stable/9 I noticed > > that the HPN patches were applied to OpenSSH in the base install. And > >

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-15 Thread Freddie Cash
petetive > to compare Linux BTRFS and FreeBSD ZFS. There is a separate kernel module for ZFS that can be installed, giving you proper kernel-level support for ZFS on Linux. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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"

Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system

2012-01-09 Thread Freddie Cash
erfectly with FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. alphadrive locks up with FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. We're currently investigating hardware firmware revisions to see if anything else is different between the two systems. Has anyone experience anything similar? Does anyone have any ideas on what to look for?

Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system

2012-01-09 Thread Freddie Cash
v2.00 and alphadrive is v1.00), then a memtest86+ run, then check firmware on the SATA controllers. If none of the above helps, we're thinking of swapping the CPUs between the two systems to see if the problems stay with the box or follow the CPU. Thanks for the

Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system

2012-01-09 Thread Freddie Cash
i-F motherboard >  AMD Opteron 6218 CPU (8-cores at 2.0 GHz) >  24 GB DDR3-SDRAM >  2x SuperMicro AOC-USAS2-L8i SATA controllers (multi-lane cables) >  16x WD RE4 2.0 TB SATA harddrives >  1x Kingston 60 GB SSD (for /, swap, L2ARC) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system

2012-01-09 Thread Freddie Cash
2012/1/9 Daniel Kalchev : > On Jan 9, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > >> Small correction:  these are AMD Opteron 6218 CPUs, not 2218. >> >>> Hardware (alphadrive): >>>  Chenbro 5U rackmount chassis with 24 hot-swap drive bays >>>  SuperMicro

Re: Upgrade from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE wedges on SuperMicro H8DGiF-based system

2012-01-10 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > I've upgraded the BIOS to v2.00 same as betadrive.  However, using the > exact same BIOS settings as betadrive causes the SATA controllers and > onboard igb(4) interfaces to not be detected.  At all.  Nothing in > dmesg or pc

Re: ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable on large disk number machines

2012-01-23 Thread Freddie Cash
ME, separating the bootable disks from the storage disks will always save you time, effort, and grief in the long run. :) Whether that means using a separate UFS / filesystem, or a mirrored set of disks for /, or a separate ZFS pool with a single mirror vdev is up to the admin. But boot/OS

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-08 Thread Freddie Cash
the case as a lot of mobos have internal USB connectors now) and use that for swap. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin > wrote: >> On 08.02.2012 18:15, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >>> I can't remember to have seen any mention of SWAP on ZFS being safe >>> now. So if nobody

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-10 Thread Freddie Cash
2012/2/10 Andreas Nilsson : > IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, DEVICE_POLLING and HZ=1000. HZ can be set via /boot/loader.conf, and I think via sysctl as well. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Custom kernel poll summary (was: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel)

2012-02-14 Thread Freddie Cash
 >                                    loader tunable? > > sysctl.conf: net.inet.ip.fw.verbose and net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit Ah, you list the sysctls that control the last two. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd

Re: CARP carpdev

2012-02-14 Thread Freddie Cash
plans to MFC to stable/9, but could be mis-remembering things. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: New BSD Installer

2012-02-16 Thread Freddie Cash
gmirror metadata block, setup the gmirror, notice a gstripe metadata block, setup the gstripe, notice a GPT metadata block, load the GPT partitions, etc No idea just how feasible this would be, though. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: New BSD Installer

2012-02-16 Thread Freddie Cash
ot;tastes" the disk, finds the gmirror metadata, configures the gmirror provider, and now all the GPT stuff matches again. And the system carries on correctly. The issue is that we don't have a GEOM-aware loader. Or, at least, that the gpt*boot loaders read the GPT table(s) before con

Re: Custom kernel poll summary (was: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel)

2012-02-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Freddie Cash (from Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:26:54 > -0800): > >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Ian Smith wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 2:37:55 +0100, Alexander Le

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Freddie Cash
n there will be four simultaneous, parallel rebuild processes running, thrashing the drive heads on both devices, killing you I/O throughput and extending the length of the rebuild. And if you mix your redundancy technologies (like gmirror and zfs mirror) it gets even worse due to competing rebu

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Freddie Cash
t provides. After all, LBAs are logical addresses (it's right there in the name!), not hardwired physical sector addresses. ;) If they were hardwired, then how would internal sector remapping work? ;) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-s

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-18 Thread Freddie Cash
If you're mirroring the disk with gmirror, how are you dual-booting the disk? This discussion is about using gmirror to mirror two entire disks, and then use GPT to partition the mirror device. Dual-booting has no bearing on that, as gmirror is a FreeBSD-only technology. Cheers, Freddie

Re: zfs, 1 gig of RAM and periodic weekly

2012-02-27 Thread Freddie Cash
USB stick). Every couple of weeks it'll lock up, usually under heavy torrent load. Prior to doing a bunch of "tune loader.conf; reboot; crash; repeat" cycles, the box was very unstable. 2 GB is barely enough for ZFS + NFS + Samba + torrents + whatever. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail

Re: New LSI mps driver for 9.0

2012-03-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Is it possible to get a 'official' patch for the latest LSI mps driver for > 9.0 RELEASE. There are patches floating around for mpslsi(4) for 9.0. And, if you upgrade to stable/9, mps(4) *is* the official driver from LSI.

Re: 157k interrupts per second causing 60% CPU load on idle system

2012-04-04 Thread Freddie Cash
when I say it doing writes just shy of 500 MBps to the ZFS pool, via zfs send/recv from another box. No issues with excessive interrupts. Using 10.0 firmware on the controllers. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mai

Re: top not restoring terminal echo/icanon correctly

2012-04-17 Thread Freddie Cash
h commands. Have not tested either command while physically at the console. Tested under ZSH as a normal user and CSH as root. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: top not restoring terminal echo/icanon correctly

2012-04-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: >> (Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed to the list) >> >> I'd like to request that folks running RELENG_8 (and RELENG_9, though I >&

Re: Restricting users from certain privileges

2012-04-28 Thread Freddie Cash
gives all (not selective) root privileges to the > user (admin in my case). So this is not what I am trying to achieve in my > original post. Sudo let's you do a lot more than all-or-nothing access. You can specify individual commands that can be run, even down to the options tha

Re: Restricting users from certain privileges

2012-04-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Apr 28, 2012 4:03 PM, "Jason Hellenthal" wrote: > cp /usr/bin/vi ~/ > > or upload your own... > > sudo $HOME/vi > If your Cmnd_Alias includes the full path to vi, then your last command won't work. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Process for getting data to report LoRs

2012-04-30 Thread Freddie Cash
/src/sys/ZFSHOST90 amd64 -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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"

Make filesystem type configurable for periodic(8)?

2012-05-04 Thread Freddie Cash
by default in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf and that user's can override via /etc/periodic.conf? Or, am I the only one that's suffering here? :) If there's interesting in this, I can look into coming up with some patches. But wanted to check if anyone el

Re: Make filesystem type configurable for periodic(8)?

2012-05-04 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 05/04/2012 11:05 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: >> A few of the periodic(8) scripts in FreeBSD have constructs similar to >> the following to get which filesystems to scan for various things: >>     MP=`mount -t ufs,zfs | awk

Re: Make filesystem type configurable for periodic(8)?

2012-05-04 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote: >> On 05/04/2012 11:05 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: >>> A few of the periodic(8) scripts in FreeBSD have constructs similar to >>> the following to get which file

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 hangs on heavy I/O

2012-05-29 Thread Freddie Cash
eads (or the other way around?). But, adding gsched into the mix helped things immensely, allowing mixed reads/writes to better shares disk I/O resources. I'll see if I can dig up a link to his testing e-mail messages. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 hangs on heavy I/O

2012-05-29 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: >> I seem to have a problem where really heavy disk I/O is drowning my machine. >> I see hangs in the shell where I am logged on using ssh. Network connections >&g

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 hangs on heavy I/O

2012-05-29 Thread Freddie Cash
dependent of the others. Meaning gsched only works for a single stack (ie, a single device). Granted, I haven't played with gsched yet (most of our high-I/O systems are ZFS), so there may be a way to use it across-GEOMs. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com __

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 hangs on heavy I/O

2012-05-29 Thread Freddie Cash
virtual servers. At that point, we'll look a little deeper into things, and experiment with different L2ARC/ZIL setups to optimise read and write paths. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Freddie Cash
On Jun 1, 2012 5:34 PM, "David Magda" wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2012, at 08:33, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > > For example if one wants an e-mail server, that is better served in the long run by IMAP+MTA than any form of Exchange, because you are not tied to one single platform and that vendor's lunacy. O

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Freddie Cash
On Jun 1, 2012 8:27 PM, "Glen Barber" wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:14:10PM -0400, David Magda wrote: > > ZFS is for storing file systems on locally connected block devices. > > Gluster is a network file system where data can be distributed over > > many nodes. > > > > Pardon my ignorance

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Freddie Cash
f you have that many levels of backticks, variable expansions, programs, etc, wouldn't it be a prime candidate for a script? Just pass in a couple of variables directly from devd, and then do everything else inside the script? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___

Re: Setting up X Terminals: What about audio, Pulseaudio or NAS?

2010-06-10 Thread Freddie Cash
less setup with apps running locally. We now run strictly diskless, even on teacher, office, and admin desktops. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
d be any different? When doing major version upgrades, always start with GENERIC from the new release, and add build your custom config file from there. This is way things have been for many, many, many years. Minor version upgrades (7.x to 7.y) rarely require a new kernel config file, although it&#x

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
sary step between major version upgrades? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: 8.x grudges

2010-07-08 Thread Freddie Cash
UTC 2010 > r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 > > I'm not going to argue in favor of any points in this rant, but it is in the > man page. Looks like you found a bug. :) ugen is not listed in any of the NOTES files, and is not a valid device ent

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-07-11 Thread Freddie Cash
"not actually in use" amounts. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
might have to do this from single-user mode reboot zpool import tank this forces ZFS to re-taste each drive to read the metadata zpool replace tank /dev/da3this should force it to use the correct drive Note: if you have / on ZFS, the above may not b

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
t the time. I've recovered "corrupted" pools by doing the above. (I've now switched to labelling all my drives to prevent this from happening.) Of course, always have good backups. ;) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebs

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
"turn off" the drive, and to rescan the controller for the new drive. It's possible the device number may change. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
pool using new vdev layout - zfs send/recv data to new server - decommission old server Or: - take backups of server - destroy pool - configure new pool using new vdev layout - restore from backups -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freeb

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
;s a version of ZFS that works around this (or maybe a version of OSol?), although I don't recall the version off-hand, and I can't find it in the list of versions on the OSol website. You may be stuck until you get a drive with more sectors. :( -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-21 Thread Freddie Cash
not portable. I have not used gpart, so don't know if you can label the disk or just partitions on the disk. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Freddie Cash
eoretical 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. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com __

Re: Where's the space? raidz2

2010-08-06 Thread Freddie Cash
le automatically as soon as the last disk in a vdev is replaced. I don't know the exact version or whether it's supported in FreeBSD's port of ZFS. But it will be available at some point. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-

Re: How to predict drive number change for 7.3->8.1 upgrade?

2010-09-17 Thread Freddie Cash
o matter what happsn to the underlying device nodes. There are multiple ways to do so, depending on whether you want to label the disk, the slice, the partition, or the filesystem: - glabe; - gpart labels - filesystem labels -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _

Re: booting from CF

2010-11-15 Thread Freddie Cash
and 8.1 boxes, I've had to disable DMA in the BIOS and via /boot/loader.conf in order to successfully boot off 2 GB and 4 GB CompactFlash cards, in CF-to-IDE and CF-to-SATA adapters. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
resources, then use nice to run it in the background. How does the work on the geom_sched (for I/O scheduling) play into this? Am I missing something fundamental to the issue in question? Also, does this really need to be cross-posted to -current, -hackers, and -performance? -- Freddie Cash fjwc

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

2010-11-23 Thread Freddie Cash
tory from an Etch box, you end up with some hard-linked files, some regular files, and the contents of all the files are mixed-up based on which source file (script or binary) was read first. We've had to resort to clearing out the backups directory when doing a Debian upgrade, in order to guar

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE: ARRRGG HELP !!

2010-12-27 Thread Freddie Cash
actual command you used? You have an extra "s" in there. Should be "log" and not "logs". However, I don't think that command is correct either. I believe you want to use the "detach" command, not "remove". # zpool detach pool label/z

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE: ARRRGG HELP !!

2010-12-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > On 28 December 2010 08:56, Freddie Cash wrote: > >> Is that a typo, or the actual command you used?  You have an extra "s" >> in there.  Should be "log" and not "logs".  However, I don&#x

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE: Kernel Panic

2010-12-28 Thread Freddie Cash
og on same device" or "can't use cache and log at the same time". -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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: NFSv4 - how to set up at FreeBSD 8.1 ?

2011-01-04 Thread Freddie Cash
: mount -o vers=4 server4:/pool/backup/sites/m/ /mnt This tripped me up when I tried converting my NFSv3 setup at home to NFSv4. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: udf

2008-08-21 Thread Freddie Cash
or 7.1? > > I haven't tried using burncd in a long time, but > cdrecord-devel and dvd+rw-tools (both from ports) > work fine for me. Be sure to have options atapicam > in your kernel. For FreeBSD 7+ (and I think 6.2+), atapicam can be loaded as a m

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Freddie Cash
be unwilling to > consider the idea of getting more help) Jo: You know the minimum support period for each release, before it is released. You know what the earliest EoL time will be for each release as it is released. What more do you want? -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-22 Thread Freddie Cash
rity branch for FreeBSD X.Y. This branch gets the security updates, and the occasional major bug fix. RELENG_X is the -STABLE development branch for FreeBSD X. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: What has happened to the FreeBSD Forums?

2008-10-02 Thread Freddie Cash
and better anti-spam setup. freebsdforums/bsdforums is all but dead. http://www.daemonforums.org is where we all hang out now. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: ifconfig won't allow me to change ether address and inet address in the same command

2008-10-21 Thread Freddie Cash
tmask 255.255.255.0 ether > 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3" You can split it across two ifconfig lines using the alias feature in rc.conf: ifconfig_rl0="ether 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3" ifconfig_rl0_alias0="inet 192.168.2.12 netmask 255.255.255.0" We use something similar for setting inter

Re: ZFS

2008-10-22 Thread Freddie Cash
ept the name. :) Would have been better if they called it what it really is: the Zetabyte Storage Management System. It's so much more than just a lowly filesystem. Would probably solve a lot of confusion out there, IMO. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Anyone used rsync scriptology for incremental backup?

2008-10-29 Thread Freddie Cash
fig files, and runs rsync in parallel (1 per remote site). We we looking into using variations on rsnapshot, custom squashfs/hardlink stuff, and other solutions, but once we started using ZFS, we stopped looking down those roads. We were able to do in 3 days of testing and scripting what we hadn&

Re: Anyone used rsync scriptology for incremental backup?

2008-10-29 Thread Freddie Cash
fig files, and runs rsync in parallel (1 per remote site). We we looking into using variations on rsnapshot, custom squashfs/hardlink stuff, and other solutions, but once we started using ZFS, we stopped looking down those roads. We were able to do in 3 days of testing and scripting what we hadn&

Re: Anyone used rsync scriptology for incremental backup?

2008-10-30 Thread Freddie Cash
On October 30, 2008 01:25 am Nikolay Denev wrote: > On 30 Oct, 2008, at 07:00 , Freddie Cash wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Andrew Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >> In this way, each day we generate a batch file that lets us ste

Re: Anyone used rsync scriptology for incremental backup?

2008-10-30 Thread Freddie Cash
On October 30, 2008 08:18 am Nikolay Denev wrote: > On 30 Oct, 2008, at 17:04 , Freddie Cash wrote: > > On October 30, 2008 01:25 am Nikolay Denev wrote: > >> On 30 Oct, 2008, at 07:00 , Freddie Cash wrote: > >>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Andrew Snow <[EM

Re: ZFS

2008-10-30 Thread Freddie Cash
On October 30, 2008 02:55 pm Lorenzo Perone wrote: > On 22.10.2008, at 17:38, Freddie Cash wrote: > > Personally, we use it in production for a remote backup box using > > ZFS and Rsync (64-bit FreeBSD 7-Stable from August, 2x dual-core > > Opteron 2200s, 8 GB DDR2 RAM,

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-21 Thread Freddie Cash
rarchy. Can do "cd ..", "ls .", or tab completion when in anything under .zfs/ Using sh or zsh, these errors don't occur. Just curious if this is the same kind of thing. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@fr

Re: slow zvol performance compared to files on the same pool

2009-01-04 Thread Freddie Cash
less RAM). ZFS in 8-CURRENT is a more recent version (v13 I believe, while 7.1 is v6), and has a bunch of auto-tuning features, along with a much higher kmem_size_max setting (512 GB vs 2 GB I believe). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stab

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