Re: softraid mirror & large drives (3T)

2017-04-18 Thread Ian Watts
Thanks for the feedback, Karel, Allan, and Kamil. The motivation is long-term data storage reliability. For example, my wife creates graphical books, which involves large files, plus other work and personal files. Having a mirror is not terribly important, so doing a nightly sync to anothe

softraid mirror & large drives (3T)

2017-04-17 Thread Ian Watts
Hello, I'm planning on replacing an old fileserver that has a single 1T drive with something a little newer having 3T of space. I have two 3T drives and have installed OpenBSD 6.0 to both as a softraid mirror. Works well and I simulated a drive failure by shutting it down, removing a drive,

Re: maybe OT 8 year anniversay of Chuck Yerkes death

2012-08-28 Thread Ian Watts
Thanks for the reminder, Diana. Cheers, Chuck. -- Ian On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Diana Eichert wrote: I don't think it's off topic but others might. I'm writing this post to remember Chuck Yerkes, a long time contributor to the misc@openbsd list. Chuck died 8 years ago this past weekend while ri

Re: Help to debug Openbsd freezes...

2006-07-24 Thread Ian Watts
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:10:53 +0200 (CEST) Xavier Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: Hi Gurus, I'm facing a strange and frustrating problem... I run a box with OpenBSD without problem for a while (>2 years). It's still running 3.5 (ok, ok, don't shoot, it's an old one but upgrades are not easy)

Re: system lock-up - RTFM?

2006-06-09 Thread Ian Watts
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Shane J Pearson wrote: On 2006.06.07, at 2:42 PM, Breen Ouellette wrote: Telling someone new to memtest86 that it detects bad memory sticks is misleading and could give them a nice headache if their problem is not the stick. If they read the "Troubleshooting Memory Er

Re: system lock-up - RTFM?

2006-06-06 Thread Ian Watts
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 6/6/06, Ian Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Other than swapping out various bits of hardware, which would involve buying new bits, are there any other man pages or useful documents that might help me figure out what the problem is? Try r

system lock-up - RTFM?

2006-06-06 Thread Ian Watts
My 3.9 workstation has started locking up on me several times a day. The box itself has been in use for months. It may be a coincidence that the problem started shortly after upgrading from 3.8. I've set ddb.panic=1 and ddb.log=1, but each lock-up just freezes the system and leaves no clues i

Re: How did they get here?

2006-01-04 Thread Ian Watts
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Craig Skinner wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:28:38PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: There was a phpBB2 in one of the paths used. If you have phpBB enabled somewhere, that's a likely attack vector. I noticed that too. phpBB has been used for many sorts of tricks. A re

Re: DNS

2005-09-17 Thread Ian Watts
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Steve B wrote: I'm a little confused on the topic of running Bind on OBSD. I've read the Secure Architectures book, some material at http://www.aei.ca/~pmatulis/pub/obsd_pf.html and a few other places. My goal is to provide DNS to my local LANs and probably act as a caching/

Re: HTML Mason Configuration problem on OpenBSD 3.7

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Watts
First guess is that you have a problem with your handler.pl file. Can you get it working with a basic sample file? I haven't used Mason in years, but that's a good place to start (as your message below points out). -- Ian On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Robin wrote: Hello, I am running the base ins

Re: Will different CPU and RAM matter?

2005-05-05 Thread Ian Watts
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Niall O'Higgins wrote: > As of 2005/02/01 ccd(4) man page mentions mirroring. So we now have: > > A ccd may be either serially concatenated, interleaved, or mirrored. > To serially concatenate partitions, specify an interleave factor of 0. > Mirroring configurations require an

Re: Will different CPU and RAM matter?

2005-05-05 Thread Ian Watts
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Niall O'Higgins wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:10:58PM -0700, Gary Clemans-Gibbon wrote: > > The only thing is that I run 2 HDDs in RAID1 mirror with RAIDFRAME and > > so my kernel is generic + pseudo-device raid (if I remember correctly - > > it was a while ago I last did