On 05/26/17 10:35, Friedrich Locke wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> does anybody here run OBSD with a file system bigger than 10TB ?
> How much time boot takes to bring the system up (i mean fsck) ?
> Are you using ffs2 ? With softdep ?
>
> Thanks.
Error #1: assuming someone else's experience will have an
On 05/28/17 22:13, Tinker wrote:
> Hi misc@,
>
> For pluggable devices such as USB NIC:s, is there any way to make
> OpenBSD bind a particular device based on its MAC or USB serial number
> or the like variable, to a particular interface or device filename?
no but ...
...
> (For storage devices
On 06/01/17 20:50, Tinker wrote:
> On 2017-06-02 00:45, Joe Gidi wrote:
>> Good news! You can have this already.
>
> Yay!
>
>> Go run Linux.
>
> Em -
>
> Nay!
>
> No yay. Hope to see a solid solution to this problem on a non-crappy OS
> soon.
>
Linux's (and Windows and Solaris and ...) atte
On 06/09/17 15:39, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote:
> Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?
You? No, I doubt it.
Me, it's pretty much all I use as a home desktop system.
But you didn't seem to want to give it a try to find out for yourself,
or define what you mean by a "desktop system", or do some basic
On 06/22/17 05:47, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have unbound(8) and dhcpd(8) running on a router (OpenBSD 6.1-stable).
> dhcpd currently hands out fixed addresses to my clients, but I'd like
> these to be allocated dynamically from the common pool, while at the
> same time being r
On 07/01/17 06:15, pipfsta...@openmailbox.org wrote:
> Hello, dear misc
>
> I want to use openbsd for daily tasks on my laptop, I'm planning to
> build ports by hand and I want to try some development of the system
> itself.
>
> At the moment I'm just playing around and I faced a little problem
On 07/14/17 09:00, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> Hi misc@.
>
> I wonder how to restore from an /altroot backup?
>
> (I missed that pax -r happily writes absolute paths and wrote over
> /etc from a backup file of another machine)
>
>
> Is it to dd(1) back all but the first 16 blocks - the reverse of
On 07/17/17 05:50, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:46:14PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
>> On 07/14/17 09:00, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
>> > Hi misc@.
>> >
>> > I wonder how to restore from an /altroot backup?
>> >
>> > (I miss
On 07/22/17 13:45, Max Power wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I'm looking for on http://www.openbsd.org but...
> Where Can I find the official documentation about the 'minimum system
> requirements' about OpenBSD?
>
> Thanks.
"less than your application needs".
Really. You will have trouble finding an examp
On 07/27/17 08:56, Paul Covello wrote:
...
> I can send and receive mail ok using Apple Mail on my mac.
> Thunderbird is another story… I am warned when I set up the
> account that SMTP is NOT encrypted.
Thunderbird is a mail CLIENT. It knows nothing about what encryption
your mail TRANSPORT i
On 08/08/17 03:54, Mihai Popescu wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> I am not an expert user of OpenBSD but I want to tell you the FAQ is
> the first step. That is maintained by Nick Holland,
...
I really hate to correct someone who says such nice things about my
work, but ... I stepped aside
On 08/09/17 17:09, Gregor Best wrote:
> Send a SIGINFO to dd.
which ever so nicely is IN THE MAN PAGE.
Nick.
On 08/12/17 15:02, Federico Giannici wrote:
> On 08/12/17 20:48, noah pugsley wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Federico Giannici
>> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to set a "Hot Spare" chunk for a RAID1 Softraid?
>>> From the "bioctl" man page seems that this functionality is available for
>>
On 09/12/17 14:16, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Sep 12 19:29:16, h...@stare.cz wrote:
>> This is current/i386 from https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD
>> The upgrade went just fine as always, but the installed /bsd
>> just goes to a black screen at some point during the boot sequence;
>> the machine do
On 09/13/17 02:21, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Sep 12 21:48:04, n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
>> On 09/12/17 14:16, Jan Stary wrote:
>> > On Sep 12 19:29:16, h...@stare.cz wrote:
>> >> This is current/i386 from https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD
>> >> The upgrade went just fine as always, but th
On 09/13/17 09:42, Joel Carnat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My Cloud instances are always small (1 ou 2 vCPU, far less than 4GB of
> RAM).
>
> From what I saw, all the ports I need are available in i386 and amd64.
> Every Cloud provider I checked are using KVM hypervisor.
>
> Regarding OS and ports perfor
On 09/19/17 01:17, Greg Garrison wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested if I can serve multiple domains from one machine using
> HTTPD and possibly VMM and RELAYD. I would prefer if there was a
> solution just with HTTPD is order to KISS. If it is really painful I'll
> just role more servers.
>
> I
On 09/26/17 14:13, Greg Garrison wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Looking for help. I am trying to run an application that requires 2 GB
> of swap. My VPS instance has 256 by default. For some reason the
> application will not accept a swap file. It is possible to resize
> partitions live to get a bigger
On 09/28/17 05:58, ti...@openmailbox.org wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 05:02:06PM -, ti...@openmailbox.org
>> wrote:
> ..
>>> What am I doing wrong, are there actually any installboot
>>> arguments that could help me make it work?
>>
>> It looks like you're using GPT on both the physical a
On 10/03/17 10:10, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> On 17/10/03 13:48, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running currently constantly into the problem that I do not
>> have enough space left for installing packages and today even
>> upgrading a snapshot failed because I had not enough space l
On 10/13/17 05:01, Mihai Popescu wrote:
>> That's sensible, but if money or lives were on the line, I think It'd
>> be better to have a running but potentially vulnerable service.
>
> Not OpenBSD related, but I was truly amazed people like you still
> exist and still set up computers for others!
>
On 10/16/17 04:28, Tuyosi T wrote:
> i build my openbsd snapshots machine from source
> (kernel , userland and xenodm )
>
> the PC complied from source works more correctly
> as if ready made suite is not my just size ,
> tailered one is very fit , so i think .
I think you think wrong.
Just on y
On 10/16/17 18:38, Limaunion wrote:
> On 10/16/2017 06:55 PM, Limaunion wrote:
>> Hi! Last friday I upgraded my ALIX system from 6.0 to 6.2 using the PXE
>> boot method. In previous years I used an internal FTP server to perform
>> the upgrade, but for some reason this is not supported any more s
On 10/17/17 00:03, Justin Mayes wrote:
> Greetings all - what does one do when during the install you set the
> default console to com0 and now your serial cable is not working? I
> cannot login to set the default console back to use the keyboard and
> monitor. Instead of the boot prompt where I ca
On 10/17/17 08:02, Nick Holland wrote:
...
> man boot has this:
>
> boot.conf processing can be skipped, and the automatic boot
> cancelled, by holding down either Control key as boot starts.
>
...
> (I can rarely remember which key it is, so I often just hold
> dow
On 10/23/17 17:41, Daniel Boyd wrote:
> Is there a recommended configuration for virtual disks in Hyper-V? I
> have a virtual machine that I set up recently running 6.2 that has
> *very* slow disk performance. It took well over an hour to untar
> ports.tar.gz. The host server is a few years old,
On 10/23/17 22:07, Daniel Boyd wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2017, at 8:57 PM, Daniel Boyd
> wrote:
>>> But ... for unpacking ports, make sure that file system is
>>> mounted (at the OpenBSD level) with softdeps. Yes, it's really a
>>> huge difference for lots of tiny files, which is exactly what the
>>>
On 10/23/17 21:57, Daniel Boyd wrote:
...
> I have another vm running on my laptop under KVM that runs
> substantially faster than the hyper-v vm. My laptop is far below the
> hyper-v server in most respects performance-wise, but it does have an
> SSD. I’d be curious to find out how much of tha
On 10/27/17 23:33, J Vans wrote:
> I decided to post this in misc because I am not sure if this a bug or
> unsupported hardware. It is a Lenovo 110s laptop.
>
> Apm works on this machine. Suspend and resume work on this machine.
>
> When running X, and doing things that require a lot of memory (o
On 04/22/18 14:46, Tuyosi T wrote:
> hi all .
> i manage to clone bigger HDD(sd1) to smaller HDD(sd0)
>
> this is dangerous , so please test .
> and there may be some errors , then please point them out .
Ok, how do I put this nicely...
PLEASE DON'T DO THIS KIND OF "documentation". Ok, you acco
On 04/29/18 20:23, Mimoza wrote:
>
>
> Le 30/04/2018 à 00:01, Mimoza a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> I have a problem to create a second RAID 1 on my router an Soekris
>> 6501-70 (http://www.soekris.com/products/net6501-1.html)
> […]
>> I can rebuild the offline device but he still offline …
>>
>>
On 04/30/18 18:04, Stuart Longland wrote:
> On 01/05/18 03:00, Solene Rapenne wrote:
>>
>> Stuart Longland writes:
>>
>>> On 29/04/18 18:08, Solene Rapenne wrote:
Stuart Longland writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got an Advantech UNO-1150G industrial PC running OpenBSD 6.1 act
On 05/09/18 05:06, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> Hello misc,
>
> I wanted to use a MBR partition for backup purposes,
> so I (almost) created (using fdisk) another OpenBSD MBR (A6)
> partiotion, but then I got the message
>
> MBR contains more than one OpenBSD partition!
> Write MBR anyway? [n]
>
> So
On 05/16/18 05:42, Nan Xiao wrote:
> Hi Peter & Otto,
>
> Thanks very much for your response!
>
> My laptop is very old: Fujitsu LifeBook T5010
> (https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2352819,00.asp) .
>
> During booting, it shows:
>
>>>OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.39
"very old" and "amd64" is the fi
On 05/20/18 12:32, Rick Ballard wrote:
> I can log to the console and have a functioning router/firewall.
>
> However, most commands fail:
>
> drmons0544w-142-166-18-133# vi test
> 4▒▒: not found/vim[1]:ELF▒
> /usr/local/bin/vim[2]: syntax error: `(' unexpected
third party package error. (/usr/l
On 07/09/18 12:54, MonsieurFugu wrote:
> Hi OpenBSD forum,
>
> I'm new to OpenBSD and I'm running into an issue downloading the CVS
> libraries and I cannot figure out the problem.
source code, not libraries...but whatever.
> I've downloaded the libs before but the vm I was using got corrupted,
On 07/10/18 12:57, Email wrote:
>
[drivel snipped]
Probably about 20 years ago, I had despaired of the "solution of the
week!" of Linux, and figured, while it was cool that a bunch of people
had put together a free Unix-like OS, the churn was too great to be
practical for businesses expecting a lo
On 07/14/18 15:16, Chris Bennett wrote:
> I very carefully and surely tested which flash drive to use and then
> pulled out the wrong one.
> I stopped the install with halt and done nothing else.
> Should I have yanked it, halted it or just said goodbye?
>
> ddrescue or something else or nothing e
On 07/25/18 15:38, Jay Hart wrote:
> Hello al,
>
> Just bought a new server and wanted to see what the practicality would be of
> moving my disk from
> one box to the other. Its a stock 6.3 install, fully patched, with a few
> packages. The old
> processor is a VIA based CPU running generic i38
On 09/04/18 00:57, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:
> But - The thing that isn't mentioned here is basically Power Cost and
> Consumption vs PPS(Packet Processing Speed).
>
> IMNSHO running on anything that doesn't ;
>
> A) Have passive Cooling
> B) Is older than a couple of years (in intel/amd terms a
On 10/12/18 21:42, Martin Hanson wrote:
>> It is preferable to just include the whole dmesg directly in the mail
>> Better still, when it's a "sometimes works" problem, include a "diff -u"
>> between the two (the context to show where the lines are added/removed).
>
> I have pasted a "diff -u" on
On 10/16/18 10:39, Markus Rosjat wrote:
> hi all,
>
>
> what is the right way to do a migration of users from one system to
> another? I did the following but it seems to get some problems with
> permissions on the files and directories.
>
> 1. copy passwd, group, master.passwd to new machine
On 10/25/18 14:51, Katherine Rohl wrote:
> I’m trying to run OpenBSD and Tiger on one hard drive on a Mac G4
> tower. I’ve successfully installed 6.4 onto the drive and I can still
> boot from Tiger, so that’s good. I then copied ofwboot to the Tiger
> partition (since it’s the first HFS+ partition
On 11/05/18 23:51, Kihaguru Gathura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From a security standpoint,
> which platform will offer better performance
huh? What's your priority, security or performance?
> solution in web and database now that OpenBSD
> multithreading is switched off for Intel?
>
>
> (Fujitsu PRIMEP
On 11/07/18 11:34, Kihaguru Gathura wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 7, 2018, Nick Holland
> wrote:
>> On 11/05/18 23:51, Kihaguru Gathura wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> From a security standpoint,
>>> which platform will offer better
On 11/17/18 15:13, Martin Sukany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to migrate OpenBSD 6.4 (stable) from VM to bare metal. I see, as
> usual, two options:
>
> 1) install everything from scratch
> 2) create some flashimage (I did such thing on Solaris few years ago)
> and apply the image on new hw.
>
> I'
On 11/20/18 11:43, Chris Bennett wrote:
> I am almost certainly going to be replacing with a new server for an
> organization I am a member of.
> With all of this mess with Meltdown, Spectre, insecure motherboard
> chips,etc.
> I am pretty clueless on exactly what is going to be a secure set of
> s
Hi,
For a long time, the /boot and pxeboot of i386 would boot amd64's
kernel and amd64's would boot i386's kernel.
My tftp server had both amd64 and i386 bsd.rd files named
"bsdamd64.rd" and "bsdi386.rd", snapshots downloaded daily. But
recently, I discovered I could not PXE boot i386's bsd.rd f
Question about kernel randomization and relinking...
It seems to take a fair amount of RAM, at least for systems that
are forced to run i386. And I mean real RAM -- swap doesn't seem
to cut it.
I discovered that several machines I was intending on using for
minimal purposes just couldn't compl
On 2020-04-10 10:10, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 09:35:16AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
>> Question about kernel randomization and relinking...
>>
>> It seems to take a fair amount of RAM, at least for systems that
>> are forced to run i386.
hi.
The following servers will likely be inaccessible at times or
completely, April 14, from 7am to 8pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
(yes -- 13 hour window) for site network maintenance.
* man.openbsd.org
* cvsweb.openbsd.org
* obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu
* openbsd.cs.toronto.edu
Nick.
On 2020-04-25 15:00, bofh wrote:
> Hi,
> I searched through the archives and saw a couple of discussions about using
> Dnsmasq from a long time ago.
>
> Is that the best way to let the stuff in my home to have valid dns entries
> in my home network?
>
> How difficult is it to get the OpenBSD prov
On 2020-05-07 10:00, i...@aulix.com wrote:
> Dear OpenBSD fans,
>
> Can you please comment negative appraisal from the following
> website:
>
> https://isopenbsdsecu.re/quotes/
>
> I did not want to hurt anyone, just looking for a secure OS and
> OpenBSD looked very nice to me before I have foun
On 2020-05-14 11:08, i...@aulix.com wrote:
>> If that binary code was on a ROM, would it be less malicious?
>
> Cannot more recent and up to date binary code be more malicious than
> old one in the ROM?
This has nothing to do with OpenBSD. That can be true for any kind of
code update, whether it
On 2020-05-25 11:35, ULF wrote:
...
> My question is:
>
> considering that an opt out option has been already turned down, could at
> least old architectures be benefited of a "delay" option e.g. like tune2fs
> sets a fsck every n-th boot, could KARL, just for very old machines be
> tuned, say, to
On 2020-05-25 10:21, Why 42? The lists account. wrote:
,,,
> At some point I added a second (larger) disk to hold my user data (i.e.
> home). It seems that this new disk took over the name sd0 and the OpenBSD
> system disk itself became known as sd1.
yep. Things like that are where the duids came
On 2020-05-28 05:15, Johan Hattne wrote:
> On 2020-05-28 00:56, Johan Hattne wrote:
>> On 2020-05-28 00:43, YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 27 May 2020 22:32:58 -0700
>>> Johan Hattne wrote:
I've been trying to boot the 6.7 installation media from USB via EFI
on a Dell Po
On 2020-06-02 19:27, Chris Narkiewicz wrote:
> My setup consist of OpenBSD 6.7 with full drive encryption using
> softraid, configured as described in FAQ:
>
> /dev/sd0a - encrypted volume
> /dev/sd1 - decrypted
>
> I have additional need to mount an encrypted /var volume on boot.
> This volume
On 2020-06-11 12:07, Strahil Nikolov wrote:
> I always thought that 'sync' mount option is enough to avoid
> corruption of the FS. Am I just "fooling" myself ?
As "sync" is the default...yes, I think you are.
File systems are complicated. Making them work robustly is even
more complicated. A
On 2020-06-13 12:56, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:12:05 -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
>
>> On 2020-06-11 12:07, Strahil Nikolov wrote:
>> > I always thought that 'sync' mount option is enough to avoid
>> > corruption of the FS. Am I just &q
On 2020-06-23 06:20, Why 42? The lists account. wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone ever tried the Infinite Noise TRNG hardware random number generator
> with OpenBSD?
Actually...no. Never felt any reason to.
> It's a USB stick that contains hardware to generate random numbers. See:
> https://gi
On 2020-06-27 21:50, Greg Thomas wrote:
> Hey folks, I'm trying to avoid buggin y'all, but I'm down to my last two
> tasks, setting up dual boot with Windows 10 and setting up OpenVPN. I'm
> currently trying to troubleshoot "Loading ERR M" while using Windows
> BCD. I can boot no problem whe
On 2020-07-07 15:28, ken.hendrick...@l3harris.com wrote:
...
> Unbound is still not working.
>
> I have a hunch, but cannot find it in the man pages,
> that somehow they have to talk to each other. Is this true?
depends on what you want them to do.
A DNS resolver and an authoritative DNS server
On 2020-08-19 17:47, Vincent wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> After several days, I have to reboot my machine because of mfs full. This is
> not the first time.
> I have few mfs on this machine, but I observe that this is always a full
> filesystem on /tmp after +40 days of uptime.
> But on other mfs, I
On 2020-09-08 04:16, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from around two weeks ago I am observing the overall system slow down.
> Everything work stable,
> but nearly every X application takes forever to open a window.
> also I am using tiling wm, and when workspace is switched,
> it takes a lon
On 2020-10-03 17:45, tera torn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been a happy user of OpenBSD softraid RAID 1 mirroring, and I'm
> attemtping to migrate data off of a degraded RAID 1 mirror.
>
> I've booted before from the 6.7 install USB (amd64) and this degraded
> chunk was detected and the volume was b
On 2020-10-25 10:35, d.verdi wrote:
> Hi to everybody,
> I'm facing this problem after the complete installation of OpenBSD 6.7:
> if I try to launch startx, an error occur and tells that "no screens found".
...
> The Xorg.0 log file content is the below:
...
> Check that you have set 'machdep.all
On 7/31/19 3:45 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> Dear list,
[probably irrelevant stuff snipped]
> I actually wanted to do a backup of the subtree with rsync over the
> network, but that didn't work, spitting sth. like
>
> rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(820) [sender=3.1.3]
> [sender]
tart a new instance in the other
screen. Not the end of the world, there are more browsers out there,
I suspect I can run iridium or something similar in one "screen" and
a cousin in the other.
My "screens" are slightly dissimilar -- screen 0 is two 1920x1200
monitors, screen 1 i
quirements for the database.
>
> As for the web server daemon itself, I think Reyk Floeter would be the
> best placed to answer that question - also paging Nick Holland for
> more hardware expertise.
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:57 PM Tito Mari Francis Escano
> wrote:
>>
quirements for the database.
>
> As for the web server daemon itself, I think Reyk Floeter would be the
> best placed to answer that question - also paging Nick Holland for
> more hardware expertise.
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:57 PM Tito Mari Francis Escano
> wrote:
>>
On 9/1/19 5:49 PM, Gustavo Rios wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> i would like to confgiure my obsd server as a web server.
>
> I would like to configure my web server to handle multiple domains
> without having to set each domain one by one.
>
> I mean:
> Every request for www.x.com is mapped into t
On 9/2/19 6:48 AM, Marcus MERIGHI wrote:
> Hello Joerg,
>
> just passing on my user experience...:
>
> streckf...@dfn-cert.de (Joerg Streckfuss), 2019.09.02 (Mon) 10:15 (CEST):
>> Furthermore I'm not sure which snapshot should I run. Almost every day
>> there will be a fresh one.
>
> you seem
On 9/15/19 7:31 AM, shadrock uhuru wrote:
> hi everyone
> i can login with authpf but unable to exit or control D out of the ssh
> session
> the only way out is to control C which also kills any other ordinary ssh
> user connected to the server
> my authpf user has authpf as its login shell and log
On 9/17/19 12:23 PM, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 02:31:59PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> (To be clear, I think installing a restricted subset of the OS for
>> security reasons is pointless here, but can be really helpful when you
>> have to deal with limited space in partitions
subject fixed, hopefully. :)
On 9/28/19 7:05 PM, cc wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I recently started to study openbsd. I am a computer major student. How can I
> contribute to openbsd?
>
while ! dead; do
DoSomething.
submission="sucks" # Accept this. It's probably true.
while [[ $submi
On 10/3/19 10:01 AM, sven falempin wrote:
> Dear readers,
>
> I was running a OpenBSD (6.4) device, with a raid mirror array.
> One of the disk failed, so the system ask me to fsck,
Probably not quite that simple. More likely, the disk failed,
that took the system down hard, and it needed an fsc
On 10/4/19 8:37 AM, sven falempin wrote:
...
> How [do I] check the state of the MIRROR raid array , to detect large
> amount of failures on one of the two disk ?
>
> Best.
>
fsck has NOTHING to do with the status of your drives.
It's a File System ChecKer. Your disk can be covered with unreada
On 10/9/19 11:19 AM, openbsd.s...@0sg.net wrote:
> Here's what I think.
...[bla bla bla]...
> Amirite ? ;)
I don't know. Let's see your work.
I don't care what your theoretical arguments are, I want to see
results.
Nick.
On 10/13/19 12:39 AM, Sean Kamath wrote:
> Doh!
>
> set tty com0
>
> Alix is coming along OK now. Still have questions about i386 and
> SCSI. . .
>
> Sean
>
>
>> On Oct 12, 2019, at 23:13, Sean Kamath
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> In my odyssey to get larger disks on my Alix machines, I bought
On 2019-10-29 23:50, Clark Block wrote:
> Will Theo de Raadt and other OpenBSD developer answer this topic (
[...link to drivel deleted...]
What, are you looking for someone to provide comments on your
term paper? Ok, You did cite a reference, not proper bibliography
format. It's been a long tim
On 2019-11-02 16:10, Raymond, David wrote:
> I recently installed OpenBSD on a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a solid state
> drive and it works great.
yep.
> My question is whether OpenBSD addresses the special characteristics
> of solid state drives, especially those having to do with longevity
> and re
On 2019-11-17 11:39, Jean-François Simon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found it, there exist glastree which is available from ports.
>
> Nice small "poor man's" backup as the author qualifies,
> though makes incremental backup through hard links:
>
> # if yesterday does not exist or today is newer, c
On 2019-11-27 11:23, Kihaguru Gathura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> An error while deleting softraid device follows
>
> --
> Available disks are: sd0 sd1 sd2.
> Which disk is the root disk? ('?'
On 2019-11-27 21:29, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 08:05:30PM -0600, Clay Daniels wrote:
>> I have successfully installed OpenBSD 6.6 release and would like to give
>> the Current Snapshots a try. I went to a mirror, and to:
>>
>> Index of /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/
>>
>> I
gt;
> Please excuse the "top-posting". That's the only way my darn google mail
> does reply's. Kind of irritating, to me and the reader too.
Bottom posting was invented for those who can't write in complete thoughts
with context. You know, like most of the computer wo
On 2019-11-30 08:12, Raymond, David wrote:
> I am switching to OpenBSD from Linux and I have questions about the
> use of softdep and noatime in mounting disks. I have a variety of
> systems with a mix of SSDs and rotating disks.
>
> Softdep seems to have some advantages in speeding file access,
On 2019-12-14 14:28, Alfred Morgan wrote:
> I have now another machine running OpenBSD not recover from a reboot. I
> thought I was having hardware issues with my two other servers (both zbox)
> and now this third one (Dell) with totally different hardware is having the
> same problem getting stuck
On 2019-12-15 09:42, putridsou...@gmail.com wrote:
> I recently did a checkout of the src,ports and xenocara
> repositories and was greeted by the following message on
> each checkout. After this the command proceeds smoothly.
> Also doing "echo $?" gives "0" so it's not a error.
>
> cvs server:
On 2019-12-30 14:31, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote:
...
> What are the opinions of the OpenBSD developers about Hiperbola GNU/Linux?
Just my opinion...
A linux distribution (repacking other people's stuff) that I never
heard of is going to abandon their old work and users in favor of
actually making a ne
On 2020-01-01 13:42, Zé Loff wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 08:54:46AM -0700, List wrote:
>> Hi *,
>> I am currently building a home router based upon OpenBSD.
>> I therefore need some kind of WIFI Hardware. This piece of hardware
>> needs to be connected over usb.
>> Do you have any sugges
On 2020-01-05 12:29, hkew...@cock.li wrote:
> summary: OpenBSD installs to internal HDD from external USB but fails
> to load after the first reboot. If the HDD is removed from the internal
> port and is connected via a "SATA to USB" cable it boots succesfully.
>
> I am a new and inexperienced use
On 2020-01-07 14:06, Karel Gardas wrote:
>
>
> On 1/7/20 7:38 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
>> > Using softdep on /tmp is a silly idea. >
> Why? To naive eyes it may look like a natural solution: e.g. before temp
> file is even created (on drive), it may be deleted which means there is
> no meta
Hiya.
I'd like to use amd(8) to automatically mount and dismount local file
systems. The file systems in question are big, lots of complicated
links, lots of files, and take a while to fsck if the power goes out
unexpectedly, and are used relatively rarely (maybe an hour a day).
Sounds like a per
behaves the same way. Not that something couldn't camp out on the
empty file system, but not much reason for something to do so.
Thanks for looking!
Nick.
> —
> Antoine
>
>> On 13 Jan 2020, at 06:01, Nick Holland wrote:
>>
>> Hiya.
>>
>> I'
On 2020-01-15 11:05, Strahil Nikolov wrote:
> On January 13, 2020 5:40:06 AM GMT+02:00, Nick Holland
> wrote:
>>On 2020-01-12 15:39, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>>> Sounds like something is keeping your fs busy. Could be gio-kqueue,
>>do you have glib2 installed?
>&g
On 2020-02-20 11:22, Oliver Marugg wrote:
> Hi
>
> I’ve got a Supermicro 5028D desktop server with 5 identical SATA SSDs,
> there is no HBA no RAID card in. The purpose of the server is intended
> as web/smtp and some vmm vms (os plus /home & /var storage).
> What are your suggestions or best
Sorry, took a look at this a while back when I didn't have time to
fully work through it...and then forgot about it. ;-/
On 2020-02-12 04:34, Aham Brahmasmi wrote:
> Namaste misc,
>
> Overview:
> Certain https URLs on openbsd.org get downgraded to http in redirection.
>
> Steps:
> When navigatin
On 2020-03-02 18:14, Justin Muir wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Running GENERIC i386 kernel on on a 64-bit amd machine. Just wondering
> whether an upgrade amd64 is warranted. Any opinions?
yes.
At this point, most OpenBSD development starts on amd64 systems, then
moves to other platforms. Plus, the AM
On 10/05/15 06:47, Benny Lofgren wrote:
...
Personally, I think it would be a good thing to bring back slices to the
vocabulary. That would emphasize the distinction between physical disk
partitions as they appear in the PC-centric hardware world and logical
partitions/slices that are a subdivisi
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