Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nwam

2011-02-05 Thread Jonathan Adams
NWAM is a tool with a specific purpose ... if you don't have that need then NWAM seems to be just a hindrance ... Before it existed I had scripts to plumb interfaces and bring up wireless networks ... you might be better off creating your own rc2.d/rc3.d script using dladm to connect your wireless

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need good beginner guide to network configuration in OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris with NWAM

2011-02-05 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
Sorry for replying to myself... Typo - "even", not "event"... On 06.02.2011 4:18, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: You're right in general. However there are networks where static IP addresses may be unavailable. You event don't change the network or location, but cannot have static IP address. On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nwam

2011-02-05 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
Thumbs up! :) On 05.02.2011 23:40, Lou Picciano wrote: Friends don't let friends use NWAM ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need good beginner guide to network configuration in OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris with NWAM

2011-02-05 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
You're right in general. However there are networks where static IP addresses may be unavailable. You event don't change the network or location, but cannot have static IP address. On 05.02.2011 19:04, Gary Driggs wrote: Nwam is, in my opinion, a hindrance unless you have a mobile system that

[OpenIndiana-discuss] kernel messages question

2011-02-05 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi I keep getting these messages on this one box. There are issues with at least one of the drives in it, but since there are some 80 drives in it, that's not really an issue. I just want to know, if anyone knows, what this kernel message mean. Anyone? Feb 5 19:35:57 prv-backup scsi: [ID 3658

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nwam

2011-02-05 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
No, I don't need to, but how do I configure my wireless to automatically come up and ask for a DHCP-address without it? /Thommy M. On 5 February 2011 19:40, Lou Picciano wrote: > Thommy, Must you use nwam? (it's kind of a Royal Pain...!) You may be better > off simply deactivating it, and goin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nwam

2011-02-05 Thread Lou Picciano
Thommy, Must you use nwam? (it's kind of a Royal Pain...!) You may be better off simply deactivating it, and going back to 'stick and rudder' flying... Friends don't let friends use NWAM. Lou Picciano - Original Message - From: "Thommy M. Malmström" To: openindiana-discuss@openindi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nwam

2011-02-05 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
A somewhat easier question then. What's up when the NWAM GUI says "Needs network selection"? bge0 connects immediatley I put in the cable and ath0 sometimes when I disconnect the cable. But "sometimes" is something that I'm not used to running Solaris, more often when on Windows... Are there any

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Block pointer rewrite?

2011-02-05 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all Is it possibly, or likely, that OI will ever get block pointer rewrite? I have a 50TB system that was almost filled up with its initial 30TB of storage before we added more drives. The problem is, those VDEVs are still full, and I don't really want to make a backup/restore of those 35TB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Understanding O_DSYNC and zfs_nocacheflush on ZFS

2011-02-05 Thread Yi Zhang
Just want to add that I know O_DSYNC and directio (or disabling FS caching) are two different things. The reason why I wanted to play with O_DSYNC is that a) doesn't seem to give the desired directio result (running the experiment on UFS with directio took 2s). On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Yi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Understanding O_DSYNC and zfs_nocacheflush on ZFS

2011-02-05 Thread Yi Zhang
Hi all, I'm trying to achieve the same effect of UFS directio on ZFS and here is what I did: 1. Set the primarycache of zfs to metadata and secondarycache to none, recordsize to 8K (to match the unit size of writes) 2. Run my test program (code below) with different options and measure the runnin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Bruno Damour
I wouldn't say solaris is safe with regards to power failure. Corrupted boot-archive, etc... can be very painful when you try to boot up again. I guess it is just supposed not to happen, you know servers usually have things like ups, redundant power units, no kids around zones, etc... Bruno ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need good beginner guide to network configuration in OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris with NWAM

2011-02-05 Thread Gary Driggs
Nwam is, in my opinion, a hindrance unless you have a mobile system that changes networks frequently (e.g. netbook, etc). You're better off disabling it and setting a static address, route, etc. One example may be found here: http://satools.net/?p=131 Verbose documentation for nwam may be found

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Matt Wilby
On 05/02/2011 13:03, Gary Gendel wrote: > I tend to agree with Matt. > > I've had several catastrophic power incidence on my server running > OpenSolaris without incident (such as a UPS gone haywire). Since ZFS > does transaction-safe reads and writes, the consistency on the disk > has an extremel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Gary Gendel
I tend to agree with Matt. I've had several catastrophic power incidence on my server running OpenSolaris without incident (such as a UPS gone haywire). Since ZFS does transaction-safe reads and writes, the consistency on the disk has an extremely low probability of getting corrupt. But there

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Matt Wilby
On 05/02/2011 11:28, Basil Kurian wrote: > Here we are running backup servers only during business hours (web > development firm). At the end of day , Sometimes the servers are powered > off , without issuing any commands to shutdown them cleanly. > > On 5 February 2011 16:45, Matt Wilby wrote: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Basil Kurian
Here we are running backup servers only during business hours (web development firm). At the end of day , Sometimes the servers are powered off , without issuing any commands to shutdown them cleanly. On 5 February 2011 16:45, Matt Wilby wrote: > On 05/02/2011 10:53, Basil Kurian wrote: > > Hi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Matt Wilby
On 05/02/2011 10:53, Basil Kurian wrote: > Hi all > > > Currently in our company we are having a Dragonfly BSD backup server with > Hammer filesystem in it. One senior system administrator in our compay chose > Hammer filesystem some times back, because Hammer filesystem can easily > recover in tim

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Need thoughts on OpenIndiana+ZFS for backup server

2011-02-05 Thread Basil Kurian
Hi all Currently in our company we are having a Dragonfly BSD backup server with Hammer filesystem in it. One senior system administrator in our compay chose Hammer filesystem some times back, because Hammer filesystem can easily recover in times of power failures. I 'm compelling him to move to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need good beginner guide to network configuration in OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris with NWAM

2011-02-05 Thread Michael Schuster
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 02:18, Jake wrote: > You want nwamcfg and nwamadm. speaking of which: my installation of OI 148 doesn't have man-pages for these commands, and a (trivial) search for them didn't show any results - do they exist, and if, where do I find them? thx Michael -- regards/mit