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On Nov 17, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
>
> My box did have uncorrected raidz2 errors and couldn't even point
> to a failed drive - it's as if they all scratched the same region
> at once...
> which may have been caused by power jerks or something,
> with a
On 11/17/12 17:36, Paul B. Henson wrote:
For the motherboard, I'm looking at the Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD,
which is a dual LGA 2011 socket board with 16 DIMM slots, 2 x SATA3, 4 x
SATA2, and 8 x SAS (LSI 2308 controller onboard) along with 4 intel i350
based gig nics. My understanding is that
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 03:13:03PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> If the drive stalls indefinitely trying to recover a bad sector, then
> there is a big problem.
Yep. That's why I definitely don't want to go with consumer grade
desktop drives. I think the WD Red is about the only "inexpensive"
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:27:13PM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On a side note, expect the USB3 ports on modern hardware to not work
> with illumos-based OSes, until someone comes up with any sort of USB3
The server I'm spec'ing doesn't have any USB3 ports, but thanks for the
heads up...
_
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:17:30AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> I have a OpenIndiana system with 16-cores of Xeon E5 and Intel i350
> Ethernet and these seem to work great with recent OpenIndiana/Illumos.
> I was a bit nervous about i350 Ethernet since the driver was not added
> until 151a3
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:56:48PM +1100, Denis Cheong wrote:
> That's a lot of issues and questions to raise in the one post!
Sorry :), it was either that or post a dozen different threads ;).
> Let me start off by saying that your intentions are very similar to mine.
> My OmniOS box is the stor
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 01:06:46PM +0100, Robin Axelsson wrote:
> What you are going for seems like quite an ambitious undertaking!
Yeah, it's probably way overkill for my needs, but I'll have a lot of
fun setting it up and having it, and it should last for a long time.
> Regarding near-line SA
On Nov 17, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
> Even with x86 binary code, it is possible that the code may be able to
> resolve and invoke a standard C library call (e.g. system()) in a way which
> works on both Solaris and Linux.
The JavaScript I've seen most of lately is designed to
On Nov 17, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Bob Friesenhahn
wrote:
> Even with x86 binary code, it is possible that the code may be able to
> resolve and invoke a standard C library call (e.g. system()) in a way which
> works on both Solaris and Linux.
I've not seen any code that bothers. Most JavaScript la
On Nov 16, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2012-11-17 00:46, Roel_D wrote:
>> How about teaming? Is it supported under OI?
>
>
> My memory serves me not worse than google: teaming is one of the
> umbrella terms to describe what is implemented by LACP - a means
> of representing several
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Jim Klimov wrote:
Before claiming "ridiculous pricing", it is useful to examine the
specification sheet. There may be a 10X difference in the uncorrected
media error rate, or error rate may not be specified at all.
Valid point... but how much does it matter if we throw Z
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Gary Driggs wrote:
I see this question asked regularly... Generally speaking, the vast
majority of browser exploits in the wild target windows browsers or
their plugins like Java, Adobe Reader & Flash, or ActiveX. So even if
you're using one of those plugins with a Unix brow
On 2012-11-17 18:41, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Hard drive prices from big-name system vendors are often "ridiculous"
I think we were talking about the open market, shelf prices.
Really, I cannot point at a shop today to prove the statement,
but I was skimming the prices this summer and saw several
I see this question asked regularly... Generally speaking, the vast
majority of browser exploits in the wild target windows browsers or
their plugins like Java, Adobe Reader & Flash, or ActiveX. So even if
you're using one of those plugins with a Unix browser (of those
available), you're already pr
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2012-11-17 17:17, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Prices I have seen this year for Enterprise SAS and SATA drives did not
show a large bump in price for SAS as compared with SATA (maybe only
$20-30). Other than the SAS controller, there is not much extra cost
f
On 2012-11-17 17:17, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Prices I have seen this year for Enterprise SAS and SATA drives did not
show a large bump in price for SAS as compared with SATA (maybe only
$20-30). Other than the SAS controller, there is not much extra cost
for SAS as compared with SATA
I think, s
Hello,
am I right thinking that the firefox version supplied with OI is the same as in
Solaris 11, and updated more or less regularly together with the remaining
userland?
Does this mean it is safe to use?
I generally don't care about new features in later firefox versions, as long as
security
I have a OpenIndiana system with 16-cores of Xeon E5 and Intel i350
Ethernet and these seem to work great with recent OpenIndiana/Illumos.
I was a bit nervous about i350 Ethernet since the driver was not added
until 151a3 but it has worked perfectly.
Prices I have seen this year for Enterprise
On 2012-11-17 05:36, Paul B. Henson wrote:
I think I'm finally going to get around to putting together the
illumos home/hobby server I've been thinking about for the past few
years :), and would appreciate a little feedback on
parts/compatibility/design.
The box is intended to be both a stora
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