[OpenIndiana-discuss] SMR disks

2015-04-30 Thread Nick Tan
Hi all, Has anyone tried using SMR disks with ZFS? I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR disk and put it in a esata enclosure for my backups. I found that zfs send would cause the disk to go offline. My guess is that zfs send is too fast and fills the drive write cache. I tried again with just rsync and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Carl Brewer писал 01.05.2015 02:58: On 1/05/2015 9:51 AM, jason matthews wrote: IllumOS distributions boot from legacy MBR. MBR is limited to 2TB of addressable space. Use smaller disks to boot from and add a data zpool for the big disks using EFI. So it can't be done? Maybe I can partition

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread Carl Brewer
On 1/05/2015 9:51 AM, jason matthews wrote: IllumOS distributions boot from legacy MBR. MBR is limited to 2TB of addressable space. Use smaller disks to boot from and add a data zpool for the big disks using EFI. So it can't be done? Maybe I can partition the drives into a boot and a big ch

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread jason matthews
IllumOS distributions boot from legacy MBR. MBR is limited to 2TB of addressable space. Use smaller disks to boot from and add a data zpool for the big disks using EFI. j. On 4/30/15 4:40 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: G'day I did a bit of googling but didn't find anything. I have a new box I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

2015-04-30 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day I did a bit of googling but didn't find anything. I have a new box I'm building, with 2 x 4TB WD Red HDD's to run as a 4TB mirrored rpool. I plan to build a very basic ZFS rpool box, that will be an rsync destination for a bunch of other servers at a client site - one big rpool is real

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OiOS Hipster 2015.03.30 live DVD

2015-04-30 Thread Private
I recently tried out the live DVD on two intel duo based machines with Nividia and ATi graphics.Has anyone else experienced these issues? A) On start up the tool bar graphics don't load it's set as 'default' as system graphics on tool bar. B) The top navigation buttons don't appear on the windows

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OiOS Hipster 2015.03.30 live DVD

2015-04-30 Thread Private
I recently tried out the live DVD on two intel duo based machines with Nividia and ATi graphics.Has anyone else experienced these issues? A) On start up the tool bar graphics don't load it's set as default as system graphics. B) The top navigation buttons don't appear on the windows. A re adjustm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

2015-04-30 Thread Krzysztof Grzempa
Check IcedTea, it works smoothly on my Linux at work.. https://blogs.oracle.com/wangwj/entry/icedtea 2015-04-29 17:00 GMT+02:00 Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>: > > > > "The 64-bit binaries do not contain deployment tools such as Java Web > Sta