Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMR disks

2015-05-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On 1 May 2015 at 07:13, Nick Tan wrote: > 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 ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zabbix-agent

2014-11-06 Thread Aneurin Price
On 6 November 2014 12:11, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: >> From: Pawel Stefanski [mailto:pejo...@gmail.com] >> >> here you have complete instruction >> https://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/install/solaris/opensolaris > > I know. I described that as Plan B. See: > > >> > Plan A is to get it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151a9

2014-02-20 Thread Aneurin Price
On 19 February 2014 18:18, Tim Mooney wrote: > In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151a9, Marc Lobelle said (at > 7:11pm...: > > >> I see that a new version 0I-151a9 is available, but the version to >> download at http://openindiana.org/download/ is still 151a8. Where can I >> find the ISO for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 1.8 /dev: need help (missing feature for read 'org.illumos:lz4_compress')

2014-01-27 Thread Aneurin Price
On 27 January 2014 10:05, Saso Kiselkov wrote: > Then the USB is broken and is trying to boot your disks, not the USB > (it's probably confusing the two also). You could also try using the > OmniOS USB - it's possible the OI GRUB stage2 is outdated and the > shipped version doesn't include LZ4 sup

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

2013-10-09 Thread Aneurin Price
On 9 October 2013 14:37, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: >> From: Christopher Chan [mailto:christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 8:42 PM >> >> Er...isn't hotswap capability PART of the specs whether the drives are >> SAS or SATA? I can do this on a cheap deskt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Aneurin Price
On 30 May 2013 15:29, Laurent Blume wrote: > On 30/05/13 16:15, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > > >> I see there are a bunch of C constructs available ... mutex_init, >> etc. Surely there must be a wrapper application around this kind of >> thing, right? > > > I spent some time looking

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC

2013-04-23 Thread Aneurin Price
On 22 April 2013 20:25, Rich wrote: > What NIC does the machine have? > > My solution on Rx10 with the BCM NICs was to grab the bnx driver blob from > Joyent [ > https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/tree/master/overlay/generic/kernel/drv/amd64/bnx] > and throw that in /kernel/drv/amd64/bnx, boot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-17 Thread Aneurin Price
On 17 April 2013 03:53, Carl Brewer wrote: > Further to my original post, I have a new (desktop, I know ... but I am on a > tight budget) Intel MB with an i5-3750 CPU and 32 GB of desktop RAM. > Booting the 151a7 live DVD shows that it thinks it's a 32 bit system (huh?). > It regognises almost all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and AVS guru $500

2012-07-25 Thread Aneurin Price
On 24 July 2012 17:11, Jason Matthews wrote: > > are you missing a zero to the left of the decimal place? For a couple of hours' work? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-18 Thread Aneurin Price
On 18 July 2012 13:30, Michael Stapleton wrote: > I have one more idea that is more fun... Very nice! This works perfectly. Thank you very much for this. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-18 Thread Aneurin Price
On 17 July 2012 17:50, Michael Stapleton wrote: > Or a job for autofs. > > Check out the man page for automount. > Thanks for the suggestion. The automount option does sound cleaner, although the init script option has the advantage of being very, very simple. I'll look into exactly how the auto

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-17 Thread Aneurin Price
Hello all, >From the command line, I can mount an iso image using mount directly (without having to invoke lofiadm): # mount -F hsfs /path/to/my.iso /mountpath I've tried adding a line to /etc/vfstab to have this done automatically on boot: /path/to/my.iso - /mountpath hsfs - yes - But when I tr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM guests hang at boot on oi_151a4

2012-07-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On 27 June 2012 15:02, Aneurin Price wrote: > On 27 June 2012 13:28, Jonathan Adams wrote: >> mine stopped working after u2 ... there is a "fix" on this issue: >> >> https://www.illumos.org/issues/2626 >> >> # pkg uninstall driver/i86pc/kvm system/q

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM guests hang at boot on oi_151a4

2012-06-27 Thread Aneurin Price
On 27 June 2012 13:28, Jonathan Adams wrote: > mine stopped working after u2 ... there is a "fix" on this issue: > > https://www.illumos.org/issues/2626 > > # pkg uninstall driver/i86pc/kvm system/qemu system/qemu/kvm > # pkg install system/qemu@0.15.0,5.11-0.151.1.2:20120209T223057Z \ > system/qe

[OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM guests hang at boot on oi_151a4

2012-06-27 Thread Aneurin Price
Hello all, I have a machine which was running some KVM guests successfully on oi_151a3, but no longer since updating to oi_151a4. I've tried a Windows 8 VM - when I connect to the qemu VNC display I just get a black screen, which I believe indicates it's hanging at the beginning of the Windows bo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 'pkg image-update' and BEs

2012-06-25 Thread Aneurin Price
On 25 June 2012 15:44, Michael Schuster wrote: > Hi Aneurin, > > I'd expect one of the design goals of the whole image-update process was to > work with as little interruption as possible (we had this in live upgrade > as well, so the historical precedent is fairly clear, IMO anyway): you > could

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 'pkg image-update' and BEs

2012-06-25 Thread Aneurin Price
Hi folks, I have a basic newbie question: can somebody help me to understand how exactly the boot environments created by 'pkg image-update' work? Lets say I start with the BE 'mysystem'. My initial expectation - obviously incorrect - was that performing the update would take a snapshot (call it