[OpenIndiana-discuss] use zfs_nocacheflush

2011-10-06 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi, NFS on zfs can be quite a pain with large number of small files. After playing around it, I discovered this zfs_nocacheflush flag bringing me back to high performances on NFS. Questions: - How much unsafe is this? - How can I check zfs caching status, to understand really what is staying on t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] use zfs_nocacheflush

2011-10-06 Thread Rich
I believe the flag you are setting, without looking, controls whether ZFS flushes the disk write cache, and not a cache of ZFS's. It's moderately unsafe - what ZFS does is that it writes blocks to the hard drives, then issues a command to force the drives to guarantee the write caches are flushed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-06 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 20:03, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Have you tried: > > /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmtopo -V Yes, I have tried that command and it also provides me with some information about the drives in the chassis, but it doesn't give information about which slot in the chassis each drive is located

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question regarding OI148, SI3124 and port multiplier Sil3726

2011-10-06 Thread Attila Fülöp
Stefano, On 10/ 6/11 01:02 AM, Stefano Del Corno wrote: > Hi, I'm sorry if the question have been already discussed in the past: > I'm having an issue with a PCI-e 3132 SATA card and a 3726 port > multiplier. Digging both the internet and OI discussions, I had the > feeling that this specific comb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Jeppe Toustrup [mailto:openindi...@tenzer.dk] > > I have an OpenIndiana server connected to a 12 drive JBOD chassis > through SAS, and I am trying to figure out the best way to find out > which physical drive in the chassis resolves to each of the drive > names visible from the operating s

[OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs timeslider backup to external

2011-10-06 Thread Daniel Kjar
Quick question anybody have any luck with this? I have an external array of drives that I mounted as a zpool. I then pointed timeslider to that mount for external backups. Timeslider made the appropriate folders but when I go into the folder there is nothing there and no space is being

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Small Business Office Suite for OpenIndiana distro

2011-10-06 Thread ken mays
Hello, Applications recently updated to support small businesses using the Openindiana distro in an office environment. Some of these applications are now available through oi-sfe (pkg.openindiana.org/sfe) or their official sponsors. Compare to MS Office and Apple's iWork. Office Applications

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Small Business Office Suite for OpenIndiana distro

2011-10-06 Thread Andrey N. Oktyabrski
On 06.10.11 19:32, ken mays wrote: * Wine (1.3.29) $ pfexec pkg install wine Creating Plan \pkg: No version of library/desktop/wine can be installed: pkg://sfe/library/desktop/wine@1.1.44,5.11-0.151.1:20110927T201821Z: Suitable required dependency pkg:/library/audio/mpg123 cannot be fou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Small Business Office Suite for OpenIndiana distro

2011-10-06 Thread ken mays
Hi Andrey, Add the http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumberedpublisher. Name: library/audio/mpg123 Summary: Fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library Publisher: sfe-encumbered Version: 1.13.3 Build Release: 5.11 Branch: 0.151.1 Packaging Date: Wed Sep 14 12:27:42 2011 Size: 519.40 kB FM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Small Business Office Suite for OpenIndiana distro

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:57 PM, ken mays wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > Add the http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumberedpublisher. By it's very nature, sfe-encumbered cannot be used by all users. Therefore it would appear to be wrong for any package in sfe to have a dependency on a package in the encum

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Small Business Office Suite for OpenIndiana distro

2011-10-06 Thread Andrey N. Oktyabrski
On 06.10.11 20:01, Peter Tribble wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:57 PM, ken mays wrote: Add the http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumberedpublisher. Thank you. But I agree with Peter: is it possible to add all dependencies in the openindiana.org or sfe repositories? By it's very nature, sfe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-06 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 02:03 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi Jeppe, On 3 Oct 2011, at 14:19, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: The only way I have found which I can find the order of the drives in the JBOD along with the above names, without pulling out each drive and see which one becomes unavailab

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-06 Thread James C. McPherson
On 7/10/11 10:41 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 02:03 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi Jeppe, On 3 Oct 2011, at 14:19, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: The only way I have found which I can find the order of the drives in the JBOD along with the above names, without pulling out

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-06 Thread Mark
On 07/10/2011 1:52 p.m., James C. McPherson wrote: On 7/10/11 10:41 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 02:03 AM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi Jeppe, On 3 Oct 2011, at 14:19, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: The only way I have found which I can find the order of the drives in the J