[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with zoneadm attach -n

2012-01-19 Thread Marco A. Ferreira de Almeida
Hi, I'm trying to validate the configuration of a zone prior to installing it on a different machine, but I keep getting this error: /# zoneadm attach -n /home/marco/zone.xml zoneadm: -: No such zone configured I used /# zoneadm -z zone detach -n > zone.xml to get the manifest. Am I doing somet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-19 Thread Daniel Kjar
is this a zfs formatted drive? On 01/18/12 06:00 PM, Francois Dion wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Ron Parker wrote: I am looking for a USB drive that behaves properly with OpenIndiana. Using a toshiba canvio 1tb. It is a 2.5" usb3 external drive that works fine on regular usb 2. Bee

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to decrease mouse sensitivity?

2012-01-19 Thread Gary Mills
I have a desktop running oi_151a that I originally used with a Sun 3-button USB optical mouse. When I replaced that with a common 3-button USB optical mouse with a scroll wheel, I noticed that the new mouse was too sensitive. Moving the Acceleration slider in the Mouse Preferences GUI to the slow

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-19 Thread James Carlson
On 01/17/12 14:01, Jason Matthews wrote: >> Another fairly likely possibility would be the hardware offload >> features that some drivers can use -- checksum and LSO. If the >> driver you're using can turn off these features, I strongly >> recommend trying that. I'd quickly run out of appendage

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-19 Thread Francois Dion
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote: > On 01/18/12 06:00 PM, Francois Dion wrote: >> Using a toshiba canvio 1tb. It is a 2.5" usb3 external drive [...] > is this a zfs formatted drive? Yes, same zfs version as OI151a: NAME PROPERTY VALUESOURCE canvio2 version 28 d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-19 Thread Daniel Kjar
interesting. I am not sure what the box is (either usb2 or 3) but the system is attached to a usb1 only machine. I think the ultra20 is usb1 as well. On my machines the disk shuts off automatically if the system goes down so I assume the fact that the box shuts off in a minute or two after b

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Diskless Boot + root fs on Ramdisk

2012-01-19 Thread steve
Howdy! I'm a solaris noob... I want to net boot diskless clients with a RAMDISK on /. I have pxegrub served by dhcp to the PXE client and have the following for menu.lst default=0 timeout=30 #min_mem64 1024 title OpenSolaris Ramdisk kernel$ /solaris/platform/i86pc/kern

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diskless Boot + root fs on Ramdisk

2012-01-19 Thread steve
> > > I guess I missed something? What else do I need to do? > Do I need to edit /etc/system or /etc/vfstab or /lib/svc/method/?? > Ooops I did change /etc/vfstab to #device device mount FS fsckmount mount #to mount to fsck point

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana as a production archive service

2012-01-19 Thread Len Zaifman
We run commercial (solaris) ZFS systems and are happy with them. We have been aske if we can get a low cost archive service going on: 2 separate hardware platforms, both low cost, and a zero cost OS running ZFS OpenINdiana looks like a good candidate, but it is still in development. The product

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana as a production archive service

2012-01-19 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Len, I'm just starting with OpenIndiana, but I can try to answer two of your questions. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Len Zaifman wrote: > 2) Running a file service with ~ 36 disks in three  11 disk (9+2) raidz2 > vdevs + hotspares, almost all data will be copied from another fileserver

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana as a production archive service

2012-01-19 Thread solarg
Le 19/01/12 22:24, Len Zaifman a écrit : 2 separate hardware platforms, both low cost, and a zero cost OS running ZFS anybody experienced the storagetek availability suite (AVS) in: pkg:///openindiana/.org//storage///avs/ to mirror 2 hosts? gerard __