[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones

2014-02-17 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, Is there any Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 branded zone support? Or was "project Etude" never open-sourced (and was it limited to SPARC only?) I thought of making a compile-farm on a single box for a number of OSes that I still support, including legacy Solaris installations which work i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones

2014-02-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/17/14 08:53 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: Is there any Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 branded zone support? Or was "project Etude" never open-sourced (and was it limited to SPARC only?) I don't think the support for Solaris 8 or 9 branded zones was released, since those are only supported in Solaris 1

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Standard flag for fast shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, Is there any standard means to signal that the OS desires a fast shutdown as opposed to a possibly more time-consuming "proper" shutdown? I guess the main use-case would be with UPS events triggering the shutdown, and we want to quiesce the system as correctly and as quickly as possi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Standard flag for fast shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread Marcel Telka
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:42:03PM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > And on a similar note, are there any tricks for an OI NFS > server to report to its clients that it is going to shut down? No. There is no such support in the protocol. And you shouldn't need that. The NFS protocol is designed to reco

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hardware advice on cheap homeserver

2014-02-17 Thread tomte
Hello, As my current machine has decided its time to move on I need to purchase something new and somewhat reliable ;) Old config was a Asus M2n-sli deluxe with a Athlon(tm) 64 X2 5600+ with a LSI SAS 9211-8i controller, which I was more than pleased with. As a new machine I have been looking at

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New hipster ISOs (bnx and bnxe incl.)

2014-02-17 Thread Adam Števko
Hi people, I created new hipster ISOs. These ISOs contain new network drivers (bnx, bnxe) and their support should work out of the box. Give them a test drive. Links: http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-gui-20140214.iso http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/OI-hipster-gui-20140

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hardware advice on cheap homeserver

2014-02-17 Thread alka
I would prefer a mainboard based on an Intel serverchipset with 4 better 8 GB ECC RAM together with an i3 (Xeon as an option then for napp-in-one) If you look at http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/#1150 you get such boards that are perfect for ZFS and widely used with OI and O