Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
The SSD I'm looking at is a Samsung 843T, note the "T". Maybe there's a non - "T" variety w/o the powerloss protection?? On 2014-02-11 08:28, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Is that really true: The press reslease from Samsung in the US said explicitly: "The inte

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
That was it. The 843 has no powerloss protection short-term backup power supply, the 843T does have tantalum powerloss backup caps. On 2014-02-11 08:42, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: The SSD I'm looking at is a Samsung 843T, note the "T". Maybe there's a non - "T&q

[OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Suppose I set up a raidz1 of N disks now, and fill it up, and suddenly I realize I'm going to need more space, but not enough to warrant setting up a new raidz1 of another N or more disks, it's just a minor need, so I need N+1 disks, rather than just N. Can this be done w/o losing the data on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
t happened somewhere, somehow. On 2014-02-11 10:12, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Suppose I set up a raidz1 of N disks now, and fill it up, and suddenly I realize I'm going to need more space, but not enough to warrant setting up a new raidz1 of another N or more disks, it's just a minor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
That 4th, file, device wouldn't need to be physically large, would it?? It could reside on a much smaller disk. And smaller disks I have a bagload of. On 2014-02-11 11:13, Jim Klimov wrote: Technically, it is possible to fool ZFS into making a pool with a missing device (i.e. make a raidz1 wi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hybrid disks in a raidz1 array??

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
How would hybrid SSD/HDD-s fare in a raidz1 array?? I suppose for large sequential reads it wouldn't be much use, while for random read/write cycles it might help? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
storage for my login/desktop server after migrating the data. Or maybe even buy a 4th disk outright. Seagate NAS 5900 rpm disks are reasonably cheap. On 2014-02-11 13:19, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2014-02-11 12:13, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: That 4th, file, device wouldn't need to be physicall

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Thanks. That clarified the procedure! On 11 februari 2014 23:57:14 CET, "Brogyányi József" wrote: >And on a similar note: Suppose I have a signgle disk with data, and I >decide I can just afford a raidz1 of 4 disks, so I buy 3 more can I > >somehow migrate the data on the original single dis

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L questions for those who've already tried it

2014-02-12 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
A: I found a web page on http://terfmop.co.uk/blog/2013/07/31/hp-proliant-n54l-bios-modification-guide-allow-hot-plug-sata-and-5th-sata-port/ describing a procedure for creating a BIOS restore USB stick and a BIOS modification USB stick. So I wonder: will the N54L run XP or W7 Home well enough t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Can Illumos (and OI ) support wake-on-lan for HP N54L Microserver??

2014-02-16 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Can Illumos (and OI ) support wake-on-lan for HP N54L Microserver?? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Three specific N54L microserver related questions. Sort of Re: low low end server...

2014-02-18 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
1. Is it really worthwhile to mirror an SSD-based ZIL & L2ARC cache, if the SSD has proper power loss protection?? Why: If not I might boot off a USB 3.0 stick (Sandisk Extreme Cruzer 16GB???) and use a smaller SSD for the caches only. 2. Can the PCIe x4 slot in the N54L be used for anythin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Three specific N54L microserver related questions. Sort of Re: low low end server...

2014-02-19 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Precisely. The only remaining question is why HP disabled these bits; Do they know something that makes their decision technically well-motivated, or are they just playing a marketing game? On 2014-02-18 23:35, Volker A. Brandt wrote: Reginald Beardsley writes: I particularly didn't like t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I upgrade from 151a7 to 151a9 ?

2014-02-19 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
This is basically my7 experience, too. And noone seems to have any idea about why these Gnome problems ACTUALLY occur. On 2014-02-19 15:09, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: Not to blame anyone, but IMO every next OI release becomes less stable than previous... The latest release which works stable f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I upgrade from 151a7 to 151a9 ?

2014-02-19 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Milan, I've so far NOT added your jds repo to my config; I can't make head or tails of how to do that, please elucidate! My publishers are currently set up as: PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI openindiana.orgorigin online http://pkg.openin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I upgrade from 151a7 to 151a9 ?

2014-02-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Are you saying that after updating to a new OI151a9 BE, you removed the volume applet from the toolbar while logged in under an OI151a7 BE, and then you booted to OI151a9. Whereupon everything worked perfectly after logging in under OI151a9??? On 2014-02-20 19:32, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: Seems

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Install 151a8, upgrade to 151a9, and gnome system tools (top panel System -> Admin menu) dump core.

2014-02-21 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
With a lot in common with the below complaint, I decided to try a std OI151a9 install on my newly acquired N54L microserver: This isn't ever going to be used for daily GUI logins, but it was there and clean and pristine and fresh, so: I installed from the 151a8 desktop DVD ISO I logged in as

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone tried getting the OpenHome Net library to compile on an illumos based OS?

2014-02-26 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Can OI run on these MBs?

2014-03-16 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Can OI run on http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2550D4I# And/or http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I# Particyularly the latter one, being 8-core, should do nicely as a NAS with heavy duty media transcoding, but little else. Or? _

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone??? Re: Can OI run on these MBs?

2014-03-18 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Come on, somebody out there must have some idea on this. On 2014-03-16 14:49, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Can OI run on http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2550D4I# And/or http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I# Particyularly the latter one

[OpenIndiana-discuss] linux netlink support or replacement in Solaris/Illumos...???

2014-03-25 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I tried to compile ohNet from the openhome suite, and stumbled on a single first major problem (there are probably many more less fundamental ones to defeat later). Linux has something called netlink, and the ohNet code uses a few macros and calls to that. I wonder what netlink does, and how t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] linux netlink support or replacement in Solaris/Illumos...???

2014-03-25 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I think it is sort of doing something vaguely reminiscent of what rpc did in SunOS. On 2014-03-25 13:05, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I tried to compile ohNet from the openhome suite, and stumbled on a single first major problem (there are probably many more less fundamental ones to defeat later

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Real performance hit raidz2 5 disks vs 6?

2014-07-05 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I'm thinking of setting up a 5 x 4TB disk raidz2. Supposedly this is far from optimal, at least for write performance, but I cannot find any numbers or even hand waving discussion of how much worse the 5disk z2 will be. I will use it for media files over cifs and/or dlna, almost exclusively. Thu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What Do I Have To Install To Get A GUI ?

2014-07-22 Thread Hans J Albertsson
That was high on my too-embarrased-to-ask list. Thanks! Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 22 jul 2014 16:48 skrev "Dave Miner" : > On 07/22/14 10:36, Ron Dawson wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Alan Coopersmith < >> alan.coopersm...@oracle

[OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

2015-01-12 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I know FreeNAS has turned to ZFS only, OSv is ZFS only, and NAS Appliances running ZFS turn up in unexpected places, but is it really anything like an even half-baked "success", at least of sorts??? A "friend" (long time, extremely irritating acquantance) claims ZFS is a complete failure, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

2015-01-12 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Thanks for your views, the serial storage (tape mostly?) problem is news to me but otherwise I concur. I was mostly asking about success and market presence, i e is ZFS being widely used in any non-Sun/Oracle part of the workplace? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 12 jan 2015 12:38 sk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

2015-01-12 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Does anyone have anything beyond own impressions and war stories? Is anyone collecting statistics on storage solutions sold? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 12 jan 2015 15:24 skrev "Schweiss, Chip" : > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Andrew Gabriel < > illu..

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 31.3.0 (and v 31.5.0 and 24.* and 17.* ) file downloads fail mostly, "Refresh Firefox" isn't working on Solaris/Illumos

2015-04-10 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Andrew, I get a lot of those.. Stating like "Unix.open is not a function".. Huh? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 10 apr 2015 17:12 skrev "Andrew Gabriel" : > Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > >> The failures have varying forms: >> >> A t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gzip/gtar problem on OpenIndiana (and windows) but no problemo on a Ubuntu PC???

2015-04-22 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I've got this Freenas 9.3 box (a HP N54L with 5 WD Red 4TB disks), and I just ran the builtin Performance Test from the Web Admin GUI. It starts an IOzone run ( a simple one) and finally offers you to download a results file in gzipped tar format. If I do this from an Ubuntu 14.10 box, a shor

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Testing

2015-04-25 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Test Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-27 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I seem to remember somebody talking about somewhere on the web where Oracle/Sun leaves patches for Firefox. But I can't find it. Was I dreaming or does that place exist? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-27 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Thanks Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 27 apr 2015 20:41 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" : > On 4/27/2015 11:26 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: > >> I seem to remember somebody talking about somewhere on the web where >> Oracle/Sun leaves patches for Firefox. &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-27 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I suppose they're all under "patches"? Are there any patches for Firefox 31.6? Can't find them if there are. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 27 apr 2015 20:46 skrev "Hans J Albertsson" : > Thanks > > Hans J. Albertsson > From my Nexus 5 &g

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: Re: Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-28 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 -- Vidarebefordrat meddelande -- Från: "Hans J Albertsson" Datum: 28 apr 2015 11:49 Ämne: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where? Till: "Alan Coopersmith" Kopia: I found pkgbuild. There was a r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-28 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Is the desktop dying, then? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 28 apr 2015 16:52 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" : > There's still some info on > https://java.net/projects/solaris-desktop/pages/Building > though I have no idea how useful or current it is, sin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-28 Thread Hans J Albertsson
So the desktop will stay alive until sunrays are finally eol-ed? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 28 apr 2015 17:14 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" : > I meant that no one had paid attention to updating the web pages and > instructions for external people to build the deskto

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Firefox patches for Solaris, where?

2015-04-28 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I know, but they're still supported, incl patches, for 2 more years. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 28 apr 2015 18:05 skrev "Jonathan Adams" : > Sorry to tell you this but sunrays _are_ eol-ed. > > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sunr

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Transferring everything in one zpool to be a subtree in another larger zpool

2015-05-03 Thread Hans J Albertsson
g zfs send/recv over the network, using nc for buffering, but I've never done this before, so please advice me. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mai

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a subtree in another larger zpool

2015-05-04 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Thanks, that was exactly it. To add a few bits of info: You first must get a pair of private/public keys ssh-keyget -t rsa for the OI user to run the zfs send. Then copy the public key from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on OI to the user root (or other user with admin privs) on freenas. In the web mgm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a subtree in another larger zpool

2015-05-04 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
On 2015-05-04 10:25, Thorsten Heit wrote: > Hi, > ... > 3) Have a coffee or two and wait More like leave overnight, for an HP N54L... ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a subtree in another larger zpool

2015-05-05 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I should have put this in the subject; the receiving zpool is on a FreeNas 9.3 box. When I did as described by you, i e "zfs send -R pool/name@snap | ..." the resulting dataset on Freenas didn't really work. When trying to set up a share for the dataset on Freenas, I got "unsupported share prot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a subtree in another larger zpool

2015-05-05 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
On 2015-05-05 11:56, Thorsten Heit wrote: Hi, I should have put this in the subject; the receiving zpool is on a FreeNas 9.3 box. When I did as described by you, i e "zfs send -R pool/name@snap | ..." the resulting dataset on Freenas didn't really work. When trying to set up a share for the da

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a, subtree in another larger zpool (Hans J. Albertsson)

2015-05-05 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
mbuffer isn't included in FreeNAS. It IS available for FreeBSD, but I don't know if that version will behave responsibly in FreeNAS. FreeNAS devs say "mbuffer won't be included in FreeNAS because we already do proper buffering via dd." Would dd work for buffering in Solaris/OI?? On 2015-05

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a, subtree in another larger zpool (Hans J. Albertsson)

2015-05-05 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
ttcp?? ToolTalk CoPy? On 2015-05-05 15:32, Doug Hughes wrote: you can also use ttcp or iperf just fine. I do that all the time and they are pretty much available anywhere. (ttcp is so simple it's just a single .c source file). The buffering isn't really the important part, using as close t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a subtree in another larger zpool

2015-05-05 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
In OI 151a7, the option -r is NOT available in zfs send. See https://www.illumos.org/issues/2811 Has this been fixed in later OI versions??? On 2015-05-04 10:25, Thorsten Heit wrote: 2) Send the pool to your new machine: root@oldmachine:# zfs send -R @ | \ ssh root@ '/usr/sbin/zfs receive

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Realistic measurement of read speed for large, NFS and CIFS mounted files???

2015-05-05 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I couldn't think of any easy and automatic way to test read speed for files mounted via NFS and CIFS from FreeNAS, in OI 151a7. I used time dd=/mountdir/file of=/dev/null bs=1024k and arrived at 3-500 MB/s or so, However this means I must read numbers off the screen and calculate, and I'd ra

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a, subtree in another larger zpool (Hans J. Albertsson)

2015-05-06 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Hear hear! Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 5 maj 2015 22:36 skrev "Timothy Coalson" : > If you transfer many snapshots, especially if some are small, there is a > benefit from buffering: the receive end, after each snapshot, stops > consuming data, possibly for sev

[OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

2015-05-12 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I mean, I know about snapdir=visible and all that, but I want to look at what data has been written to a dataset after the snapshot. What I REALLY want to achieve is to see who is writing what to my dataset when it really shouldn't be written to!

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

2015-05-13 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
05/12/15 11:34, Chris Gerhard wrote: On 12/05/2015 14:23, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I mean, I know about snapdir=visible and all that, but I want to look at what data has been written to a dataset after the snapshot. What I REALLY want to achieve is to see who is writing what to my dataset

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

2015-05-13 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I'm trying (their patience...) already On 2015-05-13 13:30, James Carlson wrote: This might help: http://www.freenas.org/support/ ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

2015-05-14 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
noatime, isn't that a UFS specific mount option?? Can this be done in mount_nfs?? On 2015-05-13 21:36, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 13/05/2015 09:20, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: This is what it looks like on the FreeNAS box

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

2015-05-15 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Thanks for the reminder on atime. I promise to read the manuals closer in the future! Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 14 maj 2015 22:39 skrev "David Brodbeck" : > Yeah, sorry, I admin a lot of Linux servers so I'm used to thinking of it > generically as 'no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test

2015-05-22 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Define "alive".... Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 21 maj 2015 20:46 skrev "Volker A. Brandt" : > > Mailing list alive ? > > Seems so... :-) > > > Regards -- Volker > -- > -

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for cheap, shallow rack mount 8-12 disk jbod chassis.

2015-05-22 Thread Hans J Albertsson
sata OK. Sata III or better. I thought I'd get an avoton 8core based supermicro box and add a non-raid SAS/sata card and maxed out memory. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discu

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Marvell SATA controllers? Intel i210 GB ether

2015-05-24 Thread Hans J Albertsson
c2750d4i MB. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Marvell SATA controllers? Intel i210 GB ether

2015-05-27 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Might. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 27 maj 2015 11:14 skrev "Nikola M" : > On 05/24/15 06:27 PM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: > >> Can oi and/or other illumos variants handle marvell sata controller chips >> these days? >> > > You can always run

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Marvell SATA controllers? Intel i210 GB ether

2015-05-31 Thread Hans J Albertsson
The FreeBSD forums had a few discussions about Marvell 9172 and 9230 SATA chips, and while 9172 seems to work as is from FreeBSD 9.2 or so, they can make the 9230 work after reflashing with non-raid FW. I suppose it might be the same with solaris sw. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No longer using OI Desktop

2015-06-04 Thread Hans J Albertsson
On this note, does anyone use FreeBSD/PC-BSD as a desktop? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 4 jun 2015 11:00 skrev "Jonathan Adams" : > Just a note to say that I have stopped using OI on the desktop, and have > moved to the "backup" system of Ubuntu on the lap

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No longer using OI Desktop

2015-06-04 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 5 jun 2015 01:07 skrev "Tim Aslat" : > > Hi all, > > I have been using FreeBSD on desktop for about 10 years. I fell in love > with the ports collection after running into binary package hell with > Redhat linux in the early 2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

2015-06-09 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Could you make a guess at how far your effort would help someone trying to compile and package libreoffice for Solaris 11.2? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 8 jun 2015 22:50 skrev "Peter Tribble" : > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] My 151-a7 on a SuperMicro X7Bsi needs both rpool disks replaced. Please advise on how!

2016-09-15 Thread Hans J Albertsson
ot? # zpool replace rpool c1t1d0s0 Wait for resilvering installgrub to c1t1d0s0?? How? How to test bootability of new disk? Then, what do I need to do to replace the still working 500GB disk by a 2TB disk and then make rpool grow to the full 2TB? Hans J. Alberts

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HELP!!! Re: My 151-a7 on a SuperMicro X7Bsi needs both rpool disks replaced. Please advise on how!

2016-09-16 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
-15 11:27, Hans J Albertsson wrote: I'm a bit rusty on doing sysadm on OI, but an old workhorse machine in the server room developed a fault on one half of the rpool mirror. So that disk needs replacing, and the old ones are 500GB but the new ones are 2TB. I happen to have a dozen 2T

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HELP!!! Re: My 151-a7 on a SuperMicro X7Bsi needs both rpool disks replaced. Please advise on how!

2016-09-16 Thread Hans J Albertsson
SSRS can run on that. What I need to do now is reduce the vulnerability of this machine to acceptable levels to enable normal work. I am managing, I'm building a 4k block root pool manually. On 2016-09-16 15:47, Till Wegmüller wrote: > > Hi Hans > > On 16.09.2016 11:58, Ha

[OpenIndiana-discuss] wiki.openindiana.org is unavailable?? Temporary or permanent, gone, ceased??

2016-09-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Was going to refer to an old document on migrating the root pool, but I get 503 Service unavailable from anywhere on wiki.openindiana.org. Is anyone looking after this site? Will it reappear?? Is Gary Mills' short piece on migrating the root pool available elsewhere?? _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] wiki.openindiana.org is unavailable?? Temporary or permanent, gone, ceased??

2016-09-20 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Is anyone working on getting it up again??? On 2016-09-20 13:10, Predrag Zečević - Unix Systems Administrator wrote: On 09/20/16 12:25 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Was going to refer to an old document on migrating the root pool, but I get 503 Service unavailable from anywhere on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] wiki.openindiana.org is unavailable?? Temporary or permanent, gone, ceased??

2016-09-20 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Split requires that the new disk can be a mirror in the old root pool. And a new zpool. Neither condition is met in my case. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 20 sep. 2016 15:55 skrev "Aurélien Larcher" : > But I would personally use the root split method over the old one. &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] wiki.openindiana.org is unavailable?? Temporary or permanent, gone, ceased??

2016-09-20 Thread Hans J Albertsson
The new disk is 4k blocks, the Old is 512b blocks. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 20 sep. 2016 18:34 skrev "Aurélien Larcher" : > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Hans J Albertsson > wrote: > > Split requires that the new disk can be a mirror in the old root pool.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 16.04

2016-09-21 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
In hipster 16.04, can you specify a full two-disk mirror for root right at the start of installing from live DVD media?? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discu

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Surprising bug (???) migrating a root pool

2016-09-22 Thread Hans J Albertsson
corrupted and can't even be destroyed. I'm guessing that 151a7 is too old for this for some reason, and the problem could be the size, maybe rpools need to be <1TB in 151a7? Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Surprising bug (???) migrating a root pool

2016-09-22 Thread Hans J Albertsson
There are lots of sunray 3+s around, so I'm keeping my environment up. Some day I might have to give up, but a totally quiet computer where even the tiny unavoidable residual noise of anything electrical is random in character is still years off. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Surprising bug (???) migrating a root pool

2016-09-22 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I'm going to try a later srss under hipster. Hipster 16.04 seems closer to s11.3 or s12 that works very well with srss. Otherwise I might have to revert to Oracle s11 or 12. Which costs. Our sunrays are perfect for a quietroom environment. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 22 sep. 20

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Surprising bug (???) migrating a root pool

2016-09-22 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Commercially, sunrays are dead. Like totally. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 22 sep. 2016 18:09 skrev "cjt" : > On 09/22/2016 08:40 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: > >> I tried migrating the root pool from a small and slow disk with 512 byte >> blocks to a large

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

2016-09-27 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I'm looking at Hipster 2016.04 and noticing that it supposedly includes gnome and mate1.4, apart from firefox and ffmpeg and lots of nice things. No warnings on the Release Notes page. Then I find another download, 2016 08 16, a test iso where the intro/invite text talks about serious problems

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

2016-09-27 Thread Hans J Albertsson
FreeNAS boxes. I'm not seriously expecting hipster to be super stable, but I can't imagine you folks putting all this effort in unless your experience occasionally includes reasonable usefulness. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 27 sep. 2016 7:40 em skrev "cpforum" : > &g

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for a wiki entry I only half remember

2016-09-28 Thread Hans J Albertsson
A while ago I saw a wiki page flicker past dealing with updating hipster packages even when metapackages would prevent updates. Something about judiciously removing meta packages? Or using special fmri-s? Can somebody guess what it was and point me to the right wiki page, please? Hans J

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for a wiki entry I only half remember

2016-09-28 Thread Hans J Albertsson
any other > package. > > Greetings > Till > > On 28.09.2016 09:29, Hans J Albertsson wrote: > >> A while ago I saw a wiki page flicker past dealing with updating hipster >> packages even when metapackages would prevent updates. >> >> Something about judicio

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

2016-09-28 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Please NO! Don't think I'm confused! I just want to know a couple more details about how to use the isos! The hipster rolling release seems a really great idea, and OpenIndiana was always a beta or even alpha! Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 28 sep. 2016 18:00 skrev "Pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

2016-09-29 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Ok, clear. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 27 sep. 2016 18:00 skrev "ken mays via openindiana-discuss" < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>: > Hello, > No. The official snapshot is the 2016.04 (i.e. BETA) release. The 2016.08 > snapshot is an ALPHA (ex

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

2016-09-29 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Sunrays is the only inescapable use case, but I definitely prefer oi to any of my other available choices for anything light enough to be handled in oi. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 29 sep. 2016 09:17 skrev "Adam Števko" : > Hi, > > I wouldn't consider OpenIndi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for a wiki entry I only half remember

2016-09-29 Thread Hans J Albertsson
This could be what I was looking for! http://alp-notes.blogspot.se/2015/10/userland-incorporation-in-openindiana.html?m=1 Does anyone have any more suggestions on blogs, wikis, whatever dealing with the same general area of ips- and distro-related tricks and tips? Hans J. Albertsson From my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

2016-09-29 Thread Hans J Albertsson
; > On 29 Sep 2016, at 10:56, Hans J Albertsson > wrote: > > > > Sunrays is the only inescapable use case, but I definitely prefer oi to > any > > of my other available choices for anything light enough to be handled in > > oi. > > > > Hans J.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

2016-09-30 Thread Hans J Albertsson
desktop/keepassx failed to install, some dependency failed, all the others installed nicely. Thanks for the useful list. I'll try resolving the keepassx issue, and ask again if I can't. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 27 sep. 2016 19:40 skrev "cpforum" : > > >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HW monitoring in hipster? Like temperatures on CPU and motherboard.

2016-10-02 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Switching from gnome to mate in recent hipster?

2016-10-02 Thread Hans J Albertsson
How? Please tell.me or point me to some write-up! Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Faking an empty boot environment?

2016-10-03 Thread Hans J Albertsson
ing a file system bootable" so if you could say something about that I'd be most grateful. I have a situation where I'd like to put hipster in a new boot environment in a machine that runs oi 151a7 with major sw issues that prevent any and all attempts at upgrading. And it needs t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Faking an empty boot environment?

2016-10-03 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Links? I tried but couldn't find any (??) that were about creating an empty boot environment manually and populating it with something from a live CD or from a particular entire incorporation. Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 3 okt. 2016 18:29 skrev "Jim Klimov" : > 3

[OpenIndiana-discuss] wiki.openindiana.org down?

2016-10-05 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Anyone trying to fix it? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] In IPS, uninstalling a package and all dependent packages?

2016-10-07 Thread Hans J Albertsson
ch package. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Does Illumos upstream include all of zfs incl. utilities?

2016-10-14 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Or, is anything in zfs in OpenIndiana specific for OI? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does Illumos upstream include all of zfs incl. utilities?

2016-10-18 Thread Hans J Albertsson
the answer is "mostly" or "partly", what are the exceptions? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 18 okt. 2016 13:02 skrev "Alexander Pyhalov" : > On 10/14/16 02:26 PM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: > >> Or, is anything in zfs in OpenIndiana specific

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Ray server, OS and VDI patches were released by Oracle last week.

2016-11-08 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I'm also planning to do this on Hipster. Please lete know when you're starting that trial. I'm a bit unsure about what must be hacked in SRSS to make it work in Hipster. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 8 nov. 2016 00:22 skrev "Ivar Janmaat" : > No, I favo

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Getting SunRay server to run on OI Hipster, writeup?

2016-11-09 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Is it simple or hard work? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Getting SunRay server to run on OI Hipster, writeup?

2016-11-13 Thread Hans J Albertsson
What version of srss did you use? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 9 nov. 2016 09:38 skrev "Alexander Pyhalov" : > On 11/ 9/16 11:24 AM, Hans J Albertsson wrote: > >> I know some people in here have had success in getting SunRay Server >> Software to run i

[OpenIndiana-discuss] (I've probably asked this before but my search of the list fails) ffmpeg version and compile time options

2016-12-11 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
What options are included in the ffmpeg expected to be usable in the latest hipster distro? Who is keeping ffmpeg going?? In what repo is it kept?? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mai

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (I've probably asked this before but my search of the list fails) ffmpeg version and compile time options

2016-12-11 Thread Hans J Albertsson
This is in hipster-encumbered, so why are a few options disabled with reference to incompatility with various open licenses? Encumbered should mean that details in licensing should not matter, as long as we're outside the US, right? Hans J. Albertsson From my Nexus 5 Den 11 dec. 2016

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing a faulty rpool disk

2016-12-18 Thread Hans J Albertsson
Doesn't this miss on the installgrub bits? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 18 dec. 2016 14:45 skrev "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" : > On 17/12/2016 10:34, EM - SC wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I have a failing disk in my rpool. >> This pool has only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana upgrade

2016-12-31 Thread Hans J Albertsson
x27;t keep enough info around to step past some unexpected hurdle. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 31 dec. 2016 18:01 skrev "Alan Coopersmith" : > On 12/31/16 05:00 AM, russell wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> I tried a pkg image-update -v --be-name openindia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana upgrade

2016-12-31 Thread Hans J Albertsson
The message I answered was Russel's last, not Mr Coopersmith's. I'm on a phone with limited intelligence... Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 31 dec. 2016 18:49 skrev "Hans J Albertsson" < hans.j.alberts...@gmail.com>: > I had the same kind of pro

[OpenIndiana-discuss] smartmontools under OI151a7

2017-01-19 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I have an OI 151a7 system that for some reason NEVER EVER could be updated. I have tried, following lots of ideas from lots of people on this list, but to absolutely no avail. So, I have come to a point where I absolutely need to run smartmontools to avoid problems, and smartctl fails. I in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] smartmontools under OI151a7

2017-01-19 Thread Hans J Albertsson
That worked, it seems. What does the '12' signify? Feel like an idiot, I do... And, where can I find some docs to help me evaluate reports? In /use/share/docs/smartmontools? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 19 jan. 2017 14:20 skrev "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" : On 1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] smartmontools under OI151a7

2017-01-19 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
On 2017-01-19 14:51, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: On 19/01/2017 14:47, Hans J Albertsson wrote: Read SMART Data failed: scsi error aborted command try smartctl -a -dsat,12 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 That worked, it seems. What does the '12' signify? Use sata instead of scsi, an

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