On 09/21/10 08:17 AM, aspinwall wrote:
Hi,
After successfully migrating from Solaris 10 u5 to OpenIndiana b147, I
added OpenOffice 3.2.1 via a download I used for Solaris and which did
not appear to cause any problems. I then attempted to install
VirtualBox v3.2.8, using pkgadd . The Virtual
On 09/21/10 10:00 AM, Lou Picciano wrote:
Alasdair and crew,
First off, thanks for taking the reins and making this happen - we're looking
forward to working with OpenIndiana. Feels like home...!
As a first challenge, we're wondering if it's possible to install OI on an
unbootable install o
On 01/26/11 07:03 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
On 25 January 2011 17:32, Edward Martinez wrote:
Hi
in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has an article comparing OpenIndiana to
the BSDs on the desktop.
the article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download
OI is getting exposure :-)
http://bsdm
Hello,
I have am OI 148 system with a number of zones. Today I tried to create
another and zoneadm installed failed with the following pkg error, which
looks like a 151a package has accidentally been installed:
pfexec zoneadm -z svnftp install
A ZFS file system has been created for this zon
On 09/25/11 07:06 PM, Richard Lowe wrote:
This might be #944 (https://www.illumos.org/issues/944), which has
symptoms that are remarkably annoying to track to their cause.
It could be, but I wonder why is happened today and not a couple of
weeks ago when I created the other zones?
Did you fi
On 09/25/11 08:43 PM, Richard Lowe wrote:
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 03:36, Ian Collins wrote:
On 09/25/11 07:06 PM, Richard Lowe wrote:
This might be #944 (https://www.illumos.org/issues/944), which has
symptoms that are remarkably annoying to track to their cause.
It could be, but I
I'm evaluating OI on a new Dell R720 which has a Broadcom 5720 quad NIC.
The device isn't recognised by the installer, but I see commits for
BCM5720 support in hg. How should I update the driver post-install
(bearing in mind I won't have a working network interface!)?
Thanks.
--
Ian.
On 05/ 4/12 05:08 PM, Rich wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Ian Collins wrote:
I'm evaluating OI on a new Dell R720 which has a Broadcom 5720 quad NIC.
The device isn't recognised by the installer, but I see commits for BCM5720
support in hg. How should I update th
On 05/ 7/12 01:04 AM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote:
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Gary Gendel wrote:
I finally decided to take the bullet and make root a role instead of a user.
All went well except for my nightly backup.
I have a backup server that rsyncs my various collection of Linux,
OpenIndia
On 11/17/12 17:36, Paul B. Henson wrote:
For the motherboard, I'm looking at the Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD,
which is a dual LGA 2011 socket board with 16 DIMM slots, 2 x SATA3, 4 x
SATA2, and 8 x SAS (LSI 2308 controller onboard) along with 4 intel i350
based gig nics. My understanding is that
On 11/19/12 16:10, Paul B. Henson wrote:
I use an LSI 2911 which uses the well supported 2008 chip.
Hmm, I don't see any of those for sale, and google's not being much
help. Is that an older card? Maybe it's been discontinued and replaced
with a new model.
I was looking at the box upside down
On 11/19/12 18:01, Paul B. Henson wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:24:51PM +1300, Ian Collins wrote:
I was looking at the box upside down, it's a 9211-8i
Ah, ;), that's more easily found, about $230-$250 it seems, cool.
the 313 has a supercapacitor to flush the writ
On 11/11/12 04:04, Anil Jangity wrote:
I am not able to run OI as a guest in SmartOS/KVM. Are there virtio drivers I
can install to get it to recognize the disks? Are there plans to integrate
official drivers into upstream?
Use "ide" for the disk model and "e1000" for the nic model.
Performa
Achim Wolpers wrote:
Hi Folks,
we bought a Dell PowerEdge R420 as an OI Box. Even though it is listed in der
HCL in the OI wiki, neither the broadcom network interface nor the hba is
supported by OI drivers. So we had to attach a new network interface and have
to boot from an external jbod bo
solarg wrote:
On 12/13/12 02:39, Ian Collins wrote:
Get Dell to fit the alternative Intel NICs (assuming these are
swappable like those on the R720) and a low cost Perc 310, which can
be configured for JBOD.
i have a Dell R320 with PERC 310, and OI doesn't see the disks, even
configured
Reginald Beardsley wrote:
FWIW I have a rack I built that holds 24 disk caddies. It's getting obsolete
as they are all IDE drives, but it's really nice to be able to grab an old
disk, stick it in the machine, load something and play around knowing w/
absolute certainty that I can't do any dam
Ong Yu-Phing wrote:
I have a supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD motherboard, which comes
preconfigured with an LSI 2308 onboard in IT mode. The disks attached
to the onboard LSI 2308 controller can be seen in linux from both dmesg
and fdisk output, but not in OI 148 or 151.
FYI the MPT firmware in the
Robert W Johnson Jr wrote:
We have a few Dell PERC H310 adapters which seem to be rebranded LSI 9211
8i cards. Can anyone who has successfully flashed the firmware from the LSI
9211 (SAS2008 chipset) IT/IR mode please post the steps taken to do so?
These cards support JBOD with the stock Dell f
David Scharbach wrote:
I have an OI installation that seems to crash about every 20 days. Locks up
completely and needs a hard reset. Not very much fun.
Question I have is where would I start to look to see why? I first thought it
may be due to scrubbing load on the LSI controller but that
Lou Picciano wrote:
You appear to have tagged onto an existing thread, not a good idea!
We're looking at building out some of our infrastructure in 10 GB ethernet
land, then reevaluating our changing storage needs in context of best practices
for leveraging these speeds. IE, iSCSI? Dedicated
Jerry Kemp wrote:
Going slightly askew on your original comment.
I also purchased an Intel SASUC8I controller a couple months ago based
on positive comments from the ZFS mailing list to attach (4) 2Tb Seagate
drives to my home system. The best I ever got out of it was for it to
be able to see (
Dormition Skete wrote:
I entered the wonderful world of zones the other day.
>
> I read the chapter in the "OpenSolaris Bible" about zones a while
> back, and I've been thinking that setting up a couple of sparse-root
> zones, and one whole-root zone would probably be best for our needs.
I'm p
dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote:
I think I'm crazy for wanting to set up three zones on this one machine. I
have specific reasons for it, so I can justify it (to myself), but when I first
embarked upon this project, I wasn't even going to use zones at all, just
because I didn't think I shoul
dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote:
On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote:
I think I'm crazy for wanting to set up three zones on this one machine. I
have specific reasons for it, so I can justify it (to myself), but when I first
embarked upon
x11max Unitymedia wrote:
Hi,
my problem is, that it is not possible to boot oi-dev-151a7-ai-x86.usb into
64-bit mode on the system I would like running openindiana on.
It comes up in 32-bit mode only.
On the download site there is a hint:
All downloads support both 32-bit and 64-bit processor
Jim Klimov wrote:
Hello all,
I am currently helping evacuate data/OS from a legacy system
that ran Solaris 10u3 (11/06) in a VM until recently - hypervisor
host died - with tasks stuffed into a number of local zones, in
whole roots over dedicated UFS SVM "partitions". The customer
has decide
Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2013-02-06 21:20, Roel_D wrote:
If the old software/services running on the old solaris didn't rely on /usr or
/etc installed software (like apache/mysql/java-based software) i would suggest
to only copy the software directories in newly created zones.
It could take more
Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/06/2013 09:48 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
It's well worth taking the next step. We have migrated nearly all of
our Solaris and Linux VMs into zones. Much better performance and way
less arse ache!
Are you guys doing Linux in zones? What's the status of these
Reginald Beardsley wrote:
Why can't a custom distro be just a disk image created w/ dd dumped into a
slice which is as large or larger? Is there so much metadata stored that this
won't work anymore? If that's the case, we ought to be able to script fixing
it if we know where it is.
Well it
Randy S wrote:
Hi,
although I am still trying to fix my multipath problem mentioned in another
post I also have the following matter which maybe one of you guys can explain.
I have created a zpool and a volume which has been exported via iSCSI. I want
te create a script which shows me the exa
Ricardo NA wrote:
I found in this page http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Ethernet+Networking
that a Broadcom NIC 5719 is supported with oi 151a7. In that page
you can read "bge 15.4.3". So I assume this is the driver version
from Broadcom wich I downloaded and tried to install. (BRCMbge-
Solaris_1
jlan...@cox.net wrote:
For your consideration:
>
> Support for several programs that I really enjoy has been
> discontinued for the OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana platforms. It won't
> be long before FireFox 3.6.12 becomes unacceptably obsolete ... and
> OpenOffice 3.1.0 ... and Thunderbird 3.2.4 ...
cpforum wrote:
Message du 10/02/13 05:03
De : "Ian Collins"
Flash is dead on most platforms.
Flash is not dead on Linux. The release is frozen but you still have security
updates.
It is dead (due to no support on mobile devices) from a web developer's
perspective. Even Ado
Ram Chander wrote:
Hi,
My OI box is expreiencing slow zfs writes ( around 30 times slower ).
iostat reports below error though pool is healthy. This is happening in
past 4 days though no change was done to system. Is the hard disks faulty ?
Please help.
Does iostat -xtcMn 10 show any anomalies
Ram Chander wrote:
So it looks like re-distribution issue. Initially there were two Vdev with
24 disks ( disk 0-23 ) for close to year. After which which we added 24
more disks and created additional vdevs. The initial vdevs are filled up
and so write speed declined. Now how to find files that
Grant Albitz wrote:
Local dd results:
write 268.343296 GB via dd, please wait...
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/PSC.Net/dd.tst bs=2048000 count=131027
131027+0 records in
131027+0 records out
real 3:09.8
user0.1
sys 2:40.1
268.343296 GB in 189.8s = 1413.82 MB/s Write
131027+0 rec
Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/16/2013 11:58 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/16/2013 11:37 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
Have you tried the connecting to the volume form another IO host to
eliminate vmware as the cause?
Second that.
The 9k MTU might also be hitting some NIC driver bugs - non-standard
Ian Collins wrote:
Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/16/2013 11:58 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/16/2013 11:37 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
Have you tried the connecting to the volume form another IO host to
eliminate vmware as the cause?
Second that.
The 9k MTU might also be hitting some NIC driver
Grant Albitz wrote:
Setting the MTU to 1500 did not affect read speeds but it cut my write speeds
in half. Flow control on or off did not make any difference.
The cable is somewhat ruled out because I am seeing the same exact performance
on 2 different esxi hosts.
Have you tried a native OI
Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/18/2013 05:18 AM, Grant Albitz wrote:
I would like to discuss one more item:
Based on the writes below vs the reads it seems like I am able to get more data
out of a w/s as apposed to a read per second. I may just be misunderstanding
the results but the disks themse
Jesus Cea wrote:
On 28/01/13 02:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote:
Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY
interested in a security supported version.
How much are you willing to pay for this service?
Oracle charges $1k/year per socket.
I
Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
i think I've just got a problem because of machine age!
if I can muster enough courage ok, well, being retired, what can
harm me now?
I have my sata controllers in that machine in ide mode... gaah..
Will I have to export/backup the entire thing to another disk,
{sorry about top-posting, crap webmail client!}
I'm running Solaris on a X9DRH-7TF, which looks to be basically the
same electronics except for the 10G NICs.
Everything works well.
--
Ian
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From: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana"
To:"Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Gerry Weaver wrote:
Hello All,
I have been checking out OpenIndiana as a possible file server and KVM host. I
have read in a couple of places that the OS is stable despite its development
release status. Would anyone be so kind as to share their experiences using
OpenIndiana in production? My
Gerry Weaver wrote:
Hi Ian,
I actually looked at SmartOS, but it seems to be going in the cloud direction.
I was looking for a base to build an intranet vdi solution on. Thanks for the
pointer though.
Which is what we use SmartOS for...
--
Ian.
Gerry Weaver wrote:
Hi Ian,
I've been doing the virtualization thing for a long time (since before it was
cool). During that time, I have found what works best for me. I don't mean to
criticize, but it lacks the perspective of someone who deals with maintaining a
virtual environment on a dai
Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
Hello everybody,
I was trying to compile a program and one file failed to compile
with g++ 4.7.2 but it compiles with CC: Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_i386 2011/11/16.
The following little program reproduces the error I got initially:
#include
#include
using namespace std;
Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
Patching is extremely safe. But let's look at the flip side. Suppose you
encounter the rare situation where patching *does* cause a problem. It's been
known to happen; heck, it's been known to happen *by* *me*. You have to ask
yourself, which is the l
Paul van der Zwan wrote:
When it hung the system would not respond to anything at all.
The only way out I could find was a hard reset or power cycle.
I do have the following in /etc/system:
set snooping=1
set pcplusmp:apic_panic_on_nmi=1
But that did not make a difference.
BTW the hang was/is
ken mays wrote:
Greetings,
OpenSXCE2013.05 for SPARC EA was just RELEASED.
Nice.
Maybe next time start a new tread so the announcement doesn't get lost!
--
Ian.
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Christopher Chan wrote:
On Saturday, June 08, 2013 05:23 AM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
For these large drives, raidz2 is recommended, as the likelihood of a
second drive failure during a rebuild starts to get pretty high.
What's wrong with striped mirrors? raidz2 does not like random i/o. I
happen
Clement BRIZARD wrote:
The first resilvering repported 2 faulted drives, I shutdown the server
(directly via the button) the second worked with no error
zpool status
pool: nas
state: ONLINE
scan: resilvered 1.45G in 5h34m with 0 errors on Wed Oct 23 20:18:47 2013
config:
NAM
Jim Klimov wrote:
Thus the box we'd build should be good with storage (including responsive
read-write NFS) and VM hosting. I am not sure whether OI, OmniOS or ESX(i?)
with HBA passthrough onto an illumos-based storage/infrastructure services VM
would be a better fit. Also, I was away from sho
Jonathan Adams wrote:
On 3 June 2014 17:18, ken mays via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
Point is there are a few options and custom servers or the cheap ones on
eBay for <$500 (i.e. Dell R710 or similar)...
minor nit. the Dell R710's have Broadcom network
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
It is always good to execute 'gmake check' before installing sofware
that comes with a test suite. Some bash tests seem to fail.
If you check the comments printed by the tests, it looks like the
"failures" seen on Solaris based OS are expected.
I've been using 4.1.15
Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
Hello.
I'd like to hear about people who now hardly depends on Sun
Studio-compiled C++ libraries AND use OpenIndiana. Do you have software
which can't be recompiled with GCC? Do you know commercial software
which depend on the libraries?
I mean the following OI packages:
Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
Hi. I'm new to Solaris and OpenIndiana. I heard about it on the
comp.lang.c group because I was told SunStudio and later had a
fix-and-continue compiler. I was able to download OpenIndiana from the
link below, and install Sun Studio through the package manager. It works
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
What is the recommended approach to back up a zfs root pool?
For other pools I use zfs send/receive and/or rsync-based methods.
The zfs root pool is different since it contains multiple filesystems,
with the filesystem for one one BE being mounted at a time:
This mea
Gary Mills wrote:
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 05:54:05PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Oh, and just for a note, USB is *not* like writing another type of driver.
The entire USB framework is a scary beast all of its own, and sadly it also
uses & abuses STREAMs. Implementing a modern USB3 stack shoul
Rich Teer wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Jonathan Adams wrote:
USB is good for ZFS on Linux (useful to set the ashift on a backwards
compatible Solaris 10 zpool), but it's not really "prime time".
Just so that I'm absolutely clear, would I be correct in thinking that
eSATA is preferred over USB-3,
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
I have wondered if it is possible for Illumos to detect USB-3 hardware
which has a USB-2 emulation mode and re-initialize it to USB-2 mode so
that it can work with existing USB-2 drivers.
Currently one is faced with using vendor-specific BIOS menus to
hopefully put USB-3 i
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
OP == "Original Poster"?
If I am the OP, then my interest is in the best way to preserve and
restore root pool configuration (and some user data) in case the OS
needs to be installed with the same or a very similar OS from scratch.
In this case it is not normally necessary
Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
Ian Collins писал 11.11.2015 07:43:
2) Make /etc a mercurial repository and push it to another host. This
allows me to track file changes and quickly recover if I stuff
something up.
Have you looked at fsvs? It also tries to preserve permissions.
We have backup/fsvs
Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
I have only occasional need to run problems larger than main memory
> (16 GB at present), so I can't justify replacing all the DRAM for an
> infrequent need. The drop in SSD prices has me contemplating adding
> a 128 GB SSD as a swap device. The
Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
Sorry, Nicola, but is _this_ the kind of problems that should be
> discussed in the OI community? I would have thought there are more
> serious subjects to ponder...
There is only one of you writing, but many reading. That's why decent
threading and quoting is im
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
On 11/12/2015 20:45, Ian Collins wrote:.
I don't think you can add the drive as a drive, but you could create a
pool with a single volume on on it and add that volume with "swap -a
/dev/zvol/dsk//.
Adding a swap partition or slice from a drive worked just fine
Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> Having been a witness to the conflicts over adding virtual memory to
> Minix I find it ironic that the accepted practice now is to include
> virtual memory in the OS, but not use it. For a long time everyone
> used BSD because it had virtual m
Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
Nikola,
>
> First of all, I do not understand what you are trying to say. I
> suggest that taking more care in your expression would help. None of
> the other respondents seem to have agreed on your intended meaning,
> so I don't think I'm alone.
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Martin Frost wrote:
Any thoughts about what could be causing the slowness?
Run 'iostat -xe' in order to see if a disk is reporting errors or is
abnormally slow.
I'd extend the options to get the pool summary and repeat every 30
seconds or so to see
Martin Frost wrote:
Oh, here's iostat output from after I stopped the slow scrub just now
(with more activity than I expected so maybe someone is working late
on New Year's Eve).
Martin
tty cpu
tin tout us sy wt id
0 83 0 4 0 96
extended dev
Thomas Wagner wrote:
Hi all,
LibreOffice4 is updated to 4.4.7.2 (prev: 4.4.5.2)
I'm looking for testers, so please install and try a
few things in LO.
In any case I would like to hear from you if you had
success or errors.
Repo/Install instructions here: http://sfe.opencsw.org/libreoffice-4.
Jim Klimov wrote:
Unless i'm missing something, your case is a simple one of the zfs rpools being
bound to a saved device path. So grub does find your pool and boots up the
kernel+miniroot (module) and passes the device path string from the chosen hdd
to the kernel, but the solaris/illumos ke
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