It is: http://www.dilos.org/about-dilos :
"DilOS - it is illumos based system with Debian package manager (dpkg+apt)"
Unless Martin is willing to maintain and push forward the huge OS/Net
codebase on his own, Illumos is realistically the only game in town.
He's a talented fellow no doubt, but buil
On 05/06/2013 23:52, Heinrich van Riel wrote:
> Any pointers around iSCSI performance focused on read speed? Did not find
> much.
>
> I have 2 x rz2 of 10x 3TB NL-SAS each in the pool. The OI server has 4
> interfaces configured to the switch in LACP, mtu=9000. The switch (jumbo
> enabled) shows a
On 06/06/2013 18:01, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I think that Garrett and everyone else has done an awesome job with the
> work they have accomplished. I use OpenIndiana as a desktop everyday,
> and I appreciate the work that all the developers have done! I wish I
> was a developer and could contribute m
On 06/06/2013 22:19, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 06/06/2013 05:15 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> Let's get down to brass tax here: none of the Illumos developers (and
>> that includes me) particularly care about SPARC, because that platform
>> has little to no future. Hardware
On 06/06/2013 22:48, Roel_D wrote:
> i have tests that prove that openindiana on an HP N40l outperforms a HP
> DL380 G6 running windows datacenter.
Would it be possible for you to write these results up into some kind of
a blog post, or make the results otherwise available? Would be a
wonderful t
On 07/06/2013 13:09, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
> all your iscsi writes will be sync writes.
Only if he turns of the cache advertising on the COMSTAR LU, which is
not the default (i.e. VMware won't send sync writes unless he does
something). If he wants to simulate what commercial vend
On 16/06/2013 16:12, Alberto Picón Couselo wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> We have been searching aHigh Availability storage solution for
> OpenIndiana for a long time.
>
> Does anybody know if GlusterFS is supported?. We found the following
> link, but it seems that it is very experimental...
>
> http://
On 17/06/2013 15:12, Sebastian Gabler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it occured to me that obviously some ZFS Storage systems only feature a
> single SAS HBA, including the ZFSSA 7320. At least, as far as I understand.
> From what I saw in the 7320 documentation, each of the two HBA ports is
> connected to each
On 20/06/2013 18:50, ken mays wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> OpenSXCE2013.05 for SPARC EA was just RELEASED.
>
> Notable achievements:
> - Live DVD, Text, USB, and virtual HD versions
> - Fully modernized PCI/USB device driver hardware data support for SPARC
> platform
> - Dtrace support
> - QEMU/KVM
On 22/06/2013 10:24, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> I can only recommend the X4540, these are the best workhorses
> I've ever seen, and it's a pity that there's no useful successor
> for that price/capacity ratio that runs under OI/illumOS.
Yeah, they were too good value for money, so Oracle decided
On 23/06/2013 14:30, Christopher Chan wrote:
> Have you tried this Saso?
I haven't tried that particular box, but given that physical
construction is irrelevant when dealing with compatibility, I wouldn't
worry about it. What matters is what chips are in there.
Beware about depth of the machine,
On 26/06/2013 21:01, Gary Gendel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can I switch from one algorithm to another on the fly? I assume that
> only newly written data will be affected, but can the system deal with a
> mixed compression pool?
See http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/LZ4+Compression "How To Use
It"
On 05/07/2013 17:08, w...@vandenberge.us wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I have a weird problem with two of the 15+ OpenSolaris storage servers in our
> environment. All the Nearline servers are essentially the same. Supermicro
> X9DR3-F based server, Dual E5-2609's, 64GB memory, Dual 10Gb SFP+ NICs, L
On 05/07/2013 19:09, Irek Szczesniak wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> On 05/07/2013 17:08, w...@vandenberge.us wrote:
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> I have a weird problem with two of the 15+ OpenSolaris storage servers in
>&
On 05/07/2013 21:00, w...@vandenberge.us wrote:
> Latencytop reports the following continuously for the pool process and it
> doesn’t change significantly under load, which looks ok to me:
>
> genunix`cv_wait genunix`taskq_threa144919.6 msec6.2 sec
> 99.3 %
>
> Wait for availab
6.4 1993.17.8 0.0 0.80.01.1 0 27
> c8t5000C500565776AFd0
>
> 794.2 7.3 1995.38.0 0.0 0.70.00.8 0 25
> c8t5000C5005657640Fd0
>
> 961.95.5 2509.96.6 0.0 0.70.00.7 0 26
> c8t5000C5005658E0BFd0
>
> 0.00.0
On 09/07/2013 15:18, CJ Keist wrote:
>I'm not finding the core dump file anywhere. Where does OI store
> kernel crash data? If it's not too big I could send it in to the list?
Probably because the fault occurred in the ZFS module the OS can't do a
core dump into the ZFS dump volume. You can g
On 30/07/2013 11:20, Piotr May wrote:
> Hi,
> I need assistance with OpenIndiana and a Dell server. According to all OI
> docs this server with this RAID should work but it does not.
>
> During instaltion process OI does not see the drives. When in "Additional
> drivers", it finds this RAID an
On 30/07/2013 13:29, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-07-30 12:48, Piotr May wrote:
DELL PowerEdge R720xd, OI ver oi_151a7
>>>
>>> These boxes ship with Dell's PERC H310 and H710 controllers which are
>>> not supported in the older oi_151a7. You're going to have to use
>>> something newer like oi_1
On 8/13/13 2:04 PM, Grant Albitz wrote:
> I checked the HCL and saw that basically no adaptec cards are listed. I was
> just wondering what it takes to really have an item moved onto the HCL (short
> of the manufacturer releasing a driver of course). The series 7 cards are
> nice in that they ca
On 9/9/13 7:09 PM, Simon Toedt wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesystem. No
>>> typo. I do not want to use ZFS on my boot disk. Can you choose what
>>> filesystem you want to use for your root du
On 10/8/13 2:28 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I know, this is only in parts an OpenIndiana related questions but maybe
> someone might share their experience / opinions...
>
> I have a customer running OI157_a8 on a Dell DL380-G7. Works like a charm and
> everyone's happy. The
On 10/8/13 3:29 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
>> From: Peter Tribble [mailto:peter.trib...@gmail.com]
>>
>> This is where I get a little confused. Why an extra HBA at all - what's
>> wrong with using the SAS ports on the system board?
>
> My usual reason for using an HBA is for hot pl
On 11/15/13, 4:51 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Back in Solaris 10 I used "dladm show-dev" to list the devices
> (and more importantly bound drivers) for NICs. In Openindiana this
> command seems not implemented, or possibly removed? What gives? :)
Hi Jim,
Don't know about "show-dev",
Sorry, been meaning to respond, but then it slipped my mind.
SAS is a viable COMSTAR target and there even was a SAS target driver
for some LSI 1068-based chips in the old 2009-era OpenSolaris days, but
ultimately that didn't lead anywhere and it fell by the wayside. But I
understand your rational
On 11/23/13, 6:07 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Or how to
> reinstall the thing with proper import of data which is still regularly
> being backed up :\
You should make it perfectly clear to them that a backup you can't
restore is a backup you don't have.
Cheers,
--
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On 11/29/13, 2:12 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
> After rather longer than I planned, a new update of Tribblix
> (milestone 8) is now available
>
> http://www.tribblix.org/download.html
>
> Main focus here has been on getting PXE boot and network install
> to work (still manual, not yet automated - th
On 11/29/13, 3:04 PM, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> does fastboot feature still present in openindiana?
> I have managed to use it back in OpenSolaris days, but not in OpenIndidna.
>
> I was using this guide:
> https://blogs.oracle.com/sherrym/entry/x86_fast_re
On 11/29/13, 3:15 PM, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote:
> Hi Sasko,
>
> yes I did, and set (into /etc/system, and rebooted):
> ---8<---
> * NOTE: nvidia currently does not have quiesce(9E) implementation.
> * If nvidia is the only driver shown by "reboot -f dryrun" as
>
On 11/29/13, 3:19 PM, Johan Hertz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am thinking about buying this in the small form factor version and
> running a illumos OS on it (OpenIndiana/SmartOS).
> http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-Precision-T1700-Spec-Sheet.pdf
>
>
> I tri
On 11/29/13, 3:32 PM, Johan Hertz wrote:
> On 2013-11-29 16:25, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> On 11/29/13, 3:19 PM, Johan Hertz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am thinking about buying this in the small form factor version and
>>> running a illumos OS on it (Open
On 11/29/13, 3:51 PM, Johan Hertz wrote:
> On 2013-11-29 16:36, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> On 11/29/13, 3:32 PM, Johan Hertz wrote:
>>> On 2013-11-29 16:25, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>>>> On 11/29/13, 3:19 PM, Johan Hertz wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>
On 12/5/13, 12:35 PM, Roel_D wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone already installed OpenIndiana successfully on a ProLiant DL380p
> Gen8?
>
> I tried it to some point, but there are lacking a lot of device drivers?
>
> If anyone has a manual or howto I would appreciate it
Haven't tried, but can you gi
On 12/5/13, 2:14 PM, Roel_D wrote:
> I come from Solaris 10 and i already get really frustrated by all rip-offs.
"rip-offs", heh.
> I am used to the Solaris way of configuring zones (the main reason I use
> Solaris) and every successor of Solaris 10 has its own way of configuring
> it. If you wan
On 12/25/13, 10:24 PM, Marc Lobelle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried installing gcc on openindiana (both 4.4.4 and 4.6) and both
> complain not finding crt1.o.
> What did I forget to install and where could I get it ?
>
> Thanks and I hope you all had a hapy Xmas
That's part of the lint library, simp
On 1/1/14, 9:11 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Looking for cheap way of expanding current home storage server running
> on openindiana 151_a5.
> jbod (12 bay are 400$) with SFF-8088 is most cost-effective.
>
> Now the question what card with 8088 to stick in the server. Will this
> one wo
On 1/2/14, 2:28 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> cjt said the following, on 01-01-14 7:14 PM:
>> On 01/01/2014 04:23 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 01-01-14 4:30 PM:
>>>> On 1/1/14, 9:11 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>>>>
On 1/2/14, 6:53 PM, David Scharbach wrote:
> Supermicro may bit a bit overkill for the home server :)
Oops, missed that it's a home machine. Yeah, then it's totally overkill.
For home usage a small pass-thru JBOD is totally sufficient:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-036-BT
On 1/2/14, 11:15 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 02-01-14 9:49 AM:
>> On 1/2/14, 2:28 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> cjt said the following, on 01-01-14 7:14 PM:
>>>> On 01/01/2014 04:23 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>>>> Sa
On 1/3/14, 4:10 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> Roman Naumenko said the following, on 01-01-14 4:11 PM:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Looking for cheap way of expanding current home storage server running
>> on openindiana 151_a5.
>> jbod (12 bay are 400$) with SFF-8088 is most cost-effective.
>>
>> Now the question
On 1/3/14, 12:13 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 03-01-14 5:47 AM:
>> So you'd rather pay $650 instead of $400 for the exact same 10TB
>> instead? (i.e. 10x1TB ($65) vs. 5x2TB ($80)) Why are you so heavily
>> focused on the number of sp
On 1/3/14, 2:44 PM, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently received an HP MSA70 to test. It also allows cascaded config,
> which is a further point of interest. Has anyone already tried it with
> success and, especially, with which controller?
> Thanks
I've been running cascaded MSA60s (w
On 1/3/14, 12:13 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 03-01-14 5:47 AM:
>> On 1/3/14, 4:10 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> Roman Naumenko said the following, on 01-01-14 4:11 PM:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Looking for chea
On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> - Original Message -
>> On 1/3/14, 12:13 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> Saso Kiselkov said the following, on 03-01-14 5:47 AM:
>>>> So you'd rather pay $650 instead of $400 for the exact same 10TB
>>>
On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> - Original Message -
>> On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> - Original Message -
Overall I think you're trying to save money on entirely the wrong
things. Get a few good high-capacity disks and a low-power
enclosur
On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> - Original Message -
>> On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> - Original Message -
On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> - Original Message -
>> Overall I think you're trying to save money on entirely the
On 1/3/14, 6:04 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> - Original Message -
>> On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> - Original Message -
On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> - Original Message -
>> On 1/3/14, 3:14 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> - Ori
On 1/3/14, 8:12 PM, David Scharbach wrote:
> How does a 5 drive bay work over sas? Does it have an internal expander for
> the 5th drive??
>
Well, speaking about expanders, you can attach any number of drives off
of them, not just some nice multiple of 4 :) but this particular box
doesn't have a
On 1/3/14, 11:04 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>
> On 2014-01-03 18:53, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>> - Original Message -
>>>> On 1/3/14, 5:43 PM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
>>>>> - Original Message
On 1/6/14, 1:31 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> Short out two pins??
>
> Please be specific!
Here you go: http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/22
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On 1/7/14, 2:57 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
> Because in SATA, you have to run a separate cable for every drive.
Nope, SATA does have port multipliers, though I agree that beyond a
certain point it becomes a mess.
Cheers,
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On 1/12/14, 5:54 PM, Handojo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got 3 questions :
>
> 1. Forgotten Zone Root Password
>
> I've just installed a zone inside OI151a8 3 months ago, and right now I
> forgot the root password inside the zone.
> So, I follow the instruction here :
>
> http://sysadmin-tips-an
On 1/13/14, 11:48 AM, Handojo wrote:
> Can't you just zlogin as root from the global zone? Then you can run
> passwd and set up a new root password.
>
> I have to log in as root in order to run zlogin
>
> and I can't run : zlogin -l root
> the reply was : Login incorrect
>
> So the only option
On 1/13/14, 11:48 AM, Handojo wrote:
> But since I removed the password field of user root on /mypool/root/etc/shadow
Another solution, set a new root password from the global zone:
chroot /mypool/root/etc/shadow passwd root
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On 1/23/14, 1:41 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> I am looking at decom'ing some sparc hardware in Chicago, and have found
> someone willing to host the hardware out there, on the agreement that
> someone is going to actively use the hardware for the sparc port. Any
> volunteers?
We've had this discussion
On 1/23/14, 5:29 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> What about Martin and his OpenSXCE efforts? could he maybe make use of it?
Martin's decided, for ideological reasons as far as I can tell, to
maintain his own OS/Net consolidation.
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> Am 23.01.2014 um 02:45 schrieb &qu
On 1/23/14, 11:40 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> That might be true, but if he is one of the (at least to my knowledge) very
> few working on SPARC Solaris descendants, wouldn't he still a) deserve
> support and b) indirectly help OI/Sparc in the long run?
Sure, why not. What do you propose n
On 1/23/14, 11:51 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
>> Sure, why not. What do you propose needs to be done to facilitate a) and b)?
>
> Hmmm... I thought the original post was by Ben, being willing to offer a
> stack of recommissioned Sparc hardware under the condition that it would be
> actively
On 1/23/14, 10:09 PM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
>> On 1/23/14, 1:41 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
>>> I am looking at decom'ing some sparc hardware in Chicago, and have found
>>> someone willing to host the hardware out there, on the agreement that
>>> someone is going to actively use the hardware for the sp
On 1/26/14, 12:40 PM, Predrag Zecevic wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> recently I saw announcement of OI 1.9 and decided to move my /dev from
> (latest) 1.8 to 1.9. But before, I have enabled lz4 compression on few
> FS (not sure how many, see below why).
>
> Now, I cannot boot anymore:
>
> a) attempt to bo
On 1/27/14, 10:02 AM, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote:
> On 01/27/14 11:00 AM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> On 1/26/14, 12:40 PM, Predrag Zecevic wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> recently I saw announcement of OI 1.9 and decided to move my /dev from
&g
On 1/27/14, 12:12 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> On 01/27/2014 15:58, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>> Hello.
>> I'd like to know if cache or log device is supported on rpool?
>> I've added cache device to rpool on VM, and it booted succesfully after
>> that. However, I had strong feeling that it is not
On 2/5/14, 5:07 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have compiled OpenOffice 4.1.0 and I have posted to
>
> https://asyropoulos.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/compiling-openoffice4/
>
> my compilation notes. BTW, I have used GCC 4.8.2 and GNU ld. BTW,
Nice work!
> I had tried to compile
On 2/7/14, 7:54 PM, Robbie Crash wrote:
> For a home job, is there really any reason to use ECC RAM?
It only costs a little extra and provides peace of mind.
> I'm running an i3 21020T, 32GB of normal non-ECC RAM, 4WD Green 2TBs and 4
> WD Black 1TBs each in RAIDZ, with a pool that I've filled an
On 2/11/14, 7:59 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> That's a cool unit. Could use something like that internal drive bay that
> supported SAS disks.
Don't know if somebody mentioned it before, but the MicroServer's
internal drive bays use SAS connectors and they are all plumbed into the
motherboard using a
On 2/12/14, 2:43 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
> For those who haven't already heard about this NTP exploit, it begins
> with a single UDP packet sent to a computer running the NTP service.
> With the default configuration, a monlist query will result in many
> packets being returned to the source of the q
On 2/12/14, 5:35 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>>
>> Prudent advice, yes, but I can't think of any situation where an openly
>> accessible NTP service on an Internet-facing machine that isn't
>> *specifically* configure
On 2/12/14, 7:16 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/11/14, 7:59 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:
>>>> That's a cool un
On 6/1/14, 7:27 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Just looking for some opinions on an ebay machine I am thinking of
> buying for an oi zfs server
>
> I do not know enough about specs and so forth to tell if this is an ok
> purchase.
>
> Understand that my usage is strictly home lan... so very light and
On 9/27/14, 1:41 AM, Nemo wrote:
> On 26 September 2014 17:02, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Gary Gendel writes:
>>
>>> I believe we mostly skirt the issue because, unlike Linux, the default
>>> shell (/bin/sh) is ksh93 not bash. This means that under normal
>>> conditions we shouldn't have an issue.
On 9/27/14, 1:59 AM, Nemo wrote:
> On 26 September 2014 19:44, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>> On 9/27/14, 1:41 AM, Nemo wrote:
> [...]
>>> Whence does the OI bash source originate? On the bash that comes with
>>> Solaris 10, the vulnerability is not present:
>>>
On 5/1/15 2:09 PM, Nick Tan wrote:
> On Friday, May 1, 2015, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>
> However since zfs is CoW it should be ok on subsequent rsyncs.
Watch out! SMR disks are *in principle* CoW and ZFS is *in principle*
CoW, but that doesn't mean that they are the same kind of CoW (indeed, I
can
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