FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread O. Hartmann
I've got a problem. For performance reasons I use two 1TB harddrives as a single pool, and as far as I know, ZFS on recent FreeBSD 9/amd64 treats suchs pools 'striped'. Well, I can measure a performance gain in writing and reading. Well, for backup, I use an additional 2TB disk, ZFS,

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three disks with ZFS. The only way of

Monting nfs at boot

2011-01-26 Thread Sven-Åke Svensson
Hi I have some workstations where I mount working directories at boot. The directories that should be mounting are in /etc/fstab. All workstations are FreeBSD 8.1 and there are both i386 and amd64. On the i386 machines it works very well. But on the amd64 something happends. When booting

Re: gmake format

2011-01-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:37:58 +1000, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: You'll have to excuse my ignorance (and my curious mind...), but I can't seem to find a straight answer to this. I know linux uses gmake, and gmake is installed via ports on FreeBSD, but does that

Re: Monting nfs at boot

2011-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:31:10 +0100, Sven-Åke Svensson s...@mbg.se wrote: When booting amd64 it looks like it try to mount the nfs directories before the network is up. On the screen I can see that it try to mount and then there is a line telling that the network interface is up. There it

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread krad
On 26 January 2011 09:21, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk?

Installing gnome2 problems...

2011-01-26 Thread Modulok
List, I tried to install gnome2 today, but failed. I first tried using pkg_add, but ran into a conflict where 'tdb-1.2.0 conflicts with samba3.0.37_1,1'. I *need* samba3 as I use it for other network services. So, I tried to build gnome2 from ports after disabling MAPI. It *almost* worked, but

Re: snd_es137x no recording from headset micro

2011-01-26 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, January 25, 2011 a las 02:27:58PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: Hello, I run FreeBSD 8.x in a VMWare hosted on Win7. The VM presents the Intel HDA sound card of the laptop as AudioPCI ES1371-A and I have to use the driver snd_es137x(4) which works fine with only the

Re: include file not found

2011-01-26 Thread b. f.
Da Rock wrote: gcc -Wall -Wformat-security -Wno-format-zero-length -g -O3 -I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include -DLIBDIR='/lib/l2tpns' -DETCDIR='/etc/l2tpns' -DSTATISTICS -DSTAT_CALLS -DRINGBUFFER -DHAVE_EPOLL -DBGP -c -o arp.o arp.c In file included from arp.c:8:

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-26 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:36 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:20:02AM -0700, Dmitri Brengauz wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Do you have a reference to a relatively simple explanation of how that weighting works (and

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-26 Thread Craig Butler
%cpu The CPU utilization of the process; this is a decaying average over up to a minute of previous (real) time. Since the time base over which this is computed varies (since processes may be very young) it is possible for the sum of all %cpu fields to exceed 100%.

Re: Installing gnome2 problems...

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, I tried to install gnome2 today, but failed. I first tried using pkg_add, but ran into a conflict where 'tdb-1.2.0 conflicts with samba3.0.37_1,1'. Samba's backend changed, you'll need to make sure that all of Samba3's

Re: Best RAID setup

2011-01-26 Thread Subhro Kar
On 26-Jan-2011, at 6:26 AM, Don O'Neil wrote: I'm getting ready to setup a new FreeBSD 8.1 64 bit server and wanted to know everyone's thoughts on which way to go. software RAID 5 (or 10) or hardware RAID 5 (or 10). If you need to select between software and hardware RAID, then by all means

Re: Best RAID setup

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Don O'Neil li...@lizardhill.com wrote: I'm just looking for the most stable, and production ready RAID that can handle at least 1 TB disks and create volumes in the 3-4 TB range. Any thoughts, feedback, caveats, etc. are welcomed. ZFS. You want it. -- chs,

Re: Monting nfs at boot

2011-01-26 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:31:10 +0100, Sven-Åke Svensson s...@mbg.se wrote: When booting amd64 it looks like it try to mount the nfs directories before the network is up. On the screen I can see that it try to mount and then there is a line telling that the

interrupt storm detected

2011-01-26 Thread FRLinux
Hello All, I have a server running FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 with a 3ware 9650 24ports controller. Every now and then I am seeing the interrupt storm message. I have increased the following according to the list: hw.intr_storm_threshold=4000 but it still happens. Any advice? interrupt storm detected on

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-26 Thread David Demelier
On 14/01/2011 19:46, Carl Johnson wrote: Chip Camdensterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: Quoth Carl Chave on Friday, 14 January 2011: I'd suggest looking at the Btimes of top level directories stat -f %SB %N /* Or how about just / as this ~15 minutes earlier than most of the remaining top

HPLIP 3.10.9 problems on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-26 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hi FreeBSD people, I am trying to make my HP LaserJet P1102 work on FreeBSD 8.1 and towards that goal I installed HPLIP 3.10.9 from the Ports Collection. But there are two problems: 1.First, when I try to run HPLIP in the GUI (GNOME), it closes once it's opened. It remains open for less than a

Re: HPLIP 3.10.9 problems on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-26 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-26 18:04, Bahman Kahinpour skrev: Hi FreeBSD people, I am trying to make my HP LaserJet P1102 work on FreeBSD 8.1 and towards that goal I installed HPLIP 3.10.9 from the Ports Collection. But there are two problems: 1.First, when I try to run HPLIP in the GUI (GNOME), it closes once it's

Re: ndis-based network driver fails to load at boot (8.2-PRERELEASE)

2011-01-26 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Does reverting: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/if_ndis/if_ndis_usb.c.diff?r1=1.19.2.3;r2=1.19.2.4;f=h fixed problem? Hi Paul, So did the find that this particular checkin caused the problem led to some

Re: include file not found

2011-01-26 Thread Da Rock
On 01/27/11 00:21, b. f. wrote: Da Rock wrote: gcc -Wall -Wformat-security -Wno-format-zero-length -g -O3 -I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include -DLIBDIR='/lib/l2tpns' -DETCDIR='/etc/l2tpns' -DSTATISTICS -DSTAT_CALLS -DRINGBUFFER -DHAVE_EPOLL -DBGP -c -o arp.o arp.c In file included from

Simplest way to print to a HP USB Printer without HPLIP

2011-01-26 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello, How can I print to a HP printer without installing HPLIP? I know the exact filter needed to print to the printer (foo2zjs according to OpenPrinting.org) If it were PARALLEL or SERIAL I could use the handbook but handbook doesn't have any info. about printing to a USB printer. Thanks for

Re: dhcpd does not log

2011-01-26 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello, Robert! I don't think syslog understands '.*' for priority. Actually, according to syslog.conf(5) it should: --- An asterisk (``*'') can be used to specify all facilities, all levels, or all programs.

Re: Simplest way to print to a HP USB Printer without HPLIP

2011-01-26 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Bahman Kahinpour wrote: How can I print to a HP printer without installing HPLIP? I know the exact filter needed to print to the printer (foo2zjs according to OpenPrinting.org) If it were PARALLEL or SERIAL I could use the handbook but handbook doesn't have any info. about

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 02:32:32PM +, Craig Butler wrote: ASK GOOGLE !!! I DID !!! I must have used a less effective search string than you. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpdNhUwIyzx4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

2011-01-26 Thread William Bulley
Everything up to this point builds okay. Then this happens: Making all in common gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app/work/gimp-2.6.11/plug-ins/common' cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0

ulpt0 Not Recognized! (HP LaserJet P1102)

2011-01-26 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello, Your guide was very advantageous (thanks a lot) and also I downloaded some of your other guides. So far I understood that the data port for a USB printer becomes /dev/ulpt0 instead of /dev/lpt0 which is for a PARALLEL printer. But, when I turn on my HP printer there is no /dev/ulpt0 while

Re: HPLIP 3.10.9 problems on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: I am trying to make my HP LaserJet P1102 work on FreeBSD 8.1 and towards that goal I installed HPLIP 3.10.9 from the Ports Collection. But there are two problems: 1.First, when I try to run HPLIP in the GUI

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three disks with

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data loss into a mirrored pool by adding

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: My question is: is it possible to migrate the

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not changing the capacity of the pool itself.  Sure, you're going to lose the contents of the large 2TB drive, but that's sort of assumed.  You can't convert

Re: Streams fail, more/less.

2011-01-26 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 25/01/2011 23:54, Gary Kline wrote: The _last_ thing that I need to resolve--or at least to understand, is why streams suddenly stopped working about two weeks ago. With all the other hassles, I didn't want to check and see if streams worked here on my server --they don't. The streams stall

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread O. Hartmann
On 01/26/11 21:47, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelsondnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not changing the capacity of the pool itself. Sure, you're going to lose the contents of the large 2TB drive,

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), Christer Solskogen said: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: ZFS lets you add and detach mirrors on the fly, since you're not changing the capacity of the pool itself.  Sure, you're going to lose the contents of the large

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/01/2011 21:57, O. Hartmann wrote: My thinking was simple, I thought since the two physical 1TB disks build one joint pool of 2TB overall capacity, I could simply 'mirror' this pool to another disk of the same capacity. Is there a way to 'send' via ZFS the data of the pool to the backup

Very Important Note on HP LaserJet P1102 on FreeBSD

2011-01-26 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hi dear FreeBSD people, After spending a lot of time on making my HP LaserJet P1102 work on FreeBSD, I found out what the problem is!!! Please tell this to anybody who has problems with HP P1102 on FreeBSD! The problem with this HP model is that it has a fake CD-ROM which contains the Windows

Re: Streams fail, more/less.

2011-01-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:00:49PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 25/01/2011 23:54, Gary Kline wrote: The _last_ thing that I need to resolve--or at least to understand, is why streams suddenly stopped working about two weeks ago. With all the other hassles, I didn't want to check and see if

Issue upgrading to 7.4, looking for guidance

2011-01-26 Thread Keith Seyffarth
I recently was having problems with Firefox crashing, which appear to be related to a requirement for semaphore support for Firefox after the upgrade to the new version of GTK. Anyway, this left me with a 7.4 kernel and a 7.2 world. Which I understand is supposed to work. However, this broke

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-26 Thread elbbit
On 25/01/11 10:11, Daniel Andersson wrote: Is there a package for doing surveys? Preferably a web solution. Any suggestions? Sorry for coming late to the thread with this one. I held off writing back because I have just launched a new website at: http://www.tibble.net/ Wait! Don't go!

Re: Streams fail, more/less.

2011-01-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:00:49PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 25/01/2011 23:54, Gary Kline wrote: The _last_ thing that I need to resolve--or at least to understand, is why streams suddenly stopped working about two weeks ago. With all the other hassles, I didn't want to check and see if

Problem with freebsd-update on 7.3-RELEASE

2011-01-26 Thread Konstantin Vasilyev
Hi all! I have installed %uname -a FreeBSD ota2.cellnetrix.com 7.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p4 #3: Tue Jan 25 19:19:34 MSK 2011 kvasi...@ota2.cellnetrix.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I have @daily freebsd-update cron in root's crontab. Why does freebsd-update mail me the