Re: RAID5 on FreeBSD 6 or 7

Hey Peter, Is it vinum or gvinum (geom8) that is the utility to create a RAID5 volume..? Things like that gvinum lacks the 'stop' command etc.. makes me think that it's not production ready or that the source code has not matured enough. actually gvinum is production-ready, it only doesn't

Re: 5 TB server

Hey, if it has to be single volume i would use gstripe, or if it should be protected somehow - graid3 or graid5, and use UFS. geom_raid5 is stable? If yes, how come it is not included in FreeBSD yet? Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

Hello, the drives to the other machine and try to make them online again. Do you think I should try? If I were you, I would first buy/get a XXX GB SATA drive, create a filesystem there and copy all three disks block-by-block as three separate files (which will be the size of the disks). This

FreeBSD reference installations?

Hello, is there any list of FreeBSD reference installations? Like a list of big companies that use FreeBSD as their core servers? Thanks, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Sharing Outlook calendars via FreeBSD?

Hello, I am using a FreeBSD 5.3 server in a company with approx. 30 users. There is also a Samba server as a PDC and a mail server. The users would like to share their Outlook calendars. What are my options regarding having FreeBSD as a platform to do this? OpenGroupware is just for Linux and I

Restarting DSL connection without reboot?

Dear community, I am having continuous problems with ADSL connections and FreeBSD servers. I am running a few dozens of FreeBSD boxes and today in the morning a lot of them were without internet connectivity. Looks like our provider had some maintenance work or something. What happened: the

Re: State of gvinum RAID-5

Hi, I tried gvinum RAID-5 with a 5-Stable around the time when 5.1 or 5.2 was released (afair) and back then it basically sucked big time. Raid worked as long as nothing failed, but reconstructing a drive was somewhere between very painful and not possible. I agree. Now I will have to

Copying to external USB2 disk causes panic

Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 to a Celeron 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM. I also attached a USB2 external disk drive (motherboard uses SiS chipset), because I would like to perform daily backups to this disk. It is a remote server and I am unable to look at the console - I can only provide dmesg output:

Memory information relations

Hi, I would like to know what are exact relations between these 3 memory information printouts: top: Mem: 157M Active, 127M Inact, 60M Wired, 25M Cache, 60M Buf, 125M Free Swap: 998M Total, 998M Free sysctl -a | grep Mem: Virtual Memory: (Total: 78781K, Active 798692K) Real

Page fault while in kernel mode

Hi, I am running 5.3-RELEASE on a P4 2.4GHz with 512 MB RAM. It is a normal PC hardware not a real server hardware. Today in the morning (while I was away from the console) kernel panicked and the output was Page fault while in kernel mode (the guy who wrote that down didn't write other

No buffer space available error

Hello, I've been trying to solve this problem by myself for a long time now, but no luck. I run a few dozens of FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 machines, which serve as routers, NAT boxes, Apache, Postfix, OpenVPN, ... servers. Most of them are low-cost PC machines since they are usually deployed to SOHO