Oh. I forgot the CC-field.. -- Vidar
-----Original Message----- Hi, No problem Sanjay. I'll fill out the survey :-) Might be a lengthy text.. hehe I've used Windows server 2003 for some years, and I've lost lots of data on failed software-raids. Personal data like digital photos etc is backed up on a irregular basis, but silent datacorruption is often not discovered until years after, and then I might not have a working backup anymore. My wife doesn't like when things disappear, so I had to find another solution. I don't buy the usual argument that "this would never happen on linux". Its not windows fault that drives fail. And without some checksuming no raid5 implementation I know of can handle this properly. We experience silent datacorruption at work with hw-raid6 also.. So I decided to try ZFS. I've used both linux and BSD before, and the later would be my first choice. Mainly because I've never used solaris before, and I'm more "at home" on BSD than linux. But the ZFS support there seems to be poor, and I thougt it would be better to go to the source.. And it couldn't be THAT hard to start with a new OS. The main problem I faced was drivers.. I had two Intel SRCS28X controllers, and couldn't get them to work. So just to get started I added two older sata disks to the controller on my motherboard, just to discover that it wasn't supported either :-) The MB-controller could "emulate" IDE, and that did the trick for me. Regarding the SCRS28x controllers, I found a modified megaraid-300 driver after some googling. It seems to work fine. 16 disks online, but since the controller won't let me present the disks directly to opensolaris, I cant use hotplug. I have to define a raid0-volume for each disk. Noting to do with the OS anyway. I've ordered an Adaptec 21610SA from ebay, and hope it will let me present the disks directly to opensolaris. The installation process was really easy. I was surprised when I didn't have to answer any questions, and seriously doubted it would work as I wanted when finished. I booted from a CD, and clicked on "install opensolaris" on the desktop. I've convinced two colleagues to try solaris too. Its easier when we are more than one. Sharing ideas etc.. They both had problems with controller drivers. I think they had various Silicon Image controllers for SATA drives, and a Promise fasttrack 376 PDC20376 onboard. I think they solved it by changing from raid-firmware to "regular" on the Silicons, but I don't think the promise controller worked. Im not sure. One of them has a running opensolaris "server" at home now. The other one is waiting for new storagecontrollers from ebay. After that I had some problems adding a mirrordisk too my rpool. I'm not really sure how I pulled it off, but I have a mirrored rpool now.. I didn't find the format/fdisk tools very user friendly. But somehow I managed to get it working. I've never used X much, and was pleased to discover that ssh was enabled and ready to use from remote. Since most "users" in my house uses windows, and I have a domain controller from earlier. I decided to join my new opensolaris-box to the windows domain. I found a nice tutorial on a sun-blog: http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/entry/configuring_the_opensolaris_cifs_se rver This worked flawless, and I was soon up and running with a smb-share on opensolaris. I could manage permissions in filesystem from windows. Inheritance and everything works fine. I tried copy from windows with ACL using robocopy /COPY:DATO, worked fine too. Then after some hours and some GB data, I got an "share not found" message, and it looked like the share was gone from opensolaris. From windows it looked like the server was gone. But it answered on ping, and ssh worked fine. So I concluded it must be something with the smb service. I tried restarting it with svcadm, but it couldn't be stopped. I even tried kill -9, but no luck. Then I tried to reboot, but nothing happened. It just told me over and over that smb could not be stopped. (I don't have the exact message). After googling some more, I found out it might be a bug in cifs on 2009.06, and I tried image-upgrade to 118. The "reboot" problem went away, but cifs still stops after a while. I'm now on 122, and it's the same.. I'm not sure whats causing it. It looks like its not so frequent on the newest build, but it could be because its less load now, after all my data is copied. Maybe I have to create a cronjob that restarts cifs every night, or something. Or just wait and see if it get fixed later. My colleagues and I discussed trying solaris at work, for storage server. It certainly has the features. With zfs and iscsi target etc.. With the upcoming deduplication it would be a sure winner. But I doubt the dedup will do any good if we share out areas over iSCSI, and in order to use the zfs directly over cifs it has to be a lot more stable, I think. So for now, we will play with it at home :-) I was really impressed by the "image-update" feature. Upgrading the kernel and all packages with one command. AND it worked. :-) My first experience is good. I expected driver issues, and was correct. The rest just takes some time to get used to, I guess. -- Vidar -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 10. september 2009 04:17 To: Nilsen, Vidar Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] SUNWrtorrent Nilsen, Vidar wrote: > James wrote: > >> Nilsen, Vidar wrote: >> >>> It looks like the package is compiled without the "--with-xmlrpc-c" >>> switch, which makes it hard to add more "userfriendly" interfaces >>> > like > >>> wtorrent etc. >>> >>> I'm wondering if there is some place one can request features, or >>> wishes? I can't find any contact information in the package, nor on >>> > web > >>> ... >>> >> Nilsen, >> >> You can work with Alex Zhang, the maintainer, on this. I'm ccing him. >> >> Cheers, >> Jim >> > > Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. > I've checked the webpage for transmission-client mentioned by others. > Maybe I can use that instead. > My opensolaris-box is a "headless" box with lots of disks. I use it > primary for storage. > It would be ideal with a client I could manage over web or something. > It certainly looks like transmission can do what I want. > > Maybe I'll dare use opensolaris on my main computer, when I get a little > more experience :-) > > Sorry for bugging you. But I would greatly appreciate your views as a new user to OpenSolaris. Specifically what were the issues that you encountered ? What can we do better. I know this sounds like a survey, but it's not. Often the first experiences are useful in helping transition or expose hidden issues. -Sanjay > Alex: Is there any chance of including xmlrpc in this package in the > future? > > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
