Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Gary]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, Bryan N Iotti wrote:

> I had used OpenIndiana virtualized in VBox and loved it. Mac was really
> starting to piss me off (even worse now), so I set out to learn more about
> what was constantly presented as the best in the business.
> I thought that for about 100€ getting the chance to learn what it was like
> to use Solaris 9 on Sun hardware was a pretty good deal.

Outside of their SunRay line, Oracle no longer sells hardware for the
desktop workstation market. So I expect that OI/Illumos will be the
holdout for things like video card drivers, wireless chipsets, and all
other miscellany that only affect desktop users. That said, I'd agree
that OpenBSD or NetBSD are great alternatives for your older SPARC
hardware as they still support architectures that Sun/Oracle dropped
support for many years ago (q.v. UltraSPARC II, III, IV and 32-bit
kernel for x86 removed in Solaris 11 but still supported in OI).

-Gary

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] System becoming unresponsive

[Matt Connolly]

Hi, my OI machine that I built recently has become unresponsive a number of 
times, requiring a hard reset.

Today this happened when I had an ssh connection open, running "top". This is 
the last screen I saw before all my ssh connections died and the machine 
stopped responding to all network activity.

load averages:  28.4,  11.5,  6.70;   up 3+00:50:14 
  09:33:34
151 processes: 135 sleeping, 13 running, 3 on cpu
CPU states:  0.1% idle,  3.6% user, 96.3% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Kernel: 319 ctxsw, 15 trap, 517572 intr, 334874 syscall
Memory: 16G phys mem, 2054M free mem, 8054M total swap, 8054M free swap

   PID USERNAME NLWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATETIMECPU COMMAND
  1063 matt8  590 1066M 1054M cpu/5  221:45 43.67% qemu-kvm-system
  4557 matt7  590 2094M 2082M cpu/21:09  7.50% qemu-kvm-system
  1062 matt8  590 1077M 1065M run375:51  0.06% qemu-kvm-system
---snip---

(full page at https://gist.github.com/1597508 )

(The system is an Intel S1200-BTL motherboard with Xeon E3 processor and 16GB 
ECC ram.)


Once unresponsive, every now and then the HD activity led blinks.

Under normal circumstances, the load average is in the 1-4 range. The machine 
is still under fairly light use until I get some more confidence in it.

After giving the machine a hard reset, I don't see anything in the fault log or 
in /var/adm/messages indicating a failure or anything unusual. (kvm is a bit 
noisy, but it's like that all the time, so I'm not sure that that could be 
cause for lock up after 5 days).


Any ideas?

What could be causing so much cpu usage in the kernel?


Thanks,
Matt.


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[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana compatibility with AMD Llano

[Jan Owoc]

I found the feature set offered by the AMD A75 chipset (6x SATA3,
USB3.0, 64GB of RAM) combined with an AMD A4/A6 APU to be appealing as
the basis for a home-NAS.

I don't see motherboards with this chipset listed in the Solaris HCL
(or am not looking hard enough). Has anyone tried it?

I'm looking specifically at the Asus F1A75-V PRO:
-> AMD A75 FCH (Hudson D3) chipset (SATA3 and USB3 - compatible?)
-> ASMedia PCIe SATA controller (compatible, I think)
-> Realtek 8111E Gigabit LAN Controller (compatible :-) )

Jan

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Bryan N Iotti]

Perfect. Thank you all!

Bryan


Linda Kateley 
January 11, 2012 8:08 PM
On 1/11/12 10:57 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

On 01/11/12 10:50 AM, Bryan N Iotti wrote:
My question was if I could still use my version of Solaris 9 for 
"home hobby

use"or if the new Oracle rules prevented me from it.


Oracle no longer distributes Solaris 9, so to use it, you must 
already have a

copy, and are covered by whatever license you got it under.

Solaris 9 license was free up to 2 cpu's.

  If your home
hobby use includes wanting bug fixes and security patches, then 
you're out of
luck - the only way to get those for any Solaris version now is to 
pay Oracle.





Alan Coopersmith 
January 11, 2012 7:57 PM


Oracle no longer distributes Solaris 9, so to use it, you must already 
have a
copy, and are covered by whatever license you got it under.   If your 
home
hobby use includes wanting bug fixes and security patches, then you're 
out of
luck - the only way to get those for any Solaris version now is to pay 
Oracle.


Magnus 
January 11, 2012 5:08 PM

I have both of those machines at home. They have their uses. I fear 
this is not one of them.


Memory limitations on the Ultra 5 make any ZFS-based OS impractical. 
Luckily, yours has been upgraded to use SCSI disks, which is a good 
thing, because the IDE controller on that model is dog poo.


The E250 is marginally less bad. Marginally.

Honestly, if you really must use machines this old, I'd suggest 
looking at OpenBSD. It runs exceedingly well on this vintage of 
hardware. It's also maintained quite well so you're not stuck running 
old unpatched software. You won't get ZFS, but then your hardware 
isn't really good for that.


This is a bit of a stretch, but if you had 1 or 2GB of RAM in the 
E250, you could run FreeBSD 9.0 (which was just released this week) 
which is also running zpool 28 but is pretty well supported on a 
number of architectures. I say it's a bit of a stretch, because there 
is no getting around the fact that the hardware you're looking at 
using is very old, very slow, and will not be pleasing to use. The 
E250 will, at least, warm up the room for you. Not a bad feature this 
time of year if you live in the northern hemisphere.


If you want to learn about *modern* flavors of Solaris-y OS's, you're 
really better off with hardware made in the 21st century. It doesn't 
have to be exotic or expensive.

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Bryan N Iotti 
January 11, 2012 12:03 PM
Hi everyone,

I'm new to the list (and to the world of Solaris in general) but have 
been following OpenIndiana consistently for the past year.


Now, I have recently acquired a Sun Ultra 5 (with SCSI disks! ;-) ) 
and an Enterprise 250, dirt cheap. I have an original box with the 
Solaris 9 CDs and all the systems work fine.

I use them at home to learn more about this OS and its underpinnings.

Now, how does Oracle's policy on patches and personal use affect me?

Do I need a support contract (can't afford it, probably move to other 
*NIX) or can I still use these for personal use?


Should I move to OpenSolaris (can't find the SPARC .iso anywhere!) and 
be done with the whole "patch" thing?


Thank you all for your time,

 Bryan

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Linda Kateley]

On 1/11/12 10:57 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

On 01/11/12 10:50 AM, Bryan N Iotti wrote:
My question was if I could still use my version of Solaris 9 for 
"home hobby

use"or if the new Oracle rules prevented me from it.


Oracle no longer distributes Solaris 9, so to use it, you must already 
have a

copy, and are covered by whatever license you got it under.

Solaris 9 license was free up to 2 cpu's.

  If your home
hobby use includes wanting bug fixes and security patches, then you're 
out of
luck - the only way to get those for any Solaris version now is to pay 
Oracle.





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Global Evangelist and Community Manager
(mobile) 612-807-6349
(email) linda.kate...@nexenta.com
(skype) lkateley



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 01/11/12 10:50 AM, Bryan N Iotti wrote:

My question was if I could still use my version of Solaris 9 for "home hobby
use"or if the new Oracle rules prevented me from it.


Oracle no longer distributes Solaris 9, so to use it, you must already have a
copy, and are covered by whatever license you got it under.   If your home
hobby use includes wanting bug fixes and security patches, then you're out of
luck - the only way to get those for any Solaris version now is to pay Oracle.

--
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 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Bryan N Iotti]

I probably should have stated the original purpose of my inquiry :)

My question was if I could still use my version of Solaris 9 for "home 
hobby use"or if the new Oracle rules prevented me from it.


I have bought these machines to collect them and learn, so performance 
is not paramount.


I had used OpenIndiana virtualized in VBox and loved it. Mac was really 
starting to piss me off (even worse now), so I set out to learn more 
about what was constantly presented as the best in the business.
I thought that for about 100€ getting the chance to learn what it was 
like to use Solaris 9 on Sun hardware was a pretty good deal.


Now, better specs:

- The E250 has 6 18GB SCSI disks and 1.5GB Ram. I originally tried it on 
Debian, hated the front panel lights going everywhere. Installed Solaris 
9 and am very happy with it. Remote desktop is OK with XNest, save for a 
weird yellow color of some elements drawn onscreen. It also serves NFS 
pretty well, which helps me get stuff over to the Ultra 5 in a 
metaphorical snap.


- The Ultra5 has 2 Atlas 10K II 9Gb Disks with the Symbios dual channel 
PCI SCSI (best upgrade I ever did!), one with swap and /export/home and 
the other with /. Unfortunately, 128MB RAM is all I have for it right 
now, but it hardly gets used, so there's little swapping ;). Also 
running Solaris 9. SunFreeware has been very useful. StarOffice is 
installed. Biggest gripe is the frickin' Optical Mouse that needs the 
special pad. I printed it on transparent plastic and put a mirror under 
it. Barely works, but gets me by.


I thank you all for your answers and for the link to OSol SPARC! Went 
crazy trying to find it!


Bryan

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-build

[Gabriele Bulfon]

Hi, I was following the wiki instruction to do an oi-build 
(http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-build).
After running the first pkg commands, arrived at the "pkg install -v
package
/pkg", the system requested
me to boot the new BE. Infact the next command did not work.
I rebooted, and the system was no more reachable via ssh, had to work on the 
console.
Now, I could run the next command "pkg image-update -v" and it worked for some 
time.
At the end, the system is still unusable, even rebooting, I always get a 
message on boot saying
that the svc:system/filesystem/local was in maintenance mode, no autohome was 
available (infact my
power user could enter the console but placed at "/"), and no usual PATH was 
set (no more /sbin /usr/sbin).
Trying to online the ssh service did nothing, network/ssh always offline.
What state is the system? What is wrong?
Thanx
Gabriele.
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtual memory problems

[Gabriele Bulfon]

Thanx a lot! :)
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A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Data: 11 gennaio 2012 16.33.12 CET
Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtual memory problems
Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
swap -l shows this:
By the way, "swap" has the "-h" and "-k" flags, just like df.
Note also that you can list just the swap-mounted file systems with "df
-F tmpfs -h".
swapfile devswaplo   blocks free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 179,2 8  1048568   634816
but if I issue zfs list rpool/swap I get:
NAME USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool/swap   544M  11.9G   346M  -
...confusedwhat is the real swap space??
I just would like to have swap space to be 2GB at least.
I don't think I tampered the installation, but just got this after the original 
install on VirtualBox.
Is it
Things get a little complicated because total swap includes memory and
storage devices, but the "swap -l" output includes just the configured
storage, and not memory.
Try using "swap -s" (or "swap -sh") to see the actual space in use.  You
should see that the "available" space matches up with the available swap
space seen by "df".
For the ZFS swap volume, you'll want to look at the "volsize" parameter.
That's what sets the actual disk area available for swap.  It looks
like the existing volume was set to 500MB.  Try "zfs list -o
name,volsize rpool/swap".
To change the swap size, I'd do this:
# swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap
# zfs volsize=2G rpool/swap
# swap -a /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap
You could also create a new swap volume with the desired size, add it,
and then remove the old one.
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Magnus]

On Jan 11, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Bryan N Iotti wrote:
> 
> Now, I have recently acquired a Sun Ultra 5 (with SCSI disks! ;-) ) and an 
> Enterprise 250, dirt cheap. I have an original box with the Solaris 9 CDs and 
> all the systems work fine.
> I use them at home to learn more about this OS and its underpinnings.

I have both of those machines at home. They have their uses. I fear this is not 
one of them.

Memory limitations on the Ultra 5 make any ZFS-based OS impractical. Luckily, 
yours has been upgraded to use SCSI disks, which is a good thing, because the 
IDE controller on that model is dog poo. 

The E250 is marginally less bad. Marginally.

Honestly, if you really must use machines this old, I'd suggest looking at 
OpenBSD. It runs exceedingly well on this vintage of hardware. It's also 
maintained quite well so you're not stuck running old unpatched software. You 
won't get ZFS, but then your hardware isn't really good for that.

This is a bit of a stretch, but if you had 1 or 2GB of RAM in the E250, you 
could run FreeBSD 9.0 (which was just released this week) which is also running 
zpool 28 but is pretty well supported on a number of architectures. I say it's 
a bit of a stretch, because there is no getting around the fact that the 
hardware you're looking at using is very old, very slow, and will not be 
pleasing to use. The E250 will, at least, warm up the room for you. Not a bad 
feature this time of year if you live in the northern hemisphere.

If you want to learn about *modern* flavors of Solaris-y OS's, you're really 
better off with hardware made in the 21st century. It doesn't have to be exotic 
or expensive.
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Nikola M.]

On 01/11/12 12:03 PM, Bryan N Iotti wrote:
Should I move to OpenSolaris (can't find the SPARC .iso anywhere!) and 
be done with the whole "patch" thing?
Depending on your hardware, you can use Solaris 10 u8 (10/09) that does 
not impose usage restrictions for commercial use. (Later Solaris 10 
releases from Oracle allows using it for testing/development only 
without license/support contract that gives patches, too).


On Opensolaris side, latest you can use on Sparc is Opensolaris snv_134, 
available now on
http://dlc-origin.openindiana.org/isos/opensolaris/ , after genunix.org 
removal.


After that one can use Illumos building instructions to update and build 
illumos on Sparc, on Illumos wiki and openindiana wiki.
There is no Openindiana (as Illumos based distrinution) for Sparc yet, 
but there are development sparc machines under openindiana/illumos 
umbrella to compile on.
Best is to also get on Freenode IRC channel for Illumos , to get 
informed on sparc progress for Illumos and Openindiana and join forces 
with making it for yourself and others.
(There is upgrade jump needed after snv_134 , to be able to build 
Illumos and i can not find Wiki article about it anymore for SPARC , try 
it on Illumos mailing lists).


There were upgrade path before from opensolaris snv_134 , over Oracle's 
b134 and Solaris11Express to Solaris11, but it seems that Oracle removed 
both b134 and S11Express IPS publishers (repositories) disabling upgrade 
path for S11 for opensolaris users.
If someone have both b134 and S11Express repository images, it might be 
possible starting IPS publisher locally and upgrading or making it 
available for internet upgrade, etc.
Talk about upgrade is, since Oracle changed ZFS format that is not 
compatible with anything in rest of the world, beside S11, but it can 
use older dataset if upgraded to, and Oracle killed upgrade.



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtual memory problems

[James Carlson]

Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> swap -l shows this:

By the way, "swap" has the "-h" and "-k" flags, just like df.

Note also that you can list just the swap-mounted file systems with "df
-F tmpfs -h".

> swapfile devswaplo   blocks free
> /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 179,2 8  1048568   634816
> but if I issue zfs list rpool/swap I get:
> NAME USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> rpool/swap   544M  11.9G   346M  -
> ...confusedwhat is the real swap space??
> I just would like to have swap space to be 2GB at least.
> I don't think I tampered the installation, but just got this after the 
> original install on VirtualBox.
> Is it

Things get a little complicated because total swap includes memory and
storage devices, but the "swap -l" output includes just the configured
storage, and not memory.

Try using "swap -s" (or "swap -sh") to see the actual space in use.  You
should see that the "available" space matches up with the available swap
space seen by "df".

For the ZFS swap volume, you'll want to look at the "volsize" parameter.
 That's what sets the actual disk area available for swap.  It looks
like the existing volume was set to 500MB.  Try "zfs list -o
name,volsize rpool/swap".

To change the swap size, I'd do this:

# swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap
# zfs volsize=2G rpool/swap
# swap -a /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap

You could also create a new swap volume with the desired size, add it,
and then remove the old one.

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtual memory problems

[Gabriele Bulfon]

Hi,
I'm experiencing strange virtual memory problems on an OI, and I noticed a 
strange swap space setup
on that machine.
df -h shows this:
Filesystem size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
rpool/ROOT/openindiana
16G   2.5G12G18%/
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0%/devices
/dev 0K 0K 0K 0%/dev
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0%/system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0%/proc
mnttab   0K 0K 0K 0%/etc/mnttab
swap63M   368K63M 1%/etc/svc/volatile
objfs0K 0K 0K 0%/system/object
sharefs  0K 0K 0K 0%/etc/dfs/sharetab
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
14G   2.5G12G18%/lib/libc.so.1
fd   0K 0K 0K 0%/dev/fd
swap63M   140K63M 1%/tmp
swap63M36K63M 1%/var/run
...63M of maximum swap?
swap -l shows this:
swapfile devswaplo   blocks free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 179,2 8  1048568   634816
but if I issue zfs list rpool/swap I get:
NAME USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool/swap   544M  11.9G   346M  -
...confusedwhat is the real swap space??
I just would like to have swap space to be 2GB at least.
I don't think I tampered the installation, but just got this after the original 
install on VirtualBox.
Is it
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

[Grant Albitz]

Also,

As far as the drives go I have the same problem with different drives so I have 
to question if its really the drives. I was actually wondering if there is some 
sas command the h200 simply doesnt recognize. I suppose its also possible that 
the entire dell line of the sudo 7200rpm sas drives are lacking some SAS 
functionality as well. The lsi 9240-8i should be here tomorrow, i will let you 
guys know my findings with that. Please let me know your thoughts regarding 
raid 1 vs a bunch of raid 0s on the controller.




From: Grant Albitz [galb...@albitz.biz]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:43 AM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane withSAS2008 
(PERC H200)

i purchased an lsi controller card last night. if that does not work i have a 
h700 i can pull. I am curious about the following though:

once you create a raid 0 dont you lose some inherent functionality of zfs? if 
that is the case would it make more sense for me to do the following:

since my intent is to run the zfs equavilent of raid 10. could i just create a 
bunch of mirrors on a h700 and then use zfs to stripe them. i wouldnt expect 
too much of a penalty hit for the controller doing raid 1, and i would suspect 
a failed drive situation would be more straightforward and "normal"

also i have very little experience with sas expanders. i actually have 2 h700s 
available to me. would it make sense to install both h700s into the system and 
run a single channel from each card to the backplane? in my case i would make 6 
total raid 1 pairs, 3 on each controller and then stripe them with zfs. this 
would give me the additional 1gb of cahce.

im just thinking out loud, i wasnt sure if you could connect 2 raid controllers 
to the dell backplane. i wasnt sure if the backplane was truly split for each 
channel or if somehow the controller saw all disks on both channels and was 
multipathing.



From: Andy Lubel [alu...@gmail.com]
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(PERC H200)

Hat to go with h700. Works flawlessly. Had to make single drive raid 0 then 
create pool. I tried lsi and dell IT firmware to no avail so I assume it's the 
drives also since hooking any sata drive up did indeed work, just something 
about the sas drives (not really sas but they are called that).

H700 you will be happy with performance probably not so happy with drive 
replacement outage though.  No raidctl support and I hate MSM.

On Jan 10, 2012, at 23:38, cryptz  wrote:

> how did you make out with this? i have the same configuration but my system
> came with 2tb WD drives. Otherwise our configuration and symptoms were the
> same. Did the h700 resolve this? Woudl an LSI 8 port I card be prefered so
> that we can skip the raid 0 setup?
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

[Grant Albitz]

i purchased an lsi controller card last night. if that does not work i have a 
h700 i can pull. I am curious about the following though:

once you create a raid 0 dont you lose some inherent functionality of zfs? if 
that is the case would it make more sense for me to do the following:

since my intent is to run the zfs equavilent of raid 10. could i just create a 
bunch of mirrors on a h700 and then use zfs to stripe them. i wouldnt expect 
too much of a penalty hit for the controller doing raid 1, and i would suspect 
a failed drive situation would be more straightforward and "normal"

also i have very little experience with sas expanders. i actually have 2 h700s 
available to me. would it make sense to install both h700s into the system and 
run a single channel from each card to the backplane? in my case i would make 6 
total raid 1 pairs, 3 on each controller and then stripe them with zfs. this 
would give me the additional 1gb of cahce.

im just thinking out loud, i wasnt sure if you could connect 2 raid controllers 
to the dell backplane. i wasnt sure if the backplane was truly split for each 
channel or if somehow the controller saw all disks on both channels and was 
multipathing.



From: Andy Lubel [alu...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:00 AM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Cc: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane withSAS2008 
(PERC H200)

Hat to go with h700. Works flawlessly. Had to make single drive raid 0 then 
create pool. I tried lsi and dell IT firmware to no avail so I assume it's the 
drives also since hooking any sata drive up did indeed work, just something 
about the sas drives (not really sas but they are called that).

H700 you will be happy with performance probably not so happy with drive 
replacement outage though.  No raidctl support and I hate MSM.

On Jan 10, 2012, at 23:38, cryptz  wrote:

> how did you make out with this? i have the same configuration but my system
> came with 2tb WD drives. Otherwise our configuration and symptoms were the
> same. Did the h700 resolve this? Woudl an LSI 8 port I card be prefered so
> that we can skip the raid 0 setup?
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

[Rich]

I also updated my stuff to work on OI_151a, though you probably did it
less horribly than I did, and I also didn't post about it.

Also, as I was told when I asked about such AI images for 151a,
http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/151a/

- Rich

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Joshua M. Clulow  wrote:
> On 11 January 2012 21:48, Rich  wrote:
>> My guide for beating that into working for me can be found at [1],
>> which may or may not be useful for your purposes.
>>
>> If you find better information, by all means, please share it.
>
> There are some minor changes to the protocol that the version of
> pkg(5) included in OI 151a uses.  I've updated the example Apache
> vhost configuration in my github repo of example stuff.  I've also
> pushed a few changes to the manifest for generating AI ISOs for 151a,
> as I don't think they're yet available for download.
>
>  https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-misc
>
> These scripts are identical to the ones I've been using to deploy OI
> 151a at work, so I'm reasonably sure they work as intended.
>
>
> Cheers.
>
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On 11 January 2012 21:48, Rich  wrote:
> My guide for beating that into working for me can be found at [1],
> which may or may not be useful for your purposes.
>
> If you find better information, by all means, please share it.

There are some minor changes to the protocol that the version of
pkg(5) included in OI 151a uses.  I've updated the example Apache
vhost configuration in my github repo of example stuff.  I've also
pushed a few changes to the manifest for generating AI ISOs for 151a,
as I don't think they're yet available for download.

  https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-misc

These scripts are identical to the ones I've been using to deploy OI
151a at work, so I'm reasonably sure they work as intended.


Cheers.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

[Ram Chander]

Thanks Rich. Can you also pls describe in detail on setting up dhcp/tfpt,
etc. Basically all setup needed to get AI working.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Rich  wrote:

> It's important not to forget to include links when you intend them as
> a postscript.
>
> - Rich
>
> [1] -
> http://rincebrain.blogspot.com/2011/08/using-ai-to-do-unaided-install-on.html
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Rich  wrote:
> > The closest thing you'll find, as far as I'm aware, is Automated
> Installer.
> >
> > My guide for beating that into working for me can be found at [1],
> > which may or may not be useful for your purposes.
> >
> > If you find better information, by all means, please share it.
> >
> > - Rich
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Ram Chander  wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>  I want to install OI on bunch of clients by PXE.  Is there a way like
> >> jumpstart on solaris ?
> >> Havent found detailed docs to setup.  Any pointers would be useful.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ram
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Bryan N Iotti]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the list (and to the world of Solaris in general) but have 
been following OpenIndiana consistently for the past year.


Now, I have recently acquired a Sun Ultra 5 (with SCSI disks! ;-) ) and 
an Enterprise 250, dirt cheap. I have an original box with the Solaris 9 
CDs and all the systems work fine.

I use them at home to learn more about this OS and its underpinnings.

Now, how does Oracle's policy on patches and personal use affect me?

Do I need a support contract (can't afford it, probably move to other 
*NIX) or can I still use these for personal use?


Should I move to OpenSolaris (can't find the SPARC .iso anywhere!) and 
be done with the whole "patch" thing?


Thank you all for your time,

 Bryan

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

[Rich]

It's important not to forget to include links when you intend them as
a postscript.

- Rich

[1] - 
http://rincebrain.blogspot.com/2011/08/using-ai-to-do-unaided-install-on.html

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Rich  wrote:
> The closest thing you'll find, as far as I'm aware, is Automated Installer.
>
> My guide for beating that into working for me can be found at [1],
> which may or may not be useful for your purposes.
>
> If you find better information, by all means, please share it.
>
> - Rich
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Ram Chander  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I want to install OI on bunch of clients by PXE.  Is there a way like
>> jumpstart on solaris ?
>> Havent found detailed docs to setup.  Any pointers would be useful.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ram
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

[Rich]

The closest thing you'll find, as far as I'm aware, is Automated Installer.

My guide for beating that into working for me can be found at [1],
which may or may not be useful for your purposes.

If you find better information, by all means, please share it.

- Rich

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Ram Chander  wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I want to install OI on bunch of clients by PXE.  Is there a way like
> jumpstart on solaris ?
> Havent found detailed docs to setup.  Any pointers would be useful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Ram
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

[Ram Chander]

Hi,

 I want to install OI on bunch of clients by PXE.  Is there a way like
jumpstart on solaris ?
Havent found detailed docs to setup.  Any pointers would be useful.

Thanks.

Regards,
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

[Maurilio Longo]

Martin,

you can set a timeout with lsiutil, but I've found that it makes no
difference, if a consumer grade disk starts trying to read a failing sector it
can block a pool indefinitely.

Best regards.

Maurilio.

Martin Frost wrote:
>  > From: Jason Matthews 
>  > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:26:08 -0800
>  > 
>  > 
>  > you can adjust the disk timeouts in solaris. 
> 
> Here's an article on how to do that, although it ends with the author
> adding this comment "However in testing with failing harddrives (on
> mpt_sas anyway), we see that the sd timeouts are completely ignored so
> my entire post above is moot!"
> 
>   
> http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2011/05/adjusting-drive-timeouts-with-mdb-on-solaris-or-openindiana/
> 
> I haven't tested this, so does it work or not (in OpenIndiana)?
> 
> Martin
> 
>  > there are two schools of thought here:
>  > 
>  > 1) accomodate the extremely long timeouts of cinsumer drives and
>  > let the drive decide whether to report an error back (fail itself
>  > out)
>  > 
>  > 2) set the time outs very narrowly and be aggressive in letting zfs
>  > fail out disks.
>  > 
>  > i generally go with option 2. 
>  > 
>  > Sent from Jasons' hand held
>  > 
>  > On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Maurilio Longo  
> wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Geoff,
>  > > 
>  > > I've hit this problem several times in the past, with OpenSolaris
>  > > and then with OpenIndiana.
>  > > 
>  > > There are, to my knowledge, no available solutions, it is so by
>  > > design!
>  > > 
>  > > If a disk stops responding the pool waits until after it responds
>  > > again (sometimes pulling it out of its slot and then reinserting
>  > > the disk causes a reset of the link and it starts working again).
>  > > 
>  > > I was not able to assess what happens if I set failmode to continue.
>  > > 
>  > > I think it could be no better since you still cannot write to the pool.
>  > > 
>  > > This is IMHO the biggest problem of ZFS, in that I cannot
>  > > instruct it to stop using a failed device if it has some level of
>  > > redundancy still available.
>  > > 
>  > > Wait is OK only if an entire vdev stops responding, not if a disk
>  > > in a vdev with redundancy has problems either fatal or
>  > > transitory.
>  > > 
>  > > Best regards.
>  > > 
>  > > Maurilio.
>  > > 
>  > > 
>  > > PS. Using server grade disks (those with TLER) makes it possibile
>  > > to overcome this problem for transitory errors.
>  > > 
>  > > 
>  > > Geoff Nordli wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >> Part of my concern is why one disk would have completely brought
>  > >> down the system.  I have seen this come up on the list before,
>  > >> but I don't remember any resolutions to fixing it.
>  > >> 
>  > >> Anyone have any clues to try to prevent this from happening in
>  > >> the future?
>  > >> 
>  > >> thanks,
>  > >> 
>  > >> Geoff
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