Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mercurial 2.3.1 - local compile fails

[Open Indiana]

https://www.google.nl/search?q="python+unrecognized+option+-KPIC"; 


-Original Message-
From: Ewald Ertl [mailto:ewald.e...@gmail.com] 
Sent: donderdag 6 september 2012 9:50
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mercurial 2.3.1 - local compile fails

Hello,

yesterday, I upgraded my local installation of OpenIndiana to prestable6.

Now Mercurial 2.3.1 is release, so I downloaded the package extracted the
source and issued a "gmake local" compile run, but this fails now.

The error message is:

running build_ext
building 'mercurial.base85' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.solaris-2.11-i86pc-2.6 creating
build/temp.solaris-2.11-i86pc-2.6/mercurial
/usr/lib/python2.6/pycc -DNDEBUG -KPIC -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c
mercurial/base85.c -o build/temp.solaris-2.11-i86pc-2.6/mercurial/base85.o
gcc: error: unrecognized option '-KPIC'
error: command '/usr/lib/python2.6/pycc' failed with exit status 1


After a little bit searching, I found that pycc already gets the compile
option -KPIC from the calling process.
So I search in /usr/lib/python2.6 and found in
/usr/lib/python2.6/config/Makefile the Option -KPIC in the line
CCSHARED=   -KPIC

Now after changing this line to "CCSHARED=   -fPIC", mercurial can be
compiled.

Can this be some inconsistency from former  updates, or is there a problem
from the last update.

The same procedure works on Solaris 10.

Ewald
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mercurial 2.3.1 - local compile fails

[Open Indiana]

As far as i know it is a Python 2.6 issue. It "should" fail on solaris too. 

-Original Message-
From: Ewald Ertl [mailto:ewald.e...@gmail.com] 
Sent: donderdag 6 september 2012 9:50
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mercurial 2.3.1 - local compile fails

Hello,

yesterday, I upgraded my local installation of OpenIndiana to prestable6.

Now Mercurial 2.3.1 is release, so I downloaded the package extracted the
source and issued a "gmake local" compile run, but this fails now.

The error message is:

running build_ext
building 'mercurial.base85' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.solaris-2.11-i86pc-2.6 creating
build/temp.solaris-2.11-i86pc-2.6/mercurial
/usr/lib/python2.6/pycc -DNDEBUG -KPIC -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c
mercurial/base85.c -o build/temp.solaris-2.11-i86pc-2.6/mercurial/base85.o
gcc: error: unrecognized option '-KPIC'
error: command '/usr/lib/python2.6/pycc' failed with exit status 1


After a little bit searching, I found that pycc already gets the compile
option -KPIC from the calling process.
So I search in /usr/lib/python2.6 and found in
/usr/lib/python2.6/config/Makefile the Option -KPIC in the line
CCSHARED=   -KPIC

Now after changing this line to "CCSHARED=   -fPIC", mercurial can be
compiled.

Can this be some inconsistency from former  updates, or is there a problem
from the last update.

The same procedure works on Solaris 10.

Ewald
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

[Open Indiana]

You need to post and/or analyse the errorlog of the smb service. 
Assuming killed more cats than curiosity ;-) 


-Original Message-
From: James Relph [mailto:ja...@themacplace.co.uk] 
Sent: donderdag 6 september 2012 10:38
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Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

>> 
> really? Can you elaborate? The thing is, I'm in the process of 
> compiling and updated winbind from latest Samba sources (and 
> documenting that process) in order to test with that if the problems 
> with supplementary groups go away and if it works with Solaris CIFS.

After I'd installed winbind and had that up and running, doing a svcadm
start smb just put it straight into maintenance mode.  I didn't do much
investigation beyond that as it wasn't critical at the time, but I assumed
there was some kind of conflict in terms of ports.

Have you had any luck getting it working?

Best regards,

James.

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[OpenIndiana-discuss] [JTIY] SABNZB newsgroup reader howto

[Open Indiana]

I found this article some weeks ago. 
http://blog.bitechular.com/2010/11/19/howto-opensolaris-sabnzbd/

Excellent article with a step by step walkthrough that installs SABNZB with
ease. 
Compliments to the writer! 

Just to inform you

( I installed the latest SABNZB version, without problems) 
 

Now we all can read a lot more! 
;-) 


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and Illumos

[Open Indiana]

I disassembled my 2 V210 servers last year because I thought Sparc was
history. 
I only have 4 Ultrasparc IIIi  processors and memory that I saved from
disposal. 

To bad...

-Original Message-
From: Mark [mailto:mark0...@gmail.com] 
Sent: woensdag 5 september 2012 9:40
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and Illumos


> One last thing: I bought a Dual 1.5GHz USIV Uniboard for V490 which is 
> located in Phoenix, but the seller strictly refuses to ship overseas.
> Could smb. please help me and have it forwarded to Berlin?
> This would be cool. But let's first get the DVD out.
> I guess the seller can wait 2 more days. Later later  ...
>
>
I just bought a V890 for NZD 72.00 !! but that is for another task.
Glad I didn't have to ship it !!

But I do have a V440 waiting patiently for an OI install.
(4 x CPU, 8Gb mem 4 x 72Gb Hdd)

It can be made available for remote testing.

Mark.


>
>
>
> tnx.
> %martin
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and Illumos

[Open Indiana]

Big compliments!! You moved some Mountains! 


-Original Message-
From: Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) [mailto:mar...@martux.org] 
Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2012 20:45
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Cc: develo...@lists.illumos.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and Illumos

DEAR OpenSolaris/Illumos/OpenIndiana COMMUNITY:


This is the first time that I logged in into my email account in over
3 weeks (or so).
Yes, no joke.

Some short infos:



0.) I did not give up.

1.) My boxes and I are busy and running hot for a month now.

2.) No party, no girls, no nothing. Only Powerdrinks, Burgers, yet other
energy drinks, Cola and other "healthy" diet.
No holidays and also: No paid work, simply because there is _no_ time.

3.) All OI 151a consolidations are more or less built, NOW including JDS.
HOWEVER: Bootstrapping an OS is one thing, bootstrapping IPS and running
pkgdep is another!.
It is not only a science. And during the process I learned a lot from Rich
Lowe's, Alasdair and Garrett's (and other's) postings, reports, comments,
docs, that were easy to find on openindiana.org, illumos and via google.

4.) As I wanted to meet the promised August 31st deadline, on August 30th I
temorarily stopped my IPS efforts and instead decided to first offer a
LiveDVD. To be precise: A Jumbo LIveDVD with the new upcoming openXsun as
X11, that boots directly into OI-JDS.
Additionally I put everything that I already built into solaris.zlib plus I
also put Studio12,1 (redistributable!) and onbld plus dtbld/jdsbld/pkgbld .
We end up with 11GB ! But thanks to gzip-9 clofi compression, all that
together still fits on a normal 4GB DVD-R  :)



So much for the theory.
As without 100% functioning dependencies and interdependencies I cannot use
distro_const, I created the DVD manually (DVD, solaris.zlib,
solarismisc.zlib, boot_archive and compressed files in the latter.

This is nothing new to me, as all previous releases were created before
distro_const even existed.
Nevertheless: Is is and always has been tricky, to get everything together
and to work. But this time I ran into a few extra mysterious boot freezes,
that were not easy to analyze.

Here the proof:


drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  33 Sep  4 17:52 .
drwxrwxrwx   6 root root  14 Sep  3 07:42 ..
-rw---   1 root root 11091347 Sep  4 09:24 core
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 618311680 Sep  9  2008
Natamar_0.4__b96_sparc_cdrom.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 4272926720 Sep  3 07:40
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__000.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 4366315520 Sep  3 11:02
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__001.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  3 11:24
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__002.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 4366315520 Sep  3 12:08
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__003.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  3 19:41
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__004.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  3 21:10
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__005.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  3 21:28
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__006.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  3 21:42
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__007.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  3 23:17
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__008.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  3 23:58
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__009.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 00:12
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__010.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 00:28
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__011.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 00:45
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__012.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 01:03
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__013.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 01:31
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__014.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 01:53
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__015.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 02:09
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__016.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 02:19
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__017.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 02:49
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__018.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 03:03
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__019.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 03:29
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__020.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 576040960 Sep  4 03:54
SPARC-OpenIndiana151a__JumboLiveDVD__20120903mon__021.iso
-rw-r--r--   1 root

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

[Open Indiana]

+1 

Maybe 1 dedicated ISO build to be installed on the HP Microserver which has 
pre-installed:
1. napp-it (creating networkshares and manage Harddisks at ease)
2. SMTP/POP3 servers with smart configuration scripts so a user can create a 
mailserver at ease
3. CUPS scripts for printer sharing

If you take the HP microserver and stick 4x 1 TB drives and 2x2 GB in it, you 
have a great performing small office appliance for less than € 800,-

This way you will create a worldwide rumor about a new and lightning fast OS. 
It will attract new (business) users.

After this more basic ISO's can be developed for other hardware. OI runs 
out-of-the box on the Microserver hardware. 

I own a HP Microserver and it performs extremely well. It is used as a 
newsgroup reader, NFS server, Windows user-profile storage, mailserver, 
printerserver and more. 



-Original Message-
From: Reginald Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2012 17:02
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

Is it really necessary to convince the freeNAS people to change?

Mark Creamer's response to the thread, "Multiple Windows servers and a OI NAS, 
how to get there" seems to point to a simpler solution.

Offer as an install time option a configuration of OI w/ ZFS as a file server 
in a mixed MacOS, Windows & *nix environment. 

That as an "out of box" packaged solution ought to generate a good bit of 
interest in OI/Illumos.  I don't do Windows, but from what I understand, 
everything is already available if you know how to configure it.

That would leave just a good HCL as an obstacle to wider use of OI.  Some 
judicious choices of new SATA & SAS drivers would ease much of the hardware 
problems.  Some visible momentum would help persuade hardware vendors to 
support the development of drivers for OI/Illumos.

Have Fun!
Reg

--- On Tue, 9/4/12, Robin Axelsson  wrote:

> From: Robin Axelsson 
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"
> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 9:13 AM I certainly hope you are 
> right. But I also hope you are aware of survival bias that may "color"
> your past experiences. It is very easy to look at the successful 
> projects that have managed to survive over the years in retrospect 
> while forgetting about those project that died and fell into oblivion.
> 
> I guess it should come to no surprise that most people who use open 
> source software don't care. Probably the vast majority don't know 
> about Alasdair Lumsden's resignation, let alone that he exists. That's 
> why one should take into consideration that for every 100 or so new 
> users 2-5 of them may eventually start contributing and developing for 
> Illumos. I think incentives such as career opportunities and other 
> things that make Illumos and OpenIndiana look "cool"
> should be important to stress.
> 
> Perhaps it would be possible to convince the freeNAS people to use 
> Illumos/OpenIndana instead.
> 
> On 2012-09-01 16:48, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote:
> >> 
> >> I'm fully aware of the power of the command line
> and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes 
> (including Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and 
> easy to administer web-admin GUI that would encourage the average-Joe 
> to use it as a home-NAS / virtual server is not a bad thing. That way 
> OI would reach a higher penetration with a larger user-base and most 
> importantly; it will get _free advertising_. To some extent the old 
> adage "A good product markets itself" has some truth in it. But it 
> must not only be good, it has to /look/ good so that even a less 
> versed person will understand how good it is.
> > 
> > Focusing on issues like this would be putting the cart
> before the horse.  It is more important to be able to easily build 
> everything and incorporate updates than to have a fancy configuration 
> GUI.  OI popularity should come second to correct functionality and 
> having an organization (of volunteers and corporate entities) to 
> sustain it. If OI is worthy, popularity will follow, even if only from 
> people who already preferred Solaris.
> > 
> > OpenIndiana is still very young.  Successful OS
> distributions take quite a few years to become significant.  It is not 
> something which happens in just a couple of years.
> > 
> > Bob
> 
> 
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple Windows servers and a OI NAS, how to get there

[Open Indiana]

I have multiple Windows 2008 servers that need to write to a shared storage
somewhere in the network. 
One of the servers will gather and process all files on that drive. 

We thought we were good with iSCSI but that doesn't seem to work, because
multiple Windows machines cannot share a NTFS partition. 

I tried to create a networkshare to the networkdrive on every server, but
that gives a lot of problems with the services since they cannot find the
share when the original user has logged off.

Is there anyone who has successfully created a stable NAS solution in OI
that can be used and written by Multiple Windows clients?  




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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PATH Environment Variable:

[Open Indiana]

Also read http://www.blastwave.org/jir/blastwave.fam step 5 carefully. 
It explains everything very well to my opinion. 

I prefer to create different users that have different PATH settings. For
example my user glassfish has his own PATH to the JAVA JDK and the glassfish
directory. User MySQL has his own PATH with access to the MySQL directory
but can't see the glassfish directory and vice-versa. 



-Original Message-
From: Reginald Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: maandag 3 september 2012 12:24
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PATH Environment Variable:

Controlling the executable search path is quite important.   There is no
"right" answer other than always use the environment variable and not a
shell built in (e.g. path instead of PATH).

Scripts run by cron should always use explicit full paths. The best way to
do this is to define variables at the beginning of the script and then use
those later.

For example:

AWK=/bin/nawk
LS=/bin/ls

${LS} -li | ${AWK} '{print $1 ,$6 ,$10}'

There is a lot of system administration lore (e.g. sudo, RBAC) embedded in
Solaris which is essential in a large system environment, but not really
needed in a small one.

Fiddling w/ the root environment is frowned upon because it can have
unpleasant consequences when you least want them.

Have Fun!
Reg

--- On Mon, 9/3/12, Armin Maier  wrote:

> From: Armin Maier 
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PATH Environment Variable:
> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> Date: Monday, September 3, 2012, 4:06 AM Hello Indiana's :)
> 
> I have configured Openindiana to be able to login as root without 
> first login as an unprivileged user and after that run sudo. Now i had 
> a problem within a Script (chmod
> command) and found out that the $PATH variable is different from 
> signing in with "sudo su". I know the reason is the "~/.profile" 
> Script where "/usr/gnu/bin" is added in front of the PATH variable, 
> but what is the reason for this behavior? Until now i was not aware of 
> that but i can imagine that this could make  troubles in scripts 
> scheduled by cron for example.
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

[Open Indiana]

It's not that OI doesn't have to have a GUI, it's only that not all settings
have to be set OVER a GUI. 
Of course it needs a decent GUI, but that doesn't imply that you can
change/alter anything without getting deeper and into the commandline. 



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From: Gary Gendel [mailto:g...@genashor.com] 
Sent: zondag 2 september 2012 16:53
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden
resigns"

On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the 
>>> command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including 
>>> Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to 
>>> administer web-admin GUI that would encourage the average-Joe to use 
>>> it as a home-NAS / virtual server is not a bad thing. That way OI 
>>> would reach a higher penetration with a larger user-base and most 
>>> importantly; it will get _free advertising_. To some extent the old 
>>> adage "A good product markets itself" has some truth in it. But it 
>>> must not only be good, it has to /look/ good so that even a less 
>>> versed person will understand how good it is.
>>
>> Focusing on issues like this would be putting the cart before the 
>> horse.  It is more important to be able to easily build everything 
>> and incorporate updates than to have a fancy configuration GUI. OI 
>> popularity should come second to correct functionality and having an 
>> organization (of volunteers and corporate entities) to sustain it. If 
>> OI is worthy, popularity will follow, even if only from people who 
>> already preferred Solaris.
>
> +1. Precisely.
>
I totally agree.  However, I selfishly want an X-windows server and window
manager on my server.  I personally would prefer a simple window manager
over a the heavyweight Gnome/KDE camps but there are reasons to go with
these.

I develop GUI based applications and have just about one of every
Linux/Unix/Mac/Windows OS and version running to do build and test sitting
in the home office on the opposite coast.  Our clients still have a large
investment with Solaris 9/10 so it is important that this builds and runs on
a Solaris variant.  Some of the apps can launch external programs, so it
determines whether it should use gnome-open, etc. to choose the appropriate
application.

I telecommute, so when I make code changes I like to first build and test it
on a cross section of platforms locally so I don't ship it out to the build
farm broken and make everyone unhappy.

I run router/firewall/file-share/backup/web/imap,web,smtp mail services on
an old V20z.  I have over 10 TB of mirrored zfs storage on which stores mail
for each user  With all of this, I seldomly tax it's resources.  I do,
however use this to build and test to make sure that it properly compiles
and runs my applications.  This has saved me countless of re-spins do to
compiler or library issues. Without X-windows and some WM, I would no longer
be able to use this machine that way and would have to take the hit for
breaking Solaris builds.

I recently picked up an Enterprise 450 when I heard of the OI Sparc efforts.
However, it came with the internal NIC and the DVD drive broken.  It also
has that funky PXE graphics card.  I got around the NIC by putting a
fiberchannel card in and a SX to TX converter, and picked up a replacement
DVD drive.  I was hoping to not only use it for testing, but to use it to
help the SPARC OI efforts but it still requires X-windows and WM to be
useful for me.

I can't believe that I'm the only one that uses OI to do GUI product
development.

Gary



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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana, Canon, cups and windows 7 printing

[Open Indiana]

Jus to inform you:
I just enabled cups and installed Canon CUPS drivers. Within 30 minutes up
and running, can print from all computer in the house to the Cannon MP610
attached via USB to OpenIndiana running at a HP Homeserver. 

SUPER! 


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

[Open Indiana]

I guess i sparked this discussion about the GUI. Not that I want a GUI, but
if you read the comments on Alasdair Lumsden resign then most people that
call OI "a stupid OS" are the people that only use a GUI to do things. ;-)

But based on the number of reactions on this subject I fear that there a
just a very few OI users. Or the rest must have been sleeping the last days.


So I would suggest that we start some kind of voting/.. somewhere on the
internet. Maybe in this mailgroup or on the OI website. 
I suggest the following questions:
1. Who wants to help develop OI?
2. What skills do you (the voter) have that can help OI? 
3. What kind of software do you want to have running on OI? 
4. What kind of hardware/drivers do you want to have running on OI?
5. Have you ever created a "HOWTO" for OI? If "YES" where is it? 
6. Have you ever found a useful "HOWTO" for OI? If "YES" where is it?
7. Have you ever created a useful "software package" for OI? If "YES" where
is it?
8. Do you use OI in a commercial environment? 
9. 

There must be more useful questions that I forget. But if we start to gather
the above information we already have more (centralized) than we have right
now. 




-Original Message-
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] 
Sent: zaterdag 1 september 2012 16:48
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden
resigns"

On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote:
>
> I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command 
> line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But 
> making OI look well-polished with a fancy and easy to administer 
> web-admin GUI that would encourage the average-Joe to use it as a 
> home-NAS / virtual server is not a bad thing. That way OI would reach 
> a higher penetration with a larger user-base and most importantly; it 
> will get _free advertising_. To some extent the old adage "A good product
markets itself" has some truth in it.
> But it must not only be good, it has to /look/ good so that even a 
> less versed person will understand how good it is.

Focusing on issues like this would be putting the cart before the horse.  It
is more important to be able to easily build everything and incorporate
updates than to have a fancy configuration GUI.  OI popularity should come
second to correct functionality and having an organization (of volunteers
and corporate entities) to sustain it. 
If OI is worthy, popularity will follow, even if only from people who
already preferred Solaris.

OpenIndiana is still very young.  Successful OS distributions take quite a
few years to become significant.  It is not something which happens in just
a couple of years.

Bob
--
Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

[Open Indiana]

Although Openindiana is opensource it doesn't mean it doesn't need any
steering or control. 
My main concern is who will take up the flag and carry it? 
The people who think OpenIndiana is a dead end have IMHO no idea what it is.
They apparently expect an OS with a GUI that lets them control anything and
they forget that on all OS's one has to leave the GUI at one point as soon
as there is a need that goes deeper than starting a writer-application. 
Even Windows2008 still has a scripting and commandline facility. 

Someone or some people have to take control on a roadmap and set a course.
Where do we want to go and what will we build? 
If hosting ever starts to be a problem I will jump in. 

But... with the recession on its way all over the world, people have to work
harder and have not as much spare time as they used to have. When someone
needs to choose between his work or an OpenSource hobby the choose is easy. 



-Original Message-
From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] 
Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 21:00
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden
resigns"

>
> People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing 
> for OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and 
> rock on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, 
> but I would hope OpenIndiana was never just a single-person job.

The main risk at the moment is that OpenIndiana is hosted on Alasdair's
servers and openindiana.org is owned by EveryCity Ltd (i.e. 
Alasdair's company).  The servers and domain are still running but there is
no telling about the future.

Bob
--
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

[Open Indiana]

OH MY GOD

This is to bad to be true. 
Do I really read people writing down that they have seen Linux outperform
Solaris? 
"I spent over a decade developing big data software, primarily on Solaris. I
have seen workloads that bring a 64-core Solaris box to its knees with
massively multi-threaded, big-memory footprint applications. Linux handled
the same load with aplomb."
I have seen this too! It happened while Solaris created all the threads it
needed for the process and Linux just emulated some multithreading and by
that handled every piece one or two threads at a time. Linux didn't break,
but it just took 1000x times longer to process. 

But back to the main problem. We have no "president of the core" at this
moment. This means that the last piece of resistance against the
"commercials" will start to crumble. 

It is a true nightmare that the hard work of a lot of volunteers and the
people of the old Sun company dies because it has been sucked empty by the
commercial snakes. How Is it possible that companies can take
opensource-code, wrap a commercial GUI around it, close/disable most of the
opensource features and then sell it as a unique product? 

I am not a programmer but a enthusiast user/admin of Solaris 10, OpenIndiana
and Solaris 11. I also use Windows 2003, Windows 2008 Datacenter and
OpenSuse11 in projects. The things I can do with OpenIndiana and Solaris 10,
the way they perform with websites and MySQL databases have I never seen on
any other platform.  

Ok, there is a lot of hardware that will not run OpenIndiana out of the box,
and Openindiana is a bit difficult to use, update and alter. And yes, it has
a steep learningcurve and because of that there is a need for solid
documentation. But there was a lot of documentation, this could be found at
the old SUN site, but Oracle has changed and almost secured their
documentsites so there are fewer resources for that. 

The main question now are: 
Who wants to be the President? 
Do we want to start a sort of election? 
Who wants to lead this project through the battlefield?






-Original Message-
From: Dave Koelmeyer [mailto:dave.koelme...@davekoelmeyer.co.nz] 
Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2012 8:32
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden
resigns"

On 31/08/12 01:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 08/30/12 06:08 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
>> And the "farewell" message (if you can call it that) here:
>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/514046/
> http://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2012-August/thread.html has 
> the original message and responses on the developer list.
>
Interesting, although I can't post to that list.

It's sad and disappointing and understandable and all that for the project
lead to quit, but seriously: waking up this morning to read without warning
that I was a bonehead for ever considering OpenIndiana, and that the hours,
and hours, and hours I dedicated to evangelizing OpenIndiana was actually
stupid because at the end of the day Linux is good enough? Well, I sincerely
hope *this* is final:

 > From:  Alasdair Lumsden 
 > To:  oi-dev-AT-openindiana.org
 >
 > ...I have no wish to return to the project in a leadership capacity.


--
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL R320

[Open Indiana]

I made a small (read huge) mistake by ordering a DELL R320 that I want to
use as a Openindiana host. 

I discovered that I can't install Openindiana because it lacks drivers for
the following parts:
1. PERC H710 Integrated RAID Controller, 512MB NV Cache
2. Broadcom network cards

Is there anyone who knows how to get Openindiana running on such a server? 




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[OpenIndiana-discuss] iscsi -sharing and permissions

[Open Indiana]

I tried 2 things:

1. create an iSCSI target with napp-it on Openindiana
2. create an iSCSI target on Solaris 10

Both things I tried resulted in a working iSCSI drive, hip hay...

Then I mount these drives from a Windows 7 laptop, the drive is identified
and I am asked to format it.
That works too, hip hay

Then I took another PC or server running Windows 2003 of Windows 7 and
connected this with the same iSCSI drive.
I am asked to format the drive AGAIN??
That works too, hip hay

Then I save a file (file1) from my laptop to the drive.
That works too, hip hay
I disconnect and reconnect, the file (file1) is there
That works too, hip hay

I login on the other PC and check the iSCSI drive.
No sign of the file (file1) I saved..
???

I save a file from the other server/PC (file2) on the iSCSI drive.
That works too, hip hay
I disconnect and reconnect, the file (file2) is there
That works too, hip hay

I check the files from my  laptop, I only see file1, no sign of file file2
???

I didn't set any PAP, CHAP or other security settings.

What am I doing wrong?





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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

[Open Indiana]

Something strange has happened on the server.
As I told in a previous message I installed a zone 3 days ago without
problems.
I renamed this server in my puttylog to "3dayszone", the serverzone is
installed today is "testzone"

If you look closely, you can see both are having the old pkg version. But on
the 3dayszone is can install every package without problem!

root@power-usage:~# zonename
global
root@power-usage:~# pkg version
5d2771134f21+
root@power-usage:~# zlogin -C testzone
[Connected to zone 'testzone' console]

root@testzone:~# uname -v
oi_151a4
root@testzone:~# uname -a
SunOS testzone 5.11 oi_151a4 i86pc i386 i86pc
root@testzone:~# pkg version
4d886e93dafc
root@testzone:~# ~.
[Connection to zone 'testzone' console closed]
root@power-usage:~# zlogin -C 3dayszone
[Connected to zone '3dayszone' console]

root@3dayszone:~/downloads# uname -v
oi_151a4
root@3dayszone:~/downloads# uname -a
SunOS 3dayszone 5.11 oi_151a4 i86pc i386 i86pc
root@3dayszone:~/downloads# pkg version
4d886e93dafc
root@3dayszone:~/downloads# pkg search amp
INDEX   ACTION VALUE
PACKAGE
description setCluster containing an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) deployment
kit pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.2
pkg.summary setCluster containing an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) deployment
kit pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.2
incorporate depend amp@0.5.11-0.133
pkg:/consolidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation@0.5.11-0.151.1.2
basenamedirusr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/elisa/plugins/amp
pkg:/desktop/media-player/moovida/moovida-plugins@0.5.11-0.151.1.2
pkg.fmrisetopenindiana.org/amp
pkg:/amp@0.5.11-0.133
pkg.fmrisetopenindiana.org/web/amp
pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.2
root@3dayszone:~/downloads#

I tried installing pkg5 on both zones. (just took a random package for test)

On 3dayszone it installed without problems. It failed at the testzone.

My guess is that there is mismatch in 'lib/libc.so.1' and not in the pkg
version.




-Original Message-
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
Sent: woensdag 4 juli 2012 23:38
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to
oi_151a5

On 07/04/2012 11:09 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I noticed that there's been an update published to openindiana.org
> (oi_151a5) - great stuff, but the new version of pkg(1) in it broke
> zone creation from oi_151a4 hosts. In short, here's the problem:
>
>  * Global zone: oi_151a4
>  * zoneadm -z newzone install   <-- this fetches and installs pkg(1)
> from openindiana.org for oi_151a5
>  * zlogin newzone
>  * (in-newzone)# pkg publisher
>pkg: No image found.
>
> The IPS database format has probably changed in such a way that the
> new
> pkg(1) doesn't recognize the old database. I've tested this numerous
> times with the following pkg(1) versions and I can consistently
> reproduce this:
>
> (global-zone)# pkg version
> 5d2771134f21+
>
> (non-global-zone)# pkg version
> 4d886e93dafc
>
> A way to work around this is to re-generate the package database in
> the non-global zone as follows:
> # pkg image-create -f --zone --full -p http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ /
> # pkg install entire # to ensure everything's properly installed
>
> When installing the non-global zone from an oi_151a5 global zone, this
> doesn't occur (just tested on a second machine - yep, if global is
> oi_151a5, all is good, otherwise, the non-global zone's pkg is broken).
> Sure I'm not the only one who's seeing this, right?

P.S. minor correction: my proposed fix doesn't actually work, so at present,
zones are broken on openindiana oi_151a4 (at least for me).

Cheers,
--
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

[Open Indiana]

root@homeserver:~# uname -v
oi_151a4
root@homeserver:~# zonename
global
root@homeserver:~# pkg version
5d2771134f21+
root@homeserver:~# zlogin -C testzone
[Connected to zone 'testzone' console]

root@testzone:~# uname -v
oi_151a4
root@testzone:~# uname -v a
SunOS testzone 5.11 oi_151a4 i86pc i386 i86pc
root@testzone:~# pkg version
4d886e93dafc
root@testzone:~#


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From: Open Indiana [mailto:openindi...@out-side.nl]
Sent: donderdag 5 juli 2012 12:21
To: 'Discussion list for OpenIndiana'
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to
oi_151a5

Your solution seemed to work for me, but it fails during installation of a
package (amp)  at the end.

(my zone is called "testzone" )

Jul  5 09:12:16 testzone login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console Last login: Thu Jul
5 08:58:49 on console
OpenIndiana (powered by illumos)SunOS 5.11oi_151a4April 2012
root@testzone:~# pkg search amp
pkg: No image found.
root@testzone:~# pkg image-create -f --zone --full -p
http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ / Refreshing catalog Refreshing catalog 1/1
openindiana.org
  
Caching catalogs ...
   
root@testzone:~# pkg install entire
Refreshing catalog
Refreshing catalog 1/1 openindiana.org
  
   Packages to install:27
   Create boot environment:No
DOWNLOAD  PKGS   FILESXFER (MB)
consolidation/gfx/gfx-incorporation   0/27 0/1  0.0/0.0
Completed27/27 1/1  0.0/0.0

PHASEACTIONS
Install Phase  3852/3852

PHASE  ITEMS
Package State Update Phase  1/27
Package State Update Phase 27/27

Image State Update Phase 1/2
Image State Update Phase 2/2

PHASE  ITEMS
Reading Existing Index   8/8

Indexing Packages  27/27

Indexing Packages  27/27
Optimizing Index...

PHASE  ITEMS
Indexing Packages   1/27
Indexing Packages  15/27
Indexing Packages  16/27
Indexing Packages  24/27
Indexing Packages  25/27
Indexing Packages  27/27
Indexing Packages  27/27
root@testzone:~# pkg search amp
INDEX   ACTION VALUE
PACKAGE
description setCluster containing an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) deployment
kit pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.5
pkg.summary setCluster containing an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) deployment
kit pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.5
incorporate depend amp@0.5.11-0.133
pkg:/consolidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation@0.5.11-0.151.1.5
basenamedirusr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/elisa/plugins/amp
pkg:/desktop/media-player/moovida/moovida-plugins@0.5.11-0.151.1.5
pkg.fmrisetopenindiana.org/amp
pkg:/amp@0.5.11-0.133
pkg.fmrisetopenindiana.org/web/amp
pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.5

root@testzone:~# pkg install amp
Refreshing catalog
Refreshing catalog 1/1 openindiana.org

  truncated output

Install Phase   

5244/33892Action install failed for 'lib/libc.so.1'
(pkg://openindiana.org/system/library):
  OSError: [Errno 16] Device busy
pkg: An unexpected error happened during install: [Errno 16] Device busy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 4233, in handle_errors
__ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 4212, in main_func
return func(img, pargs)
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1410, in install
ret_code = __api_execute_plan(op, api_inst)
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1001, in __api_execute_plan
api_inst.execute_plan()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/api.py", line 828, in
execute_plan
self.__img.imageplan.execute()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/imageplan.py", line
1226, in execute
p.execute_install(src, dest)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/pkgplan.py", line 336,
in execute_install
dest.install(self, src)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/actions/file.py", line 211,
in install
portable.rename(temp, final_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/portable/os_unix.py", line
236, in rename
os.rename(src, dst)
OSError: [Errno 16] Device busy


pkg: This is an internal error.  Please let the developers know about this
problem by filing a bug at http://defect.opensolaris.org and including the
above traceback and this message.  The version of pkg(5) is '4d8

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

[Open Indiana]

Your solution seemed to work for me, but it fails during installation of a
package (amp)  at the end.

(my zone is called "testzone" )

Jul  5 09:12:16 testzone login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console
Last login: Thu Jul  5 08:58:49 on console
OpenIndiana (powered by illumos)SunOS 5.11oi_151a4April 2012
root@testzone:~# pkg search amp
pkg: No image found.
root@testzone:~# pkg image-create -f --zone --full -p
http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ /
Refreshing catalog
Refreshing catalog 1/1 openindiana.org
   
Caching catalogs ...

root@testzone:~# pkg install entire 
Refreshing catalog
Refreshing catalog 1/1 openindiana.org
   
   Packages to install:27
   Create boot environment:No
DOWNLOAD  PKGS   FILESXFER (MB)
consolidation/gfx/gfx-incorporation   0/27 0/1  0.0/0.0
Completed27/27 1/1  0.0/0.0

PHASEACTIONS
Install Phase  3852/3852

PHASE  ITEMS
Package State Update Phase  1/27
Package State Update Phase 27/27

Image State Update Phase 1/2
Image State Update Phase 2/2

PHASE  ITEMS
Reading Existing Index   8/8

Indexing Packages  27/27

Indexing Packages  27/27
Optimizing Index...

PHASE  ITEMS
Indexing Packages   1/27
Indexing Packages  15/27
Indexing Packages  16/27
Indexing Packages  24/27
Indexing Packages  25/27
Indexing Packages  27/27
Indexing Packages  27/27
root@testzone:~# pkg search amp
INDEX   ACTION VALUE
PACKAGE
description setCluster containing an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) deployment
kit pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.5
pkg.summary setCluster containing an AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) deployment
kit pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.5
incorporate depend amp@0.5.11-0.133
pkg:/consolidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation@0.5.11-0.151.1.5
basenamedirusr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/elisa/plugins/amp
pkg:/desktop/media-player/moovida/moovida-plugins@0.5.11-0.151.1.5
pkg.fmrisetopenindiana.org/amp
pkg:/amp@0.5.11-0.133
pkg.fmrisetopenindiana.org/web/amp
pkg:/web/amp@0.5.11-0.151.1.5

root@testzone:~# pkg install amp
Refreshing catalog
Refreshing catalog 1/1 openindiana.org

  truncated output

Install Phase

5244/33892Action install failed for 'lib/libc.so.1'
(pkg://openindiana.org/system/library):
  OSError: [Errno 16] Device busy
pkg: An unexpected error happened during install: [Errno 16] Device busy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 4233, in handle_errors
__ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 4212, in main_func
return func(img, pargs)
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1410, in install
ret_code = __api_execute_plan(op, api_inst)
  File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1001, in __api_execute_plan
api_inst.execute_plan()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/api.py", line 828, in
execute_plan
self.__img.imageplan.execute()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/imageplan.py", line
1226, in execute
p.execute_install(src, dest)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/client/pkgplan.py", line 336,
in execute_install
dest.install(self, src)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/actions/file.py", line 211,
in install
portable.rename(temp, final_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/portable/os_unix.py", line
236, in rename
os.rename(src, dst)
OSError: [Errno 16] Device busy


pkg: This is an internal error.  Please let the developers know about this
problem by filing a bug at http://defect.opensolaris.org and including the
above traceback and this message.  The version of pkg(5) is '4d886e93dafc'.

I know 'lib/libc.so.1' is shared between the global zone and the zones.




-Original Message-
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
Sent: woensdag 4 juli 2012 23:38
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to
oi_151a5

On 07/04/2012 11:09 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I noticed that there's been an update published to openindiana.org
> (oi_151a5) - great stuff, but the new version of pkg(1) in it broke
> zone creation from oi_151a4 hosts. In short, here's the problem:
>
>  * Global zone: oi_151a4
>  * zoneadm -z newzone install   <-- this fetches and installs pkg(1)
> from op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

[Open Indiana]

Same at my side.

Pkg search doesn't find anything within a zone I created today



-Original Message-
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
Sent: woensdag 4 juli 2012 23:38
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to
oi_151a5

On 07/04/2012 11:09 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I noticed that there's been an update published to openindiana.org
> (oi_151a5) - great stuff, but the new version of pkg(1) in it broke
> zone creation from oi_151a4 hosts. In short, here's the problem:
>
>  * Global zone: oi_151a4
>  * zoneadm -z newzone install   <-- this fetches and installs pkg(1)
> from openindiana.org for oi_151a5
>  * zlogin newzone
>  * (in-newzone)# pkg publisher
>pkg: No image found.
>
> The IPS database format has probably changed in such a way that the
> new
> pkg(1) doesn't recognize the old database. I've tested this numerous
> times with the following pkg(1) versions and I can consistently
> reproduce this:
>
> (global-zone)# pkg version
> 5d2771134f21+
>
> (non-global-zone)# pkg version
> 4d886e93dafc
>
> A way to work around this is to re-generate the package database in
> the non-global zone as follows:
> # pkg image-create -f --zone --full -p http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ /
> # pkg install entire # to ensure everything's properly installed
>
> When installing the non-global zone from an oi_151a5 global zone, this
> doesn't occur (just tested on a second machine - yep, if global is
> oi_151a5, all is good, otherwise, the non-global zone's pkg is broken).
> Sure I'm not the only one who's seeing this, right?

P.S. minor correction: my proposed fix doesn't actually work, so at present,
zones are broken on openindiana oi_151a4 (at least for me).

Cheers,
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] am i blind? MAC address zones

[Open Indiana]

I must be blind or stupid and maybe both are be true.

But where the h do I find the MAC-address of my zone's IP-address?





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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel 82579V ethernet not recognized

[Open Indiana]

So, now i finally understand how it works with the NIC naming ;-)

-Original Message-
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Sent: dinsdag 3 juli 2012 14:27
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Open Indiana wrote:
> My first guess is that you could try to change e1000g with bge.
> Solaris has different approaches on naming a NIC, but I don't know how
> this works.
>
> A nic could be named e1000g0 or bge0 or nge0 and it seems to depend on
> the hardware.

bge is for Broadcom hardware, so it won't work with an Intel card.  nge is
for NVIDIA nForce.  Usually, the drivers also have man pages, so it's
possible to figure out what each one does without having to guess too much.

The 82579V should use the e1000g driver, but will need updates for the new
chipset.  (It did need updates on Linux, so the failure to attach reported
here is not surprising.)  An alternative might be the 'em'
driver from Masayuki Murayama.

See:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/832

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel 82579V ethernet not recognized

[Open Indiana]

My first guess is that you could try to change e1000g with bge.
Solaris has different approaches on naming a NIC, but I don't know how this
works.

A nic could be named e1000g0 or bge0 or nge0 and it seems to depend on the
hardware.



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Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel 82579V ethernet not recognized

I'm trying to install OpenIndiana. I booted the oi151a Desktop DVD, but my
Ethernet card (Intel 82579V) is not recognized. I found some information
here:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/832

but I just don't know enough Solaris to understand it. I entered this:

update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,1503"' e1000g

and got this:

devfsadm: driver failed to attach : e1000g
Warning: Driver (e1000g) successfully added to system but failed to attach

What steps should I take in what order? Do I try and install first, then
correct the driver afterward, or won't that even work? Or is there a newer
release I can try?

--
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the aftermath -- and Cenbe."



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating root zpool from old disks to new one. only one system available

[Open Indiana]

Where did you get the "modified BIOS" you mention?



-Original Message-
From: J. V. [mailto:pepeshopp...@gmail.com]
Sent: dinsdag 12 juni 2012 15:03
To: Jim Klimov
Cc: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating root zpool from old disks to
new one. only one system available

I did check the ashift after the upgrade and both 3TB HDs report ashift=12.

I am actually using an HP N35L (1.3 Ghz vs. 1.5 GHz in the N40L) and I have
8 GB of non-ECC DDR3 so I could not answer the memory question.

These little machines are really great (If they came with SATA 3, they would
be the ultimate small server):
I do have an N40L with ESXi 5 running my firewall/router (Untangle 9.2) and
Windows Home Server 2011 (For the Media Server, Backup and WSUS services)..

The OpenIndiana server has 6 HDs (loaded modified BIOS so the extra internal
and external SATA ports run at full speeds):
4 x 3TB Seagate ST3000DM001 (Newer Seagates: Fastest 7200 rpm HD right now
... ~140 MB on SATA 2, ~160 on SATA 3).
2 x OCZ 60 GB SSD (Agility 3). Mounted where the CD-ROM would go with a
Vantec
5 1/4, 2 x 2.5 in. (Used an eSATA to SATA cable for one of the SSDs).

Config:
Partitioned the SSDs in 3 slices:
rpool (16GB), zil1 (4GB), arc1 (~40GB)
rpool (16GB), zil2 (4GB), arc2 (~40GB)

rpool = 2 x 16GB mirrored
Storage pool 1 = 2 x 3TB mirrored + zil1 + arc1 Storage pool 2 = 2 x 3TB
mirrored + zil2 + arc2

The mirrored rpool saved my butt last month when I was playing around and
over-wrote the boot rpool (gets confusing between slices and partitions with
my SSD config). Took me whole 20 min. to fix it:
Exchange SSD places, boot from good rpool, wait 5 min. for resilver,
re-install grub in damaged rpool, poweroff, exchange SSDs again).

No other dual cpu machine that I have uses less power:
The whole server only uses 23, 24 Watts when idle (2 SSDs active, 4 HDs
powered-down).
35 W with 1 pool active (2 SSDs, 2 HDs active)
~50 W with all HDs active and getting hammered.

Once I added zil + arc to the pools, the little thing runs at wire speeds:
Could not get any better!

It took me months to start gathering the hardware and fully learn ZFS, but I
am really glad to be back running a Solaris derivative: I started in college
administering Ultrix, Sun-OS, AIX, NeXTStep and others. Then later I went to
the dark side to learn all about MS, and finally feel back at home with
OpenIndiana!

Thanks to the IllumOS people and contributors here and everywhere else!

(Sorry for the long post. Hope my full config can help/inspire others).

Jose V.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Jim Klimov  wrote:

> 2012-06-12 15:40, J. V. пишет:
>
>  On 12/06/12 09:16 AM, Rich wrote:
>>
>>> Won't zpool replace fail b/c the new disks require ashift=12 and his
>>> existing pool devices have ashift=9?
>>>
>>
>> This should work fine:
>>
>> HP Microserver, upgrading a mirrored pool from 2TB HDs to 3TB HDs. At
>> one point, the pool had one 2TB HD with 512 sectors and the other
>> with 4k sectors (both in a mirror). Seems there was a bit of a
>> performance hit, but everything worked fine.
>>
>> When I upgraded from 2TB to 3TB, the 3TB HDs were both 4k sectors:
>>
>
> Did the 3TB disk also report to the OS that it uses 4k sectors?
> What ashift value is used by the pool, ultimately? Example:
> # zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0 | grep ashift
>ashift: 9
>ashift: 9
>ashift: 9
>ashift: 9
>
> If your 4KB disks use ashift=9 it is possible to get problems worse
> than decreased performance ;)
>
> Note that the ashift is set on a top-level vdev (the second-tier
> component of a pool) and the value is saved into/read from its vdevs
> (edge-tier components), and a pool can mix top-level vdevs with
> different ashifts, i.e. if it is a raid10 type of setup.
>
> PS: Do you use an HP N40L? Did you test if more than 8Gb RAM can fit
> into it (using DDR3 ECC sticks larger than 4Gb), or does the server's
> BIOS forbid that?
>
> HTH,
> //Jim Klimov
>
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

[Open Indiana]

Hi,

I need some NAS in our network (effectively 4TB) and already received a
quote from DELL for a R320 with a Perc H310.
This seems to be a branded LSI LSISAS2008 but it needs modification before I
can use it with OpenIndiana.

Has anyone some suggestions (apart from do not use Dell) on the best
controller?

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [noob] smb via android

[Open Indiana]

Well i had to mix some things. The server is running in workgroupmode but I
have a officelaptop that has joined our officedomain. So to make sure bith
my home (and workgroup ) windows laptops and users and I (as a domainmember)
can use the shares I use username@{somedomain} as a login to the shares.
This because username on the server is the same as the officelaptop username
but with different passwords. Windows is always sending the same
office-domainpassword to the server when I don't use username@{somedomain} .
I also use a different password on my homecomputers then on the openindiana
server, and there I also had some troubles.

But with this setup it all works fine from every windows computer, both
workgroup and officedomain, so from that side it works without a flaw.

I tried already 5 SMB clients but none of them could connect to my
openindiana server.
Some other thingie: I have also a share /mystorage/cifs0/{username}. Within
windows these shares are seen as /mystorage_cifs0/{username} so the "/" is
converted to a "_" in the sharename. I tried both on Android but none works.



-Original Message-
From: Ignacio Marambio Catán [mailto:darkjo...@gmail.com]
Sent: zondag 4 maart 2012 20:56
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Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [noob] smb via android

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Open Indiana 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry. I was thinking, that "android" would do ;-) It's a Asus
> transformer TF101G with honeycomb. I installed an app called AndSMB
> (samba client)
>
> Created a new share just for test, so it is wide-open.
>
> basic unix and acl folder permissions /mystorage/smbshare: (set other
> acl's from your windows computer)
> drwxrwxrwx+ 3 root  root3 Mar 4 13:43 /mystorage/smbshare
> user:root:full_set:fd-:allow
> everyone@:modify_set:fd-:allow
>
>
>
>  basic share acl permissions on share /mystorage/smbshare for
> everybody@
> -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 root  root0 Mar 4 10:56
> /mystorage/smbshare/.zfs/shares/smbshare
> everyone@:full_set:---:allow
>
> The strange thing is that if I browse my Openindiana box with this
> AndSMB program and use "anonymous" as user then I can SEE the
> different SMB folders but can't open them. I have tried all possible
> passwords and usernames (with or without domainnames and/or
workgroupnames) but no luck.
>
how exactly did you setup your smb server?
if it was workgroup mode did you add the relevant PAM configuration and
changed your user's password? see [1] you should see some administrative
shares along side your own, administrative shares end with the $ sign like
IPC$
[1]: https://blogs.oracle.com/timthomas/entry/solaris_cifs_in_workgroup_mode


nacho
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Francois Dion [mailto:francois.d...@gmail.com]
> Sent: zondag 4 maart 2012 19:48
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [noob] smb via android
>
> It would help if you mentioned the device, which version of android
> and what app you wanted to use. Often, the issue is the app. Are you
streaming video?
>
>
>
> On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:05, "Open Indiana"  wrote:
>
>> I am a noob regarding android, but I have a new android based tablet
>> and want to connect my tablet to my smb shares on Openindiana
>> (Napp-it
> enabled).
>>
>> I downloaded and tried several tool, but for some reason I can't get
>> a connection.
>>
>> I can browse, share and manage the smb folders from every Windows
>> XP/7 computer in my house, so I am convinced it is running. But for
>> some reason the username/passwords are not accepted by smb when I use
>> them on Android OS.
>>
>> Any thoughts and/or tips about it?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [noob] smb via android

[Open Indiana]

Hi,

I'm sorry. I was thinking, that "android" would do ;-)
It's a Asus transformer TF101G with honeycomb. I installed an app called
AndSMB (samba client)

Created a new share just for test, so it is wide-open.

basic unix and acl folder permissions /mystorage/smbshare: (set other acl's
from your windows computer)
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 root  root3 Mar 4 13:43 /mystorage/smbshare
user:root:full_set:fd-:allow
everyone@:modify_set:fd-:allow  



 basic share acl permissions on share /mystorage/smbshare for everybody@
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 root  root0 Mar 4 10:56
/mystorage/smbshare/.zfs/shares/smbshare
everyone@:full_set:---:allow   

The strange thing is that if I browse my Openindiana box with this AndSMB
program and use "anonymous" as user then I can SEE the different SMB folders
but can't open them. I have tried all possible passwords and usernames (with
or without domainnames and/or workgroupnames) but no luck.




-Original Message-
From: Francois Dion [mailto:francois.d...@gmail.com]
Sent: zondag 4 maart 2012 19:48
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [noob] smb via android

It would help if you mentioned the device, which version of android and what
app you wanted to use. Often, the issue is the app. Are you streaming video?



On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:05, "Open Indiana"  wrote:

> I am a noob regarding android, but I have a new android based tablet
> and want to connect my tablet to my smb shares on Openindiana (Napp-it
enabled).
>
> I downloaded and tried several tool, but for some reason I can't get a
> connection.
>
> I can browse, share and manage the smb folders from every Windows XP/7
> computer in my house, so I am convinced it is running. But for some
> reason the username/passwords are not accepted by smb when I use them
> on Android OS.
>
> Any thoughts and/or tips about it?
>
>
>
>
>
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] [noob] smb via android

[Open Indiana]

I am a noob regarding android, but I have a new android based tablet and
want to connect my tablet to my smb shares on Openindiana (Napp-it enabled).

I downloaded and tried several tool, but for some reason I can't get a
connection.

I can browse, share and manage the smb folders from every Windows XP/7
computer in my house, so I am convinced it is running. But for some reason
the username/passwords are not accepted by smb when I use them on Android
OS.

Any thoughts and/or tips about it?





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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 11/11 Opensource part1 and part2

[Open Indiana]

If you don't use zones (which IMHO is like driving 60km/h with a BMW M5) you
could compare it with windows server R2. If you do use zones, you end up
with Windows Datacenter R2.



-Original Message-
From: Mark [mailto:mark0...@gmail.com]
Sent: donderdag 2 februari 2012 10:03
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 11/11 Opensource part1 and
part2

On 2/02/2012 9:45 p.m., Open Indiana wrote:
> "their pricing is just way out through the stratosphere..."
>
I could Licence Windows Server 2008 R2 X64 on my OI box for around $700 p/a
(2 processor)

Oracle want $1488 for EACH cpu, but since it isn't certified, won't offer
support.

definitely off this planet.

Mark.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 11/11 Opensource part1 and part2

[Open Indiana]

"their pricing is just way out through the stratosphere..."

I have an X4140 and upgraded to Solaris 11 for 633,- per year. This
including hardware-support.
Compared with an upgrade to Windows datacenter (4000,- euro) and calculating
lifetime of the server it was a bargain.

Nevertheless, I think that OpenIndiana guards the openness of the sourcecode
of Solaris 10 and 11. Oracle will discover that Sun made a good decision by
getting the opensource community involved in the improvement of the code.
IMHO openindiana and Oracle will meet in the next coming years.
A bit like the Suse/OpenSuse way of living.

What happened in the past year is a complete disaster to all who are (or
were) in love with Solaris.

The uncertainty regarding the survival of Solaris made the source code a
honey pot for many. I personally hate it that other OS's and suppliers get a
grip at ZFS and try to make profit with it.

ZFS should stay within Solaris and OpenIndiana, but should be blocked to be
used or sold by other vendors and or OS's. That's why Oracle and OpenIndiana
should combine their strengths. 

You want an open source product with low setup-costs and a large community?
Use OpenIndiana
You want the above, but with security packs and 24/7 support? Use Solaris 11

Examples? OpenNMS, Liferay, Alfresco and many, many more




-Original Message-
From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com]
Sent: donderdag 2 februari 2012 0:11
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 11/11 Opensource part1 and
part2

On 02/02/2012 12:04 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
> I take it that the once-promised/planned kernel source release for
> Solaris 11 is officially canceled...
>
> Frankly, this whole situation reminds me a bit of the situation with
> Borland's InterBase DBMS. First, it was released as open source and
> then new owners got cold feet and took it closed again. Since that
> point, the fork of the last open release (now known as Firebird) has
> continued strong, while the closed version has essentially sunk
> without a trace. Unless Oracle wises up, I forsee a similar outcome in
> Solaris-land.

I'd love for that to be true, but so far, OpenIndiana is really quite far
off its intended goals. I'd love to be able to deploy OI in production
environments with the peace of mind that comes with commercial support, but
so far, that's been pretty lacking (and NexentaStor isn't for me, I need a
proper general purpose OS without all the weird storage GUIs and Nexenta's,
frankly, somewhat specialized per-storage-volume licensing model). As much
as I love Solaris, currently Oracle is the only game in town when it comes
to acceptable support and compared to your average RHEL/CentOS, their
pricing is just way out through the stratosphere...

Cheers,
--
Saso

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

[Open Indiana]

I'm very sorry to have misinformed you. I didn't check my remarks on a
working system and I mixed up two things.

Virtualbox will discover even an unplumbed device.

It was the zones booting that I had in mind. On my solaris 10 server I need
to plumb all interfaces that are used inside a zone on the global zone
before the zone can use it.

Ooops, sorry


-Original Message-
From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se]
Sent: vrijdag 27 januari 2012 14:38
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

On 2012-01-26 14:05, James Carlson wrote:
> Open Indiana wrote:
>> Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion.
>>
>> Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then
>> the interface is visible in the menu.
> Oh, yuck.  It should be using the libdlpi interfaces (see
> dlpi_walk(3DLPI)), at least on OpenIndiana.
>
> If portability to older Solaris systems is necessary, it should be
> enumerating DLPI interfaces using libdevinfo.
>
> Piggybacking on IP isn't right at all.
>
Note that VirtualBox offers several types of virtualized networking modes.
In NAT mode where it communicates with the IP stack of the host maybe this
makes sense whereas it doesn't in bridged mode.

If VirtualBox and OpenIndiana did what they promised without hickups I
wouldn't even need two network interfaces to ensure the operation of the
system. But when bugs occur we try to get around them until they are fixed,
and that requires at least some knowledge about the system which I'm really
happy to have acquired.

I can even see on the activity LEDs on the switch that the VMs' network is
independent of the hosts network.



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running Openindiana als VM on Windows server datacenter

[Open Indiana]

Thanks for your reply.
I already tried it myself.

I can confirm that OpenIndiana will install under Windows server 2008
datacenter R2. I installed the "desktop" version and the only problem is
that you can't install it when you are on a RDP session with the Windows
server.
You need to be at the server to install the openindiana 1.51 destopversion,
since the mouse is not captured over RDP. But on a direct session (attach
yourself physically to the mouse) you can install Openindiana without any
problems. Of course you need to use the "legacy NIC" emulation.

I installed MySQL on OpenIndiana and ran some tests with MySQL slap. I will
post a link soon with the outcome of these tests, since I compared them with
openindiana running on a HP N40L homeserver, solaris 10 MySQL running in a
zone (X4140) and MySQL running on a Windows 2008 VM under Windows 2008
datacenter (HP DL380 G7).

The outcome of these tests are very, very interesting. Differences range
from 0.80 secs to almost 6 secs between these servers. And the homeserver
stays close to or beats sometimes the overall winner!!



-Original Message-
From: Gordon Ross [mailto:gordon.w.r...@gmail.com]
Sent: donderdag 26 januari 2012 23:21
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running Openindiana als VM on Windows
server datacenter

I'm guessing this is the same as Windows 2008 Hyper-V, yes?
If so, I'm running a "text mode" install of OI.  Works fine, as long as you
remember to configure the VM with the "legacy NIC" emulation.  The OI guest
has  no guest para-vartual support, so no mouse, etc.

Don't bother trying the GUI install, for the same reason.
(Hyper-V does not support a mouse in the guest with anything other than
their para-virtual driver.)

Gordon

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Open Indiana 
wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried to run OpenIndiana as a VM under windows server
> 2008
> R2 datacenter?
>
>
>
>
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

[Open Indiana]

Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion.

Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then the
interface is visible in the menu. A working IP-adress is not necessary.
Please put your interfaces on manual IP-assignment and disable nwam.
Give an IP-address to 1 interface so you can manage your host-server.

A bridged interface in VirtualBox just means that VB allows all traffic to
go directly to your VM client.

So:
1. disconnect all ethernetcables from the hostserver
2. put one back in an interface
3. login to the server
4. disable nwam
5. give the online interface a working IP-configuration via ifconfig /
nsconfig / nslookup config files
6. make sure no configuration for the other interfaces is to be found inside
/etc
7. plumb up a free interface by ifconfig and put a cable in this interface
8. start VirtualBox Gui
9. configure client to use the interface of point 7
10. start the client
11. grab some coffee
12. enjoy



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for AMD Family15h processor

[Open Indiana]

Very strange. The X4140 had a 2356 Opteron on board. Maybe the chipsets
changed quite big with the new opterons?


-Original Message-
From: kishore kumar [mailto:kishoregupt...@gmail.com]
Sent: woensdag 25 januari 2012 17:33
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for AMD Family15h processor

I am unable to install OpenIndiana on my machine. However, able to install
Solaris 11.  I have also tried OpenSolaris.2009.06. But no success.
I wanted to use OpenSource OS such as OpenIndiana.

More information of my machine is as follows:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | more 4
processor: 0
vendor_id: AuthenticAMD
cpu family: 21
model: 1
model name: AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6272
stepping: 2
cpu MHz: 1400.000
cache size: 2048 KB

$ lspci | grep VGA
01:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200eW WPCM450
(rev 0a)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 06d1 (rev a3)



Best,
Kishore Kumar Pusukuri
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~kishore



On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Daniel Shull  wrote:

> On 01/25/12 03:51 AM, Ilya Arhipkin wrote:
>
>>  25.01.12 13:26, kishore kumar ?:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am unable to install OpenIndiana on AMD Family15h processor (AMD
>>> Opteron processor).
>>> I tried different installation options: vesa driver, text console, etc.
>>> But
>>> no success.
>>> It is hanging on "login" prompt in the initial stage of the
installation.
>>>
>>> Could someone help me to resolve this?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Kishore
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>> check hardware compatibility with the system
>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/ **oi/Community+HCL
>> 
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>>  I have AMD FX-6100 it's a family15H processor and I have no problems
> installing or running OI 151a or pre-stabble Dan
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] running Openindiana als VM on Windows server datacenter

[Open Indiana]

Has anyone ever tried to run OpenIndiana as a VM under windows server 2008
R2 datacenter?





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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

[Open Indiana]

What happens if you disable nwam and use the basic/manual ifconfig setup?


-Original Message-
From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se]
Sent: maandag 23 januari 2012 15:10
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

No, I'm not doing anything in particular in the virtual machine. The media
file is played on another computer in the (physical) network over CIFS. Over
the network I also access the server using Remote Desktop/Terminal Services
to communicate to the virtual machine (using the VirtualBox RDP interface,
i.e. not the guest OS RDP), VNC (to access OI using vncserver) and SSH (to
OI).

I wouldn't say that the entire server stops responding, only the connection
to CIFS and SSH. I wasn't running VNC when it happened yesterday so I don't
know about it, but the RDP connection and the Virtual Machine inside this
server was unaffected while CIFS and SSH was frozen.

I tried today to start the virtual machine but it failed because it could
not find the connection (e1000g2):

"Error: failed to start machine. Error message: Failed to open/create the
internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-e1000
g2 - Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet' (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).
Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND)"

ifconfig -a returns:
...
e1000g1: flags=1004843 mtu
1500 index 2
 inet 10.40.137.185 netmask ff00 broadcast 10.40.137.255
e1000g2: flags=1004843 mtu
1500 index 3
 inet 10.40.137.196 netmask ff00 broadcast 10.40.137.255
rge0: flags=1004843 mtu 1500 index
4
 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff00
...

i.e. e1000g1 and e1000g2 appears to be running just fine, wtf !?! I found
the following entries in the /var/adm/messages:

Jan 23 13:50:49  nwamd[95]: [ID 234669 daemon.error] 3:
nwamd_door_switch: need solaris.network.autoconf.read for request type 1 Jan
23 13:56:59  last message repeated 75 times Jan 23 13:57:04
 nwamd[95]: [ID 234669 daemon.error] 3:
nwamd_door_switch: need solaris.network.autoconf.read for request type 1 Jan
23 13:58:19  last message repeated 15 times Jan 23 13:58:22
 gnome-session[916]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING:
Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup session information for
process '916'
Jan 23 13:58:24  nwamd[95]: [ID 234669 daemon.error] 3:
nwamd_door_switch: need solaris.network.autoconf.read for request type 1 Jan
23 14:03:24  last message repeated 60 times Jan 23 14:03:26
 gnome-session[916]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING:
Unable to determine session: Unable to lookup session information for
process '916'
Jan 23 14:03:29  nwamd[95]: [ID 234669 daemon.error] 3:
nwamd_door_switch: need solaris.network.autoconf.read for request type 1 Jan
23 14:03:34  last message repeated 1 time Jan 23 14:03:39
 nwamd[95]: [ID 234669 daemon.error] 3:
nwamd_door_switch: need solaris.network.autoconf.read for request type 1

Some errors here... I looked into the log of the nwam service
(/var/svc/log/network-physical\:nwam.log):

[ Jan 23 13:03:15 Enabled. ]
[ Jan 23 13:03:16 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/net-nwam start").
]
/lib/svc/method/net-nwam[548]: /sbin/ibd_upgrade: not found [No such file or
directory] [ Jan 23 13:03:17 Method "start" exited with status 0. ] [ Jan 23
13:03:17 Rereading configuration. ] [ Jan 23 13:03:17 Executing refresh
method ("/lib/svc/method/net-nwam refresh"). ] [ Jan 23 13:03:17 Method
"refresh" exited with status 0. ]

nothing remarkable here... I investigated the issue on VBox forums and this
issue was resolved by the rem_drv/add_drv vboxflt commands. It's not the
first time I've had this issue and one of the people at the forums claims
that this issue occurs after every third powercycle/reboot. It was hinted
that VBox doesn't like dynamic IP addresses so I have also given e1000g2 a
fixed address in the router (I configured the DHCP server in the router to
always give the same IP to the MAC address of the e1000g2 connection). I've
done it on the e1000g1 already, otherwise it would be impossible to ssh to
the server from the "outside world".

Robin.


On 2012-01-23 11:40, Open Indiana wrote:
> Ok,
>
> So if I read it correct your virtual machine is playing an audio file
> and then the server stops responding. That could mean the hardware
> that virtualbox uses to play the soundfile if flooded or that the
> drivers of the soundcard in your server/PC are not working very well?
> What soundcard are you using?
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se]
> Sent: zondag 22 januari 2012 23:38
> To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues
>
> I don't understand what y

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

[Open Indiana]

Ok,

So if I read it correct your virtual machine is playing an audio file and
then the server stops responding. That could mean the hardware that
virtualbox uses to play the soundfile if flooded or that the drivers of the
soundcard in your server/PC are not working very well?
What soundcard are you using?


-Original Message-
From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se]
Sent: zondag 22 januari 2012 23:38
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

I don't understand what you mean with PCI-x settings and where to check them
out. The hardware is not PCI-X, it is PCIe. The affected LSI HBA is a
discrete PCIe card that operates in IT-mode. As in system logs I assume you
mean /var/adm/messages and I could not find anything there.

If this was only a hard disk controller issue (I made sure that there are
enough lanes for it) then I wouldn't expect applications such as SSH to be
affected by it.

The settings of the Intel NIC card is not in the BIOS, at least not what I
can see (i.e. there is no visible BIOS of the discrete NIC like it is for
the LSI SAS controller during POST). So, I'm not entirely sure what settings
for the NIC you are referring to.
Robin.


On 2012-01-22 20:28, Open Indiana wrote:
> A very stupid answer, but have you looked at the bios and inspected
> the settings of the network devices and /or PCIx ? How is your bios
> setup (AHCI or raid or ??) ?
>
> Do you see any error in the system logs?
>
> To my opinion your system swallows in the datatransfers. Either on the
> NIC<->montherboard side or at the montherboard<->  harddiskcontroller
side.
> Do your extra NIC's and the LSI share the same PCI-x settings? Do they
> both support all settings?
>
> B,
>
> Roelof
> -Original Message-
> From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se]
> Sent: zondag 22 januari 2012 19:38
> To: OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues
>
> In the past, I used OpenSolaris b134 which I then updated to
> OpenIndiana
> b148 and never did I experience performance issues related to the
> network connection (and that was when using two of the "infamous"
> RTL8111DL OnBoard ports). Now that I have swapped the motherboard and
> the hard drive and later added a 2-port Intel EXPI9402PT NIC (because
> of driver issues with the Realtek NIC that wasn't there before), I
> performed a fresh install of OpenIndiana.
>
> Since then I experience intermittent network freeze-ups that I cannot
> link to faults of the storage pool (iostat -E returns 0 errors). I
> have had this issue both with the dual port Intel controller as well
> as with a single port Intel controller (EXPI9400PT) and the Realtek
> 8111E OnBoard NIC. The storage pool is behind an LSI MegaRAID 1068e
> based controller using no port extenders.
>
> In detail (9400PT+8111E):
> -
> I was running a Virtual Machine with VirtualBox 3.2.14 with (1) a
> bridged network connection and was accessed over the network using (2)
> VBox RDP connection and (3) a ZFS based CIFS share to be accessed from
> a Windows computer over the network. These applications were
> administrated both over
> (4) SSH (port 2244) and (5) VNC (using vncserver). A typical start of
> the VM was done with 'screen VBoxHeadless --startvm ...'
>
> I assigned the network ports the following way:
>
> e1000g: VBox RDP, VNC, SSH
> rge0: Virtual Machine Network Connection (Bridged)
>
> I tried various combinations but the connection froze intermittently
> for all applications. The bridged network connection was worst. When I
> SSHed over rge0, the connection was frequently severed which is was not
over e1000.
>
> So I pulled the plug on the rg0 and let everything go through the
> e1000 connection. freeze-ups became more frequent and it seemed like
> the Bridged connection was causing this issue because the connection
> didn't freeze like that when the VM wasn't running.
>
> Note that I didn't assign the CIFS share to any particular port but
> calls to   were assigned to the e1000 port in the
/etc/inet/hosts file.
> -
>
> In detail (9402PT):
> ---
> In this setup I run essentially the same applications but all through
> the 9402PT which has two ports (e1000g1 and e1000g2). So I assign the
> applications the following way:
>
> e1000g1: VBox RDP, SSH,  (in /etc/inet/hosts)
> e1000g2: Bridged connection to the virtual machine
>
> So while running the virtual machine on the server, having an open SSH
> connection to it and a command prompt pointing (cd x:\) at the CIFS
> share (which is mapped as a network drive, say 

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

[Open Indiana]

A very stupid answer, but have you looked at the bios and inspected the
settings of the network devices and /or PCIx ? How is your bios setup (AHCI
or raid or ??) ?

Do you see any error in the system logs?

To my opinion your system swallows in the datatransfers. Either on the
NIC<->montherboard side or at the montherboard <-> harddiskcontroller side.
Do your extra NIC's and the LSI share the same PCI-x settings? Do they both
support all settings?

B,

Roelof
-Original Message-
From: Robin Axelsson [mailto:gu99r...@student.chalmers.se]
Sent: zondag 22 januari 2012 19:38
To: OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

In the past, I used OpenSolaris b134 which I then updated to OpenIndiana
b148 and never did I experience performance issues related to the network
connection (and that was when using two of the "infamous"
RTL8111DL OnBoard ports). Now that I have swapped the motherboard and the
hard drive and later added a 2-port Intel EXPI9402PT NIC (because of driver
issues with the Realtek NIC that wasn't there before), I performed a fresh
install of OpenIndiana.

Since then I experience intermittent network freeze-ups that I cannot link
to faults of the storage pool (iostat -E returns 0 errors). I have had this
issue both with the dual port Intel controller as well as with a single port
Intel controller (EXPI9400PT) and the Realtek 8111E OnBoard NIC. The storage
pool is behind an LSI MegaRAID 1068e based controller using no port
extenders.

In detail (9400PT+8111E):
-
I was running a Virtual Machine with VirtualBox 3.2.14 with (1) a bridged
network connection and was accessed over the network using (2) VBox RDP
connection and (3) a ZFS based CIFS share to be accessed from a Windows
computer over the network. These applications were administrated both over
(4) SSH (port 2244) and (5) VNC (using vncserver). A typical start of the VM
was done with 'screen VBoxHeadless --startvm ...'

I assigned the network ports the following way:

e1000g: VBox RDP, VNC, SSH
rge0: Virtual Machine Network Connection (Bridged)

I tried various combinations but the connection froze intermittently for all
applications. The bridged network connection was worst. When I SSHed over
rge0, the connection was frequently severed which is was not over e1000.

So I pulled the plug on the rg0 and let everything go through the e1000
connection. freeze-ups became more frequent and it seemed like the Bridged
connection was causing this issue because the connection didn't freeze like
that when the VM wasn't running.

Note that I didn't assign the CIFS share to any particular port but calls to
 were assigned to the e1000 port in the /etc/inet/hosts file.
-

In detail (9402PT):
---
In this setup I run essentially the same applications but all through the
9402PT which has two ports (e1000g1 and e1000g2). So I assign the
applications the following way:

e1000g1: VBox RDP, SSH,  (in /etc/inet/hosts)
e1000g2: Bridged connection to the virtual machine

So while running the virtual machine on the server, having an open SSH
connection to it and a command prompt pointing (cd x:\) at the CIFS share
(which is mapped as a network drive, say "X:") I started a media player and
played an audio file over the CIFS share which made the connection freeze.

The freezing affected the media player and the command prompt but the RDP
connection worked and access to internet inside the VM was flawless.
The SSH connection was frozen as well. After a few minutes it became
responsive and iostat -E reported no errors. The command prompt and the
media player were still frozen but "ls "
worked fine over the SSH connection. Shortly after that the CIFS connection
came back and things seem to run ok.

So in conclusion the freeze-ups are still there but less frequent. I have
tried VirtualBox 4.1.8 but the ethernet connection is worse with that
version which is why I downgraded to 3.2.14 (which was published _after_
4.1.8).
---

These issues occur on server grade hardware using drivers that are/were
certified by Sun (as I understand it). Moreover, CIFS and ZFS are the core
functionality of OpenIndiana so it is quite essential that the network works
properly and is stable.

I'm sorely tempted to issue a bug report but I would want some advice on how
to troubleshoot and provide relevant bug reports. There are no entries in
the /var/adm/messages that are related to the latest freeze-up mentioned
above and I couldn't find any when running the prior setups. These
freeze-ups don't happen all the time so it isn't easy to consistently
reproduce them.

Robin.




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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test

[Open Indiana]

-ikel

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From: Heiko Wuest [mailto:he...@wuest.de]
Sent: woensdag 18 januari 2012 9:53
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User management tools for OI_151a?

[Open Indiana]

One small remark regarding napp-it, when you have 1 Harddisk then it is most
certainly completely occupied by the OI installation. To use napp-it you
need to add at least one new (empty) harddisk so it can claim it for
ZFS/Zpool. You could use a free slice on the first harddisk but I wouldn't
recommend that.

I had the same problem with napp-it, that it couldn't show me any ZFS info
or ZFS creation menu's, but when I added new harddisks it works great.

At which menu do you get the websocket error? I would like to check it on my
newly installed napp-it installation and see what message I get with
firefox.




-Original Message-
From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se]
Sent: woensdag 18 januari 2012 9:13
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User management tools for OI_151a?

I tried napp-it, and I get several problems: Can you comment?
I will of course write to napp-it.org as well.
Two problems that seem to partly defeat it's usefulness for a small
installation are:
1.
There's a live monitoring facility, it seems, using websockets. It claims
there's no websocket support in my browser, Firefox 9.01.
I have enabled websockets in the config page, but napp-it still claims it
isn't there. I don't know, really, but I think websockets supposedly work in
firefox.

2.
"ZFS folders" gives no info, just headers. This supposedly displays info
from like zfs list -o  I suppose?
Seems non-functional.

Even if these two won't work, it could still be useful for a very large
installation, due e g to the pool mgmt stuff, and creating folders and
stuff.


On 2012-01-18 03:48, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:03:59 -0500
> From: Robbie Crash
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
>   
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User management tools for OI_151a?
> Message-ID:
>   
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Hi I'm new.
>
> Napp-it:www.napp-it.org
>
> Offers most of what you're looking for and is clear enough that us
> 'Microsoft people' can figure out what to do without breaking things.
> It's obviously not as powerful as access via shell, but it does make
> creating automatic snapshot jobs much more simple.
>
> ZFS share config and overall usage is there, and clear. Not sure if
> you can create arrays, as I have no spare disks with which to test,
> but pool creation and basic management is present. It also saved me a
> bunch of time after a motherboard died and I had to rebuild my
> fileserver. Installing and configuring netatalk with it was a lot
> quicker than doing it the manual way, and got everything working just the
same.
>
> It's by no means as full featured as webmin, but it can do about 75%
> of the stuff I've wanted it to do.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User management tools for OI_151a?

[Open Indiana]

Which Webmin version do you use or did you install?

The 1.47 version that comes from the pkg installer has a missetting for the
servicefacility. Please search the list for svcs & webmin and my
emailaddress.

If you have 1.47 running and try to update to 1.57 then you're back at
square 1. Because 1.57 really messes things up. It installs somewhere inside
/usr/lib and won't start at all. You can better download the pkg for 1.57
and install it manually (download, unpack and do pkgadd -d webmin*.pkg)
but then it still won't start. You can only start it with /etc/webmin/start

I will try to get it running with the service management facility when I
have my new server up and running. Then I will post an howto for it.



-Original Message-
From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se]
Sent: vrijdag 13 januari 2012 19:07
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User management tools for OI_151a?

I'm looking for some kind of user/system/services management tools that I
could trust novices and Microsoft people to cope with..

Some working webmin-like system would be nice, but the current webmin fails
consistently on my system.

I kind of liked smc, but that's not available, is it?

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZIL write cache performance

[Open Indiana]

There are several online descriptions on how to tune MySQL in combination
with ZFS. One thing you need to tune or look at is the blocksize of the ZFS
drive where the MySQL data is stored. As far as I can imagine you could also
tune the ZIL blocksize to see what that changes.
Some usefull links:
http://blogs.oracle.com/roch/entry/proper_alignment_for_extra_performance
http://blogs.oracle.com/realneel/entry/the_zfs_intent_log


-Original Message-
From: Steve Gonczi [mailto:gon...@comcast.net]
Sent: vrijdag 13 januari 2012 0:35
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZIL write cache performance

Hi Matt,

The ZIL is not a performance enhancer. (This is a common misunderstanding,
people sometimes view the ZIL as a write cache) .

It is a way to simulate "sync" semantics on files where you really need
that, instead of the coarser ganularity guarantee that zfs gives you without
it. (txg level, where the in-progress transaction group may roll back if you
crash).

If I am reading your post correctly, you are comparing 2 scenarios

1) Zil is enabled, and goes to the main storage pool
2) Zil is enabled but it goes to a dedicated SSD instead.
Please verify that this is indeed the case.

You should not expect having an SSD based zil performing better than when
turning the ZIL off altogether.

The latter of course will have better
performance, but you have to live with the possibility of losing some data.

Given that the case is (1) and (2), it all depends on how much performance
headroom your pool has, vs. the write performance of the SSD.

A fast SSD ( e.g.: DRAM based, and preferably dedicated to Zil and not
split) would work best. It does not have to be huge, just large enough to
store (say)
5 seconds worth of your planned peak data inflow.

You need to be aware of a recent performance regression discovered
pertaining to ZIL ( George Wilson has just posted the fix for review on the
illumos dev list) This has been in Illumos for a while, so it is possible,
that it is biting you.

Steve

- Original Message -
Hi, I've installed an SSD drive in my OI machine and have it partitioned
(sliced) with a main slice to boot from and a smaller slice to use as a
write cache (ZIL) for our data pool.

I've noticed that for many tasks, using the ZIL actually slows many tasks at
hand (operation within a qemu-kvm virtual machine, mysql loading importing a
dump file, etc). I know I bought a cheap SSD to play with so I wasn't
expected the best performance, but I would have expected some improvement,
not a slow down.

In one particular test, I have mysql running in a zone and loading a test
data set takes about 40 seconds without the ZIL and about 60 seconds with
ZIL. I certainly wasn't expecting a 50% slow down.

Is this to be expected?

Are there any best practices for testing an SSD to see if it will actually
improve performance of a zfs pool?


Thanks,
Matt


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PS2 keyboard problems

[Open Indiana]

Whta do you mean?
If you disconnect a PS2 device on a running server it will never reconnect
without booting. That is at least what I found out more than once on all
kind of servers (windows2003/2008/solaris etc)


-Original Message-
From: Mark [mailto:mark0...@gmail.com]
Sent: zondag 8 januari 2012 8:07
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PS2 keyboard problems

Does anyone else have constant problems getting a ps2 keyboard to work ?

I have struck it on at least 4 different servers from as many vendors, and
not one has a working ps2 keyboard once OI (or any other flavoured
Solaris) has booted.

All my OI servers now run ps2 to usb adapters.

I finally have found time to make a working build environment, so it may be
time to dig deeper.

Mark.


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

[Open Indiana]

So many pure SUN/Solaris/OpeninIndiana professionals and one rumour puts us
back to "The Sun" gossip. ;-) 



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any openindiana based website hosting ?

[Open Indiana]

What kind of hosting do you need or want?

Why should it run on OpenIndiana?
What specs do you need for the uplink?

You may private mail me if you like.

BR,

Roelof

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Sent: zaterdag 7 januari 2012 7:48
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Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any openindiana based website hosting ?

Hi everyone:

We're facing some problems with Belenix website hosting, and I'm looking for
options.

Does anyone know of any web site hosting based on openindiana ?

-- Sriram
Belenix: www.belenix.org

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

[Open Indiana]

I guess they mean the X86 version, since it runs 32 bit. The x64 version
runs on Intel and AMD.

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Sent: vrijdag 6 januari 2012 13:23
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I heard rumors of Oracle going to dismiss the intel version of Solaris...
Is this true?!

Inviato da iPad

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question regarding Iscsi

[Open Indiana]

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-Original Message-
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com]
Sent: vrijdag 6 januari 2012 12:46
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question regarding
Iscsi

you could run a "zpool iostat 5", or a basic "iostat -zxc 5" and watch how
much is being written/read and watch for it to go quiet ...

what speed connection are you accessing at the other end of the internet?

On 6 January 2012 11:37, Open Indiana  wrote:
> I used for testing the solaris 11 ISO. It is 440MB.
> (sol-11--text-x86.iso)
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 6 januari 2012 12:25
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question
> regarding Iscsi
>
> what is the 440Mb file that you've transferred? is it easily compressed?
>
> On 6 January 2012 10:51, Open Indiana  wrote:
>> I have a rather stupid question i guess..
>>
>> The following is the case
>> 1. I have a 100GB iscsi target created at my homeserver within
>> OpeinIndiana 2. the zfs drive has lzo compression enabled 3. I have
>> OpenVPN running on this homeserver 4. I have connected my laptop via
>> OpenVPN to my homeserver 5. Transmissionspeed to the internet from my
>> laptop's point of view is 2048kb SDSL 6. I created a new NTFS drive
>> (E:) on my laptop via de iscsi initiator (windows 7 pro) that points
>> to my homeserver.
>> 7. I just saved a 440 MB file within 1 minute to the new E: drive
>>
>> Although windows told me within 1 minute that it had transferred the
>> data and closed the pop-up screen I remain wondering how long it
>> takes before the file really is transferred to my homeserver (is
>> cached
>> somewhere?) . Or is it really transferred that fast? (approx 50MB/s
>> Windows reported)
>>
>> stmfadm list-lu -v
>> LU Name: 600144F023A104004F06CC190001
>>Operational Status: Online
>>Provider Name : sbd
>>Alias : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
>>View Entry Count  : 1
>>Data File : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
>>Meta File : not set
>>Size  : 107374182400
>>Block Size: 512
>>Management URL: not set
>>Vendor ID : OI
>>Product ID: COMSTAR
>>Serial Num: not set
>>Write Protect : Disabled
>>Writeback Cache   : Enabled
>>Access State  : Active
>>
>>
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question regarding Iscsi

[Open Indiana]

I used for testing the solaris 11 ISO. It is 440MB.
(sol-11--text-x86.iso)



-Original Message-
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Sent: vrijdag 6 januari 2012 12:25
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Iscsi

what is the 440Mb file that you've transferred? is it easily compressed?

On 6 January 2012 10:51, Open Indiana  wrote:
> I have a rather stupid question i guess..
>
> The following is the case
> 1. I have a 100GB iscsi target created at my homeserver within
> OpeinIndiana 2. the zfs drive has lzo compression enabled 3. I have
> OpenVPN running on this homeserver 4. I have connected my laptop via
> OpenVPN to my homeserver 5. Transmissionspeed to the internet from my
> laptop's point of view is 2048kb SDSL 6. I created a new NTFS drive
> (E:) on my laptop via de iscsi initiator (windows 7 pro) that points
> to my homeserver.
> 7. I just saved a 440 MB file within 1 minute to the new E: drive
>
> Although windows told me within 1 minute that it had transferred the
> data and closed the pop-up screen I remain wondering how long it takes
> before the file really is transferred to my homeserver (is cached
> somewhere?) . Or is it really transferred that fast? (approx 50MB/s
> Windows reported)
>
> stmfadm list-lu -v
> LU Name: 600144F023A104004F06CC190001
>Operational Status: Online
>Provider Name : sbd
>Alias : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
>View Entry Count  : 1
>Data File : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
>Meta File : not set
>Size  : 107374182400
>Block Size: 512
>Management URL: not set
>Vendor ID : OI
>Product ID: COMSTAR
>Serial Num: not set
>Write Protect : Disabled
>Writeback Cache   : Enabled
>Access State  : Active
>
>
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question regarding Iscsi

[Open Indiana]

I have a rather stupid question i guess..

The following is the case
1. I have a 100GB iscsi target created at my homeserver within OpeinIndiana
2. the zfs drive has lzo compression enabled
3. I have OpenVPN running on this homeserver
4. I have connected my laptop via OpenVPN to my homeserver
5. Transmissionspeed to the internet from my laptop's point of view is
2048kb SDSL
6. I created a new NTFS drive (E:) on my laptop via de iscsi initiator
(windows 7 pro) that points to my homeserver.
7. I just saved a 440 MB file within 1 minute to the new E: drive

Although windows told me within 1 minute that it had transferred the data
and closed the pop-up screen I remain wondering how long it takes before the
file really is transferred to my homeserver (is cached somewhere?) . Or is
it really transferred that fast? (approx 50MB/s Windows reported)

stmfadm list-lu -v
LU Name: 600144F023A104004F06CC190001
Operational Status: Online
Provider Name : sbd
Alias : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
View Entry Count  : 1
Data File : /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/iscsi
Meta File : not set
Size  : 107374182400
Block Size: 512
Management URL: not set
Vendor ID : OI
Product ID: COMSTAR
Serial Num: not set
Write Protect : Disabled
Writeback Cache   : Enabled
Access State  : Active



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Open Indiana]

Here is a review i just found o none of our main IT sites in Holland:
http://tweakers.net/benchdb/testcombo/2662

-Original Message-
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Sent: donderdag 5 januari 2012 18:39
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Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?



Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:


The actual question about HP, and or some other vender was
> regarding say, if a HD disk would fail, controller and or motherboard,
> I have a pretty good connection(and support) regarding replace'ing
> them after few hours. So hardware support would be great, and hardware
> compatibility.
> Software support is not what I'm actually looking for.


If have to go HP, then use the DL380G7 instead of the DL360. You can put two
main risers in that chassis which will support multiple PCI-E cards each --
both half and full height. The DL380 can also hold 16 drives/8 mirrors.

If you put an LSI card in that box, HP is not likely going to want to
support you on some disk related issues. Failed drives shouldn’t be a
problem. You'll want the 9205-8E LSI card at any rate not 9208 which doesn’t
exist.

Make sure you flash the LSI card immediately to avoid problems. P12 is the
latest rev as of November. The flash procedure is a bit silly. Download the
firmware in the windows/dos/whatever zip file and then get the installer
from the solaris branded zip file. On some revs of firmware, the flash
binary fails to discover any LSI cards. I found that the irc2sas binary some
how gets the card in a proper state to be discovered by the flash updater.
Go LSI!

I strongly advise not using the P410 in your box. The write performance is
dismal with Solaris, at least w/o the write back cache. It is much better
under linux in the same configuration.


j.







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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Open Indiana]

I Guess the backplane makes the difference. But you don't need to search for
a RAID 10 or 6 card.
Just a CARD with good performance in RAID 0 would be sufficient


-Original Message-
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Sent: donderdag 5 januari 2012 16:30
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
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Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

If they are JBOD's does the Smart Array Controller make any diff, tho not
using any RAID features ?

Buy the cheapest one or ?

Thanks people.



> Jerome 
> 5. janúar 2012 14:32
> Hi,
>
> the MSA30/60/70 and D2000 series enclosures are jbods, you will see
> every drive as per disk.
>
> if you want an HP branded HBA (not raid ctrl) try this one:
>
> HP SC08e part number 614988-B21
> (6GB SAS)
>
>
> we have an DL360G5 with 8 MSA60 (two stacks of each 4 enclosures) and
> an SC08e running solaris 10 with TSM on top.
>
> runs fine..
>
> afaik, you cant use the disk led's from solaris.
>
> Jerome
>
> On 05.01.2012 15:12, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
>> So do I need a SAS HBA controller that supports IT firmware if I'm
>> going to plug into HP D2600 for an example ?
>>
>> Or does the controller on the disk box advertise all the drives as
>> per-disk ?
>>
>>
>> Sorry about my little knowledge.
>>
>> Thanks !
>>
>> Svavar
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> Svavar Örn Eysteinsson  5. janúar 2012 14:12
> So do I need a SAS HBA controller that supports IT firmware if I'm
> going to plug into HP D2600 for an example ?
>
> Or does the controller on the disk box advertise all the drives as
> per-disk ?
>
>
> Sorry about my little knowledge.
>
> Thanks !
>
> Svavar
>
>
>
>
> Chris Ridd 
> 5. janúar 2012 12:44
> On 5 Jan 2012, at 12:28, Johan Guldmyr wrote:
>
>> On 01/05/2012 01:34 PM, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org
wrote:
>>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for
>>>  Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?
>>> Message-ID:<4f058acf.2060...@fiton.is>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>
>>> I find those HP D2600 enclosures quite fascinating.
>>>
>>> So, I would clearly need a good SAS controller for the host machine.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me at some controller that would pair well.
>>> Say if I would stack 2x D2600 together ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks allot guys.:)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>> We are probably getting the DL360G7 + P411 with 512MB BBWC + D2600.
>>
>> I couldn't find any details on the "LSI 9208" card. Typo?
>
> Yes - LSI SAS 9200-8e is probably the one. Basically you want one with a
chipset supported by the mpt_sas driver. 'man mpt_sas' says these are the
LSI SAS200x/2108 chips.
>
>  x>
>
> The only thing I'd say about the DL360G7 is that IIRC there are only two
PCIe slots so if you want more HBAs, or more NICs (it has 4 on the
motherboard - bnx driver), you're a bit constrained.
>
>> Does ZFS still prefer JBOD/direct access to the disks?
>
> Yes.
>
> Chris
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>
> We are probably getting the DL360G7 + P411 with 512MB BBWC + D2600.
>
> I couldn't find any details on the "LSI 9208" card. Typo?
>
> Does ZFS still prefer JBOD/direct access to the disks?
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Open Indiana]

Make sure that you check the Solaris HCL since a lot of SAS controllers do
not function 100% under Solaris/OpenIndiana. This is also true for the 3Ware
controllers.
If you look at the LSI website you can see if the card you want has Solaris
support/drivers. If it doesn't don't buy it. I have a server with a 3Ware
9550SX for example, that won't run/install any Solaris installer.


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On Jan 5, 2012, "Svavar Örn Eysteinsson" wrote:

> Can anyone point me at some controller that would pair well.

Any of the 6Gb SAS HBAs from LSI that have external ports. However, you
might avoid their 3ware line as the last time I tried one with HP hardware
it couldn't load the card's firmware even after disabling every thing else
from the BIOS. That may have improved since then but I get the impression
their 3ware line has lower priority for eng/dev time which is sad since
3ware gear prior to LSI acquisition was top notch. Again, YMMV.

-Gary

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Open Indiana]

Before the takeover by Oracle Sun was cheaper than Dell, not at first sight
but if you checked everything part-by-part than Sun was at the end cheaper.
With Dell the biggest problem is their website and the way they present
prices. You start with a enormous offer of 512,- euro for a server and end
with a 9000,- euro server.

Always take the highest series ( > R610), they offer more than the lower
series. If want the same amount of hardware like HD's and processors in the
low-series server you pay approx. 30% more.



-Original Message-
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Sent: woensdag 4 januari 2012 12:42
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for
Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

Hi,

> We use DELL, and Sun^H^H^HOracle kit ... I love the Sun kit for it's
> ILOM (able to access the bios remotely, via console and browser) and

indeed the ilom (and all the other (x)lom from sun) are really great and
unique. But for completeness nowadays dell (and others too with
different) offers the (i)DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) for out of
band management, and they work like a charm if you got used to them (but
that also counts for the (x)lom) - but you have to order them as addition to
your server, they are not included by default. They also offer to enter the
bios in their console redirection and basic monitoring (with email alarms).

> If you do go DELL remember to look at the website (if your eyes don't
> hurt) and get a quote, then call them up, they work on commission and
> are aggressive with the prices.

At dell you *must* call for price - ordering without a qoute is waste of
money ;-)

If I have a choice I would go with Sun - but if price matters dell is/was a
good alternative (in fact the first storage server build like this with
solaris was chosen by price, and dell clearly won over all other
"professional" vendors).

Cheers,
Jan

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Open Indiana]

Completely true Mr. Toustrup, but I personaly don't like the closed solution
of Nexenta. Yes, they offer a great storage solution but you are not allowed
to enter the core of the server and that is what I hate.

If you want, for example, to also use the server as a SVN or Git server then
nexenta will give you problems.


It might be wise to wait a month or so to order the hardware, harddisks are
still very pricey. 




-Original Message-
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Sent: woensdag 4 januari 2012 10:05
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
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Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 09:28, Open Indiana  wrote:
> If money is not an issue ( you want to buy A-grade hardware) why not
> look at Oracle hardware in combination with Solaris 11. When you buy
> Oracle hardware you have full support on hard- and software in the first
year.
>
> I know I am walking on the edge right now, but when you have a budget
> there is no reason to not buy Solaris 11 instead of OpenIndiana.

If Svavar should be spending money on the OS, then why not suggest Nexenta?
They make an storage appliance operating system, and at the same time
contributes to illumos. It lets the OP use HP servers if he so prefers, and
it can help out illumos and thereby OpenIndiana at the same time.
Sure, Sun/Oracle do create nice hardware, but with the redundancy and error
detection available in illumos/OpenIndiana, I don't see any need for paying
their premium for the hardware compared to other manufactures.

Svavar, the two points to have in mind when considering hardware for such a
storage system would be:

1. How much RAM it takes. ZFS likes RAM and preferably uses it as its read
cache, which gives really fast response times for often accessed data. That
along with the predictive read-ahead makes large streaming reads fast as
well.

2. How many drives it handles and which types. Depending on your workload
and expectations for the speed of the storage system, you may want to look
into adding SSDs to your setup. ZFS can both use them as a read cache -
extending the existing read cache in RAM - or as a write cache for
synchronous writes, if your application makes use of that (note: iSCSI
writes are always synchronous!).

--
Venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer)

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Appalling disk performance for KVM

[Open Indiana]

Errata:

You need to consider what you are doing.
You are piling a virtualiser (KVM) on an OS (OpenIndiana) and on top of the
virtualiser you are piling another OS (windows) and after creating this pile
you wonder why it won't stand stable...

Keep thing where they belong. ZFS is lighting fast when it runs on Solaris
or OpenIndiana, but its performance degrades as soon as you start piling up
other things on it, like a windows harddrivelayout.

So when it comes to store or distribute data keep the data on the layer that
is fastest, in this case the OpenIndiana OS.



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Sent: woensdag 4 januari 2012 9:35
To: 'Discussion list for OpenIndiana'
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Appalling disk performance for KVM

What you could have done was:
1. use Virtualbox for your virtual OS's
2. create a minimal C: drive for the OS only
3. create 3 iscsi drives on OpenIndiana from a ZFS drive
4. import these drives as storage in your VM's

Apart from step 1 you could do it right now. I guess you will see improved
performance, going up to 50MB/s




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Sent: woensdag 4 januari 2012 5:51
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Appalling disk performance for KVM

I'm seeing absolutely terrible disk performance for my virtual machines
running under KVM.

My ZFS pool is 6 Western Digital AV-25 500GB disks arranged in 3 mirrored
vdevs connected to an LSI 9210 (reflashed IBM M1015) in IT mode.

My KVM startup script:

/usr/bin/qemu-kvm \
-enable-kvm \
-smp 2 \
-m 1024 \
-no-hpet \
-rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew \
-drive
file=/dev/zvol/dsk/oi_data/kvm/system/disk0,if=virtio,format=raw,cache=none,
index=0 \ -drive
file=/dev/zvol/dsk/oi_data/kvm/system/disk1,if=virtio,format=raw,cache=none,
index=1 \ -net nic,vlan=0,name=lan0,model=virtio,macaddr=$MAC0 \ -net
vnic,vlan=0,name=lan0,ifname=$ETH0 \ -net
nic,vlan=1,name=int0,model=virtio,macaddr=$MAC1 \ -net
vnic,vlan=1,name=int0,ifname=$ETH1 \ -vnc $LAN_ADDR:$1 \ -monitor
telnet:127.0.0.1:444$1,server,nowait \ -usbdevice tablet \ -daemonize

My zvol settings:

NAME   PROPERTYVALUE
SOURCE
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  typevolume
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  creationTue Nov  8 11:56
2011   -
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  used298G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  available   844G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  referenced  139G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  compressratio   1.00x
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  reservation none
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  volsize 144G
local
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  volblocksize8K
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  checksumon
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  compression off
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  readonlyoff
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  copies  1
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  refreservation  149G
local
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  primarycacheall
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  secondarycache  all
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  usedbysnapshots 11.8G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  usedbydataset   139G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  usedbychildren  0
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  usedbyrefreservation147G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  logbias latency
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  dedup   off
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  mlslabelnone
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  syncstandard
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  refcompressratio1.00x
-

Representative iostat output while moving some 4GB of digital photos (approx
2MB each):

  capacity operationsbandwidth
pool   alloc   free   read  write   read  write
-  -  -  -  -  -  -
oi_data 373G  1019G 71377   569K  3.98M
  mirror124G   340G 15127   125K  1.34M
c2t50014EE2AFBDC3CBd0  -  -  2 71   118K  1.34M
c2t50014EE25A683C10d0  -  -  0 69  7.01K  1.34M
  mirror124G   340G 31123   256K  1.33M
c2t50014EE20518D4F6d0  -  -  4 49   132K  1.33M
c2t50014EE2AFBD87B4d0  -  -  4 48   123K  1.33M
  mirror124G   340G 23125   189K  1.32M
c2t50014EE205154E0Bd0  -  -  3 52  35.1K  1.32M
c2t50014EE25A6829D6d0  - 

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Appalling disk performance for KVM

[Open Indiana]

What you could have done was:
1. use Virtualbox for your virtual OS's
2. create a minimal C: drive for the OS only
3. create 3 iscsi drives on OpenIndiana from a ZFS drive
4. import these drives as storage in your VM's

Apart from step 1 you could do it right now. I guess you will see improved
performance, going up to 50MB/s




-Original Message-
From: Russell Hansen [mailto:russ...@new-swankton.net]
Sent: woensdag 4 januari 2012 5:51
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Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Appalling disk performance for KVM

I'm seeing absolutely terrible disk performance for my virtual machines
running under KVM.

My ZFS pool is 6 Western Digital AV-25 500GB disks arranged in 3 mirrored
vdevs connected to an LSI 9210 (reflashed IBM M1015) in IT mode.

My KVM startup script:

/usr/bin/qemu-kvm \
-enable-kvm \
-smp 2 \
-m 1024 \
-no-hpet \
-rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew \
-drive
file=/dev/zvol/dsk/oi_data/kvm/system/disk0,if=virtio,format=raw,cache=none,
index=0 \ -drive
file=/dev/zvol/dsk/oi_data/kvm/system/disk1,if=virtio,format=raw,cache=none,
index=1 \ -net nic,vlan=0,name=lan0,model=virtio,macaddr=$MAC0 \ -net
vnic,vlan=0,name=lan0,ifname=$ETH0 \ -net
nic,vlan=1,name=int0,model=virtio,macaddr=$MAC1 \ -net
vnic,vlan=1,name=int0,ifname=$ETH1 \ -vnc $LAN_ADDR:$1 \ -monitor
telnet:127.0.0.1:444$1,server,nowait \ -usbdevice tablet \ -daemonize

My zvol settings:

NAME   PROPERTYVALUE
SOURCE
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  typevolume
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  creationTue Nov  8 11:56
2011   -
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  used298G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  available   844G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  referenced  139G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  compressratio   1.00x
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  reservation none
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  volsize 144G
local
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  volblocksize8K
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  checksumon
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  compression off
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  readonlyoff
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  copies  1
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  refreservation  149G
local
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  primarycacheall
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  secondarycache  all
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  usedbysnapshots 11.8G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  usedbydataset   139G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  usedbychildren  0
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  usedbyrefreservation147G
-
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  logbias latency
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  dedup   off
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  mlslabelnone
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  syncstandard
default
oi_data/kvm/sachiel/disk1  refcompressratio1.00x
-

Representative iostat output while moving some 4GB of digital photos (approx
2MB each):

  capacity operationsbandwidth
pool   alloc   free   read  write   read  write
-  -  -  -  -  -  -
oi_data 373G  1019G 71377   569K  3.98M
  mirror124G   340G 15127   125K  1.34M
c2t50014EE2AFBDC3CBd0  -  -  2 71   118K  1.34M
c2t50014EE25A683C10d0  -  -  0 69  7.01K  1.34M
  mirror124G   340G 31123   256K  1.33M
c2t50014EE20518D4F6d0  -  -  4 49   132K  1.33M
c2t50014EE2AFBD87B4d0  -  -  4 48   123K  1.33M
  mirror124G   340G 23125   189K  1.32M
c2t50014EE205154E0Bd0  -  -  3 52  35.1K  1.32M
c2t50014EE25A6829D6d0  -  -  4 51   156K  1.32M
-  -  -  -  -  -  -

A Bonnie result from a napp-it install:

Version 1.03c   --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input-
--Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--
MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec
%CP
2011.12.12  32G 61586  99 151550  16 95819  17 49188  99 273833  18
1166   3
--Sequential Create-- Random
Create
-Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--
  files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec
%CP
 16 32070  99 + +++ + +++ 32736 100 + +++ +
+++
2011.12.12,32G,61586,99,151550,16,95819,17,4918

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

[Open Indiana]

If money is not an issue ( you want to buy A-grade hardware) why not look at
Oracle hardware in combination with Solaris 11. When you buy Oracle hardware
you have full support on hard- and software in the first year.

I know I am walking on the edge right now, but when you have a budget there
is no reason to not buy Solaris 11 instead of OpenIndiana.




-Original Message-
From: Svavar Örn Eysteinsson [mailto:sva...@fiton.is]
Sent: dinsdag 3 januari 2012 15:06
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana
(Capacity Server) ?

Hello.

I'm planing to replace my old Apple XRAID, and XSAN Filesystem(1.4.2) Fiber
environment.
This setup only hosted a AFP,CIFS for a large advertising agency.
Now that Fiber is damn expensive and for one thing, we do not need the fiber
connection as every client connects with IP.
So iSCSI, AFP, CIFS should be efficient for us.
We have been running this setup since late/early 2006/2007 without problems.
No that the hardware/software is warned out and we had pretty damn
catastropic filesystem failure lately.

I've been running OpenIndiana on a custom made server with ZFS,CIFS,AFP and
all that for couple of months right now. Really good. This server just acts
as a temporary solution. Currently has 4x 2TB Enterprise SATA disks in
RAIDz1 and expanding in few weeks with Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i and 4-8 more
disks.
Doing daily snapshots and, yea really love it.

Are there any recommendations regarding HP Servers running OpenIndiana to
act as a ZFS Capacity server ?

The server should only do :
* AFP
* CIFS
* NFS
* iSCSI
* and of course ZFS underneath

So what I'm looking at is a large capacity server.
We need 12-20TB at the start.

Any other vendors good ?  any servers that comes out of the box and runs
Openindiana 151 with no problems (drivers / hardware ) e.t.c. acting as a
capacity server.
And support would be a good option to.


Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks allot.
Best regards,

Svavar - Reykjavik - Iceland




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[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenVPN as a service

[Open Indiana]

I have OpenVPN running from the commandline but would like to have it
managed by smf.
I don't know exactly how I managed to get it running since the "core" is
installed by pkg in /usr/sbin/openvpn and I used website to build openVPN
from source and in these dirs and subdirs are the config files located
(/opt/openvpn-2.2.1/ )

What is the best way to get openVPN autostarted and managed by SMF?

Thanks in advance !





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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

[Open Indiana]

It's like sneezing in a dark-room, now Oracle can wait outside to see who
all catched the flue.

;-)



-Original Message-
From: Bill Sommerfeld [mailto:sommerf...@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: maandag 19 december 2011 19:21
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

On 12/19/11 07:53, Chris Ridd wrote:
> But what if the changed code in the leaked code was licensed under the
CDDL. Would that make it OK to reuse outside of Oracle?

You're asking for legal advice.  Any legal advice you get on this list is
worth less than what you paid for it.





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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

[Open Indiana]

It might be an idea to look at www.opennms.org. They also struggle with
documentation, users, updates and helpfiles but manage to get it good pretty
well.



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] An article from "the register"

[Open Indiana]

This is very bad news. All our servers have a dual-boot system partition so
we can choose between IIS and apache every time we reboot..

*sigh*

Imho hardware is having such great performance that within a couple of
months, maybe 2 years, all desktops (but maybe tablets and phones too) will
have some kind of hypervisor that will boot at first. After the boot one can
choose between the different OS's the mainhardware supports.
If I remember correct HTC has announced a dualboot mobile phone by which the
user can choose between the private or the company phone.


-Original Message-
From: LinuxBSDos.com [mailto:fi...@linuxbsdos.com]
Sent: donderdag 22 september 2011 12:35
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] An article from "the register"

>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/secure_boot_firmware_linux_exclusion
_fears/
>
> 2 points:
> 1) I hope that this doesn't happen because it'll be a pain for us as well.
>
> 2) "... Secondly, in the near future the design of the kernel will
> mean that the kernel itself is part of the bootloader ..."
>
> Do you know if this _is_ the direction that grub is going, if so can
> we still be a part of it?
>

It will not pass in Europe, but in the US of A, our elected officials will
let it slide.

--
Fini.


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 3.1.8 / bridged networking on oi_148 x86 host

[Open Indiana]

Are you sure that your nics are still named rge?

-Original Message-
From: Lou Picciano [mailto:loupicci...@comcast.net]
Sent: maandag 25 juli 2011 3:15
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 3.1.8 / bridged networking on
oi_148 x86 host

Dave,


I've been using latest VirtualBox (4.1) on OpenIndiana 148b or so, and
having good luck so far.


You and I are both suffering with RealTek Gigabit interfaces, which I've
been warned off of. Still, for the moment at least, things look pretty good.


Lou Picciano

- Original Message -
From: "Dave Koelmeyer" 
To: "Open Indiana Discussion List" 
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 7:51:19 AM
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 3.1.8 / bridged networking on
oi_148 x86 host

Hi All,

I have a couple of VMs I keep hanging around which use VirtualBox
bridged networking. I fire them up infrequently enough to not notice
that apparently since upgrading my host to oi_148 bridged networking is
broken.

I see the following error message when attempting to launch the VMs in
question:

"Failed to start the virtual machine Ubuntu8.04.
Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-rge0
- Realtek Gigabit Ethernet' (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND)."

Swtiching to NAT works fine. Anyone else seen this?

--
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?

[Open Indiana]

For as far as I know you need to check the solaris 10 HCL list before you
buy any (e)SATA card. And for what I know the Supermicro SATA (RAID) cards
have a chip that works with solaris 10.


-Original Message-
From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com]
Sent: zondag 29 mei 2011 17:54
To: 'Discussion list for OpenIndiana'
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI interface
for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?



-Original Message-
From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:53 AM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI interface
for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?

> > Message: 2
> > Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 12:35:05 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> > 
> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
> > interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
> > Message-ID:<31113433.0.1306665305717.JavaMail.root@zimbra>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >
> >> Can anyone suggest a good and reliable eSATA PCI interface for a
> >> Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? Preferably 4 or 6 eSATA ports
> >>
> >> To be used in a RaidZ2 config with 8 or 10 2TB relatively cheap
> >> disks.
> >> 4 connected to the MB SATA II ports, and 4 or 6 on the external.
> > Any particular reason for not using SAS with this? LSI 1068 work
> > well and are affordable if not cheap. They only support 3Gbps SAS,
> > but then, you probably won't need more. The LSI 1068E has external
> > connectors.

> An LSI 1068 is a chip, not a PCI card.

Sure, but there are several cheap boards using it.

Btw, are you sure you want a PCI card, not a PCI Express card?

*** Good point.  It isn't hard to saturate the PCI bus nowadays...


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Open Indiana]

Just a little insight on the behavior of human race that i experienced at
home:
I had a laptop with Windows XP Home with Office XP that crashed at one day.
I had used the installer partition for something else, so I installed
OpenSolaris instead. 

My family (wife and kids) cried several days that it was completely
unusable. Accoording to them everything looked different and OpenOffice was
not usable at all. They had to search too long to find the things they
wanted. 

So at the end I bought a new laptop with Windows 7 and Office 2007. 

Now have ever looked at the differences between office XP and office 2007 or
between Windows Xp and Windows 7? 
They have never complained about anything! *sigh* 
  



-Original Message-
From: Blake Irvin [mailto:blake.ir...@gmail.com] 
Sent: dinsdag 24 mei 2011 18:13
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

As a longtime Solaris user I don't have to be convinced that it's better in
many ways than Linux.  But there is a reality that I've been forced to
embrace - developers don't care.

I'm in the process right now of helping a large development team make the
transition to a Solaris hosting solution.  I've spent hundreds of hours with
my operations team customizing our environments so that they 'look and feel'
like Ubuntu.

Why?  Because that's what the current crop of developers know, and it's too
expensive to train them otherwise.

My operations team knows that Solaris is great, and we plan to use RBAC to
give our dev users safe access to certain system features, but we don't ask
the devs to relearn their userland.

On of Apple's great insights, IMHO, was courting developers with a OS
userland that *felt* like Linux.  They did this for pragmatic reasons and
have seen an explosion of new applications. Do we see this for Solaris?  No.

I love Solaris and want to see OpenIndiana and related distros thrive, so I
suggest we give everybody what they want.

I propose an installer or configuration tool that let's a user choose either
a 'Server' (traditional Solaris) userland or a 'Compatibility' or
'Developer' mode (one that defaults to Linux/GNU binaries, sudo, GCC, etc).

We all laugh when we watch Ballmer's 'Developers! Developers! Developers!
Developers!' video, but Sun went out of business almost and MS is still a
giant.  Let's be willing to compromise in a smart way so that the OS we all
love can reach as many users as possible.


best,
Blake

(If anyone is interested in discussing my proposal in more depth, I'd be
happy to start a new thread or take this offline.)


sent from a Unix host smaller than my open hand.
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Open Indiana]

I haven't ever understood the term "SUDO". They told me it stands for "Super
User DO", but if I searched the usergroups and usernames on the OS there was
no SUPERUSER to find anywhere. 

There is basically only 1 admin or root account that can and may control the
whole OS. The way the admin is treated inside Windows vista, XP and 2008 is
IMHO very annoying. 

I AM the ADMIN and since I AM the ADMIN I do KNOW what I am doing. Don't ask
me if I really, really, really want to do this or that. If I wasn't sure
then someone made a mistake to give me the admin rights.  

IMHO if someone needs to do something that has to be done with admin rights,
he/she should log in as admin or root and act like one.
I think a lot of security things are created to prevent the user from
thinking. It is like when I want to use my cars GPS-system, it always warns
me that the roads are not completely sure and I may not watch the screen the
whole time. I really hate that American "don't sue us" policy. 

-Original Message-
From: Ken Gunderson [mailto:kgund...@teamcool.net] 
Sent: dinsdag 24 mei 2011 15:04
To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 13:33 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> On 24 May 2011, at 13:10, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> > Especially when that distro is loosing respect from those who actually
> > have a clue or two due to continued track record of bugs that result in
> > very unreliable platform choice for the server room.
> 
> Inflammatory and arrogant comments like this are not constructive, nor are
they welcome.
> 
> We're trying to create a friendly, open and inclusive community here.
Attacking other distributions and the users of those distributions has the
opposite affect, and will drive people away.
> 
> Please can people be mindful of the language they use on-list and realise
that list members are ambassadors for the OS.
> 
> Keep it technical, don't get personal.

I don't want to get into a tit for tat with you here but my remarks were
not intended to come off as arrogant. To clarify, my opinion of Ubuntu
is based on technical merit as result of having used it. Until incessant
bugs drove management to pony up for significantly more costly RHEL.  I
don't think it's appropriate for this list to get into the nitty gritty
technical details.

I also base my opinion on feedback from other Linux users: seasoned
administrators I have had discussion with often express similar
experiences/frustrations regarding Ubuntu.  Those who I talk with who
like it _tend_ to be lower tech and newer to Linux types.  My use of
"those who have a clue or two" to differentiate these different users
was probably less than optimal, but hopefully doesn't invalidate the
larger point I was trying to make - that copying Ubuntu simply because
it is popular with a certain subset of users should not be considered
best practice. This latter aspect was what prompted my initial comment
on the subject.  And yes, I've already allowed that I agree with the
technical/security side of the decision on this particular issue.

And to end on a positive note, I think Debian is a very nice Linux
distro.


-- 
Ken Gunderson 


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