Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Rob Farmer
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:25, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > 4 weeks ago I backed up all my data and reformatted from Debian 'lenny' to > GPT/ZFS/8.1-RELEASE.  The next two weeks did not go so well.  While I tried > hard to get ZFS formatted drives to work reliably, intermittent unexplained > core d

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I spoke a little too soon. I was UPGRADING to KDE4 4.5.2 as I was typing the message. 'portupgrade kde4' was @ approx. 38% when it error'd out on something about 'kdelibs4-4.4.5' too old. Going to /usr/ports/kdelibs4 and 'make clean', 'make', bo

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/25/10 20:11, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyer wrote: The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team. I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > Good Day; > > It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an > operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5, > KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3, > an

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Ian Gibson
What's the situation re: PC-BSD? I thought they were 'FreeBSD on the desktop', leaving FreeBSD itself to focus on being a great server OS. Isn't the whole point of PC-BSD to remove the need to do what the OP did i.e. spend days or weeks installing and configuring FreeBSD with desktop applicati

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyer wrote: > The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this > going.  But I know it does.  And I don't blame the FreeBSD team. > > I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists.  ie., we should > have scripts that describe

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Henry Olyer
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team. I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we should have scripts that describe every aspect of a computer, so that such scripts can be mecha

FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5, KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3, and Thunderbird 3.1.5. The machine is an older Dell GX270 P4 2.4 GHz

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Kenton Varda
Ivan Voras wrote: > Short answer: no. > > Long answer: There should be. There were past discussions on writing > such a facility to e.g. receive events for all files on per-mountpoint > basis (which you could filter...), but we're not there yet. Thanks! That answers my question. I'll find some s

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Kenton Varda
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: > I thought so too but was not sure about his problem. With > kqueue()/kevent() we can monitor every open file descriptor. So how many > files are laid down in the directory tree, 100, 1000, 15000? In every > such way its possible to write o

Re: ZFS and NFS, can't see subvolumes.

2010-10-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Mickaël Canévet wrote: > Hi, I have a problem whith ZFS + NFS export. > > I have a zpool 'data' that contains subvolumes 'user' and 'group' that > also contains subvolumes. > > I share data (zfs set sharenfs=on data) and showmount shows all my > exports: > > /data

Re: ZFS and NFS, can't see subvolumes.

2010-10-25 Thread Polytropon
Please excuse me for not answering your question directly AND bringing up an "old discussion" again, but: On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:58:19 +0200, Mickaël Canévet wrote: > When I mount /data on my client, I see folders user and group, but not > user/foo, user/bar, group/foo, group/bar. The correct wo

ZFS and NFS, can't see subvolumes.

2010-10-25 Thread Mickaël Canévet
Hi, I have a problem whith ZFS + NFS export. I have a zpool 'data' that contains subvolumes 'user' and 'group' that also contains subvolumes. I share data (zfs set sharenfs=on data) and showmount shows all my exports: /data Everyone /data/user Everyone /data/user/foo Everyone /data/user/

Re: how to disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD

2010-10-25 Thread Rob Farmer
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:11, Chetan Shukla wrote: > Hi, > How we can disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD. > I tried lsmod and kldstat but neither of them worked. lsmod is a linux command and kldstat shows modules that are loaded. In the GENERIC kernel SCTP is compiled in, so it won't show up this wa

ghostscript install problem

2010-10-25 Thread Fred
Hello, I am trying to install ghostscript8 from ports on 8.0-RELEASE-p4. The build stops when /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/ghostscript-8.64/epag-3.09/ert is to be installed in /usr/local/bin. The error is file not found. Error code 71. I tried going to the epag-3.09 directory: make

how to disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD

2010-10-25 Thread Chetan Shukla
Hi, How we can disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD. I tried lsmod and kldstat but neither of them worked. Regards, Chetan "DISCLAIMER: This message is proprietary to Aricent and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain p

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/25/10 03:05, Kenton Varda wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to write some code which monitors a possibly-large directory > tree for changes. Specifically, it's a build system, and I want it to > automatically start rebuilding whenever I modify a source file. > > So far the approach I've tak

Re: geli keys

2010-10-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:07:11 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: > RW wrote: > > > > > > The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a > > > random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by > > > default. > > > > > > What happens if a provider is initialized without t

Re: Administrating more than 10 servers

2010-10-25 Thread Ahmed Ossama
Thanks guys, I have collected a lot of info, I guess I have to arrange them into some procedures and steps. I will be using nagios and puppet, and certainly a version control system (most probably subversion). Also I am going export a site wide directory of the common files via NFS. And follow

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Igor V. Ruzanov
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Erik Trulsson wrote: |On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:48:58AM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: |> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: |> |> |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a |> |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to d

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:48:58AM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: > > |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a > |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to do and why it does, > |in fact, make sense, but i

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Igor V. Ruzanov
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to do and why it does, |in fact, make sense, but it's really beside the point. I just want to know |if there is any scalable