Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Andy Wodfer
Thanks a lot to all who responded to my post. I have learned lots here. Too bad I have to find another use for my 4 x 2TB green WDC drives I have laying around. Anyways - they'll probably end up as a temp/work drive on a few Windows stations. Btw. will these drive work better in a ZFS "pool/tank"

Re: disk recovery problem(s)

2010-11-19 Thread perryh
Thomas Exner wrote: > when running fsck the first error message is "ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED" > ... > Is there a chance to get the data back? Dunno about current versions, but IIRC some earlier versions of dump(8) could handle even a badly-corrupted FS. No harm in trying, since it will not try to

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote: > I have learned lots here. Too bad I have to find another use for my 4 x 2TB > green WDC drives I have laying around. Anyways - they'll probably end up as > a temp/work drive on a few Windows stations. > > Btw. will these drive work better in a

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Peter
> Thanks a lot to all who responded to my post. > > I have learned lots here. Too bad I have to find another use for my 4 x > 2TB > green WDC drives I have laying around. Anyways - they'll probably end up > as > a temp/work drive on a few Windows stations. > > Btw. will these drive work better in a

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Andy Wodfer
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Peter wrote: > I tend to stay away from raid cards. With ZFS pools all you need is ZFS > and any OS [easily move drives around servers], vs. raid cards have to be > the same if moving/replacing/card fails. > > With 'ZFS: do not give it all your HDD' > [ http://ww

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread krad
On 18 November 2010 13:51, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 11/18/2010 7:16 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm going to build a server that's intended to store uncompressed > videofiles > > (where 1 hour film equals about 500GB). I plan on using Western Digital > 2TB > > or 3TB SATA harddrives. Total

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread krad
On 19 November 2010 09:48, Andy Wodfer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Peter wrote: > > > I tend to stay away from raid cards. With ZFS pools all you need is ZFS > > and any OS [easily move drives around servers], vs. raid cards have to be > > the same if moving/replacing/card fails.

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:44:12 + Paul Wootton wrote: > Here is a copy from smartctl > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 092 092 000Old_age > Always - 5958 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 001 001 000Old_age > Always - 885346 > > The drive

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/11/2010 10:00, krad wrote: > If you already have a 3ware card and you are familiar with them, why not let > it do the raid and just plonk zfs on top of the lun presented to the system? > Will make booting off pure zfs much easier. There's a lot of duplication of function there -- both ZFS an

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Peter
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Peter wrote: > >> I tend to stay away from raid cards. With ZFS pools all you need is ZFS >> and any OS [easily move drives around servers], vs. raid cards have to >> be >> the same if moving/replacing/card fails. >> >> With 'ZFS: do not give it all your HDD' >>

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread krad
On 19 November 2010 10:25, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/11/2010 10:00, krad wrote: > > If you already have a 3ware card and you are familiar with them, why not > let > > it do the raid and just plonk zfs on top of the lun presented to the > system? > > Will make booting off pure zfs much easier.

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM, krad wrote: > A few people have mentioned labelling the drives. Its a good thing to do, > but take it a step further. Before you put the drives in the system, > physically label them with something identifiable (colored sticker, number > whatever). Then when you cr

Where to send coredump?

2010-11-19 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi, Freebsd-questions. I ran FreeBSD 9-Current. System sometimes page faults. Does FBSD comunity need core dumps? If so where I can put dumps for you? -- С уважением, Коньков mailto:kes-...@yandex.ru ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Nov 15 09:38:53 2010 > Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:40:27 +0300 > From: c0re > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Re: openssl version - how to verify > > 2010/11/15 Jerry : > There are still too many broken ports with openssl from ports, I do > not like debug it a

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > _authoritative_ answer: You _cannot_. > > Statement rationale: > "The number of discovered bugs in any system is a finite number. >The number of _UNDISCOVERED_ bugs, on the other hand, is an infinite > one. >By definition." > While

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-19 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:08:26 -0600 Adam Vande More articulated: > While I agree with your point in this context, the statement "The > number of _UNDISCOVERED_ bugs, on the other hand, is an infinite > one." is false. > > http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2009/sep/microkernel_breakthrough.

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:08:26 -0600 > Adam Vande More articulated: > > > While I agree with your point in this context, the statement "The > > number of _UNDISCOVERED_ bugs, on the other hand, is an infinite > > one." is false. > > > > > http://www.

[solved] Re: [freebsd] pecl-imagick -> Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) on php -i under freebsd 7.3

2010-11-19 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hello and thanks for your feedback! On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 13:03 +0100, end...@gmail.com wrote: > >> [...@pandora ~]$ php -v -c /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production > >> PHP 5.3.2 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jun 14 2010 18:11:48) > >> Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group > >> Zend Engine v2.3.

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-19 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:53:11 -0600 Adam Vande More articulated: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Jerry > wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:08:26 -0600 > > Adam Vande More articulated: > > > > > While I agree with your point in this context, the statement "The > > > number of _UNDISCOVERED_

Re: Where to send coredump?

2010-11-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
2010/11/20 Коньков Евгений : > Hi, Freebsd-questions. > > I ran FreeBSD 9-Current. > System sometimes page faults. > Does FBSD comunity need core dumps? If so where I can put dumps for > you? -CURRENT is 'bleeding-edge'; and if you're using it you should be subscribing to freebsd-curr...@freebsd.o

Re: [solved] Re: [freebsd] pecl-imagick -> Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) on php -i under freebsd 7.3

2010-11-19 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hi Alex, thanks for this even better feedback. On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:22 +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > This is not the correct fix, the correct "fix" is to enable threads in > php, using the appropriate OPTION. Ok, so probably this one: LINKTHR=off (default) "Link thread lib (for threaded exten

Restarting network & vlan interface = kernel memory corruption (if_vlan / conf/63700 redux)

2010-11-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
[Originally from freebsd-hackers@ / Feb 2008; freebsd-net Jun 2010] All: pf conf/63700 got the ball rolling on fixing cloned/VLAN interface management with rc.d/netif, but a very specific problem still remains. For example, adding an alias to a VLAN and running: /etc/rc.d/netif restart

DNS Resolution

2010-11-19 Thread Jay Hall
I have a weird DNS problem I am hoping someone can help me with. I have server running FBSD 8.0. /etc/resolv.conf is set to use my ISP's DNS servers for name resolution. If run dig @ns3.socket.net .yyy. the INTERNAL ip address of the server is returned. If I run d...@ns3.socket.net

Re: DNS Resolution

2010-11-19 Thread Gary Gatten
I ran into a similar situation where the ns was behind a Juniper SRX doing NAT. Said Juniper had a "smart" DNS piece (ALG) that does special stuff on DNS packets; max record length, special NAT, etc. I had to disable the DNS ALG to fix the "problem". If your ns is behind a NATing device, start

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/15/10 21:06, Chris Rees wrote: On 15 November 2010 19:59, Peter Boosten wrote: He's consistent in any case (a quick google search reveals this 2008 message): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg192926.html Consistent, but still just spouting uninformed FUD. A

Re: DNS Resolution

2010-11-19 Thread Jay Hall
On Friday, November 19, 2010 07:25:10 pm Gary Gatten wrote: > I ran into a similar situation where the ns was behind a Juniper SRX doing > NAT. Said Juniper had a "smart" DNS piece (ALG) that does special stuff on > DNS packets; max record length, special NAT, etc. I had to disable the > DNS ALG t

Re: openssl version - how to verify

2010-11-19 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:08:26 -0600 > Adam Vande More articulated: > >> While I agree with your point in this context, the statement "The >> number of _UNDISCOVERED_ bugs, on the other hand, is an infinite >> one." is false. >> >> http://www.unsw.edu

Re: Building kdiff3 for kde 3.5

2010-11-19 Thread doug
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Maciej Milewski wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 08:37:51, d...@safeport.com wrote: Apparently only the version for kde4 is on the ports and I could not find a package for 3.5. Building the available source had some interesting results but ultimate did not work. What I

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-19 Thread Da Rock
On 11/13/10 16:08, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:08:51 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward