Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-14 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to first say that by no means is this a "hey, why is my Mac >> faster then my PC" kind of email. >> >> I'm reall

Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-14 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to first say that by no means is this a "hey, why is my Mac >> faster then my PC" kind of email. >> >> I'm reall

Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-12 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to first say that by no means is this a "hey, why is my Mac >> faster then my PC" kind of email. >> >> I'm reall

Re: FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-12 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 12, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 10:53, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to first say that by no means is this a "hey, why is my Mac >> faster then my PC" kind of email. >> >> I'm reall

FreeBSD, Centos and ZFS

2013-10-12 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I would like to first say that by no means is this a "hey, why is my Mac faster then my PC" kind of email. I'm really hoping its an LSI driver issue. My hardware; 39 SATA drives via SAS expanders 2 SSD for ZIL 2 SSD for L2Arc 128GB ECC Ram Intel 2400SC Mobo 2 Xeon E5 Hexacore procs 2 LSI 9

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-10-10 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:13:25AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? > > I would use find+cpio. This handles hard links, permissions, and in case > of later runs, will not copy fil

4K vs 512byte sector drives on Seagate Constellation E.2

2013-10-10 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I've a Seagate constellation ES.2 which supports 4K sectors but diskinfo shows it as 512bytes; da0 512 3000592982016 5860533168 0 0 364801 255 63 I understand that Seagate ships these drives to be compatible with 512byte sectors so that older Windows OSs wo

calculating vfs.zfs.l2arc_write_max and vfs.zfs.l2arc_write_boost

2013-09-24 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Curious, since I have 3xSSDs capable of 550MB/s each as my L2ARC, should I add them up to roughly determine max and boost values? I couldn't find anything conclusive regarding this. Thanks in advance, - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: SES tools and RRD perhaps?

2013-09-20 Thread aurfalien
On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Juan Bernhard wrote: > El 20/09/2013 03:48 p.m., aurfalien escribió: >> Hi all, >> >> 1) Any one have a way to monitor fan speeds/temp of a JBOD connected via a >> SAS cable? > You can get disk temperature by sysutils/smart

SES tools and RRD perhaps?

2013-09-20 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, 1) Any one have a way to monitor fan speeds/temp of a JBOD connected via a SAS cable? 2) Any one integrate SES into something like Cacti or Zabbix? I know the later is sort of not FreeBSD specific but this list has many a guru lurking. Thanks in advance, - aurf __

Re: NFS file modes consistency among different operating systems

2013-09-17 Thread aurfalien
On Sep 16, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:28 AM, aurfalien wrote: > > > > When a file is modified by a user , > > Whats that users umask? > > - aurf > > > 755 Ok, well thats your answer. On

Re: NFS file modes consistency among different operating systems

2013-09-16 Thread aurfalien
> When a file is modified by a user Also curious whats that users group? - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@fr

Re: NFS file modes consistency among different operating systems

2013-09-16 Thread aurfalien
> > When a file is modified by a user , Whats that users umask? - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

Re: test if script called by cron

2013-09-16 Thread aurfalien
An easy way to do this is check /var/log/cron There are many other ways. - aurf On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:26 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a simple way of testing whether a given script was called via cron, > > I'd rather find a solution that would work from within the script r

Re: NFS file modes consistency among different operating systems

2013-09-16 Thread aurfalien
>From your non MS$ clients, open a shell and type umask, what returns? Sounds like your default umask needs changing is all. I would suggest going with a umask of 775 and ensuring all ppl requiring mod access be group members of what you have settled on. - aurf On Sep 16, 2013, at 8:41 PM, M

Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-06 Thread aurfalien
Hi, Wondering whats the correct way to share ZFS, /etc/exports or via zfs commands which alter /etc/zfs/exports? I see a lot of both on line. Thanks in advance, - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-19 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013, at 1:46, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:13:25AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >>> Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? >> >> I would use find+cpio. This handles h

Re: Myrinet 10Gb odd behavior - SOLVED

2013-08-17 Thread aurfalien
2013, at 8:14 PM, iamatt wrote: > Wow myricom still around... used to use the lanai stuff never on bsd though. > All FDR Infiniband these days. Are you using the myrinet protocol or > ethernet, just curious. Glad you got it working! > > On Aug 16, 2013 8:12 PM, "aurfalie

Re: Myrinet 10Gb odd behavior - SOLVED

2013-08-16 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 16, 2013, at 8:47 AM, aurfalien wrote: > Forgot to mention my loader.conf; > > if_mxge_load="YES" > mxge_ethp_z8e_load="YES" > mxge_eth_z8e_load="YES" > mxge_rss_ethp_z8e_load="YES" > mxge_rss_eth_z8e_load="YES"

Re: Myrinet 10Gb odd behavior

2013-08-16 Thread aurfalien
first line? - aurf On Aug 16, 2013, at 8:18 AM, aurfalien wrote: > Hi, > > I've been suspecting my NIC is not up to par and notice this in the logs > every few minutes; > > Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: slice 0 struck? ring state: > Aug 16 08:05:06 promethe

Myrinet 10Gb odd behavior

2013-08-16 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I've been suspecting my NIC is not up to par and notice this in the logs every few minutes; Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: slice 0 struck? ring state: Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kernel: mxge0: tx.req=1914503981 tx.done=1914503810, tx.queue_active=0 Aug 16 08:05:06 prometheus kern

zilstat.ksh

2013-08-15 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I seem to have dtrace enabled on my system which is great. However the dirs on FreeBSDs site for enabling dtrace are really easy to follow so no big deal on that front. Hats off to the docs, very very simple and thorough. Lovin the FreeBSD community. Ok, hugs over. When I run zilst

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 15, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:13:25AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? > > Can you log into your NAS with ssh or telnet? I can but thats a back channel

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread aurfalien
capabilities of the source matter a > great deal. > If it could do zfs send / receive, or similar snapshot mirroring, that would > likely do better than userland tools. > >> I'd be interested to know whether tar is still worth using in this world of >> volume managers

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 15, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, aurfalien wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? > > Remove NFS from the setup. Yea, your mouth to gods ears. My BlueArc is an NFS NAS only box. So no

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:37 AM, aurfalien wrote: >> On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Charles Swiger wrote: >>> On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:13 AM, aurfalien wrote: >>>> Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? >&g

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:13 AM, aurfalien wrote: >> Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? > > Probably. Ok, thanks for the specifics. >> Currently breaking up a simple rsync over 7 or so scripts which copi

copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? Currently breaking up a simple rsync over 7 or so scripts which copies 22 dirs having ~500,000 dirs or files each. Obviously reading all the meta data is a PITA. Doin 10Gb/jumbos but in this case it don't make much of a hoot of a diff. Goi

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-14 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 14, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:05:56 -0700 > aurfalien wrote: > >> >> Well my fine feathered friend, thats my dilemma. >> >> I do not see the SolarFlare via ifconfig. >> >> Now pciconf -l shows much stu

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-14 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:48:52 -0700 > aurfalien wrote: > >> >> On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Mark Felder wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:51:03 -0700 >>> aurfalien wrote: >>> >

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-14 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:51:03 -0700 > aurfalien wrote: > >> >> On Aug 14, 2013, at 5:49 AM, Mark Felder wrote: >> >>> Don't use the driver on their website. It's very old. Use the driver >>&

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-14 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 14, 2013, at 5:49 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > Don't use the driver on their website. It's very old. Use the driver > that comes with FreeBSD 9.1 which you don't have to compile. Yea, that driver sux actually. But how would I compile the driver in 9.2RC1 as I see the source is included? -

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-13 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 13, 2013, at 8:30 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 07:13:57PM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> >> On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >>>> Hi

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-13 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast of a >> server. >> >> However the vendor support

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-13 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast of a >> server. >> >> However the vendor support

Re: SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-12 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast of a >> server. >> >> However the vendor support

SolarFlare 10GB card

2013-08-12 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast of a server. However the vendor support page says the driver is in beta. Has any one used this card in production? Thanks in advance, - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: learn

2013-08-07 Thread aurfalien
ark wrote: > > > > > >> ____ >> From: aurfalien >> To: Mike Jeays >> Cc: me...@bris.ac.uk; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2013 9:25 PM >> Subject: Re: learn >> >> >> >> On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Mike Jeays

Re: TRIM on ZFS mirror

2013-08-02 Thread aurfalien
Confirmed in beta 1. - aurf On Aug 2, 2013, at 2:12 AM, John Andreasson wrote: > Hi. > > I read that FreeBSD 9.2 will bring TRIM to ZFS. Does anyone know if this > works even if the zpool is a mirror? > > John > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: learn

2013-08-01 Thread aurfalien
On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:21:34 +0100 (BST) > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >>> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:29:25 +0200 >>> From: herbert langhans >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: Re: learn >> >>> The handbook is a monster, even technic

Re: dhclient and the LiveCD

2013-07-30 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 30, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > hello list, > > when using the bootonly.iso from the ftp servers... > > if you drop to a shell, use dhclient to obtain an ipaddress.. well you get > one.. but you have no DNS, because I think dhclient can't write to > /etc/resolv.conf > > w

FusionIO - Extreme support, 9.1

2013-07-27 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I've 2 IOExtreme 80GB cards that work as a stipe yielding 160GB. These cards use exceptionally fast high quality RAM. I called support about Centos6/FreeBSD support but they said nada. The cards do work in Centos6 and I suspect they just wanted to reduce support load, etc... Does this

Re: TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-26 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:15 PM, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:25-0700, aurfalien wrote: > >> >> On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Labarre wrote: >> >>> Le mercredi 24 juillet 2013, aurfalien a écrit : >>> >>> On Jul 2

Re: TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-26 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:15 PM, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:25-0700, aurfalien wrote: > >> >> On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Labarre wrote: >> >>> Le mercredi 24 juillet 2013, aurfalien a écrit : >>> >>> On Jul 2

Re: TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-25 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Labarre wrote: > Le mercredi 24 juillet 2013, aurfalien a écrit : > > On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Jul 23), aurfalien said: > >> On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > &

Re: TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-24 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Labarre wrote: > Le mercredi 24 juillet 2013, aurfalien a écrit : > > On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > In the last episode (Jul 23), aurfalien said: > >> On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > &

Re: TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-24 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 23), aurfalien said: >> On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: >>> In the last episode (Jul 23), aurfalien said: >>>> At any rate, could some one; >>>> >>>>

Re: TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-24 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 23), aurfalien said: >> On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: >>> In the last episode (Jul 23), aurfalien said: >>>> At any rate, could some one; >>>> >>>>

Re: TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-23 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 23, 2013, at 8:10 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:54:57PM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've some what blindly followed a how to on installing FreeBSD 9.1 on a ZFS >> mirror. >> >> My typing is horrid so I simp

Re: TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-23 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 23), aurfalien said: >> I've some what blindly followed a how to on installing FreeBSD 9.1 on a >> ZFS mirror. >> >> My typing is horrid so I simply ssh'd to a live CD env and pas

TRIM and changing mount options

2013-07-23 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I've some what blindly followed a how to on installing FreeBSD 9.1 on a ZFS mirror. My typing is horrid so I simply ssh'd to a live CD env and pasted line by line as per the how to found here; http://wp.strahlert.net/wordpress/zfs-2/installing-freebsd-9-1-using-root-on-zfs-and-gpt-disks/

ZFS trim patches

2013-07-19 Thread aurfalien
Hi, Is this; http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-September/036777.html ... available in the form of a patch for stable rels? Its ZFS TRIM support. - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-19 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: >> On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Shane Ambler wrote: >>> >>> I doubt that you would save any ram having the os on a non-zfs drive as >>> you will already be using zfs c

Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted

2013-07-16 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: > >> >> On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien wrote: >>> >>>> Upon doing; >>&

Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted

2013-07-16 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien wrote: > >> Upon doing; >> >> gpart destroy da0 >> >> I get; >> >> gpart: Device busy > > crude but effective: > > > DISK=da0

gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted

2013-07-16 Thread aurfalien
Hello again, Not happy to be posting so much lately especially being so new. I grabbed a few disks from a Mac and am using them for sys disks. Upon booting from an install CD into a shell, I type; gpart show and see several partitions; 34 78165293da0 G

Odd behavior while booting off Install media for 9.1...

2013-07-16 Thread aurfalien
... sometimes I get a normal boot procedure were I can proceed to install. Other times I get the mountroot prompt and upon pressing enter, the system reboots. This seems random with the same hardware setup. I literally have to stare at the screen for it to finally push through to the install p

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-16 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 16/07/2013 14:41, aurfalien wrote: >> >> On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: >>> >>>> ... thats the question :) >>>>

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-15 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: > >> ... thats the question :) >> >> At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. >> >> However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror

to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-15 Thread aurfalien
... thats the question :) At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a dedicated pair of 256GB SSD drives for it. I didn't ask for SSD sys drives, this system just came with em. This is more of a best practices