Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread John Almberg
. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using pdftotext.  I tried the following command: $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf Sanda-JAMA-2009

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread LoH
ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com: I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using pdftotext. I tried the following command: $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies).pdf

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel Underwood
$ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \; Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread LoH
Daniel Underwood wrote: $ find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \; Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF Have you run pdftotext on a single file in your archive as a test? --Joseph Lenox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel Underwood
Hmm.. The command find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \; works in directories in which no PDF file returns the Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF error. When a directory contains one of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to ignore or skip over this %EOF problem

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread LoH
Daniel Underwood wrote: Yes, it works fine on most PDFs. There are a couple that give me: $ pdftotext Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF It's probably an issue with the PDF itself, not with the program. --Joseph Lenox

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:07:03 -0500, LoH lordofhyph...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Underwood wrote: Yes, it works fine on most PDFs. There are a couple that give me: $ pdftotext Sanda-JAMA-2009\ \(Prostate\ Cancer\ Treatment\).pdf Error: Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel Underwood
I retrieved a fresh copy of the error-causing PDF, and now all is well. Thanks for all the excellent help! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Daniel, I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using pdftotext. I tried the following command: Aside from the syntax of the command find(1) and some article that may be in corrupted PDF, you may consider hacking pdftotext to skip the do not print flag in some of the PDF

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread LoH
for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local

PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Underwood
that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Underwood
Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Yuri Pankov
. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
of reading literature for research, it often happens that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I only recall a few things about the article, often the author and a keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) that can be easily used

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:45:38 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas! I'd like to add that if you define your data fields well, you can use it to generate BibTeX and other LaTeX entries from your records. You can even easily turn it into

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread FRLinux
local drive. Hello, Might be overkill for one person but this is the software our scientists use in our place, quite a good application : http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/features.html Cheers, Steph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. Certainly overkill, but dspace(.org) can keep up a digital

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Karl Vogel
and a D keyword. Is there some inventory/database software (for local use only) D that can be easily used for this purpose? (The closest things that comes D to mind (conceptually) is image collection software.) Are these PDF files generated by scanning journal pages, or do they contain text

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Underwood
Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think Olivier

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Lord Of Hyphens
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned images), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs?

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread LoH
of data I recall seeing in my literature review. Which is why I initially suggested collecting the BibTeX (or your preferred citation management software of choice) entries for your articles and adding them. I know that when I start collecting articles for literature reviews, I get a BibTeX copy

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/31 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'?  (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not in my case yes as / is usually my only filesystem. for those who keep programs (/usr) separate /usr/local2 or /usr/whatever will be OK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put everything into one partition, i. e. /, then everything is going into /. like in my case. with one exception - now i usually have /tmp separate but it's tmpfs :) other Solarisisms that I've already seen, such as /export on FreeBSD

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:30:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: does Solaris REQUIRE things to be in /export to be able to export through NFS or is it just some kind of tradition or routinely repeated rule? No, just tradition or convention. In most cases,

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
all your examples are sounds just like kind of tradition. Just like for eg. creating lots of partitions no matter if it's needed or not On Sun, 31 May 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:30:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: does Solaris

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: other Solarisisms that I've already seen, such as /export on FreeBSD which is usually used on Solaris for NFS shares.) does Solaris REQUIRE things to be in /export to be able to export through NFS or is it just some kind of tradition or routinely repeated rule? It's

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:49:18 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: all your examples are sounds just like kind of tradition. Just like for eg. creating lots of partitions no matter if it's needed or not One exception: The creation of different partitions

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In fact, given that FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a native convention on how exported filesystems are laid out (no mention in hier(7), no default /etc/exports file), it would make sense to adopt the Solaris/Linux style where feasible. it's best not to adopt any style, but do whatever is

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
One exception: The creation of different partitions according to different uses can (but doesn't neccessarily have to) be useful if partition-wise dumps are required or intended. As you know, there are advantages and disadvantages. There can This is only adventage - to use dump. Anyway - do

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 May 2009 11:19:10 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: For me it never succeeded, even if it dumps successfully produced output could be unrestorable. After getting this twice i stayed away from this great (but nonworking) tool. Backup tool that

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Your idea won't hurt in single-disk, single-partition case, but this case is prohibited by other blind repeat rule of making lots of partitions. I didn't say anything about how file system layout should be mapped to disk partitions[*]. Nor do I support the concept of

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 May 2009 11:15:19 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: it's best not to adopt any style, but do whatever is optimal in certain case. You propose just another example of blind repeated rule. It is often found as corporate standard. This doesn't mean

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I just prefer dump + restore for cloning systems because it explicitely takes care of file attributes and anything; I do use You are right, but rsync can do the same :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Your idea won't hurt in single-disk, single-partition case, but this case is prohibited by other blind repeat rule of making lots of partitions. I didn't say anything about how file system layout should be mapped to disk partitions[*]. Nor do I support the concept of making lots and lots of

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
case. You propose just another example of blind repeated rule. It is often found as corporate standard. This doesn't mean you Well i don't expect many smart people working in big corporations. There are exceptions of course - those that got there by accident and not yet left ;)

Software creating karaoke from mp3 files

2009-05-30 Thread Fbsd1
Been unable to purchase karaoke of rock and roll greats like AC/DC, THE ROLLING STONES, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN. Looking for advice on software that will allow me to edit out the singing voice tracks from a mp3 file and write the resulting music as a avi file so I can have the song words show

Re: Software creating karaoke from mp3 files

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Been unable to purchase karaoke of rock and roll greats like AC/DC, THE ROLLING STONES, THE DOORS, LED ZEPPELIN. Looking for advice on software that AFAIK nobody yet invented so good voice analyzer that could separate out music and speech. But there are programs that ROUGHLY removes speech

Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Markus Künkler
Hi! I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new versions available. How can i deinstall the old software with depencies or upgrade the complete stuff? I want to use make for that and it should ignore if an old version is already installed or deinstall the old

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi! I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new you mean FreeBSD or some add on software? as assume latter. you should use ports for installing software. if there are no port for it, you should write it and contribute ;) but if you already did this way, then you

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 20:54:10 +0200, Markus Künkler mar...@amobos.org wrote: Hi! I installed my software using csup and make install. Now there are new versions available. How can i deinstall the old software with depencies or upgrade the complete stuff? I want to use make

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:20:13 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: If you need to install software this was, try to set target directory base not in /usr, to not make mess with base system, and not /usr/local - to not mess with ports. creating /usr/local2

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
creating /usr/local2 is a good choice You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt Linuxism. :-) no matter what's the name, but it's good to have /usr/local for ports-based installed things /some/other/directory for hand-installed things so both base system and ports are clearly

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:35:35PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt Linuxism. :-) /opt is actually a Solarism... ;-) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 23:50:42 +0200, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: /opt is actually a Solarism... ;-) That's true, but nobody knows, because Solaris doesn't exist. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Glen Barber
Polytropon, On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: You can even keep it out of /usr employing the /opt Linuxism. :-) For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) -- Glen Barber

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put everything into one partition, i.

Re: Deinstall software

2009-05-30 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:55:15 -0400, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'?  (Not arguing, just never thought of using /opt on FreeBSD...) This depends on your

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Gatten wrote: What about with PAE and/or other extension schemes? Doesn't help with the KVM requirement, and still only provides a 4GB address space for any single process. If it's just memory requirements, can I assume if I don't have a $hit load of storage and billions of files it

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I really don't have any hard data on ZFS performance relative to UFS + geom. so please test yourself :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ZFS should work on i386. As far as I know there aren't any killer bugs that are architecture specific, but I'm no expert. Unless your aim is to learn unless someone assume than size of pointers are 4 bytes, and write program in C, there will work as good in 64-bit mode and in 32-bit mode.

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 09:52:42 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: ZFS should work on i386. As far as I know there aren't any killer bugs that are architecture specific, but I'm no expert. Unless your aim is to learn unless someone assume than size of pointers are 4 bytes, and write program in

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in C, there will work as good in 64-bit mode and in 32-bit mode. Wojciech, I have to ask: are you actually a programmer or are you repeating yes i am. if you are interested i wrote programs for x86, ARM (ARM7TDMI), MIPS32 (4Kc), and once for alpha. I have quite good knowledge for ARM and

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:40:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: you talk about performance or if it work at all? Both, really. If they have to code up macros to support identical operations (such as addition) on both platforms, and accidentally forget to use the macro in some place, then voila:

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you talk about performance or if it work at all? Both, really. If they have to code up macros to support identical operations OK. talking about performance: - 64-bit addition/substraction on 32-bit computer: 2 instructions instead of one (ADD+ADC) - 64-bit NOT, XOR, AND, OR and

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:52:33AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:40:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: you talk about performance or if it work at all? Both, really. If they have to code up macros to support identical operations (such as addition) on both platforms,

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the proper typedefs to create them. int, short and char are portable, only other things

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:24:17PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the proper typedefs to

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:24:17PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the proper typedefs

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Howard Jones
Wojciech Puchar wrote: you are right. you can't be happy of warm house without getting really cold some time :) that's why it's excellent that ZFS (and few other things) is included in FreeBSD but it's COMPLETELY optional. Well, I switched from the heater that doesn't work and is poorly

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Howard Jones wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: you are right. you can't be happy of warm house without getting really cold some time :) that's why it's excellent that ZFS (and few other things) is included in FreeBSD but it's COMPLETELY optional. Well, I switched from the heater that doesn't

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Adam Vande More
Sweet thanks for the info. Building one of those boxes is next in the list. On 5/26/09, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Howard Jones wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: you are right. you can't be happy of warm house without getting really cold some time :) that's why it's excellent that

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 25 May 2009 08:57:48 am Howard Jones wrote: I'm was half-considering switching to ZFS, but the most positive thing I could find written about that (as implemented on FreeBSD) is that it doesn't crash that much, so perhaps not. That was from a while ago though. Wojciech hates it for

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Gary Gatten
Why avoid ZFS on x86? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kirk Strauser Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:39 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Software RAID On Monday 25 May 2009 08

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread cpghost
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:15:41PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: Why avoid ZFS on x86? That's because ZFS works best with huge amounts of (Kernel-)RAM, and i386 32-bit doesn't provide enough adressing space. Btw, I've tried ZFS on two FreeBSD/amd64 test machines with 8GB and 16GB of RAM, and it

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Gatten wrote: Why avoid ZFS on x86? Because in order to deal most effectively with disk arrays of 100s or 1000s of GB as are typical nowadays, ZFS requires more than the 4GB of addressable RAM[*] that the i386 arch can provide. You can make ZFS work on i386, but it requires very careful

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Gary Gatten
? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Seaman Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:38 PM To: Gary Gatten Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Software RAID Gary Gatten wrote: Why avoid ZFS on x86

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 01:44:51 pm Gary Gatten wrote: What about with PAE and/or other extension schemes? If it's just memory requirements, can I assume if I don't have a $hit load of storage and billions of files it will work ok with 4GB of RAM? I guess I'm just making sure there isn't some

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech hates it for some reason, but I wouldn't let that deter you. I'm same == incredibly low performance. of course having overmuscled CPU not much used for anything else - it may not be a problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Gary Gatten
10-4, thanks! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kirk Strauser Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:00 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Software RAID On Tuesday 26 May 2009 01:44:51 pm

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- Filesystem sizes are dynamic. They all grow and shrink inside the same pool, so you don't have to worry about making one too large or too small. there are actually almost no filesystems, just one filesystem with many upper descriptors and separate per filesystem quota. just to make happy

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You can make ZFS work on i386, but it requires very careful tuning and is not going to work brilliantly well for particularly large or high-throughput filesystems. you mean high transfer like reading/writing huge files. anyway not faster than properly configured UFS+maybe gstripe/gmirror.

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ZFS is thoroughly 64-bit and uses 64-bit math pervasively. That means you have to emulate all those operations with 2 32-bit values, and on the register-starved x86 platform you end up with absolutely horrible performance. no this difference isn't that great. it doesn't use much less CPU on

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: You can make ZFS work on i386, but it requires very careful tuning and is not going to work brilliantly well for particularly large or high-throughput filesystems. you mean high transfer like reading/writing huge files. anyway not faster than properly configured

FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Howard Jones
Hi, Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing fancier. I have a set of brand new 1TB drives, a Sil3124 SATA card and a FreeBSD 7.1-p4 system. I created a RAID 5 set with gvinum: drive d0 device /dev

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Mister Olli
of software RAID point me in the right direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing fancier. I have a set of brand new 1TB drives, a Sil3124 SATA card and a FreeBSD 7.1-p4 system. I created a RAID 5 set with gvinum: drive d0 device /dev/ad4s1a drive d1 device /dev

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Howard Jones [mailto:howard.jo...@network-i.net] Sent: 25 May 2009 14:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Software RAID Hi, Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right direction please? I've used gmirror before

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.ukwrote: -Original Message- From: Howard Jones [mailto:howard.jo...@network-i.net] Sent: 25 May 2009 14:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Software RAID Hi, Can anyone with experience

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i use gmirror but once i tried gvinum and it doesn't work well. i think simply use mirroring. ZFS will introduce 100 times more problems than it solves ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:37:59PM +0300, Valentin Bud wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.ukwrote: Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing fancier

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have looked at ZFS recently. Appears to be a memory hog, needs about 1 GB especially if large file transfers may occur over gigabit ethernet while it CAN be set up on 256MB machine with a little big flags in loader.conf (should be autotuned anyway) - it generally takes as much memory as it's

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: 25 May 2009 18:09 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Cc: Howard Jones; Graeme Dargie; Valentin Bud Subject: Re: FreeBSD Software RAID I have looked at ZFS recently. Appears to be a memory hog

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:09:15PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have looked at ZFS recently. Appears to be a memory hog, needs about 1 GB especially if large file transfers may occur over gigabit ethernet while it CAN be set up on 256MB machine with a little big flags in loader.conf

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ok granted this is a server sat in my house and it is not a mission critical server in a large business, personally I have can live with ZFS taking a bit longer vs resilience. simply gmirror and UFS gives the same. much simpler, much faster. but of course lots of people like to make their life

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It makes a certain degree of sense. Sometimes things have to be done wrong for us to realize how good we had it before. How would we know how great FreeBSD is if we didn't have Linux? I had to look at ZFS to decide not to use it when I rebuild my storage this week due to a failing drive. you

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: 25 May 2009 18:54 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org; Howard Jones; Valentin Bud Subject: RE: FreeBSD Software RAID Ok granted this is a server sat in my house

RE: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but of course lots of people like to make their life harder No I am not making life harder at all ... I have 6x500gb hard disks I want in a good solid raid 5 type configuration. So you are somewhat wide of the mark in your assumptions. that's a reason. just don't forget that RAID-z is MUCH

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Re: Software raid5 through a sata port multiplier

2009-04-26 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: thinking that a software raid5 solution may not be such a bad idea. software raid5 isn't any more bad than hardware raid5 most cases. just raid5 is bad if you use it in ANY type of load except: a) mostly

Software raid5 through a sata port multiplier

2009-04-25 Thread Maxim Khitrov
can justify the performance. This is also an addition of yet another piece of hardware that can fail. The machine is using a Q6600 processor with 8 GB of memory, so I'm thinking that a software raid5 solution may not be such a bad idea. The question is what port multiplier hardware does FreeBSD 7

Re: Software raid5 through a sata port multiplier

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
thinking that a software raid5 solution may not be such a bad idea. software raid5 isn't any more bad than hardware raid5 most cases. just raid5 is bad if you use it in ANY type of load except: a) mostly reads - then set LARGE RAID stripe size b) mostly huge files - then set small RAID stripe

Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Do you know any decent provider-like software which would handle adding new domains, ftp accounts, sql databases mail accounts to the server? Preferably something in ports but I am not sure if there is any such thing? I am not going to become a provider :) but I am just looking

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
100$ a month - if you will be lucky. Do you know any decent provider-like software which would handle adding new domains, ftp accounts, sql databases mail accounts to the server? Preferably something in ports but I am not sure if there is any such thing? I am not going to become a provider

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Outback Dingo
ISPCP, sysCP, DTC GNUPanelhttp://gnupanel.org/ OpenPanel http://www.openpanel.com/ ispCP Omega http://isp-control.net/ RavenCore http://www.ravencore.com/ 2009/4/15 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com Hello, Do you know any decent provider-like software which would handle adding

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, Dnia 15-04-2009 o 13:58:04 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl napisał(a): just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not even without much knowledge. Hmm... who says I want to get everyting for free (without trying and learning)? Have you read my

Re: Software to manage virtual hosts on a dedicated server

2009-04-15 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: just another man that wants to get everything not just for free, but not even without much knowledge. learn and MAKE IT YOURSELF, that it will fit exactly to your needs. Or - provide services for

Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-29 Thread Barnaby Scott
the framework. A private portstree (as in: uses the ports framework for compiling and installing software, including registering the port in /var/db/pkg) is best kept in /usr/ports/local. One needs to set VALID_CATEGORIES=local in /etc/make.conf and optionally add SUBDIR+=local in /usr/ports

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