Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: DN PSU: Corsair 400CX 80+ - 59 euro - DN DN http://www.corsair.com/products/cx/default.aspx DN DN http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008 for $50 DN DN Is that sufficient power up to 10 SATA HDD and an optical drive? DN DN

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Wes Morgan
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: [snip] DL SAS controller ($120): DL http://www.buy.com/prod/supermicro-lsi-megaraid-lsisas1068e-8-port-sas-raid-controller-16mb/q/loc/101/207929556.html DL Note: You'll need to change or remove the

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:57:10AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:10:49 +0200): Get a dock for holding 2 x 2,5 disks in a single 5,25 slot and put it at the top, in the only 5,25 bay of the case. Now add an additional

RE: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Naumov
I had a feeling someone would bring up L2ARC/cache devices. This gives me the opportunity to ask something that's been on my mind for quite some time now: Aside from the capacity different (e.g. 40GB vs. 1GB), is there a benefit to using a dedicated RAM disk (e.g. md(4)) to a pool for

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: I had a feeling someone would bring up L2ARC/cache devices. This gives me the opportunity to ask something that's been on my mind for quite some time now: Aside from the capacity different (e.g. 40GB vs. 1GB), is there a

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:33:07PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: Get a dock for holding 2 x 2,5 disks in a single 5,25 slot and put it at the top, in the only 5,25 bay of the case. That sounds very interesting. I just looking around for such a thing, and could not find it. Is there a more

kernel compile failure

2010-02-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
I'm getting: cc -c -O2 -frename-registers -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -nostdinc -I. -I/usr/src/sys

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:07:56 -0800): On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: I had a feeling someone would bring up L2ARC/cache devices. This gives me the opportunity to ask something that's been on my mind for

Re: kernel compile failure

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:43:36AM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: I'm getting: cc -c -O2 -frename-registers -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign

ACK and RST packets sent after successfully terminating TCP connection

2010-02-15 Thread n j
Hi all, I'm reposting this from the freebsd-questions hoping for some answers. I feel there is something wrong here, but would really appreciate a second opinion before opening a bug report. The problematic part is marked with [what is this?]. - in case of successful connection: [begin

Re: Hello and a small problem with 8.0-RELEASE (amd64)

2010-02-15 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:00 -0700, Sean McCullough wrote: Hello, freebsd-stable folks! I sincerely hope I am in the correct place to inquire about a small problem I am having implementing FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my AMD Athlon-64 machine. This machine runs FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64 version)

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:50:00AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:07:56 -0800): On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: I had a feeling someone would bring up L2ARC/cache devices. This gives

Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load

2010-02-15 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, Our company have a FreeBSD based product that consists of the numerous interconnected processes and it does some high-PPS UDP processing (30-50K PPS is not uncommon). We are seeing some strange periodic failures under the load in several such systems, which usually evidences itself in IPC

Re: kernel compile failure

2010-02-15 Thread Alexander Motin
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:43:36AM -0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: I'm getting: cc -c -O2 -frename-registers -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual

Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load

2010-02-15 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/15/10 13:25, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Hi, Our company have a FreeBSD based product that consists of the numerous interconnected processes and it does some high-PPS UDP processing (30-50K PPS is not uncommon). We are seeing some strange periodic I have nothing very useful to help you with

Re: freebsd7 (and 8), radeon, xorg-server - deadlock or so

2010-02-15 Thread Martin Kristensen
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:27:04 -0600 Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 11:37 -0800, Norbert Papke wrote: On February 13, 2010, Robert Noland wrote: Ok, I've put up a patch at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm-radeon-test.patch

RE: kernel compile failure

2010-02-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
For the record, it appears that cvsup17.us.freebsd.org is serving outdated files. $ find . -name ata.h ./sys/ata.h $ cd sys $ ls -l ata.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25308 Feb 6 12:35 ata.h $ sudo -s Password: # rm ata.h # csup -h cvsup17.us.freebsd.org -L 2 -g /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stand*

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:58:58 + Jonathan Belson wrote: On 14 Feb 2010, at 21:15, Joshua Boyd wrote: Here are my relevant settings: vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0 ^^ [1] I already had prefetch disabled, but ... Just a note: prefetch is not disabled here [1].

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Langille
Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:33:07PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: Get a dock for holding 2 x 2,5 disks in a single 5,25 slot and put it at the top, in the only 5,25 bay of the case. That sounds very interesting. I just looking around for such a thing, and could not find it.

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Lorenzo On The Lists
On 14.02.10 18:28, Jonathan Belson wrote: The machine is a Dell SC440, dual core 2GHz E2180, 2GB of RAM and ICH7 SATA300 controller. There are three Hitachi 500GB drives (HDP725050GLA360) in a raidz1 configuration (version 13). I'm running amd64 7.2-STABLE from 14th Jan. First of all, I

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:27:44 -0800): On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:50:00AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:07:56 -0800): On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:47AM +0200,

Re: loading module sdhci causes panic

2010-02-15 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Sunday 14 February 2010 01:53:11 pm Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote: snip What happens if you just load sdhci? panic WHat happens if you load sdhci and mmcsd, but not mmc? panic WHat happens if you load sdhci and mmc, but not mmcsd? panic Given how early

Re: freebsd7 (and 8), radeon, xorg-server - deadlock or so

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:23 +0100, Martin Kristensen wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:27:04 -0600 Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 11:37 -0800, Norbert Papke wrote: On February 13, 2010, Robert Noland wrote: Ok, I've put up a patch at:

Re: trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode on 8.0-RELEASE (possibly bge(4) related)

2010-02-15 Thread Nick Rogers
hw.bge.allow_asf: 0 On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Giacomo Olgeni g.olg...@colby.it wrote: Hello, Are you running with hw.bge.allow_asf enabled? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

7.3-RC1 Available...

2010-02-15 Thread Ken Smith
The second of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC1, is now available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target schedule as well as the current status of the release is available here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/7.3TODO The schedule has slipped by about a

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Artem Belevich
* vm.kmem_size * vm.kmem_size_max I tried kmem_size_max on -current (this year), and I got a panic during use, I changed kmem_size to the same value I have for _max and it didn't panic anymore. It looks (from mails on the lists) that _max is supposed to give a max value for

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 05:28:28PM +, Jonathan Belson wrote: Hiya After reading some earlier threads about zfs performance, I decided to test my own server. I found the results rather surprising... Below are my results from my home machine. Note that my dd size and count differ from

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1.

[HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

2010-02-15 Thread Erwin Lansing
In preparation for 7.3-RELEASE, the ports tree is now in feature freeze. Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches are allowed without prior approval but with the extra Feature safe: yes tag in the commit message. Any commit that is sweeping, i.e. touches a large

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Jonathan Belson
On 14/02/2010 17:28, Jonathan Belson wrote: After reading some earlier threads about zfs performance, I decided to test my own server. I found the results rather surprising... Thanks to everyone who responded. I experimented with my load.conf settings, leaving me with the following:

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Peter C. Lai
* vm.kmem_size * vm.kmem_size_max I tried kmem_size_max on -current (this year), and I got a panic during use, I changed kmem_size to the same value I have for _max and it didn't panic anymore. It looks (from mails on the lists) that _max is supposed to give a max value for

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Jonathan Belson j...@witchspace.com wrote: On 14/02/2010 17:28, Jonathan Belson wrote: After reading some earlier threads about zfs performance, I decided to test my own server. I found the results rather surprising... Thanks to everyone who responded. I

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-15 Thread Matt Reimer
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have succesfully tested and used a full ZFS install of FreeBSD 8.0 on both single disk and mirror disk configurations using both MBR and GPT partitioning. AFAIK, with the more recent -CURRENT and -STABLE it is

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Artem Belevich wrote: AB It used to be that vm.kmem_size_max needed to be bumped to allow for AB larger vm.kmem_size. It's no longer needed on amd64. Not sure about AB i386. AB AB vm.kmem_size still needs tuning, though. While vm.kmem_size_max is no AB longer a limit, there

Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror vdevs

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Noland
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 10:07 -0800, Matt Reimer wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have succesfully tested and used a full ZFS install of FreeBSD 8.0 on both single disk and mirror disk configurations using both MBR and GPT

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 05:28:28PM +, Jonathan Belson wrote: Hiya After reading some earlier threads about zfs performance, I decided to test my own server. I found the results rather surprising... Below are my results from my home machine. Note that my dd size

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-15 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:46:04AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Technical footnote: I wish I understood 1) the difference between ACPI-safe and ACPI-fast, and 2) how the system or OS ranks the timecounters (the higher the value in parenthesis, supposedly the more accurate/preferred it is).

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena,

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Gót András
On Hét, Február 15, 2010 9:39 pm, Dan Naumov wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Steve Polyack
On 02/15/10 12:14, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of

Re: ACK and RST packets sent after successfully terminating TCP connection

2010-02-15 Thread n j
Hello Jeremy, Is it possible for you to upload these captures somewhere on the web? tcpdump -p -i {iface} -s 0 -n -w {somefile} should be sufficient. You can find the two pcaps at http://drop.io/llwiy8o. IP addresses and the data have been anonymized, everything else has been left intact.

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Naumov
A C2Q CPU makes little sense right now from a performance POV. For the price of that C2Q CPU + LGA775 board you can get an i5 750 CPU and a 1156 socket motherboard that will run circles around that C2Q. You would lose the ECC though, since that requires the more expensive 1366 socket CPUs and

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-15 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Alexander Leidinger wrote: [...] kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.c kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.c_min kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.c_max c_max is vfs.zfs.arc_max, c_min is vfs.zfs.arc_min. kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.evict_skip kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.memory_throttle_count kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size I'm not

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Gót András
On Hét, Február 15, 2010 10:15 pm, Dan Naumov wrote: A C2Q CPU makes little sense right now from a performance POV. For the price of that C2Q CPU + LGA775 board you can get an i5 750 CPU and a 1156 socket motherboard that will run circles around that C2Q. You would lose the ECC though, since

Re: ACK and RST packets sent after successfully terminating TCP connection

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:07:32PM +0100, n j wrote: Hello Jeremy, Is it possible for you to upload these captures somewhere on the web? tcpdump -p -i {iface} -s 0 -n -w {somefile} should be sufficient. You can find the two pcaps at http://drop.io/llwiy8o. IP addresses and the data have

Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

2010-02-15 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Monday 15 February 2010 12:19:01 pm Erwin Lansing wrote: In preparation for 7.3-RELEASE, the ports tree is now in feature freeze. Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches are allowed without prior approval but with the extra Feature safe: yes tag in the

Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

2010-02-15 Thread Olivier Smedts
2010/2/15 Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com: On Monday 15 February 2010 12:19:01 pm Erwin Lansing wrote: In preparation for 7.3-RELEASE, the ports tree is now in feature freeze. Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches are allowed without prior approval but

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Artem Belevich
How much ram are you running with? 8GB on amd64. kmem_size=16G, zfs.arc_max=6G In a latest test with 8.0-R on i386 with 2GB of ram, an install to a ZFS root *will* panic the kernel with kmem_size too small with default settings. Even dropping down to Cy Schubert's uber-small config will

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Naumov wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations

Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

2010-02-15 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 12:19:01 pm Erwin Lansing wrote: In preparation for 7.3-RELEASE, the ports tree is now in feature freeze. Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches are

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread jfarmer
Just out of curiousity, would not an older server like this: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=DL145-5R (~$75 + shipping) or http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DL360-6Rcat=SYS (~$190 + shipping) be a reasonable option? Unless you're looking to suck every last bit of speed or

Re: ZFS on root, serial console install

2010-02-15 Thread Peter C. Lai
I did a pxeboot zfs-root install the other day. If you copy the dvd to an nfs export as the root mount, hack the requisite files to do serial console then you will drop to a login prompt when it boots over pxe-tftp. Had no problems setting up zfs root install by skipping sysinstall and fixit

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Langille
Steve Polyack wrote: On 02/15/10 12:14, Dan Langille wrote: 7. Supermicro LSI MegaRAID 8 Port SAS RAID Controller $118 Dan, I'm not sure about that particular card, but we've never seen that great of performance out of the LSI MegaRAID cards that ship with Dell servers as the PERC.

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Steve Polyack
On 2/15/2010 6:04 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Steve Polyack wrote: On 02/15/10 12:14, Dan Langille wrote: 7. Supermicro LSI MegaRAID 8 Port SAS RAID Controller $118 Dan, I'm not sure about that particular card, but we've never seen that great of performance out of the LSI MegaRAID cards

Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

2010-02-15 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 14:11:47 PST Steven Friedrich wrote: I suspect this means we won't get KDE 4.4 for quite some time... I don't think that it was ever in the plan to get it in before the freeze. Here's what Martin Wilke said in the call for testing: Before you ask we don't want to put

Re: ZFS on root, serial console install

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Peter C. Lai wrote: I did a pxeboot zfs-root install the other day. If you copy the dvd to an nfs export as the root mount, hack the requisite files to do serial console then you will drop to a login prompt when it boots over pxe-tftp. Had no problems setting up zfs root

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: I'm not sure about that particular card, but we've never seen that great of performance out of the LSI MegaRAID cards that ship with Dell servers as the PERC.  The newest incarnations are better, but I would try to get an Areca.  The ones we have

Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load

2010-02-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Maxim Sobolev sobo...@freebsd.org [100215 04:49] wrote: Hi, Our company have a FreeBSD based product that consists of the numerous interconnected processes and it does some high-PPS UDP processing (30-50K PPS is not uncommon). We are seeing some strange periodic failures under the load in

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Langille
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: I'm not sure about that particular card, but we've never seen that great of performance out of the LSI MegaRAID cards that ship with Dell servers as the PERC. The newest incarnations are better, but I would try to get an Areca.

Broadcom USB wireless support?

2010-02-15 Thread Jeff Dowsley
Gentles I have an old HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop, which has a Broadcom USB wireless device. Worked under Windows Vista. I installed freeBSD 8- stable, and see as the last line in dmesg ugen2.2: Broadcom Corp at usbus2 Ferreting with google suggests that 8.0 might have usb support for

Re: [HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

2010-02-15 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 15:05:09 PST Charlie Kester wrote: On Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 14:11:47 PST Steven Friedrich wrote: I suspect this means we won't get KDE 4.4 for quite some time... I don't think that it was ever in the plan to get it in before the freeze. Here's what Martin Wilke said in

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-15 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:20, 000.fbsd@ wrote: Alexander Leidinger wrote: [...] kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.c kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.c_min kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.c_max c_max is vfs.zfs.arc_max, c_min is vfs.zfs.arc_min.

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:49:38PM -0500 I heard the voice of jhell, and lo! it spake thus: As I make final modifications to the script I will keep the below URLs updated and welcome any bug reports or modification requests to me personally. Well, here's one: OS Revision:

Re: Broadcom USB wireless support?

2010-02-15 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 2/16/10, Jeff Dowsley jeff.dows...@mac.com wrote: Gentles I have an old HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop, which has a Broadcom USB wireless device. Worked under Windows Vista. I installed freeBSD 8- stable, and see as the last line in dmesg ugen2.2: Broadcom Corp at usbus2 Ferreting with

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-15 Thread jhell
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:20, fullermd@ wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:49:38PM -0500 I heard the voice of jhell, and lo! it spake thus: As I make final modifications to the script I will keep the below URLs updated and welcome any bug reports or modification requests to me personally. Well,

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-15 Thread jhell
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:20, fullermd@ wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:49:38PM -0500 I heard the voice of jhell, and lo! it spake thus: As I make final modifications to the script I will keep the below URLs updated and welcome any bug reports or modification requests to me personally. Well,

Re: ZFS on root, serial console install

2010-02-15 Thread Peter C. Lai
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Peter C. Lai wrote: I did a pxeboot zfs-root install the other day. If you copy the dvd to an nfs export as the root mount, hack the requisite files to do serial console then you will drop to a login prompt when it boots over pxe-tftp. Had no problems setting up zfs