Re: ZFS root pool backup and recovery

2010-10-07 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 07.10.2010 07:32, Marcus Reid wrote: > Hi, > > The process of creating a backup of the ZFS root pool on Solaris > is simple and straightforward: > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/ghzwu?l=en&a=view > > So is restoring it on bare metal: > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/

Multiple zdevs in the root zpool?

2010-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Hi, folks, Currently we have a RAIDZ1 system using 6 x 1TB drives, which we use as a bacula storage device. We now have another 6 x 1TB drives to increase capacity. I'd originally planned to just create another zpool and have two partitions mounted for bacula to store stuff in. However, it wou

zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread John Hay
Hi, I got hold of a SunFire X4500 with 48 X 500G disks and thought to try FreeBSD 8-stable with zfs on it. I have setup the two boot disks in a zfs mirror and then the rest in a pool of 6 X raidz2 of 7 disks each. I have created a 10G file with dd in the second pool, but if I try to read it with

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/07/10 14:15, John Hay wrote: Hi, I got hold of a SunFire X4500 with 48 X 500G disks and thought to try FreeBSD 8-stable with zfs on it. I have setup the two boot disks in a zfs mirror and then the rest in a pool of 6 X raidz2 of 7 disks each. I have created a 10G file with dd in the seco

How dhcp client can set its hostname properly on lease time

2010-10-07 Thread Mamoru Iwaki
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 8 stable as of 20101006. It is a dhcp client in a private local network, and xorg staff is installed. When I tried to use it from a remote pc with X11-forwarding set, xauth failed to set up .Xauthority as follows. /usr/local/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /home/hoge

ISDN4BSD removal (was: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon)

2010-10-07 Thread Peter Much
aka Vadim Goncharov schrieb mit Datum Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:31:46 +0700 in m2n.fbsd.stable: |You do not understand the problem. It is not in notices & volunteers, but |rather in the Project's policy - delete something which could still work. |Personally, I don't use ISDN, so didn't said anythin

Re: ISDN4BSD removal (was: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon)

2010-10-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Peter Much wrote: > aka Vadim Goncharov schrieb > mit Datum Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:31:46 +0700 in m2n.fbsd.stable: > > |You do not understand the problem. It is not in notices & volunteers, but > |rather in the Project's policy - delete something which could still wor

How dhcp client can set its hostname properly on lease time

2010-10-07 Thread Kurt Lidl
Regarding your posting to freebsd-stable. Probably what you want to do is have the DHCP server send the machine name when it offers a lease to the client. -Kurt ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: How dhcp client can set its hostname properly on lease time

2010-10-07 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:37:52PM +0900, Mamoru Iwaki wrote: > Now, my question is > > Are there good way for dhcp client to set its hostname properly on lease > time? Depends on 'properly'. I've hacked dhclient exit scripts to synthesize a hostname, if one was not offered by the DHCP server.

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread John Hay
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 10/07/10 14:15, John Hay wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I got hold of a SunFire X4500 with 48 X 500G disks and thought to try > >FreeBSD 8-stable with zfs on it. > > > >I have setup the two boot disks in a zfs mirror and then the rest in > >a p

Re: ISDN4BSD removal (was: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon)

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: p...@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:35:01 GMT > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > aka Vadim Goncharov schrieb > mit Datum Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:31:46 +0700 in m2n.fbsd.stable: > > |You do not understand the problem. It is not in notices & volunte

Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Bakay
Hi All, Do we have any new information about this issue (fixes, work arounds etc.)? Any input will be highly useful. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-July/057682.html I am experiencing kind of same problem on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 i386 2G RAM. Thanks, Andriy ___

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Goran Lowkrantz
--On October 7, 2010 17:50:42 +0200 John Hay wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: On 10/07/10 14:15, John Hay wrote: > Hi, > > I got hold of a SunFire X4500 with 48 X 500G disks and thought to try > FreeBSD 8-stable with zfs on it. > > I have setup the two boot di

acpi_ec: request for review and testing

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
FYI: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.acpi/6440 If you can test and would like to report, please followup to that thread on acpi@ mailing list. Please do not followup to this post. Thanks! -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Panic: attempted pmap_enter on 2MB page

2010-10-07 Thread Alan Cox
Kurt Alstrup wrote: Up front disclaimer: I may very well be wrong on this.. At a high-level, I agree with much of what you say. In particular, if pmap_enter() is applied to a virtual address that is already mapped by a large page, the reported panic could result. However, barring bugs,

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread John Hay
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:19:48PM +0200, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: > --On October 7, 2010 17:50:42 +0200 John Hay wrote: > > >On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > >>On 10/07/10 14:15, John Hay wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I got hold of a SunFire X4500 with 48 X 500G disks a

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:31:02PM +0200, John Hay wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:19:48PM +0200, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: > > --On October 7, 2010 17:50:42 +0200 John Hay wrote: > > > > >On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > >>On 10/07/10 14:15, John Hay wrote: > > >>

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/10/2010 20:38 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > Isn't slow I/O one of the results of ARC starvation? Slow I/O can be a result of very many things. Please remove me from CC, thanks :-) -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: How dhcp client can set its hostname properly on lease time

2010-10-07 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:37:52 +0900 Mamoru Iwaki <1wk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are there good way for dhcp client to set its hostname properly on lease > time? Well, you *can* have the dhcp client on FreeBSD send an identifier, and with that identifier the dhcp server can assign the client a static

Intel em, SFPs and DDM ?

2010-10-07 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! Does anyone know how to read SFP DDM values using Intel em cards ? SFP means Small Form Factor Pluggable fiber transceivers. DDM is Digital Diagnostics Monitoring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver#Digital_Diagnostics_Monitoring There seems to be a way to r

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/10/2010 15:35 Ivan Voras said the following: > /boot/loader.conf) and 2) disable superpages, they don't get along on a few > models > of Opterons (vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 in /boot/loader.conf). Those who follow know that the issue is supposed to be resolved long ago. Just in case. -- Andr

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/10/2010 20:31 John Hay said the following: > Oct 7 17:11:49 thumper1 kernel: mvsch23: EMPTY CRPB 30 (->0) 0 4000 Can you rule out hardware (or driver-level) problems? E.g. by dd-ing to/from disk directly. Doing that in parallel on the same and/or different disks. Running any disk I/O benchm

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/10/2010 18:46 Andriy Bakay said the following: > Hi All, > > Do we have any new information about this issue (fixes, work arounds etc.)? > Any > input will be highly useful. Yes, _we_ do. Where have you been? :-) -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-st

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Bakay
I expressed myself incorrectly. Sorry. :-( Do you Andriy :-) or anybody else from list(s) have more info how to fix or work around this issue? On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:29:54 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 07/10/2010 18:46 Andriy Bakay said the following: >> Hi All, >> >> Do we have any new inform

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread John Hay
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:38:58AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:31:02PM +0200, John Hay wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:19:48PM +0200, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: > > > --On October 7, 2010 17:50:42 +0200 John Hay wrote: > > > > > > >On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:35:31

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/10/2010 21:47 Andriy Bakay said the following: > I expressed myself incorrectly. Sorry. :-( > > Do you Andriy :-) or anybody else from list(s) have more info how to > fix or work around this issue? First, I recommend to try to upgrade to the recent stable/8. -- Andriy Gapon __

Re: zfs hang in zio->io_cv) with dd read

2010-10-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/07/10 20:25, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 07/10/2010 15:35 Ivan Voras said the following: >> /boot/loader.conf) and 2) disable superpages, they don't get along on a few >> models >> of Opterons (vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 in /boot/loader.conf). > > Those who follow know that the issue is supposed

Re: Multiple zdevs in the root zpool?

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/10/2010 13:45 Matthew Seaman said the following: > However, according to my understanding, if you want to boot from a > zpool, you can only have one vdev in that pool. > > But what exactly does this mean? Yes, exactly, what does that mean? :) Where did your understanding come from? -- And

FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement - Typo

2010-10-07 Thread 1 0
Hello! There is a typo in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement: # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync should be # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1024k conv=sync Best regards, -- 0110001101100100 ___ f

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement - Typo

2010-10-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:59:21PM +, 1 0 wrote: > There is a typo in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement: > > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync > > should be > > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1024k conv=sync AFAIK, this isn't a typo.

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Bakay
Understood, but is it possible to apply "local" ZFS+UFS related changes? Because STABLE will bring all deltas which was accumulated since RELEASE and I really concern about stability of this box (which is router/firewall/mail server). Other people depend on it. On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:20:18 +0300,

Re: Multiple zdevs in the root zpool?

2010-10-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/10/2010 21:28:30, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 07/10/2010 13:45 Matthew Seaman said the following: >> However, according to my understanding, if you want to boot from a >> zpool, you can only have one vdev in that pool. >> >> But what exactly does this mean? > > Yes, exactly, what does that mean

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 08/10/2010 00:04 Andriy Bakay said the following: > Understood, but is it possible to apply "local" ZFS+UFS related > changes? Because STABLE will bring all deltas which was accumulated > since RELEASE and I really concern about stability of this box (which is > router/firewall/mail server). Oth

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Bakay
Ok. But how stable (production ready) the FreeBSD-8-STABLE is? What is your opinion? On 2010-10-07, at 18:12, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 08/10/2010 00:04 Andriy Bakay said the following: >> Understood, but is it possible to apply "local" ZFS+UFS related >> changes? Because STABLE will bring all d

Re: Multiple zdevs in the root zpool?

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 08/10/2010 00:35 Matthew Seaman said the following: > On 07/10/2010 21:28:30, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 07/10/2010 13:45 Matthew Seaman said the following: >>> However, according to my understanding, if you want to boot from a >>> zpool, you can only have one vdev in that pool. >>> >>> But what

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement - Typo

2010-10-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:59:21PM +, 1 0 wrote: > > There is a typo in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement: > > > > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync > > > > should be > > > > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-mem

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-10-07 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 08/10/2010 01:24 Andriy Bakay said the following: > Ok. But how stable (production ready) the FreeBSD-8-STABLE is? What is your > opinion? I use it all the time :-) (And head too). In general, and this opinion is not only my own, the best FreeBSD "release" is the latest stable branch. -- And