Re: zfs native encryption best practices on RELENG13

2021-04-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 4/23/21 11:23 PM, Xin Li via freebsd-stable wrote: I think loader do not support the native OpenZFS encryption yet. However, you can encrypt non-essential datasets on a boot pool (that is, if com.datto:encryption is "active" AND the bootfs dataset is not encrypted, you can still boot from it)

Re: Deprecating base system ftpd?

2021-04-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 4/5/21 8:27 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: Can I ask, for those who do enable it, why isn’t “sftp” acceptable (or “scp”)? Because it's an *incompatible* replacement. While I never enabled ftpd, I was once asked to. I refused and enabled sftp instead: the problem was that for 99% of the customers

Re: Deprecating base system ftpd?

2021-04-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 4/5/21 5:28 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: - replace DNS lookups with DoH and/or DoT. Why let your ISP see your DNS traffic? Because I trust my (European) ISP significantly more than I trust big US companies? Yes, I have a pretty good idea what Cloudflare, Google etc have said about the queri

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-20:14.linuxkpi

2020-07-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2020-07-09 16:15, Mark Johnston wrote: This is a different bug, unfortunately. :-( The one fixed by the patch is described in PR 242913. Thanks for the info, anyway. bye av. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lis

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-20:14.linuxkpi

2020-07-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2020-07-09 10:31, Niclas Zeising wrote: I am unsure, but it seems mostly related to using X forwarding, when looking at the errata notice. Which I'm using heavily... What issues are you seeing, on which hardware? I've extensively wrote about this on x11@, e.g.: https://lists.freebsd.o

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-20:14.linuxkpi

2020-07-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2020-07-08 23:06, FreeBSD Errata Notices wrote: II. Problem Description A bug in one of the LinuxKPI subroutines could cause a kernel panic. Hello. Can we get any reference to this? E.g. a sample stack trace? I've been experiencing panics with the latest x.org and had to revert to an o

Re: Long-shot: repeatable macOS samba share unmounting during Lightroom import

2019-11-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-11-24 21:01, Chris Gordon wrote: Just my 2c... Since updating to Catalina, I've found lots of problems dealing with SMB using the Finder window and the items under the Locations side bar. For instance: - Mount a share. At some point overnight when nothing is using it, the share is u

Re: FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.

2019-05-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 5/15/19 6:16 PM, Matt Garber wrote: Exactly. If batching 8 (or more) individual bugs/issues together into one release is really causing admin/manpower overload and angst,then maybe it’s time in your situation to use the binary updates (which would only be a single `freebsd-update` and reboot,

Re: ZFS...

2019-04-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 4/30/19 2:41 AM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: The system was originally built on 9.0, and got upgraded through out the years... zfsd was not available back then. So get your point, but maybe you didn’t realize this blog was a history of 8+ years? That's one of the first things I thought abou

Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

2018-10-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli via freebsd-stable
On 10/4/18 7:38 PM, Warner Losh wrote: I'd also suggest that rl stands in stark contrast to the cs, wb, sn, smc, sf, tl, tx and vr drivers, which nobody has mentioned in this thread, and which I doubt are in use in any FreeBSD system of any age today. I still have a vr integrated on an old Mot

Re: Notification for GMirror failures

2018-05-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/09/18 01:51, Jack L. wrote: I use crontab @daily (/sbin/gmirror status | grep -q COMPLETE) || mail -s "gmirror failure" email addy Or you could simply add the following to /etc/periodic.conf[.local]: daily_status_gmirror_enable="YES" bye av.

Re: Opteron 6100-series "Magny-Cours"

2017-03-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/25/17 19:02, Andriy Gapon wrote: Does anyone [still] use Opteron 6100-series / "Magny-Cours" processors with FreeBSD? Will an equivalent Athlon do or is this Opteron specific? What would that Athlon be? bye av. ___ freebsd-stable@fr

Re: Nightly disk-related panic since upgrade to 10.3

2016-10-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/20/16 22:12, Peter wrote: Hello. Basically You have two options: A) fire up kgdb, go into the code and try and understand what exactly is happening. This depends if You have clue enough to go that way; I found "man 4 gdb" and especially the "Debugging Kernel Problems" pdf by Greg Lehey

Nightly disk-related panic since upgrade to 10.3

2016-10-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Last week I upgraded a 9.3/amd64 box to 10.3: since then, it crashed and rebooted at least once every night. The only exception was on Friday, when it locked without rebooting: it still answered ping request and logins through HTTP would half work; I'm under the impression that the di

Re: Call for testing: VM bugs in 10.3

2016-08-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 08/02/16 21:25, Konstantin Belousov wrote: Below is the merge of some high-profile virtual memory subsystem bug fixes from stable/10 to 10.3. I merged fixes for bugs reported by users, issues which are even theoretically unlikely to occur in real world loads, are not included into the patch se

Re: Call for testing: VM bugs in 10.3

2016-08-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 08/02/16 21:25, Konstantin Belousov wrote: Below is the merge of some high-profile virtual memory subsystem bug fixes from stable/10 to 10.3. I merged fixes for bugs reported by users, issues which are even theoretically unlikely to occur in real world loads, are not included into the patch se

Re: Panic with sym on 10.2

2016-01-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 01/19/16 15:19, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 01/19/16 13:13, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Two days ago I upgraded a (perfectly working) 9.3/i386 box to 10.2p10 Since then I've had two panics with the following message: panic: assertion "lp->busy_itl==0&&lp->busy_itlq==0&qu

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/18/13 21:31, Charles Swiger wrote: Updating the firmware and increasing the timeout before these spin down > automagically is likely to help, but as Andrea noted, such drives do > have quite a history of timeout problems due to excessive head parking > and their power conservation attem

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/18/13 21:13, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: b) try different controllers and/or different OS releases. I'm committed to FreeBSD, as the machine is already rolled out and in a data centre ;). I said different "OS releases", not different "OS"! I wouln't say such a blasphemy :) bye

Re: Drive failures with ada on FreeBSD-9.1, driver bug or wiring issue?

2013-07-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/18/13 10:25, Bob Bishop wrote: Me too (over a long period, with various hardware). There is a general problem with energy-saving drives that controllers don't understand them. Typically the drive decides to go into some power-saving mode, the controller wants to do some operation, the d

Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/26/12 23:09, Bas Smeelen wrote: Probable addition 8.8 I get a lot of 'spurious interrupts detected' messages on a modified i386 build kernel and my computer does not work right. What did I do wrong? You have a single processor computer, build your own customized kernel and disabled option

Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/23/12 10:25, Lars Engels wrote: I've seen that on almost every USB MP3 player, Android mobile phones and on other USB devices that export an internal memory card. BTW, my disk drive is SCSI attached, so it's not an USB-only issue. But it would be really really really great if someone(

Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/19/12 18:44, Eitan Adler wrote: Hey all, The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and changing. The first step in that process is to figure out what needs to be changed. If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one question and add your comments and concern

Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/19/12 18:44, Eitan Adler wrote: Hey all, The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and changing. The first step in that process is to figure out what needs to be changed. If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one question and add your comments and concern

Re: confirm that csup is still usable fos the new 9.1

2012-11-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/17/12 21:04, Kevin Oberman wrote: Looks like everything is back up again. Thanks for the good work. Yes, but don't bet that csup and cvs will be around long. I'm aware of this and I'm (adimttedly slowly) moving away from csup. The outage was the result of an intrusion into core Fre

Re: confirm that csup is still usable fos the new 9.1

2012-11-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/16/12 18:08, Eitan Adler wrote: There are known problems with the cluster at this time. The machines were recently moved, upgraded, and generally manipulated. We are working to fix this as fast as possible. Looks like everything is back up again. Thanks for the good work. bye

Re: statd/lockd startup failure

2011-02-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 02/17/11 22:06, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I seem to remember a similar problem I had a long time ago. I opted to use a consistent, not-used port and haven't seen the problem since (this was years ago, so I can't remember if the error you're seeing was identical to mine)

Re: statd/lockd startup failure

2011-02-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 02/17/11 04:28, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:46:37PM -0500, Michael Proto wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:20 AM, wrote: Under 8.2-PRERELEASE (GENERIC kernel), about 15% of the times I boot up (with rpc.statd and rpc.lockd enabled in rc.conf), I get: Feb 4 07:31:11 won

Re: statd/lockd startup failure

2011-02-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 02/09/11 15:20, george+free...@m5p.com wrote: Under 8.2-PRERELEASE (GENERIC kernel), about 15% of the times I boot up (with rpc.statd and rpc.lockd enabled in rc.conf), I get: Feb 4 07:31:11 wonderland rpc.statd: bindresvport_sa: Address already in use Feb 4 07:31:11 wonderland root: /etc/r

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Scott Long ha scritto: Hello. The following configurations are known to be affected: VMWare ESX VMWare Fusion (using bt or lsilogic controller options) HP CISS RAID Some MPT-SAS combinations with SATA drives attached (Includes Dell SAS5/ir, but not PERC5/PERC6). Does it holds for

NFS Rename problem

2007-08-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Don't know if this is the right place to post: I encountered a non critical error on a 6.2 i386 box and I found no reference to it on the web. Here's the log: Aug 1 10:33:28 soth kernel: kdb_backtrace(e8f18848,c053df25,c0663543,c0663590,cbace6cc,...) at kdb_backtrace+0x29 Aug 1 10:33:28 so

Re: LOR #193

2007-03-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Kostik Belousov wrote: In a previous (quite old) thread it was in fact suggested I might be seeing some LOR, but only recently I activated all the debugging stuff. The (usual) consequence of the LOR is lock up. Mhh, yes, that's right. But I stopped having locks during file system snapshootin

LOR #193

2007-03-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm experiencing the above mentioned LOR on a 6.2p1/amd64 box (running gmirror and SMP if that matters). With reference to your question on http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-November/031048.html: What application you run that triggers the LOR ? Bacula, I guess