Re: after latest patches i386 not fully patched

2020-09-17 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, at 6:28 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > Hello, > > After running 'freebsd-update fetch install' on a i386 server, I have > this situation: > > [dan@gelt:~] $ freebsd-version -u > 12.1-RELEASE-p10 > [dan@gelt:~] $ freebsd-version -k > 12.1-

after latest patches i386 not fully patched

2020-09-17 Thread Dan Langille
y/405.pkg-base-audit was installed by package base-audit-0.4 [dan@gelt:~] $ on an amd64 host I have: [dan@slocum:~] $ freebsd-version -u 12.1-RELEASE-p10 [dan@slocum:~] $ freebsd-version -k 12.1-RELEASE-p10 — Dan Langille http://langille.org/ ___ fr

Re: 12.0-RELEASE-p4 kernel panic on i386 boot

2019-05-15 Thread Dan Langille
> Hi all, > > Wanted to make you aware of an issue I have encountered, sorry if this is > the wrong list. > > I upgraded from FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3 to p4 using: > > freebsd-fetch update > freebsd-fetch install > > and use the GENERIC kernel. Upon reboot the system kernel panics when > attempt

Re: patch which implements ZFS LZ4 compression

2013-02-08 Thread Dan Langille
On Feb 8, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Xin Li wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 02/08/13 14:29, Dan Langille wrote: >> Here is a patch against FreeBSD 9.1 STABLE which implements ZFS LZ4 >> compression. >> >> https://plus.google.com/106

patch which implements ZFS LZ4 compression

2013-02-08 Thread Dan Langille
Here is a patch against FreeBSD 9.1 STABLE which implements ZFS LZ4 compression. https://plus.google.com/106386350930626759085/posts/PLbkNfndPiM short link: http://bpaste.net/show/76095 HTH -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org ___ freebsd-stable

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Dan Langille
if both drives in your mirror were bought at the same time > from the same place and have similar manufacturing plants/dates on > them). I'm happy to send you this drive for your experimentation pleasure. If so, please email me an address offline. You don't have a disk with

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Aug 20, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Dan, I will respond to your reply sometime tomorrow. I do not have time > to review the Email today (~7.7KBytes), but will have time tomorrow. No worries. Thank you. -- Dan Langille - http://langil

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Aug 20, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Diane Bruce wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:41PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >> On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:39:17PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > ... >>>>

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Dan Langille
245828 secs (2822954 bytes/sec) real13m0.256s user0m22.087s sys 3m24.215s > Also i am highly recommending to setup smartd as daemon and to monitor number > of relocated sectors. If they will grow again - then it is a good time to > utilize

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:39:17PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >> >> On Aug 19, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:50:01PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >>>> Syst

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-19 Thread Dan Langille
On Aug 19, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:50:01PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >> System in question: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #3: Thu Mar 3 04:52:04 GMT 2011 >> >> After a recent power failure, I'm seeing this in my logs: >> >

bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-19 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not?

2011-01-19 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/11/2011 11:10 AM, John Hawkes-Reed wrote: On 11/01/2011 03:38, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/4/2011 11:52 AM, John Hawkes-Reed wrote: On 04/01/2011 03:08, Dan Langille wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to discover if ZFS under FreeBSD will automatically pull in a hot spare if one is req

Re: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not?

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/4/2011 11:52 AM, John Hawkes-Reed wrote: On 04/01/2011 03:08, Dan Langille wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to discover if ZFS under FreeBSD will automatically pull in a hot spare if one is required. This raised the issue back in March 2010, and refers to a PR opened in May 2009 *

Re: ZFS - benchmark & tuning before and after doubling RAM

2011-01-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/8/2011 4:33 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Dan Langille mailto:d...@langille.org>> wrote: I've been running a ZFS array for about 10 months on a system with 4GB of RAM. I'm about to add another 4GB of RAM. I think this might

ZFS - benchmark & tuning before and after doubling RAM

2011-01-08 Thread Dan Langille
tings, etc, I'm happy to run them and include the results. We have lots of time to play with this. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubs

ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not?

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
o use as spares. Whether they sit on the shelf or in the box is open to discussion. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-02 Thread Dan Langille
o be done by hand. I don't know many administrators who are going to tolerate this when deploying numerous machines, especially when compounded by the complexities mentioned above. This basically outlines the reason why I do not use ZFS on root. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.or

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-30 Thread Dan Langille
On 12/30/2010 4:00 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 30/12/2010 00:56, Dan Langille wrote: them. You'll need to run both 'zpool update -a' and 'zfs update -a' -- As Jean-Yves pointed out: upgrade not update. Some word beginning with 'up' anyhow. # gp

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-29 Thread Dan Langille
sboot -i 1 ad0 Cheers, Matthew This part applies only if you're booting from ZFS drives? -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stab

Re: MCA messages after upgrade to 8.2-BEAT1

2010-12-23 Thread Dan Langille
he machine check registers once an hour. If this happens constantly you might have a DIMM that is dying? John: I take it these ECC errors *may* have been happening for some time. What has changed is the OS now polls for the errors and reports them. -- Dan Langille - http://la

Re: ZFS panic after replacing log device

2010-11-29 Thread Dan Langille
pool without a panic. But once I online the log device and do any writes, I get the panic again. As I mentioned, I have this data replicated elsewere, so I can exper- iment with the pool if it will help track down this issue. Any more news on this? -- Dan Langille - http

Re: 'zfs send -i': destination has been modified

2010-10-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Wed, October 20, 2010 8:44 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 08:32:33AM -0400, Dan Langille typed: >> I am trying to do a 'zfs send -i' and failing. >> >> This is my simple proof of concept test: >> >> Create the data >&g

'zfs send -i': destination has been modified

2010-10-20 Thread Dan Langille
fied since most recent snapshot warning: cannot send 'storage/bac...@2010.10.20': Broken pipe I have no idea why this fails. Clues please? To my knowledge, the destination has not been written to. -- Dan Langille -- http://langille.org/ __

Re: out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-17 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/4/2010 7:19 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Dan Langille (from Sun, 03 Oct 2010 08:08:19 -0400): Overnight, the following appeared in /var/log/messages: Oct 2 21:56:46 kraken root: ZFS: checksum mismatch, zpool=storage path=/dev/gpt/disk06-live offset=123103157760 size=1024 Oct

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/4/2010 2:10 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:31:07PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On Mon, October 4, 2010 3:27 am, Martin Matuska wrote: Try using zfs receive with the -v flag (gives you some stats at the end): # zfs send storage/bac...@transfer | zfs receive -v

Re: out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/4/2010 7:19 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Dan Langille (from Sun, 03 Oct 2010 08:08:19 -0400): Overnight, the following appeared in /var/log/messages: Oct 2 21:56:46 kraken root: ZFS: checksum mismatch, zpool=storage path=/dev/gpt/disk06-live offset=123103157760 size=1024 Oct

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Langille
178 105M 11.8M storage 8.08T 4.60T 1.06K198 131M 12.0M storage 8.08T 4.60T 1.06K185 131M 12.4M Yeterday's write bandwidth was more 80-90M. It's down, a lot. I'll look closer this evening. > > mm > > Dňa 4. 10. 2010 4:06, Artem Belevich

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-10-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/1/2010 9:32 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 10/1/2010 7:00 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Dan Langille wrote: FYI: this is all on the same box. In one of the previous emails you've used this command line: # mbuffer -s 128k -m 1G -I 9090 | zfs receive Y

Re: out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/2/2010 10:04 PM, Dan Langille wrote: After a 'shutdown -p now', it was about 20 minutes before I went and powered it up (I was on minecraft). The box came back with the missing HDD: $ zpool status storage pool: storage state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has expe

Re: out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/2/2010 7:50 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 07:23:16PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 10/2/2010 6:36 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:09:25PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 10/2/2010 10:19 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 09:43

Re: out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/2/2010 6:36 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:09:25PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 10/2/2010 10:19 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 09:43:30AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: Overnight I was running a zfs send | zfs receive (both within the same system

Re: out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/2/2010 10:19 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 09:43:30AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: Overnight I was running a zfs send | zfs receive (both within the same system / zpool). The system ran out of space, a drive went off line, and the system is degraded. This is a raidz2

out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-02 Thread Dan Langille
and then in the zpool. However, I'm reluctant to do a 'camcontrol scan' on this box as it it froze up the system the last time I tried that: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4C78FF01.5020500 Any suggestions for getting the drive back online and the zpool stabilized?

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/1/2010 7:00 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Dan Langille wrote: FYI: this is all on the same box. In one of the previous emails you've used this command line: # mbuffer -s 128k -m 1G -I 9090 | zfs receive You've used mbuffer in network clie

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Langille
FYI: this is all on the same box. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ On Oct 1, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: > Hmm. It did help me a lot when I was replicating ~2TB worth of data > over GigE. Without mbuffer things were roughly in the ballpark of your > numbers. Wit

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Langille
On Wed, September 29, 2010 2:04 pm, Dan Langille wrote: > $ zpool iostat 10 >capacity operationsbandwidth > pool used avail read write read write > -- - - - - - - > storage 7.67T 5.02T358 3

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, October 1, 2010 11:45 am, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Wed, September 29, 2010 3:57 pm, Artem Belevich wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Dan Langille wrote: >>> It's taken about 15 hours to copy 800GB.  I'm sure there's some tuning >>

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Langille
On Wed, September 29, 2010 3:57 pm, Artem Belevich wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Dan Langille wrote: >> It's taken about 15 hours to copy 800GB.  I'm sure there's some tuning I >> can do. >> >> The system is now running: >> >

Re: zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-09-29 Thread Dan Langille
On 9/29/2010 3:57 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Dan Langille wrote: It's taken about 15 hours to copy 800GB. I'm sure there's some tuning I can do. The system is now running: # zfs send storage/bac...@transfer | zfs receive storage/compress

zfs send/receive: is this slow?

2010-09-29 Thread Dan Langille
o /boot/loader.conf. ZFS filesystem version 4 ZFS storage pool version 15 WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted -- Dan Langille -- http://langille.org/ ___ free

Re: ACPI Warning: Optional field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address

2010-08-28 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/28/2010 8:30 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 04:35:58PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: This this something to be concerned about: ACPI Warning: Optional field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address or length: 0x/0x1 (20100331/tbfadt-655) CC'ing freebsd-acpi

ACPI Warning: Optional field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address

2010-08-28 Thread Dan Langille
This this something to be concerned about: ACPI Warning: Optional field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address or length: 0x/0x1 (20100331/tbfadt-655) -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Langille
? What is your view on replacing DRAM? What do you conclude from the summary? -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/24/2010 7:38 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 07:13:23PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 8/22/2010 9:18 PM, Dan Langille wrote: What does this mean? kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x940c4001fe080813 kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0105, Status 0x kernel

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/22/2010 9:18 PM, Dan Langille wrote: What does this mean? kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x940c4001fe080813 kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0105, Status 0x kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0xf5a, APIC ID 0 kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR BUSLG Source RD Memory k

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/23/2010 7:47 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 24/08/2010 02:43 Dan Langille said the following: On 8/22/2010 10:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 8/22/2010 9:18 PM, Dan Langille wrote: What does this mean? kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x940c4001fe080813 kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0105

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/22/2010 10:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 8/22/2010 9:18 PM, Dan Langille wrote: What does this mean? kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x940c4001fe080813 kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0105, Status 0x kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0xf5a, APIC ID 0 k

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/22/2010 9:18 PM, Dan Langille wrote: What does this mean? kernel: MCA: Bank 4, Status 0x940c4001fe080813 kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0105, Status 0x kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0xf5a, APIC ID 0 kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR BUSLG Source RD Memory k

kernel MCA messages

2010-08-22 Thread Dan Langille
-STABLE #1: Sun Aug 22 23:16:43 -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Where's the space? raidz2

2010-08-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/2/2010 7:11 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I recently altered an existing raidz2 pool from using 7 vdevs of about 931G to 1.81TB. In fact, the existing pool used half of each HDD. I then wanted to go to using [almost] all of each HDD. I offline'd each vdev, adjusted the HDD paritions using

Where's the space? raidz2

2010-08-02 Thread Dan Langille
22d09712b label: disk05-live length: 2000188135936 offset: 1048576 type: freebsd-zfs index: 1 end: 3906619500 start: 2048 Consumers: 1. Name: ada5 Mediasize: 2000398934016 (1.8T) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e3 -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

Re: zpool destroy causes panic

2010-07-25 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/25/2010 1:58 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I'm trying to destroy a zfs array which I recently created. It contains nothing of value. # zpool status pool: storage state: ONLINE status: One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing or invalid. Sufficient replicas exis

Re: zpool destroy causes panic

2010-07-25 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/25/2010 4:49 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 25.07.2010 20:58, Dan Langille wrote: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM storage ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk01 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk02 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk03 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk04 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk05 ONLINE 0 0 0 /tmp/sparsefile1.img

Re: zpool destroy causes panic

2010-07-25 Thread Dan Langille
e found or current contents doesn't look like ZFS device. Can you try moving current files to /tmp/sparsefile[34].img and then readd them to the pool with zpool replace? One by one please. I do not know what the above paragraph means. -- Dan Langille - http

Re: zpool destroy causes panic

2010-07-25 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/25/2010 1:58 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I'm trying to destroy a zfs array which I recently created. It contains nothing of value. Oh... I left this out: FreeBSD kraken.unixathome.org 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 5 00:46:11 EST 2010 d...@kraken.example.org:/usr/obj/us

zpool destroy causes panic

2010-07-25 Thread Dan Langille
corrupted data errors: No known data errors Another attempt to destroy the array created a panic. Suggestions as to how to remove this array and get started again? -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: gpart -b 34 versus gpart -b 1024

2010-07-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/24/2010 10:44 PM, Dan Langille wrote: You may have seen my cunning plan: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=883310+0+current/freebsd-stable I've been doing some testing today. The first of my tests comparing partitions aligned on a 4KB boundary are in. I created a 5x2TB

Re: gpart -b 34 versus gpart -b 1024

2010-07-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/24/2010 10:44 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I'll run -s 2 and -s 5 tests overnight and will post them in the morning. The -s 2 results are in: -b 34: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per

gpart -b 34 versus gpart -b 1024

2010-07-24 Thread Dan Langille
ng. Full logs here, including a number of panics: http://beta.freebsddiary.org/zfs-with-gpart.php -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsu

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/23/2010 7:42 AM, John Hawkes-Reed wrote: Dan Langille wrote: Thank you to all the helpful discussion. It's been very helpful and educational. Based on the advice and suggestions, I'm going to adjust my original plan as follows. [ ... ] Since I still have the medium-sized ZF

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 4:11 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 4:03 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-24 Thread Dan Langille
ke them trivial; note that temporary disks 3 and 4 don't have to be 2TB, 1.5TB will do. The lack of redundancy is noted and accepted. Thanks. :) -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/23/2010 10:51 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/23/2010 10:42 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 24/07/2010, at 11:55, Freddie Cash wrote: It's theoretical as I have not investigated how to create sparse files on FreeBSD, nor have I done this. It's based on several posts to the zfs-

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
G 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.25 secs (0 bytes/sec) $ ls -l /tmp/sparsefile1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2147483648000 Jul 23 22:49 /tmp/sparsefile1.img $ ls -lh /tmp/sparsefile1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 dan wheel 2.0T Jul 23 22:49 /tmp/sparsefile1.img -- Dan Langille -

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/23/2010 10:25 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Pawell and I had an online chat about part of my strategy. To be clear: I have a 5x2TB raidz1 array. I have 2x2TB empty HDD My goal was to go to raidz2 by: - copy data to empty HDD - redo the

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
ems I have a 5-HDD zpool and it's going to stay that way. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 8:47 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Thank you to all the helpful discussion. It's been very helpful and educational. Based on the advice and suggestions, I'm going to adjust my original plan as follows. NOTE: glabel will not be used. First, create a new GUID Partition Table

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Langille
t http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
agically. So... the smaller size won't mess things up... -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freeb

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
. I wonder if my friend Jerry has a spare 2TB HDD I could borrow for the evening. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 4:03 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure o

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 4:03 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure o

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 4:03 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure o

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0: port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem 0xfbeffc00-

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 3:08 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:02:33AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0: port 0xdc00-

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0: port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem 0xfbeffc00-0xfbeffc7f,0xfbef-0xfbef7fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci7 atapci1: port 0xac00-

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Langille
device 17.0 on pci0 Which is the onboard SATA from what I can tell, not the controllers I installed to handle the ZFS array. The onboard SATA runs a gmirror array which handles /, /tmp, /usr, and /var (i.e. the OS). ZFS runs only on on my /storage mount point. -- Dan

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/21/2010 11:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote (something close to this): First, create a new GUID Partition Table partition scheme on the HDD: gpart create -s GPT ad0 Let's see how much space we have. This output will be used to determine SOMEVALUE in the next command. gpart show Create

Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Langille
antage to using the -l option on 'gpart add' instead of the glabel above? Thanks -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/19/2010 10:50 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I think it's because you pull the old drive, boot with the new drive, the controller re-numbers all the devices (ie da3 is now da2, da2 is now da1, da1 is now da0, da0 is now da6, etc), an

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/21/2010 2:54 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, alan bryan wrote: --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Dan Langille wrote: From: Dan Langille Subject: Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool To: "Freddie Cash" Cc

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Dan Langille
ad14ONLINE 0 0 0 ad16ONLINE 0 0 0 Of course, always have good backups. ;) In my case, this ZFS array is the backup. ;) But I'm setting up a tape library, real soon now -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___

Authentication tried for XXX with correct key but not from a permitted host

2010-07-10 Thread Dan Langille
: from="10..etc" appears before the key being used to log in, the message will appear. Solution: move the from= line to the bottom of the file. Ugly, but it works. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

FreeBSD 7.3-stable fails to boot under KVM

2010-02-28 Thread Dan Langille
the boot loader screen (which is how I booted from kernel.old) Suggestions? -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Langille
On Tue, February 16, 2010 2:05 pm, Alexander Motin wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> On Wed, February 10, 2010 10:00 pm, Bruce Simpson wrote: >>> On 02/10/10 19:40, Steve Polyack wrote: >>>> I haven't had such bad experience as the above, but it is certainly a

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/16/2010 6:28 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Dan Langille wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: [...] Why even bother with the LSI card at all? That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want to use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) Plus two SATA drives in a gmirror fo

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. T

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 a

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 wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my

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 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. Samsung SATA CD

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

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille 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. Samsung SATA CD/DVD

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Naumov wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille 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: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Dan Langille 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. Samsung SATA CD

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: DL> I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a DL> concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a DL> concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Wes Morgan wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Langille wrote: Hi, I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Alexander Motin wrote: Steve Polyack wrote: On 2/10/2010 12:02 AM, Dan Langille wrote: Don't use a port multiplier and this goes away. I was hoping to avoid a PM and using something like the Syba PCI Express SATA II 4 x Ports RAID Controller seems to be the best solution so far.

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: DM> other parts are regular SocketAM2+ motherboard, Athlon X4, 8G ram, DM> FreeBSD/amd64 well, not exactly "regular" - it's ASUS M2N-LR-SATA with 10 SATA channels, but I suppose there are comparable in "workstation" mobo

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
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. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) 2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping

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