Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6

2006-11-26 Thread secmgr
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 19:23, Richard Coleman wrote: I just bought a large external hard drive for home backups (500g Western Digital My Book). When I plug it in to my machine (RELENG_6 from about a week ago), the system sees the device just fine: Nov 26 22:03:21 neptune kernel: umass0:

Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6

2006-11-26 Thread secmgr
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 22:09, Clayton Milos wrote: As far as I am aware windows 2000 and xp will only allow you to format up to a 32G dive with FAT32. Any bigger and it will force you to use NTFS. The other strange thing is tht you are trying to mount /dev/da0 and not /dev/de0s1. The 32

Re: fsck_ufs locked in snaplk

2006-04-26 Thread secmgr
Chris Dillon wrote: I had problems with snapshots and hangs in 5.x. For that, a daily reboot would keep the problems at bay. I upgraded to 6.0 and the problems completely disappeared. I kept 6.0-STABLE running for weeks. Somewhere along the line, as 6.1 approached, similar problems

Re: LSI Trouble (resend)

2006-02-17 Thread secmgr
Anton Nikiforov wrote: Today we were changing power supply so we shut all servers down at 17:00. After changing of UPS we start everything up and my LSI controller starts to claim that disk and NVRAM configuration mismatch. Okay, not really a FreeBSD issue. Which adapter are you using? They

Re: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

2005-12-08 Thread secmgr
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2005-Dec-07 13:34:53 -0800, Vizion wrote: That is a judgment call - franky my experience has been that developers who are bad at ensuring their work is well documentated are second rate rather than top rate developers. Software developers are notoriously

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 as storage server with raid5?

2005-12-08 Thread secmgr
Christian Brueffer wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: In short, don't write gvinum off just yet. Documentation is around the corner (as a result of a SoC project). Actually gvinum(8) has been committed to CURRENT and RELENG_6 a couple of days

Re: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

2005-12-07 Thread secmgr
Doug Barton wrote: How does this change to UPDATING in RELENG_6 look to you: Index: UPDATING === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/UPDATING,v retrieving revision 1.416.2.7 diff -u -r1.416.2.7 UPDATING --- UPDATING1 Nov 2005 23:44:40

Re: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

2005-12-06 Thread secmgr
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:20:44PM -0800, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:47, the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue which was on- Re: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure in libkrb5 but is currently: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in

Re: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

2005-12-06 Thread secmgr
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:36:05PM -0700, secmgr wrote: Update to 5.4 before trying to update to 6.0. Kris So is there any supported direct 5.3-6.0 upgrade path, or is a stop in 5.4 ville manditory now.? I tried to say that you have to update to 5.4

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-11 Thread secmgr
Peter Orlowski wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:24:12AM -0600, secmgr wrote: Gabor Esperon wrote: How reliable is the gmirror subsystem? gmirror seems fine as best as I can tell. I've been running it for a few months on sata drives. I had gmirror running on two IDE drives

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-10 Thread secmgr
Edwin Brown wrote: All: I've been asked to setup a RAID-5 server using software raid. I've not worked with gvinum or vinum for that matter. I know from following the mailing lists there have been some concerns over gvinum in the 5.3-RELEASE. How are things working today? The plan would be use a

Re: State of gvinum RELENG_5 or RELENG_5_4 ?!

2005-05-10 Thread secmgr
Gabor Esperon wrote: How reliable is the gmirror subsystem? gmirror seems fine as best as I can tell. I've been running it for a few months on sata drives. jim ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Common disk format between 2.4.current linux and FreeBSD 5.3 and later

2005-05-09 Thread secmgr
I'm building a usb harddrive and i'll be using it under both linux and FreeBSD. vfat is not a contender due to a 2gb limit of file size (I'm using it as a dump disk and I don't want to deal with multiple volumes). It seems that BSD can talk to ext2 partitions and Linux can talk to the older

Re: New Nforce2 variant doesn't recognize SATA as SATA

2005-03-11 Thread secmgr
secmgr wrote: I just picked up a new ABIT NF7-S2G motherboard (NF2 MCP chip set with gigE and SATA/RAID). I'm running 5.3 release on it. The standard parallel ATA chipset returns a known id . The SATA i/f seems to be too new, and freebsd treats it like an unknown udma33 controller

Re: New Nforce2 variant doesn't recognize SATA as SATA

2005-03-11 Thread secmgr
Rob MacGregor wrote: On Friday, March 11, 2005 5:26 PM, secmgr unleashed the infinite monkeys and produced: Failing that, is there a definitive list of SATA PCI boards which FreeBSD does full support? See the release notes for the version of FreeBSD you're using. For 5.3 that's http

New Nforce2 variant doesn't recognize SATA as SATA

2005-03-10 Thread secmgr
I just picked up a new ABIT NF7-S2G motherboard (NF2 MCP chip set with gigE and SATA/RAID). I'm running 5.3 release on it. The standard parallel ATA chipset returns a known id . The SATA i/f seems to be too new, and freebsd treats it like an unknown udma33 controller. There's no Marvel

Re: Beastie

2004-11-29 Thread secmgr
Michael Nottebrock wrote: Hanspeter Roth wrote: The problem here is, that the Beastie picture is disabled by default. This is obviously not compatible with the majority of people. You're not up-to-date with the latest events, the beasty menu was completely nuked from CVS yesterday after the most

Re: 5.3R p1 only boots in safe mode

2004-11-25 Thread secmgr
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 00:22, Scott Long wrote: secmgr wrote: Can someone point me to what safe mode sets so I can debug whats broke? thanks jim It disables ACPI, APIC, ATA DMA, ATAPI DMA, ATA Write Cache, and EISA. Scott Many thanks! I tried disabling ATA/ATAPI DMA

5.3R p1 only boots in safe mode

2004-11-24 Thread secmgr
Can someone point me to what safe mode sets so I can debug whats broke? thanks jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buildkernel problem

2004-11-22 Thread secmgr
Tejas Kokje wrote: Hi, I am trying to do buildkernel with my own configuration file (MYKERNEL_CONFIG). I am getting the following error. I am not sure what is wrong. Any help will be appreciated . # uname -sr FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p11 #make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL_CONFIG

Re: vinum / 5.3

2004-11-16 Thread secmgr
Sam wrote: Also, i kicked up gvinum to compare, but he doesn't seem to have a stripe command (despite saying he does in the help). there is a geom stripe class called gstripe thats outside of the gvinum user interface. jim ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-11 Thread secmgr
Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem of (g)vinum or if FreeBSD has other problems in this area. just logged a kern bug on this And we all have to consider that gvinum is in a relatively early development phase (IMHO) - it is basically working, that is, it's

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-10 Thread secmgr
ok, your instructions worked like a charm. So i'm running my nice 4 member SCSI gvinum raid5 array (with softupdates turned on), and it's zipping along. Now I need to test just how robust this is. camcontrol is too nice. I want to test a more real world failure. I'm running dbench and

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-07 Thread secmgr
It did, but can you tell me anywhere in the docs it says to do that? Or maybe that vinum should sense that and throw some error rather than just blindly corrupting itself. jim On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 09:38, Joe Koberg wrote: secmgr wrote: No, I mean self corrupting raid5 sets during

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-06 Thread secmgr
No, I mean self corrupting raid5 sets during initialization. Discussed about 2-3 weeks ago. On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 05:09, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: If you mean the 'dangling vnode'-problem with vinum-classic: Try to start 'classic' vinum *after* the system has come up. Either

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-06 Thread secmgr
I did a gvinum start. On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 04:16, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Am Mittwoch, 3. November 2004 21:27 schrieb secmgr: Just ran into this myself. I had a perfectly happy raid 5 plex under 5.3 RC1. I upgrade to RC2, and the whole plex goes stale. I deleted everything from

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-03 Thread secmgr
Adrian Wontroba wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:05:16AM +1100, Carl Makin wrote: Do you want to yank it in 5 or 6-CURRENT? There are a *lot* of people using vinum and yanking it in 5-STABLE would force us all to use the 5.3 security branch until gvinum caught up. From my experiences

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-29 Thread secmgr
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A bit of background: we know that 'gvinum' will replace Vinum; the original intention had been to do it seamlessly, but for various reasons that did happen. Then we decided that we should leave them both in the tree until gvinum had the full functionality of Vinum. It's

Re: question on vinum

2004-10-28 Thread secmgr
Marko Raiha wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:10:39AM -0600, secmgr wrote: The reason is empirically derived. When I created a 7 disk raid 5 set using len 0 or all the space available, the raid set would be corrupt after initializing. Every time. When I reserved back that extra space

Re: question on vinum

2004-10-27 Thread secmgr
Chuck Swiger wrote: No. All of the drives need to be the same size. With RAID-5, which drive is used to hold parity data rotates on a stripe-by-stripe basis to balance out the load. Just to clarify this point. All the subdisks in the plex need to be the same size. The physical drives and

Re: question on vinum

2004-10-27 Thread secmgr
Marko Raiha wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:33:43PM -0600, secmgr wrote: ... when you define the subdisk, don't use the whole drive. Leave at least 64 blocks unused. ... Would you mind to tell the reason behind this rule of leaving at least 64 blocks unused? Regards, The reason

Re: question on vinum

2004-10-26 Thread secmgr
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 18:27, Mikhail P. wrote: I haven't worked with Vinum previously, but hear a lot about it. My question is how to implement the above (unite four drives into single volume) using Vinum, and what will happen if let's say one drive fails in volume? Am I loosing the whole

[Fwd: Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?]

2004-10-25 Thread secmgr
I have freebsd 5.3 rc1 installed perfectly, i configure vinum with the handbook and all work perfect but when try run vinum with rc.conf there display the error: panic: unmount: dangling vnode cpuid: 0 uptime= 4s Cannot dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds. why happened ?

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-25 Thread secmgr
Andrew Konstantinov wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 05:55, Oliver Torres Delgado wrote: I have freebsd 5.3 rc1 installed perfectly, i configure vinum with the handbook and all work perfect but when try run vinum with rc.conf there display the error: panic: unmount: dangling vnode cpuid: 0 uptime=

newfs -v on vinum raid5 panics system (4.10-p3 RELEASE)

2004-10-21 Thread secmgr
I've got 7x9.1 gig scsi drives off an adaptec AIC7880 class controller. (da0-6). I want to raid5 these using vinum. I'm a newbie with vinum. If I use a bsd partition the same size as the slice (c=h), and then let the subdisks use the entire partition (len 0), the raid set is corrupted every