Re: Hardware versus Software RAID

2009-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
Theodore Wynnychenko wrote: ... > Anyway, I had not considered the possibility of a controller failure. bad... > I also wondered if it was possible to remove a drive from the mirrored > hardware array, and see if it is recognized by a plain old SATA controller. > So, I did this by shutting the sy

Re: Hardware versus Software RAID

2009-11-21 Thread Jason George
>aac is dogshit. You just insulted dog$h!t.

Re: Hardware versus Software RAID

2009-11-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
When possible use hardware RAID. When going el-cheapo or requiring less robust RAID softraid is for you. Running IO is not the hard part of RAID. Not shitting the stack when something bad happens is the trick. Since softraid does not control the whole stack it is by definition weaker. If the d

Re: Hardware versus Software RAID

2009-11-21 Thread Theodore Wynnychenko
From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Marco Peereboom right but with no knowledge whatsoever about its content. On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:09:55PM -0701, Jeff Ross wrote: > > In my scenario, in a 1U server with 2 enclosures I do not have a hot spare > online b

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Doug Milam wrote: Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html can we stop these dumb posts about the NSA and windows 7? it's really not related to openbsd. spend less time being preoccupied with the fact that windows

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 02:55:33PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > What could be the reason the captured video is black-and-white > (the tape is deffinitely in color)? the device might only support b/w. also check the signal from the VHS if you haven't already. or the card could be in an odd color st

Re: Hardware versus Software RAID

2009-11-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
right but with no knowledge whatsoever about its content. On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:09:55PM -0701, Jeff Ross wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: > >> I failed a drive (*NOT* with a nail gun, though, I just removed it ;-) and >

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Steve Shockley
On 11/21/2009 6:01 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: $ finger nsa finger: nsa: no such user. hmm. Perhaps they use a less obvious user name, like 'henning'...

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Cor
Doug Milam wrote: Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html Only if they Paypal some $$$ to http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html :)

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:32 PM, AG wrote: > Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Doug Milam > wrote: > > > > > >> Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? > >> > >> > http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html > >> > >> NSA also helped L

Re: Hardware versus Software RAID

2009-11-21 Thread Jeff Ross
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: >> I failed a drive (*NOT* with a nail gun, though, I just removed it ;-) and >> bioctl correctly showed the drive as failed and the raid running as >> degraded. I re-inserted the same drive but I was un

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Paul M
On 22/11/2009, at 2:55 AM, Jan Stary wrote: Some time ago, when I looked into something similar, all the supported cards that I found could only record incomming video at 1/2 res max. Whether this is a limitation of the bt848 chipset, I didnt bother to verify. ... Seems I am experiencing so

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Henning Brauer
* AG [2009-11-21 23:41]: > Depends on whether one trusts the NSA or not. right, of course the NSA gets commit access and peer review rules don't apply. right. $ finger nsa finger: nsa: no such user. hmm. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM, AG wrote: > Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Doug Milam wrote: >> >> >>> Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? >>> >>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html >>> >>> NSA also helped Linux with SEl

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Samuel Baldwin
2009/11/21 AG : > Depends on whether one trusts the NSA or not. That's the nice thing about open source software; we don't have to, because we can verify their code or mathematics ourselves. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread AG
Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Doug Milam wrote: > > >> Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? >> >> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html >> >> NSA also helped Linux with SElinux. As long as OpenBSD remains open source, >>

Re: scan_ffs and FFS2

2009-11-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 05:23:05PM +0300, Alex V. Breger wrote: > Hello > > Does scan_ffs supports ffs2 (ufs2) ? No, -Otto

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Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Doug Milam wrote: > Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? > > http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html > > NSA also helped Linux with SElinux. As long as OpenBSD remains open source, I don't see the problem.

Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Doug Milam
Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html

PF QoS per host

2009-11-21 Thread Denis
Hello all, Is it possible to do per-host queueing with OpenBSD ? Now I have something like this : altq on dc0 bandwidth 1Mb hfsc queue { employees } queue employees bandwidth 15% hfsc (default upperlimit 15%) pass in on dc0 inet proto tcp from 172.16.0.0/24 to any port 80 \ queue employ

Re: 4.6 reboots x336 ibm server(s)

2009-11-21 Thread FRLinux
*bump* On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:51 PM, FRLinux wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, FRLinux wrote: >> Cannot really send an acpidump, as it reboots the server... > > Here is the acpidump from 4.5 running on the same server: > > # acpidump > /* > RSD PTR: Checksum=85, OEMID=IBM, RsdtAddress=0

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2009-11-21 Thread CODIGO CLUB
De nuestra mayor consideracisn Tenemos el agrado de dirigirnos a Usted para hacerle saber que nuestra joven y pujante empresa ha decidido hacer un gran esfuerzo e innovacisn que redundara en favor de los profesionales- En tal sentido hemos decidido crear un sistema novedoso que implique un benefi

Re: IBM 305 server and 4.6

2009-11-21 Thread Mauro Rezzonico
J.D. Bronson wrote: Seems we are in the same boat. It still makes no sense. Indeed... (maybe the clue is in the Changelog, but I could not find it) -- Mauro Rezzonico , Como, Italia "Maybe this world is another planet's hell" - H.Huxley

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2009-11-21 Thread DEEE
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Re: IBM 305 server and 4.6

2009-11-21 Thread J.D. Bronson
Mauro Rezzonico wrote: Just a shot in the dark: If the problem is with the network, maybe the problem is from the net (cables, switches, hub, routers, etc.) You could try to ping the machines from a laptop connected by a cross-cable... If the required hardware is at hand and you have access t

Re: softraid RAID1 rebuild

2009-11-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
since it is softraid you use the sd entry. like bioctl -R /dev/sd3a sd2 On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 01:53:50AM +0100, Markus Bergkvist wrote: > Hi > > I had to replace one of the drives in a softraid raid level 1 setup. > How do I kick off a rebuild? This is apparently not the correct way, or > so

scan_ffs and FFS2

2009-11-21 Thread Alex V. Breger
Hello Does scan_ffs supports ffs2 (ufs2) ? -- WBR, Alex V Breger

Re: VHS transfer on OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Jan Stary
> Some time ago, when I looked into something similar, all the > supported > cards that I found could only record incomming video at 1/2 res max. > Whether this is a limitation of the bt848 chipset, I didnt bother to > verify. what do you mean by 1/2 res? t

Re: IBM 305 server and 4.6

2009-11-21 Thread J.D. Bronson
Mauro Rezzonico wrote: Just a shot in the dark: If the problem is with the network, maybe the problem is from the net (cables, switches, hub, routers, etc.) You could try to ping the machines from a laptop connected by a cross-cable... If the required hardware is at hand and you have access t

Re: IBM 305 server and 4.6

2009-11-21 Thread Mauro Rezzonico
Just a shot in the dark: If the problem is with the network, maybe the problem is from the net (cables, switches, hub, routers, etc.) You could try to ping the machines from a laptop connected by a cross-cable... If the required hardware is at hand and you have access to the machines this is

Re: IBM 305 server and 4.6

2009-11-21 Thread J.D. Bronson
Since 4.6 will run on one machine and not the other, I did run diff on the dmesg outputs. The *only* difference was a BIOS line: Machine that works: bios0: IBM -[8673000]- Machine that fails: bios0: IBM -[867382X]- They are both 8673-82X machines and I can't see this being an issue, but I do

Re: Spanish language resources for OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Searching my favourites I've found these two sites to be up and running with fresh info and active comunities: http://openbsdcolombia.org/ http://www.openbsderos.org/ Good luck with the project! Dani Chris Bennett escribis: Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: I also don't like too much tr

Re: SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Using cdio I burn a cdrom , mount it and then run inside i386 > directory the same command 'cksum -a sha256 -c SHA256', SHA256 being > the file I mentioned first - the one downloaded with the .iso file, > from the same ftp directory. That's how I get FAILED for x*.tgz files. The X snapshots are

Re: SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
On 11/21/09, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Mihai Popescu B.S. > wrote: > ... >> Since some time, the x*.tgz are reported as FAILED in this check. I >> send another email to the list, I got one answer but I'm not able yet >> to get the idea. So, I ask again, is still th

Re: SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
On 11/21/09, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> I'm installing -current from snapshots, from time to time. I use to >> download the .iso file then burn it and check the files on cdrom >> against SHA256 file downloaded together with .iso. >> >> Since some time, the x*.tgz are reported as FAILED in this check.

Re: SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I'm installing -current from snapshots, from time to time. I use to > download the .iso file then burn it and check the files on cdrom > against SHA256 file downloaded together with .iso. > > Since some time, the x*.tgz are reported as FAILED in this check. I > send another email to the list, I

Re: SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: ... > Since some time, the x*.tgz are reported as FAILED in this check. I > send another email to the list, I got one answer but I'm not able yet > to get the idea. So, I ask again, is still this SHA256 used for _all_ > files or it is just

SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I'm installing -current from snapshots, from time to time. I use to download the .iso file then burn it and check the files on cdrom against SHA256 file downloaded together with .iso. Since some time, the x*.tgz are reported as FAILED in this check. I send another email to the list, I got