Re: Getting "Boot error" after replacing a disk in softraid

2024-04-23 Thread iio7
Also, if I boot from a USB stick, with only the new SSD attached, the softraid is registered as degraded (as the other old disk is missing), so it has been populated, and the partition is also marked with an asterisk for boot, but I still cannot boot from that drive.

Re: Getting "Boot error" after replacing a disk in softraid

2024-04-23 Thread iio7
> I suspect this error comes from your BIOS/UEFI rather than the OpenBSD > boot loader. Did you check how boot drives are configured in firmware? I already tested that by moving the new disk to another box and boot it from that, unfortunately I get the same error.

Getting "Boot error" after replacing a disk in softraid

2024-04-22 Thread iio7
I have a softraid mirror setup with two old spinning disks. I have detached one of the disks from the mirror and attached a new SSD. I then wanted to rebuild the mirror, using one old spinning drive and the new SSD, and then afterwards, remove the old spinning drive and replace with yet another

Re: OpenBSD alternative setup to ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD

2023-11-22 Thread iio7
> Once data is no longer "work in progress", archive it to write-only > media and take it out of the regular backup loop. What kind of write-only media do you use/recommend?

OpenBSD alternative setup to ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD

2023-11-21 Thread iio7
Ever since I read a post on @misc from Nick Holland to someone asking about running a large filesystem on OpenBSD, in which Nick wrote: > ZFS is kinda the IPv6 of file systems.  A few good ideas trying to > solve a one issue... and then they went way overboard trying to pack > too much else into i

Creating a softraid mirror from a regular OpenBSD disk

2023-11-12 Thread iio7
I have an OpenBSD box running with a single drive. I wanted to add a second drive and then run the two in a softraid mirror in order for the first disk to not be a single point of failure in the box. Is that possible or does the first disk needs to be reformattet and repartitioned before adding a

Ensuring data integrity

2023-02-15 Thread iio7
In the latest book by Michael Lucas, OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems, Michael writes, "A filesystem should put data on disk. That data should be safely stored and reliably read. That's it. Error checking? Deduplication? No. The operating system has other tools for ensuring data integrity and compactne

Kerberos Heimdal problem on OpenBSD: Failed to verify AP-REQ

2022-11-01 Thread iio7
Hi, I have setup an OpenBSD 7.2 machine running Heimdal 7.7.0 as a Kerberos server. I then have an NFS Linux server running Arch Linux on another machine. I then have a FreeBSD NFS client and another Arch Linux NFS client on other physical hardware (all physical machines on the same LAN). Without

support update

2022-10-30 Thread iio7
The entry under Denmark listed with a company name "Zen System" doesn't exist. There no longer is such a company, and the URL redirects to a completely different company that doesn't provide any kind of OpenBSD service.

Questions about the code commit review process

2022-10-29 Thread iio7
Hi, What is the code commit review process in OpenBSD? A developer with commit access, does his code get reviewed by other developers before a release, and if so, is that an internal requirement? Thanks. Kind regards.

Re: Timestamps missing on httpd's error log

2021-09-10 Thread iio7
Is there any particular reason why this issue is being ignored? https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg15344.html

Re: Why is tmpfs not working on OpenBSD?

2021-09-06 Thread iio7
On Monday, September 6th, 2021 at 12:50 PM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 10:12:33PM +0000, iio7 wrote: > > > > On 2021-09-05, iio7 < > > > > > > i...@protonmail.com > > > > > > w

Re: Why is tmpfs not working on OpenBSD?

2021-09-06 Thread iio7
On Monday, September 6th, 2021 at 12:49 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > iio7 i...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > On Sunday, September 5th, 2021 at 10:41 PM, Theo de Raadt > > dera...@openbsd.org wrote: > > > > > iio7 i...@protonmail.com wrote: &g

Re: Why is tmpfs not working on OpenBSD?

2021-09-05 Thread iio7
On Sunday, September 5th, 2021 at 10:41 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > iio7 i...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > > On 2021-09-05, iio7 < > > > > > > i...@protonmail.com > > > > > > w

Re: Why is tmpfs not working on OpenBSD?

2021-09-05 Thread iio7
> On 2021-09-05, iio7 < i...@protonmail.com > wrote: >> # mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /home/foo/tmp/ >> mount_tmpfs: tmpfs on /home/foo/tmp: Operation not supported > It isn't built into the standard kernels, disabled with this commit:: > revision 1.229 > date:

Why is tmpfs not working on OpenBSD?

2021-09-05 Thread iio7
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Experience using httpd in production on busy machines?

2021-08-25 Thread iio7
I am in the process of deploying an updated version of a PHP web application that has been running on Apache and Nginx on Linux. This time I have done all the development running the webserver on OpenBSD httpd+PHP. The setup is so much simpler and I am used to running OpenBSD boxes as gateways/f

Securing MariaDB on OpenBSD

2021-07-18 Thread iio7
I have just installed MariaDB on a 6.9 box and I was wondering whether adding a root password is needed? The root user can access the database without a password by default, but IMHO if the box gets compromised and someone reaches root access, adding a password to the database root user doesn't rea