c) to watch to her student.
>
> Do you think remote the possibility to have some screen mirroring
> functionalities embedded in our favorit desktop environemnt under
> OpenBSD?
>
> I imagine a more *flexible* desk environment where sort of universal
> screen mirroring is allowe
mirroring
functionalities embedded in our favorit desktop environemnt under
OpenBSD?
I imagine a more *flexible* desk environment where sort of universal
screen mirroring is allowed among devices exacly how today we can
do in our livingroom on Samsung or other brand TVs..
-Dan
Per Google, most likely there's a symlink loop in the source.
See mkdirat(2) (it refers to ELOOP).
See also errno(2), which has: 31 EMLINK Too many links
It also has
62 ELOOP Too many levels of symbolic links
Your message has the text from EMLINK, but mkdirat only mentions ELOOP.
That's not
Michael Lowery Wilson writes:
> Greetings,
>
> My attempts at creating a local mirror of Project Gutenberg's ebooks
> under OpenBSD 6.9 using openrsync following official instructions:
> https://www.gutenberg.org/help/mirroring.html have been unsuccessful.
>
> Specifically I am using:
>
> openrs
On 2021-06-07, Michael Lowery Wilson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> My attempts at creating a local mirror of Project Gutenberg's ebooks under
> OpenBSD 6.9 using openrsync following official instructions:
> https://www.gutenberg.org/help/mirroring.html have been unsuccessful.
>
> Specifically I am usi
Greetings,
My attempts at creating a local mirror of Project Gutenberg's ebooks under
OpenBSD 6.9 using openrsync following official instructions:
https://www.gutenberg.org/help/mirroring.html have been unsuccessful.
Specifically I am using:
openrsync -av --del aleph.gutenberg.org::gutenberg
On 2019-05-30, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Our firewalls can't connecto to firmware.openbsd.org (by design).
> Is there a way to mirror the contents of firmware.openbsd.org? It
> would be nice if these files were available in the usual OpenBSD
> mirrors, since we already mirror those and could just
were available in the usual OpenBSD
> mirrors, since we already mirror those and could just point fw_update
> at our internal mirror host.
firmware.openbsd.org is independent and segregated from official OpenBSD
upstream and mirroring since we don't own the data in the files and
Our firewalls can't connecto to firmware.openbsd.org (by design).
Is there a way to mirror the contents of firmware.openbsd.org? It
would be nice if these files were available in the usual OpenBSD
mirrors, since we already mirror those and could just point fw_update
at our internal mirror host. B
I really love the motto ""Shut Up and Hack!".
Well, I'm not a hacker nor even a good coder. But I'm a sysadmin, so
I've decided to shut up and do something about:
http://wikileaks.minibofh.org/mirrors.html
Note than minibofh.org is one of my servers.
--
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-kill
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:54:55PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> 1. use of dd across servers.
> 2. use dd or the like to increase disk size with same content in the end.
>
> ==
>
> 1. I am trying to see if I can mirror raw disks across servers [like]
> dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rw
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Daniel Ouellet
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pretty sure this is not possible at all, but again, may be
> something else is available that I haven't found/think yet.
>
> Two questions I have.
>
(snip)
> 2. The second question again relate to this is I also have the needs
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pretty sure this is not possible at all, but again, may be something
> else is available that I haven't found/think yet.
>
> Two questions I have.
>
> 1. use of dd across servers.
http://ultra.ap.krakow.pl/~bar/DOC/ssh_backup.h
Hi,
I am pretty sure this is not possible at all, but again, may be
something else is available that I haven't found/think yet.
Two questions I have.
1. use of dd across servers.
2. use dd or the like to increase disk size with same content in the end.
==
1. I am trying to s
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Joachim Schipper
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:11:43AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Joachim Schipper
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:24:43AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM,
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:11:43AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Joachim Schipper
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:24:43AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Joachim Schipper
> >> wrote:
> >> > (...) [U]se a database for
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Joachim Schipper
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:24:43AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Joachim Schipper
>> wrote:
>>
>> > The "well-known" solution is to use a database for all state and
>> > replicate that. A simpler solut
ng a thousand databases is a good idea, but exactly
> how are a thousand HTTP connections bad? Sure, keepalives will consume
> some resources, but it's not like having a thousand connections is all
> that impressive on modern hardware.
>
> Note: I'm not saying it's
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:24:43AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Joachim Schipper
> wrote:
>
> > The "well-known" solution is to use a database for all state and
> > replicate that. A simpler solution is to just use a static site. What
> > issue are you trying
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Joachim Schipper
wrote:
> The "well-known" solution is to use a database for all state and
> replicate that. A simpler solution is to just use a static site. What
> issue are you trying to solve?
>
Wan't to replicate a full couchdb (http://couchb.org) node. For
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:58:56AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have to setup a full redundant installation for a web services in
> view of having failover from one machine to the other. So data need
> to be replicated fin quasi realtime. There is solution like drbd on
> linux th
Benoit Chesneau wrote:
[snip]
> also is there any
> distributed fs that could work over openbsd ?
One is AFS (Arla / OpenAFS)
http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/arla/
http://www.openafs.org/
See also:
http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/openafs-1.4.7p5.tgz-long.html
http://www.dia.uniroma
> have ACID transactions, to get that with a filesystem you need more than
> DRBD. This way you also get two hot servers for your service instead of
> a slightly improved cold spare, which DRBD is.
>
> Don't get me wrong, though, DRBD does have some good uses that come to
> min
roved cold spare, which DRBD is.
Don't get me wrong, though, DRBD does have some good uses that come to
mind, like mirroring a mail server filesystem so you can take snapshots
and run backups off them on another machine to avoid load on the real
server. But it is not a magic 100% uptime dust,
Hi all,
I have to setup a full redundant installation for a web services in
view of having failover from one machine to the other. So data need
to be replicated fin quasi realtime. There is solution like drbd on
linux that works like a raid1 over tcp, but I wonder if there is any
solution that wo
I am not sure whether this is relevant or not, but in my conf
pseudo-device raid 4 is defined before option RAID_AUTOCONFIG.
Vijay
On Fri, 2006-24-11 at 11:17 +0530, Siju George wrote:
> On 11/24/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:35:52PM +0530, Siju G
On 11/24/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:35:52PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:22:20PM -0600, Vijay Sankar wrote:
> >> Good day,
> >>
> >> I am pretty sure I was
> >> bo
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:35:52PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:22:20PM -0600, Vijay Sankar wrote:
> >> Good day,
> >>
> >> I am pretty sure I was
> >> booting from /dev/raid0a on the old server but couldn't repea
On 11/22/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:22:20PM -0600, Vijay Sankar wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I took one of my desktops that has two EIDE hard drives and went through
> the steps I had sent earlier to you and tried to verify that it does
> work on OpenBSD
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:22:20PM -0600, Vijay Sankar wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I took one of my desktops that has two EIDE hard drives and went through
> the steps I had sent earlier to you and tried to verify that it does
> work on OpenBSD 4.0. It does work -- almost. I am pretty sure I was
> boot
Good day,
I found out the problem. Here is the fstab and df -h
ftl21# df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/raid0a3.9G 34.5M3.7G 1%/
/dev/raid0d7.9G6.0K7.5G 0%/tmp
/dev/raid0e7.9G4.1M7.5G 0%/var
/dev/raid0f
Good day,
I took one of my desktops that has two EIDE hard drives and went through
the steps I had sent earlier to you and tried to verify that it does
work on OpenBSD 4.0. It does work -- almost. I am pretty sure I was
booting from /dev/raid0a on the old server but couldn't repeat that with
this
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:57:46PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Vijay Sankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Good day,
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >
>
> Yup some final confusions :-(
>
> The raid seems to be working fine. But how do I access the RAID partitions?
> it seems I have 3 copies
On 11/15/06, Vijay Sankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good day,
Hope this helps,
Yup some final confusions :-(
The raid seems to be working fine. But how do I access the RAID partitions?
it seems I have 3 copies of the OpenBSD system on "wd0a" and "wd1a"
and also raid0a
and how do I run on th
On 11/15/06, Vijay Sankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good day,
Anyways, here is a cut and paste of what may be useful from my write up
at that time.
Thanks a million Vijay :-)
This was a life saver Doc. things are going on fine with this doc.
It was written for operators whose primary expert
Good day,
I set up RAIDFRAME on HP DL380 G4 servers sometime in 2004 because we
had problems with hardware RAID (SmartArray 6402 controller with 15000
rpm drives). We are no longer using RAIDFrame because OpenBSD 3.9
support for RAID on our machines is excellent and we no longer have
problems with
c: 234441648 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -232580
#
====
also a raid.conf for mirroring as said in the raidctl manpage
=
# cat /root/raid0.conf
START array
# numRow n
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please look at my dmesg if that is useful.
> And please let me know if I should provide any other info.
>
> Thankyou so much
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Siju
>
> DMESG
> =
> # cat /v
Hi,
The System messages say
=
raidlookup on device: /dev/wd2b failed!
vnode was NULL
vnode was NULL
RAIDFRAME: failed rf_ConfigureDisks with 2
vnode was NULL
vnode was NULL
=
Hi,
Please look at my dmesg if that is useful.
And please let me know if I should provide any other info.
Thankyou so much
Kind Regards
Siju
DMESG
=
# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot
OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #690: Sat Sep 16 20:26:25 MD
Hi,
I have been trying to configure software RAID using resources at
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#RAID
and
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#RAID
I did get the error
# raidctl -C /root/raid0.conf raid0
raidctl: ioctl (RAIDFRAME_CONFIGURE) failed
The raid configuration file entr
On 8/15/06, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
> On 8/14/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
> >> In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz ->
> >
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
> On 8/14/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
> >> In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz ->
> >> foo-1.0p0.tgz).
> >> No boom here, unless the main
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
> On 8/14/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
> >> In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz ->
> >> foo-1.0p0.tgz).
> >> No boom here, unless the main
On 8/14/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
> In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz ->
> foo-1.0p0.tgz).
> No boom here, unless the maintaner was lazy.
No, /usr/lib changes don't bump patchlevels of every package
On 2006/08/14 17:59, Arnaud Bergeron wrote:
> In which case, the patchlevel needs to be bumped (eg. foo-1.0.tgz ->
> foo-1.0p0.tgz).
> No boom here, unless the maintaner was lazy.
No, /usr/lib changes don't bump patchlevels of every package.
On 8/14/06, Tobias Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on
> package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead?
>
> I've tried to do this with rsync but a
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on
> package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead?
>
> I've tried to do this with rsync but as packages are constantly rebuilt,
> file size of
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
> is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on
> package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead?
A bit of shell/Perl scripting could compare the index.txt on the FTP
mirror with what you have locally
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
>
> I'd like to sync packages solely based on their file name. Is
> there a way to do this with rsync or with another tool?
lftp (ports/net) has a mirror option who can be told to ignore
both sizes and times. this might yield a
Hi,
is there a simple way to efficiently mirror packages solely based on
package filenames in order to reduce bandwidth overhead?
I've tried to do this with rsync but as packages are constantly rebuilt,
file size of packages changes regularly, and, therefore, the rsync
option '--size-only' (
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:56:05AM +0100, Anthony Howe wrote:
> This page http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#RAID briefly mentions
> that ccd(4) could be used for mirroring.
>
> OpenBSD 3.7-stable and later also includes mirroring as a
> feature of the ccd(4) driv
This page http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#RAID briefly mentions
that ccd(4) could be used for mirroring.
OpenBSD 3.7-stable and later also includes mirroring as a
feature of the ccd(4) driver. This system is built into the
GENERIC kernel and is in the bsd.rd kernel
Ted Unangst wrote:
new link (same old code) http://gir.theapt.org/~tedu/nad.tgz
Many thanks!
Daniel
On 2/2/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > you could start here:
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=108663340015236&w=2
>
> i suppose the link would be more useful if you could get the code. if
> somebody is seriously i
Tobias Weingartner wrote:
nfs? You keep the "master" copy on the nfs server, and the "slave"
copies on the clients... You "export" the portion that you want to
be able to "mount". It's all there... :)
I was/am trying to stay away of nfs. Again, not that it is bad, just
call me paranoid and
Bernhard Leiner wrote:
Did you already had a look at Gamin/FAM?
http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/index.html
This may be interesting for a start anyway. I will check how this works
for ideas.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Tobias Ulmer wrote:
I have not played with it, but isn't it possible to use libevent
(man event) to notify a userspace daemon that scps the changed
files over to another server(s)?
Many thanks for this one. It's already in the base, so may be a very
good start.
I love the suggestion.
Thank
Ted Unangst wrote:
you could start here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=108663340015236&w=2
Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!
I will be reading this code for sure and see what come of it.
- Mirroring on multiple servers, more then 2. Man page said you need an
even amount of devices, fair, but all I read look like indicate it would
mirror a to b and that's it, even if a could be maid of multiples drives
if you like, so two copy is the limit.
I'm fairly certain you
Holger Mauermann wrote:
Do you know DRBD for Linux (www.drbd.org)? Something like this, together
with CARP, would be great for highly available OpenBSD servers :-)
I knew about the project and looked at it in the pass. I wanted
something simpler I guess but definitely OpenBSD oriented.
Plus
On 2/2/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you could start here:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=108663340015236&w=2
i suppose the link would be more useful if you could get the code. if
somebody is seriously interested (as in, fixing it, not just using
it), i can mail y
On 2/2/06, Holger Mauermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> > I would like to try to break my teeth on a small ( hopefully) project
> > that is missing for me in the OpenBSD kernel.
> >
> > A way to have live mirror of pre determine directory, or may be if
> > that's easier to
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:44:54AM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> Ray Lai wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> >
> >>This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob,
> >>etc. And this wou
Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> I would like to try to break my teeth on a small ( hopefully) project
> that is missing for me in the OpenBSD kernel.
>
> A way to have live mirror of pre determine directory, or may be if
> that's easier to implement, full partition(s).
Do you know DRBD for Linux (www.drb
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:01:04AM -0700, Tobias Weingartner wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 1, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> >
> > The idea is to configure a directory on a master server to copy the file
> > that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other
> > server(s) in the same
On Wednesday, February 1, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
>
> The idea is to configure a directory on a master server to copy the file
> that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other
> server(s) in the same directory structure.
nfs? You keep the "master" copy on the nfs server, and
> Is there any centralized place for these sort of details?
http://google.com/bsd
--
Mathieu Sauve-Frankel
On 2/2/06, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The idea is to configure a directory on a master server to copy the file
> that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other
> server(s) in the same directory structure.
Hi!
Did you already had a look at Gamin/FAM?
http://www
I have not played with it, but isn't it possible to use libevent
(man event) to notify a userspace daemon that scps the changed
files over to another server(s)?
Just a thought.
Tobias
Ray Lai wrote:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob,
etc. And this would be much more efficient as well.
https://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=86187916316
h
On 2/2/06, Ray Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
>
> > This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob,
> > etc. And this would be much more efficient as well.
>
>
> https:/
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob,
> etc. And this would be much more efficient as well.
https://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=86187916316
https://marc.theaimsgr
erver to copy the file
that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other
server(s) in the same directory structure.
It's possible to do this via cronjob and rsync, etc. But that sure
increase the load a lots if you want near live mirroring.
I am looking more a
Right, this is what I did as well. Tested. Works much better than the
previous config.
Any thoughts on monitoring the status of the ccd?
Bobby Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:28 +0100, kami petersen wrote:
> Nick Holland skrev:
>
> > (hint: you can do a CCD of just one disk).
> > (hint 2: yo
At 11:11 AM 12/30/2005 +0100, vladimir plotnikov wrote:
Hello!
As first: Happy coming New Year!
Does anybody know how I can use RAID Mirror on PDC20378 card?
You can't, none of the Promise RAID controllers are actually h/w.
my configuration:
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
pciide0 at pci3 dev 14 functi
data lost.
How we can setup hardware or software mirroring with leave 1st drive
live? without dump/restore ?
--
Thank you.
Vladimir. Y. Plotnikov, BasalPro + SmartWeb LTD. Cell Phone +420-774-311-015
ICQ: 24270826, skype ID: vladimirplotnikov
Nick Holland skrev:
(hint: you can do a CCD of just one disk).
(hint 2: you can't use the same partition twice, it will generate an error).
(hint 3: Errors can be your friend, they are not always to be avoided)
warning, spoiler below:
#
# /etc/ccd.conf
# Configuration file for concatenated di
Bobby Johnson wrote:
> A few questions in regards to the discussion between Robert Haarman and
> mickey around Nov 24 on ccd mirroring. The conclusion is don't use c
> for a usable partition in a ccd device.
If "conclusion" is the right word in a discussion between someo
A few questions in regards to the discussion between Robert Haarman and
mickey around Nov 24 on ccd mirroring. The conclusion is don't use c
for a usable partition in a ccd device.
This sounds fine until I try to recover from a disk failure. When I use
the c partition in a ccd mirror dev
Peter Fraser wrote:
In light of recent discussions about how to implement device
mirroring, it might be useful to describe an approach used
in Bull's GCOS8 operating system. (GCOS8 is a mainframe
operating system designed for the highest possible
reliability and dynamic replacement of
In light of recent discussions about how to implement device
mirroring, it might be useful to describe an approach used
in Bull's GCOS8 operating system. (GCOS8 is a mainframe
operating system designed for the highest possible
reliability and dynamic replacement of parts.) The GCOS8
app
ut keeping the mirrors in sync.. just think of all the cycles that
> > could be saved if they didn't bother!! ;)
>
> Actually, that occured to me, yes.
> HOWEVER, I wish to point out (again) that I am NOT a file system expert.
> Every OS and most HW based systems seem to
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 03:58:26PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
> up toasting them, far from the end of the world. I can give you a very
> good explaination (or several) for why a disk powered down mid-write
> could be dammaged, it is really odd how RARELY this actually happens in
> real life. I co
about keeping the mirrors in sync.. just think of all the cycles that
> could be saved if they didn't bother!! ;)
Actually, that occured to me, yes.
HOWEVER, I wish to point out (again) that I am NOT a file system expert.
Every OS and most HW based systems seem to compulsively rebuil
rent than the other...
> > If they differ, tell me how ccd detected that difference, and how it
> > warned you that if the primary drive died that you'd have incorrect
> > data. If they don't differ, go buy a lottery ticket, cause it's
> > your lucky day! ;)
&
at if the primary drive died that you'd have incorrect
> data. If they don't differ, go buy a lottery ticket, cause it's
> your lucky day! ;)
I used diff(1) to compare the two trees created by splitting the mirror.
No difference found. i.e., ccd(4) mirroring passed a somew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:19:49
>
>I know of several people who ran software mirroring
>on Windows and they had
>major problems with it along the lines that Greg
>described. I also know some
>people that never had problems in a similar setup
>with OpenBSD. Prodded
I know of several people who ran software mirroring on Windows and they had
major problems with it along the lines that Greg described. I also know some
people that never had problems in a similar setup with OpenBSD. Prodded a
little more, they never had it crash so I guess sometimes being stable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Robbert Haarman writes:
>> Greg,
>>
>> Again, you raise some interesting issues. I
>wonder how likely the
>> catastrophic failures you describe are, versus
>how likely it is that
>> things fail in a way where ccd actually helps
>you. I was hoping someone
>> else woul
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Greg Oster
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:26 PM
> To: Robbert Haarman
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO
>
> Robbert Haarman writes:
&
than using just a single disk, because a fsck
is only going to look at one half of the mirror, and inconsistent
data on the other half is not going to be touched.
> > So one thing that's still missing is a big, bold line at the top
> > that says:
> >
> > CCD M
> So one thing that's still missing is a big, bold line at the top
> that says:
>
> CCD Mirroring will eventually eat your data and you shouldn't use it!!
It's missing, because I am not at all convinced that claim is true.
The way I see it: when you use CCD mi
Hi
[at the risk of straying on-topic...]
On misc@openbsd.org you said:
> Dear list, especially Greg and Mickey,
>
> I've updated the working copy of the CCD Mirroring HOWTO. In particular,
> I've split off the comparison to software RAID into a separate section
> an
nd experience. By privately contacting the
>> authors and maintainers of both the code and man pages, you can easily
>> double check your work to prevent spreading misinformation. Provide
>> explanations of the steps you took as well as explanations of all the
>> other possible
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenBSD claims to be done for the benefit of its developers and every
indication that I've seen says that they mean exactly what they say.
True and nothing wrong with that.
Concerns of users are secondary at best.
The developers will help you if you have something g
Robbert Haarman wrote:
[snip]
> As it stands, OpenBSD is the only operating system I am aware of that
> has had the full base system completely audited and has buffer overrun
> and other protections enabled for all software on it. This, by itself,
> makes it more secure than other systems, regard
. Instead, I decided to
figure out for myself how I could get things to work, and document the
steps, so that others might benefit. It seems that, in doing so, I've
annoyed people even more. Again, I must apologize. This was not my
intention.
> better than a HOWTO that claims to be a sho
Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> In all these:
>
> >>I'm going to take this thread for what I think it is... the old guard
> >>telling us youngin's that our efforts are appreciated, but we've got a
> >>bit more to learn about how things work, and how to write good
> >>documentation, before we're really read
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:58:04 +0100, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>hmm, on Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:34:39AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said that
>> Yes, OpenBSD is the _only_ operating system that takes security as
>> seriously as it should be taken. Consider the why of OpenBSD's
>
>this
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