Re: [OmniOS-discuss] multithreaded gzip (or equivalent) and moving some files while preserving file trees

2013-08-18 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-08-18 01:01, Valrhona wrote: Also note that the common mailing-list wisdom argues against relying on ZFS-send streams in files as a backup method. Unlike ZFS itself, the streams offer little to no protection against bitrot, except that if a stream is corrupt - this is detectable and you c

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] R720 reset magic?

2013-08-18 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-08-18 01:15, Thibault VINCENT wrote: Which BIOS version are you running? BIOS has version 1.6.0 and iDrac has 1.40.40, servers were updated with Life Cycle Controller few weeks ago and still expose the problem. I haven't found interesting settings to play with in the BIOS. This Dell

[OmniOS-discuss] Omnios, VMware fusion

2013-08-18 Thread Jan Holtzhausen
Omni needs a virtual floppy drive to install. In OSX, open a terminal to a directory that fusion can browse to (~/Desktop is fine) ~> dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img There's your blank image. Now add a floppy device in fusion, point it to floppy.img. Go ahead and install on fusion.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios, VMware fusion

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Nehren
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:54:21 +0200, Jan Holtzhausen wrote: > Omni needs a virtual floppy drive to install. > In OSX, open a terminal to a directory that fusion can browse to (~/Desktop > is fine) > ~> dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img > There's your blank image. > Now add a floppy

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] multithreaded gzip (or equivalent) and moving some files while preserving file trees

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Nehren
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 00:01:30 +0100, Valrhona wrote: > This is somewhat tedious and takes a while, but fortunately it's just > a few commands and I can let it run in the background. But I don't see > any better backup solution, because ZFS internally checksums, and I do > a manual backup and res

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Mellanox Infiniband 2x 10Gbps MHEL-CF128-TC

2013-08-18 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Aug 17, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Thibault VINCENT wrote: >> Also, if I just have a few workstations I need to connect to an NFS >> server over 10 GbE, I was thinking of just getting a couple of >> adapters and crossover cables, instead of going with a switch, just >> for cost reasons. Does this mak

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Mellanox Infiniband 2x 10Gbps MHEL-CF128-TC

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Nagele
We've used the X520's for a while on a very active NFS production environment. They work extremely well. We now have a 10G switch, but used cross over SFP+ cables for almost a year. Our primary use is NFS. We did some performance testing and noticed a big difference when tuning the following setti

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Omnios, VMware fusion

2013-08-18 Thread Jan Holtzhausen
No sweat, I just jotted down a solution for the OSX/fusion crowd in case anyone needed it. On 18 Aug 2013 4:14 PM, "Chris Nehren" wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:54:21 +0200, Jan Holtzhausen wrote: > > Omni needs a virtual floppy drive to install. > > In OSX, open a terminal to a directory th