Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for concise doc on REALLY ALL the steps the live install actually performs

2013-03-17 Thread Nathan Kunkee
On 03/16/13 12:01 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Looking for concise doc on REALLY ALL the steps the live install actually performs. Yeah, really, just for a checklist. Tried looking in various places. Found nothing. Maybe just me needing a new brain. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tape backup

2013-03-17 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
After the embezzlement debacle, and a couple of complete turnovers (except for me) of the IS staff, my (new) boss and I went to a class specifically about backups. They were saying that not only do we need to keep your normal daily, weekly and monthly backups; we should also keep snapshots of o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tape backup

2013-03-17 Thread Doug Hughes
On 3/17/2013 6:23 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: Tape as an archival medium has significant issues. Reading poorly stored tapes is a "one try" proposition w/ no assurance of success. The first high volume commercial application for digital tape was seismic data acquisition for the oil industr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tape backup

2013-03-17 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Tape as an archival medium has significant issues.  Reading poorly stored tapes is a "one try" proposition w/ no assurance of success.  The first high volume commercial application for digital tape was seismic data acquisition for the oil industry.  The oil companies had very detailed  cleaning

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Sun, 3/17/13, Hans J Albertsson wrote: > From: Hans J Albertsson > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... > All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!?? > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 1:31 PM > I read somewhere t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 03/17/2013 04:06 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Your counter-question baffles me a bit... but: > > Can you point at any part of that wiki page that actually deals with how > to produce a 4kblocksize pool on a SATA, not a SCSI, drive that is > actually 4k physical blocksize but reports having 5

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Hans J Albertsson
I read somewhere that you can Set sata to ahci in bios. Boot a live dvd In there  i can just do a zpool import -f rpool. Could this be true? Really? Skickat från min Samsung Mobil Originalmeddelande Från: "Hans J. Albertsson" Datum: Till: Discussion list for OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
i think I've just got a problem because of machine age! if I can muster enough courage ok, well, being retired, what can harm me now? I have my sata controllers in that machine in ide mode... gaah.. There was a problem in Solaris 11/Opensolaris around builds << 97 or so that meant I had

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mapping LSI SAS Target numbers to disk SAS WWNs (Log Info 0x31120303)

2013-03-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 16, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > there is a way to get this info from mdb... I added a knowledge base article > on this at Nexenta a few years ago, lemme see if I can dig it up from my > archives… And the winner is: echo "::mptsas -t" | mdb -k mptsas_t inst

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Jan Owoc
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson >> wrote: >>> >>> When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue >>> is >>> discussed, it turns out all the advice only ever deals with SCSI or SAS >>> driv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Your counter-question baffles me a bit... but: Can you point at any part of that wiki page that actually deals with how to produce a 4kblocksize pool on a SATA, not a SCSI, drive that is actually 4k physical blocksize but reports having 512 bytes blocks. The trick of editing sd.conf shouldn't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Hans, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue is > discussed, it turns out all the advice only ever deals with SCSI or SAS > drives. After reading this page [1], what specific further questions

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

2013-03-17 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue is discussed, it turns out all the advice only ever deals with SCSI or SAS drives. So many of the easy, straightforward recipies won't work for SATA drives. What should I do?? I have the WD EARS drives which misrep

[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkgrepo error

2013-03-17 Thread Serge Fonville
Hi, I have been running an IPS Server for a while now, without serious issues Since some time I am getting errors when using it. When I run *pkgrepo refresh -s /export/repo/ *I get a stack trace > Initiating repository refresh. > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pkgrepo", lin