Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 04/18/21 12:05 PM, Carl Brewer wrote: Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and 64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it.  Is an OI VM running on top of OI viable for building and testing?  In particular, how good is VBox for that?  it's become very Windows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I'd like to backup my entire OpenIndiana installation using Restic. Which directories should I exclude?

2021-04-18 Thread Judah Richardson
Thanks so much. Sounds reasonable to add /mnt to that list too, I assume? The only thing that would be there (on my end) is shares from other machines and perhaps removable media I'm uninterested in backing up. Judah On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:04 AM Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss <

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I'd like to backup my entire OpenIndiana installation using Restic. Which directories should I exclude?

2021-04-18 Thread Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss
On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 21:15, Judah Richardson wrote: > On Linux and FreeBSD, there are some directories, such as /proc, that > generally shouldn't be backed up or aren't worth backing up since a new > installation regenerates them or generates their own anyway. > > What are those directories for

[OpenIndiana-discuss] I'd like to backup my entire OpenIndiana installation using Restic. Which directories should I exclude?

2021-04-18 Thread Judah Richardson
On Linux and FreeBSD, there are some directories, such as /proc, that generally shouldn't be backed up or aren't worth backing up since a new installation regenerates them or generates their own anyway. What are those directories for OpenIndiana? ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Carl Brewer
On that front, I "must" mention my vboxsvc project: * https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxsvc * nee https://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc Beside allowing to wrap each vbox into an SMF instance (dependencies, restarts by state monitoring and all), among other features it also has a way to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing to a RAIDZ2 root pool How-To

2021-04-18 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 5:24 PM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > > > On 18. Apr 2021, at 17:16, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > > > It is my understanding that we can now boot from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Moving on with postgresql

2021-04-18 Thread Jim Klimov
On April 18, 2021 3:13:41 PM UTC, Austin Kim wrote: >[Sorry to cross-post to oi-dev but wanted to reply to the thread] > >On Apr 18, 2021, at 6:07 AM, Andreas Wacknitz >wrote: >> >> Am 18.04.21 um 02:37 schrieb Austin Kim: >>> On Apr 17, 2021, at 7:22 PM, Till Wegmueller >wrote: Hi Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing to a RAIDZ2 root pool How-To

2021-04-18 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 18. Apr 2021, at 17:16, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > It is my understanding that we can now boot from a RAIDZ pool. Are there > any known limitations? I looked at the wiki and I didn't see any > instructions related to booting from a RAIDZ pool or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Moving on with postgresql

2021-04-18 Thread Austin Kim
[Sorry to cross-post to oi-dev but wanted to reply to the thread] On Apr 18, 2021, at 6:07 AM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > > Am 18.04.21 um 02:37 schrieb Austin Kim: >> On Apr 17, 2021, at 7:22 PM, Till Wegmueller wrote: >>> Hi Gary >>> >>> I use Postgres and extensions for all Applications I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Moving on with postgresql

2021-04-18 Thread Lou Picciano
I myself should be getting (again, more) re-engaged in the build/update process for PostgreSQL… I’ll wake up shortly. Lou > On Apr 18, 2021, at 6:07 AM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > > Am 18.04.21 um 02:37 schrieb Austin Kim: >> On Apr 17, 2021, at 7:22 PM, Till Wegmueller wrote: >>> Hi Gary

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing to a RAIDZ2 root pool How-To

2021-04-18 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
It is my understanding that we can now boot from a RAIDZ pool. Are there any known limitations? I looked at the wiki and I didn't see any instructions related to booting from a RAIDZ pool or installing into a RAIDZ pool. It looks pretty straight forward, but there are some details that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Jim Klimov
On April 18, 2021 10:05:02 AM UTC, Carl Brewer wrote: > >> Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and >64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it. Is an OI VM running on >top of OI viable for building and testing? In particular, how good is >VBox for that? it's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
My use cases for VMs are running CAD and EDA software on Win 7 and Debian and Firefox on Hipster so a local display is essential. I have no application for a server other than to do backups. Reg On Sunday, April 18, 2021, 07:46:22 AM CDT, Carl Brewer wrote: On 18/04/2021 9:44 pm,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Carl Brewer
On 18/04/2021 9:44 pm, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Running VMs in VirtualBox makes only sense under certain requirements, like eg. local display. OI has out-of-the-box better virtualization methods: KVM and BHyve. For both you can create corresponding zones. If possible, BHyve is the recommended

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 4/18/21 um 12:05 PM schrieb Carl Brewer: Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and 64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it.  Is an OI VM running on top of OI viable for building and testing?  In particular, how good is VBox for that?  it's become very

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Moving on with postgresql

2021-04-18 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 18.04.21 um 02:37 schrieb Austin Kim: On Apr 17, 2021, at 7:22 PM, Till Wegmueller wrote: Hi Gary I use Postgres and extensions for all Applications I develop professionally and privately. We use mostly 12 and upwards 13 being the standard and I am waiting for 14 to hit. The last Bugfix

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New system planning comments

2021-04-18 Thread Carl Brewer
Ten years ago a VM was not viable for building OI, but 14 cores and 64 GB of DRAM seems to me likely to handle it. Is an OI VM running on top of OI viable for building and testing? In particular, how good is VBox for that? it's become very Windows host oriented. I'm also aware the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Thunderbird update to 78.8.1 imminent

2021-04-18 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Hi all, as you already might have noticed we have updated our firefox to a more recent ESR version a few days ago. A similar update is imminent for thunderbird. Unlike for firefox the thunderbird update to 78.8.1 might cause troubles for you as the profile format has changed between the