Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to test ethernet throughput?

2012-05-18 Thread Doug Hughes
A third recommendation for iperf. It's the tool you want. Don't mess around with anything else. On 5/18/2012 10:02 AM, Rich wrote: iperf is also your friend, as is dd+netcat+pv if you want something a bit less rigorous. - Rich ___ OpenIndiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone running the RevoDrive X2 internal SSD?

2012-08-16 Thread Doug Hughes
Yes. We've used it for both commercial Solaris and open Indiana. It works, but performance seems no better than spinning media, in sharp contrast to intel ssds. It does free a regular slot for use in stripes though. That is a plus. You have to configure it from Bios level as a volume before it pres

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Doug Hughes
catman -w rebuilds the index (-M to supply directory) On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > > If may man command does not display some of the pages including those > clearly present under /usr/share/man - how do I fix that? I remember there > was a command th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability

2012-10-12 Thread Doug Hughes
yes, you shoud do a scrub and no, there isn't very much risk to this. This will scan your disks for bits that have gone stale or the like. You should do it. We do a scrub once per week. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Roel_D wrote: > Being on the list and reading all ZFS problem and question

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability "Scrubs"

2012-10-12 Thread Doug Hughes
So">?}?\, a lot of people have already answered this in various ways. I'm going to provide a little bit of direct answer and focus to some of those other answers (and emphasis) On 10/12/2012 5:07 PM, Michael Stapleton wrote: It is easy to understand that zfs srubs can be useful, But, How often

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Doug Hughes
On 10/23/2012 7:52 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: Hi, I am facing a problem with zfs receive through ssh. As usually, root can't log on ssh; the log on users can't receive a zfs stream (rights problem), and pfexec is disabled on the target host (as I understand it is nowadays default for OI151_a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS; what the manuals don't say ...

2012-10-23 Thread Doug Hughes
On 10/23/2012 8:29 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: Hi, I've been using zfs for a while but still there are some questions that have remained unanswered even after reading the documentation so I thought I would ask them here. I have learned that zfs datasets can be expanded by adding vdevs. Say tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS; what the manuals don't say ...

2012-10-23 Thread Doug Hughes
On 10/23/2012 11:08 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-10-23 15:41, Doug Hughes wrote: On 10/23/2012 8:29 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote: Hi, I've been using zfs for a while but still there are some questions that have remained unanswered even after reading the documentation so I thought I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Doug Hughes
On 10/23/2012 4:13 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: Works pretty well, though I get ~70MB/s on gigabit ethernet instead of the theoretically possible 120MB/s, and I'm not sure why (NFS gets pretty close to 120MB/s on the same network). There's a fair bit of overhead to ssh and to zfs send/recive, s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS High-Availability and Sync Replication

2012-11-19 Thread Doug Hughes
On 11/19/2012 9:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov...@gmail.com] I've been lately looking around the net for high-availability and sync replication solutions for ZFS and came up pretty dry - seems like all the jazz is going around on Linux with co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS High-Availability and Sync Replication

2012-11-20 Thread Doug Hughes
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) < openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to] > > > > Well, to me, the most obvious is use another box with ZFS to mirror the > > ISCSI devices on ZFS. I'm in th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-10 Thread Doug Hughes
Have you tried to import the pools by name? Often that will work where discovery isn't so great. On 12/9/2012 1:35 PM, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: Gentlemen, you have to be really careful with me here. It's some years since I've touched Solaris. :) I have a file server with several disks and Op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-21 Thread Doug Hughes
That isn't necessarily a driver. What model hba do you have? If it is among many versions of megaraid or similar, you won't see any disks until you create logical units from the raid card bios interface. On Dec 19, 2012 9:53 AM, "Thommy M. Malmström" wrote: > Sorry I didn't read this thread till

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-18 Thread Doug Hughes
On 1/18/2013 7:53 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: On Jan 17, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: As far as I'm concerned, problems like this are a bottomless abyss. Which is why I'm still putting up w/ my OI box hanging. It's annoying, but not critical. It's also why critical

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] multiple IP addresses, same NIC

2013-03-05 Thread Doug Hughes
On 3/5/2013 7:38 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: All subnets have been renamed to protect the innocent. ;-) At home, I use 192.168.1.x /24, and unfortunately, I need to VPN to work where they use both 192.168.1.x /24 and 192.168.10.x /24. Fortunately, I don't need to access any of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] multiple IP addresses, same NIC

2013-03-05 Thread Doug Hughes
On 3/5/2013 10:18 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to] 2) explicitly set the route for 192.168.10.x : route add 192.168.10.0/ 192.168.2.1 That's what I'm saying I have already done. I set the default route to 192.168.1.1, and I se

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] Recommendations for fast storage (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 20)

2013-04-16 Thread Doug Hughes
some of these points are a bit dated. Allow me to make some updates. I'm sure that you are aware that most 10gig switches these days are cut through and not store and forward. That's Arista, HP, Dell Force10, Mellanox, and IBM/Blade. Cisco has a mix of things, but they aren't really in the low l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Fire

2013-06-21 Thread Doug Hughes
Most of the early marvell problems have been addressed with software fixes in the oracle release of solaris. I couldnt say about OI. Yes, the 4540 is better all around. Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Ben Taylor To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Sent: Fri, 21 J

[OpenIndiana-discuss] dladm create-aggr fails with "link busy"

2011-05-06 Thread Doug Hughes
fresh openinidna 148 install. It came up with ipv6 for nge1/nge2 after auto-discovering and I did the unplumb on those, so the interfaces are clean and unused, but still I can't create the aggregate. hughesd@x4240-3-1-17:~# dladm show-aggr hughesd@x4240-3-1-17:~# dladm create-aggr -d nge2 1 d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dladm create-aggr fails with "link busy"

2011-05-06 Thread Doug Hughes
that did it! thanks! (never would have found that) On 5/6/2011 12:25 PM, Lucas Van Tol wrote: I saw something like this when I hadn't disabled NWAM before trying to create an aggregate... Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 11:43:39 -0400 From: d...@will.to To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subjec

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI vs U9 performance surprises

2011-05-09 Thread Doug Hughes
Box = Sun x4240 with 8xIntel 320 160GB flash R6x6 SSD oi R6x6 SSD u9 R5x5 SSD u9 R5x6u9 R6 ssd oi/12 100k4m 37s 3m 31s 3m 24s 3m 27s 4m 18s rm 100k 1m 39s 1m 3s 1m 1m 1m 25s star-x 3m 5s 3m 37s 2m 37s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI vs U9 performance surprises

2011-05-09 Thread Doug Hughes
On 5/9/2011 12:01 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: Box = Sun x4240 with 8xIntel 320 160GB flash R6x6 SSD oi R6x6 SSD u9 R5x5 SSD u9 R5x6u9 R6 ssd oi/12 100k4m 37s 3m 31s 3m 24s 3m 27s 4m 18s rm 100k 1m 39s 1m 3s 1m 1m 1m 25s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

2011-06-21 Thread Doug Hughes
On 6/21/2011 8:00 PM, Blake wrote: My coworker just suggested Nova I like this too - implies both the Sun exploding and things being made new :) or, "doesn't go" in Spanish. ;) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

2011-10-11 Thread Doug Hughes
On 10/11/2011 6:10 AM, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: > doesn't "pull" let them manage their own time better? Yes. This is why my vote is for forum, not mailing list. Dmitry. I've stayed out of this thread thus far, and probably will going forward, but I vastly prefer mail lists and I think the ab

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-12 Thread Doug Hughes
On 10/12/2011 10:56 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: This one is driving me nuts. I can't seem to keep an ssh session open for more than 10 minutes or so. When I check after that, putty has an error up about "network error caused software abort" (or words to that effect.) I have TCP/IP keepalives

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Supermicro SC216 chassis with multiple HBAs?

2011-10-26 Thread Doug Hughes
On 10/26/2011 7:40 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Has anyone here tried using two LSI HBAs (9211-8i) in a single SC216 chassis? I'm being told there's only one iPass cable off the backplane and so only one HBA can be used...but with the number of folks adding in SATA SSDs it seems like there mus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

2011-12-01 Thread Doug Hughes
On 12/1/2011 3:15 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Geoff Flaritywrote: My advice would be to max out your RAM (for ARC) before you bother with a ZIL, or L2ARC. Where a fast SSD for a ZIL really shines is random synchronized writes. IE a database transaction. You'll not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS send recv soln

2012-01-09 Thread Doug Hughes
Yes, that's a very fine way to do it and we do it here. I'm afraid our python scripts wouldn't be much use to you though. They are very site specific. My main point for posting is a word of encouragement. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Marcus Dillury wrote: > Hi, > > I have a customer who would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nfs mounting and cascading dataset access?

2012-02-27 Thread Doug Hughes
On 2/27/2012 11:32 AM, James Carlson wrote: Scott LeFevre wrote: I have a pools setup named tank1 with multiple datasets/filesystems defined. At the top, I have tank1/media followed by tank1/media/Video and tank1/media/Music. I've setup tank1/media as a nfs share (e.g. /export/media) and can m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-13 Thread Doug Hughes
We have lacp working between force10, hp, and cisco switches in all possible combinations with no difficulties. We do monitor and alert on excessive errors and drops for interfaces, but lacp isnt a culprit. If anything, it's an underlying interface when we find them. Also, it beats the heck out

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] real-time syncing two directories across servers (unison ?)

2013-12-11 Thread Doug Hughes
On 12/11/2013 8:13 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Gregory Youngblood [mailto:greg...@youngblood.me] Check out owncloud. The open source components might be useful. I personally, and two other IT guys that I've spoken with from different companies, have been burned by placing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Doug Hughes
Why not Intel 320 series? Also 710 series work fine for this, for a bit more $$ and a bit more speed. The 320 are not as fast as the S3700 or S3500 but they are a LOT less expensive. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Hans J. Albertsson <

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Doug Hughes
true, Volker.. Just to note though, the 320s have no battery, but they do have enough capacitor to flush anything from the small ram into flash on power outage. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Why not Intel 320 series? Also 710 series work fine for this, for a > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Doug Hughes
smartctl -x reports the wear on decent ones (read: you shouldn't consider any that doesn't have this feature). When it gets close to 0, or you see a lot of errors, it's time to replace it. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Brogyányi József wrote: > 2014.02.09. 22:19 keltezéssel, Jim Klimov írta:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Doug Hughes
gt; > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: > > > true, Volker.. > > > > Just to note though, the 320s have no battery, but they do have enough > > capacitor to flush anything from the small ram into flash on power > outage. > > > > &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fuiture small expansion of raidz1 possible?

2014-02-11 Thread Doug Hughes
On 2/11/2014 5:57 PM, Brogyányi József wrote: And on a similar note: Suppose I have a signgle disk with data, and I decide I can just afford a raidz1 of 4 disks, so I buy 3 more can I somehow migrate the data on the original single disk onto a 3 disk raidz1 and then add the original disk to t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] destroy all but specific snapshot

2014-09-30 Thread Doug Hughes
On 9/30/2014 8:31 PM, Tim Aslat wrote: Harry Putnam wrote on 01/10/2014 09:52: This is not so easy to find in google searches How does one go about destroying all but a specific snapshot? The one I want is somewhere in the middle timewise So not wanting to use `destroy -r'. This is in a .zfs/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to revert a permissive chmod

2015-01-11 Thread Doug Hughes
Well, it's not the exactly same, but you could do chmod -R go-w . On 1/11/2015 3:33 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there some similarly all incompassing command to revert: /bin/chmod -R A=everyone@:full_set:fd:allow /some-dir back to a more default chmod 755 on directories and 644 on type -f fi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to revert a permissive chmod

2015-01-11 Thread Doug Hughes
You could use A= with -R as long as you know the number of the item that you are trying to modify (visible with -v or -V depending on your viewing pleasure) It's probably the 'everyone' one... On 1/11/2015 4:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Doug Hughes writes: Well, it's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

2015-01-12 Thread Doug Hughes
Couple of points and counter points from my own experience. *) tape really isn't dead. No, really. at about $.01/GB/copy, and 1x10^20 bit error rate, you can't beat it. Use it for the right thing though. This excels as an offline archival media with media lifetimes expected at around 30 years. Cont

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] data on rpool - Bad idea?

2015-02-07 Thread Doug Hughes
The reason that data volumes on rpool is generally not a good idea is for recoverability. You can take all of the disks of a given pool and move them to another system, except rpool. rpool defines the system itself, so data volumes there are tied to that system. Data volumes in any other pool ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Transferring everything in one zpool to be a, subtree in another larger zpool (Hans J. Albertsson)

2015-05-05 Thread Doug Hughes
you can also use ttcp or iperf just fine. I do that all the time and they are pretty much available anywhere. (ttcp is so simple it's just a single .c source file). The buffering isn't really the important part, using as close to raw tcp transport gets you the biggest benefit (vs encryption/decr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

2015-10-28 Thread Doug Hughes
for home or for office? for office, I don't back up root pool. it's considered disposible and reproducible via reinstall. (that plus config management) for home, you can zfs send it somewhere to a file if you want, or you can tar it up since that's probably easier to restore individual files after

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

2015-10-28 Thread Doug Hughes
d, 28 Oct 2015, Doug Hughes wrote: > for home or for office? > for office, I don't back up root pool. it's considered disposible and > reproducible via reinstall. (that plus config management) > for home, you can zfs send it somewhere to a file if you want, or you can > t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using touch ... whats wrong here

2015-12-03 Thread Doug Hughes
That is the classical answer for ctime. James is correct. However some may find it interesting to note that GPFS does indeed keep the original creation time as an additional attribute that can then be used for policy applications. It is not exposed to Unix, but it's there. Alas, GPFS is only ava

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] arp response tuning for IP Source Guard

2017-01-06 Thread Doug Hughes
It seems to me that you might be hitting up against "arp_defend_rate" which by default says that the maximum arps it should be expecting in one hour is 100. It's he's sending 3 per minute, that's already 180. I could be wrong. I'd probably try setting that to 300 and confirm what's going on by

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] send/receive .. I expected .zfs directories

2017-03-25 Thread Doug Hughes
silly question: is the filesystem mounted on the receive side? if you just sent it, you'll want to mount it. Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Harry Putnam To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Sent: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 19:35 Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] send/receiv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-28 Thread Doug Hughes
On 3/28/2017 5:24 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Timothy Coalson writes: > >> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >>> Geoff Nordli writes: >>> >>> [...] >>> Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give arcfour a try and see if that is fast enou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NSA Solaris hacks

2017-04-11 Thread Doug Hughes
It has been a topic of discussion on the illumos developers list today. On 4/11/2017 3:25 PM, jason matthews wrote: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/solaris_shadow_brokers_nsa_exploits/ > > > has anyone reviewed this for relevancy? > > > j. > > > __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS on Openindiana vs ZFS on oracle linux

2017-04-21 Thread Doug Hughes
On 4/21/2017 2:06 PM, C. R. Oldham wrote: > For Ubuntu, it is an effort to get ZFS on the root partition. See > these wiki entries: > > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu > > I have several machines installed with these instructions on 16.04, > 16.10, and 17.04. They do work, but it's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

2022-04-11 Thread Doug Hughes
On 4/11/2022 9:14 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2022, Judah Richardson wrote: OK. The Solaris documentation I linked to says that Solaris (and presumably distros downstream of that codebase) expects the DHCP server to be another Solaris machine, and so DHCP servers that don't beha