Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-03-19 Thread Julius Roberts
I'm waiting for 7337 days before mine go down ;) On 20 March 2013 14:41, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com < dormitionsk...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all! > > I saw this on the Illumos developer list. I thought some of you might get > a kick out of it. > > A Sun Solaris machine was shut down last week

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Julius Roberts
On 1 November 2012 09:48, Maxim Kondratovich wrote: > So why OI has DE at all? Leading to your logic community has to cut off DE > from distribution at all... And what we will have? Another one illumos based > server distribution?! The community will do whatever the community wants :) I'm just sa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Julius Roberts
On 1 November 2012 02:33, wrote: > This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise > desktop operating system. +1. There are alot of very useful desktop operating systems already, so i see no point in OI trying to compete with them. In business speak OI has a sustainable c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI stopped booting after 151a6 update.

2012-10-01 Thread Julius Roberts
On 2 October 2012 11:47, Jerry Kemp wrote: > Was the build 151a6 boot hanging issue ever resolved? I remember this > discussion from a few weeks ago. > > I just attempted to do an upgrade earlier today, and saw the hang issue. I have several hosts running < a5 which i would like to upgrade, but

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Announcing mdbackup, perl scripts for zfs backup servers (was: Current ZFS Backup projects)

2012-09-13 Thread Julius Roberts
currently writing install/admin doco and also end user doco targetted at healthchecking and restores etc. They are about 80% done already, but I do apologize for the tardy doco until they're available. Kind regards, Julius On 12 September 2012 09:52, Julius Roberts wrote: > I have done this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Current ZFS Backup projects

2012-09-11 Thread Julius Roberts
I have done this myself but haven't yet got around to releasing it. It's called mdbackup, is written in perl and basically goes off and connects to a bunch of remote servers (defined in a file called mdtab) via ssh or a smb mount, rsyncs the data to a location on your local zpool and then snapshots

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

2012-08-29 Thread Julius Roberts
On 29 August 2012 21:37, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) < openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > I'm not sure when encryption was added to zfs, but you might have to get > solaris 11 from oracle. > As far as i know, OI was forked from open solaris before encryption was added to zfs, and clearly tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

2012-08-28 Thread Julius Roberts
anyone? On 28 August 2012 14:42, Julius Roberts wrote: > Hi guys, > > due to a lack of high-speed networking, we're unable to replicate our ZFS > pool offsite, so we're relying on a zfs send to a USB disk. We'd like that > encrypted. > > Currently i have

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

2012-08-27 Thread Julius Roberts
Hi guys, due to a lack of high-speed networking, we're unable to replicate our ZFS pool offsite, so we're relying on a zfs send to a USB disk. We'd like that encrypted. Currently i have an automated process which creates a zpool Offsite on a big USB HDD, and then runs something like this, then e

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-27 Thread Julius Roberts
On 24 August 2012 20:49, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > So let me get this straight, you've got a 2TB dataset with dedup and > compression on a machine with 1GB of RAM and you're complaining about > poor performance? This is *expected* behavior. Your DDT simply doesn't > fit into RAM I understood it woul

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Julius Roberts
On 24 August 2012 18:02, Bryan Iotti wrote: > Are these Advanced Format Drives (4k sectors) already? I don't know? > My own WD Caviar Green 2TB sucked bad before I recreated a pool on it with > the modified zpool-12 command. This pool was created in 2008(?) using zfs v10 on solaris express deve

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Julius Roberts
On 24 August 2012 15:03, Robbie Crash wrote: > Are you using compression or dedup on the FS? Yes, both. We're getting about 1.5x dedup on the Backups pool, not sure how to calculate compression -- Kind regards, Jules whats so wrong with plumb? nothing, in itself. it's just for me, knowing w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-24 Thread Julius Roberts
On 24 August 2012 14:58, Jan Owoc wrote: > How are you generating these writes? Are they maybe small files over a > wireless network? If so, what if you generated the I/O using: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/Backups/zero.file seems the slow write performance appears regardless of the workload, but in the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool

2012-08-23 Thread Julius Roberts
Hi everyone, as per the subject, I'm getting very slow write performance on a 3 disk raidz1-0 zpool. IIRC the disks are early 1tb WD green drives. Not sure what i should tell you, but during copies of large 10gb+ files rsync is showing around 2MB/s, which is terribly poor i think. Sorry if this i