[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Huub
This should work. Jörg Being still more used to Linux disk-names like /dev/hda, I find 4 disks(?): c0t1d0p0..4, c0t1d0s0..15, c1d0p0..4 and c1d0s0..15. The disk that is destined to be used is the 1st drive, 2nd IDE controller, or in Linux terms: /dev/hdc. The CDROM drive is 2nd drive, 1st

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
Being still more used to Linux disk-names like /dev/hda, I find 4 disks(?): c0t1d0p0..4, c0t1d0s0..15, c1d0p0..4 and c1d0s0..15. The disk that is destined to be used is the 1st drive, 2nd IDE controller, or in Linux terms: /dev/hdc. The CDROM drive is 2nd drive, 1st IDE controller. These are

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Huub wrote: This should work. Jörg Being still more used to Linux disk-names like /dev/hda, I find 4 disks(?): c0t1d0p0..4, c0t1d0s0..15, c1d0p0..4 and c1d0s0..15. The disk that is destined to be used is the 1st drive, 2nd IDE controller, or in Linux terms: /dev/hdc. The CDROM drive is

[osol-discuss] Reminder: one week to go to next LOSUG meeting, 15th November!

2006-11-08 Thread Sean Sprague
Hello again all, Just a reminder that the next LOSUG meeting is just a week away! Please do not forget to let me know if you plan to attend. For more information, please visit: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug/ We hope to see you on the 15th! Thanks and

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Huub
Here you try to newfs the full disk. You need to newfs the slices you want ufs filesystems on, e.g., c0t1d0s0 Casper Thank you. That worked. And another problem shows up. According to step 5., I should copy the files tree using 'star': star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot

[osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I think)? Checked the log file? Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Huub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here you try to newfs the full disk. You need to newfs the slices you want ufs filesystems on, e.g., c0t1d0s0 Casper Thank you. That worked. And another problem shows up. According to step 5., I should copy the files tree using 'star': star

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Huub
You did not follow the instructions in README.install: star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot bs=1m fs=32m -C /.cdrom/ . /mnt Jörg I missed that space between . and /mnt. Though I mounted this way: mount /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /mnt, now it gives: star: I/O error. Cannot make dir './'.

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Menno Lageman
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( Did you have any zones configured perhaps? If zones are present you won't be presented with the Upgrade option. Menno

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Sarah Jelinek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I think)? No, not yet. Due soon. Did you

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Huub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You did not follow the instructions in README.install: star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot bs=1m fs=32m -C /.cdrom/ . /mnt Jörg I missed that space between . and /mnt. Though I mounted this way: mount /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /mnt, now it

[osol-discuss] Fibre-channel raid performance issues

2006-11-08 Thread Mike Pleasance
I'm working on a project that uses a fibre-channel raid across several systems (not simultaneously). The raid is formatted with a FAT32 file system so that it can be accessed from VxWorks, Windows and Solaris. We are running Solaris 10 06/06 for Sparc. The raid is capable of a raw data rate

[osol-discuss] qlc.conf, how to make one card in 2 gb and 2 in 4gb ?

2006-11-08 Thread samuel
qlc.conf, how to make one card in 2 gb and 2 in 4gb ? thank sam This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Fibre-channel raid performance issues

2006-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
Are there any known performance issues with using FAT32 or are any tricks that could increase the performance? FAT32 is really slow, perhaps more so in Solaris but also in general. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Fibre-channel raid performance issues

2006-11-08 Thread Frank Hofmann
Are you interested in helping with a project rewriting the PCFS driver ? In short, PCFS for FAT32 s*cks. It's nowhere close to the performance it could have. Now FAT32 surely has abysmal (non-)performance in the degraded case (think a 4GB file made from 8 million 512-Byte fragments), but it

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Huub
Joerg Schilling wrote: Huub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You did not follow the instructions in README.install: star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot bs=1m fs=32m -C /.cdrom/ . /mnt Jörg I missed that space between . and /mnt. Though I mounted this way: mount /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /mnt, now

[osol-discuss] roadmap has changed so much?

2006-11-08 Thread Erast Benson
I'm looking on new roadmap page at: http://opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ For building OpenSolaris distro we all need: 1) Manual pages for ON/NWS commands and utilities; 2) Locales for other than C and iso_8859_1 (/usr/lib/locale); 3) iconv tables (/usr/lib/iconv); What are the plan to

[osol-discuss] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-11-08 Thread Josh Hurst
Why have all lists at opensolaris.org a -discuss ending? Its confusing. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Nov 8, 2006 6:58 PM Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an automatically generated

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the VTOC of a Solaris 10 Installation DVD

2006-11-08 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Jay, Does anyone know how to calculate a new checksum for the DVD VTOC? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not an expert in this area, but looking at the scsi target driver: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/scsi/targets/sd.c#5723 it

Re: [osol-discuss] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-11-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Josh Hurst wrote: Why have all lists at opensolaris.org a -discuss ending? Its confusing. They're not, hence opensolaris-code et al. The -discuss lists are intended for general discussion about the bit before the -, so zfs-discuss is for general discussions about ZFS, and

[osol-discuss] Opening closed stuff by the community?

2006-11-08 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, I see on the downloads page that [t]here are no plans to make the following consolidations available as open source: CDE OpenWindows SPARC networking drivers HW Partners support I understand that these are probably due to limitations of Sun's resources,

Re: [osol-discuss] Opening closed stuff by the community?

2006-11-08 Thread Stephen Harpster
Resources are exactly what's required. Unfortunately, the resources needed are legal ones, i.e., lawyers that can track down 3rd party licenses. Having a community member under NDA isn't going to able to do that. It would take a lawyer with access to the licenses that Sun has negotiated over

Re: [osol-discuss] Opening closed stuff by the community?

2006-11-08 Thread Josh Berkus
Rich, I understand that these are probably due to limitations of Sun's resources, however, is there any way that community members can help here, even if under NDA? Based on no direct knowledge whatsoever, I'd think it more likely that those components have large amounts of code licensed to

[osol-discuss] ganglia-3.0.3 and Solaris 10 6/06

2006-11-08 Thread Hugo Hernandez
Hi folks, I am trying to configure ganglia to monitor our cluster but I am experiencing a lot of problems. Initially, after a lot of compilation for different packages (rrdtool, libart, freetype, and, of course, ganglia) I have the php application running but the information of each node is

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Menno, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:44:38 PM, you wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( ML Did you have any zones configured perhaps? If zones are present ML you won't be presented with

[osol-discuss] Re: snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Charles Meeks
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. -- Best regards, Robert ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ttp://milek.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the VTOC of a Solaris 10 Installation DVD

2006-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Artem Kachitchkine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay, Does anyone know how to calculate a new checksum for the DVD VTOC? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not an expert in this area, but looking at the scsi target driver:

[osol-discuss] JXTA plugin for Gaim

2006-11-08 Thread Henry Jen
Hi, I had implemented a JXTA plugin for Gaim to support group chat based on JXTA[1][2] technology, to be more specific, MyJxta[3] group chat. It is not perfect but is ready to use, and I am looking forward to use it as basis to add more collaborative features can be offered by JXTA. A few

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread James C. McPherson
Sarah Jelinek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I think)? No, not yet. Due

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Sarah Jelinek
James C. McPherson wrote: Sarah Jelinek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Sarah Jelinek
James C. McPherson wrote: Sarah Jelinek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread James C. McPherson
Sarah Jelinek wrote: ... One other piece of data.. the zones upgrade project is very close to putback. If you can hang tight until that integrates, another build maybe, then you can do your upgrades. Fortunately for me, the box that I've got zones on can wait until I get back from Beijing in

[osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say stop, no more please? I am curious about this and figured I'd toss it out here. I could spend a life time digging into The Magic Garden Explained or Solaris Internals as well as man pages but the only person that would benefit is me. If I

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say stop, no more please? Provided the kernel doesn't run out of VM, I don't think the Solaris kernel ever says that (I'm thinking here of pathalogical fork-bomb experiments, where the load has gone

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
Firstly, thank you Rich for wading in here with your substantial skills on the subject at hand. I was just thumbing and fumbling through Solaris Systems Programming looking for the correct chapter. I also have The Magic Garden Explained by Goodheart Cox here in my hands and I note that the

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
You have hundreds of unzip operations to do, but observe a maximum of only 34 at any one time. I guess it's possible that the number of processes went higher between vmstat samples, but I think what you're seeing here is the effect of some of those unzips finishing. Let's try that with 1

[osol-discuss] hg source repository down ?

2006-11-08 Thread T.J. Yang
bash-3.00# hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate remote: abort: repository hg/onnv/onnv-gate not found! abort: no response from remote hg! bash-3.00# date Wed Nov 8 23:33:24 CST 2006 bash-3.00# tj This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: resources at hand. They do a very fine job of totally protecting me from such obscenities as : :(){ :|: }; : When presented to the bash shell that seems to really upset the system. IT will completely crash a Red Hat Enterprise 4 server but my

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Bruce Riddle
Dennis Clarke wrote: How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say stop, no more please? I am curious about this and figured I'd toss it out here. I could spend a life time digging into The Magic Garden Explained or Solaris Internals as well as man pages but the only person that