Re: [osol-discuss] WriteBack versus SSD-ZIL

2010-03-05 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
According to Sun, you want to make sure you use an SLC SSD for a ZIL, which are a bit more expensive than the more-common MLC drives. There's the Intel X25-E, and then the OCZ Agility EX and OCZ Vertex EX. Those are about the only ones I know that have any significant presence in the market---bu

Re: [osol-discuss] hotplugging sata drives in opensolaris

2010-03-05 Thread xx
this problem was fixed in another forum: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=125250&tstart=0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Windows ACL nonsense.

2010-03-05 Thread Ron Mexico
I have a storage server based on snv_129 that IS connected to a Solaris 10 box via NFS. Last week, we had an old Mac XRAID bite the dust. We had to send the RIAD out for data recovery, and the drive they gave us back with the recovered data on it was NTFS format. I hooked up the external NTFS

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Can't Install OpenOffice.org 3.2 in B133

2010-03-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> On 03/ 2/10 11:58 PM, Paul Gress wrote: > > On 03/ 2/10 07:59 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> It gets just past grub and then just > >>> hangs indefinitely. > >>> > >> >> > >> (As an unrelated matter) when the "happy face" > won't stop smiling, you can hit the escape ke

Re: [osol-discuss] hotplugging sata drives in opensolaris

2010-03-05 Thread xx
well - that worked for the attach - but it caused the next step to fail: init...@dogpatch:~$ installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c7t1d0s0 cannot open/stat device /dev/rdsk/c7t1d0s2 should i have zeroed s0 and attached s2? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] WriteBack versus SSD-ZIL

2010-03-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/ 5/10 11:20 AM, Travis Tabbal wrote: cache, as well, according to the HBA setup. And, a good (SLC) SSD can handle 50,000 IOPS until it's filled. Which takes a Are there any SSDs that are worth while that don't cost a ton? At the current prices for devices like the X25-E, even even those

Re: [osol-discuss] WriteBack versus SSD-ZIL

2010-03-05 Thread Travis Tabbal
> cache, as well, according to the HBA setup. And, a > good (SLC) SSD can > handle 50,000 IOPS until it's filled. Which takes a Are there any SSDs that are worth while that don't cost a ton? At the current prices for devices like the X25-E, even even those aren't perfect, I just can't justify

Re: [osol-discuss] [i18n-discuss] SunPinyin (2.0) for iBus [PSARC/2010/065 FastTrack timeout 03042010]

2010-03-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Compared to other Linux distros, the IIIMF in > OpenSolaris also comes with an on-screen keyboard. > For users who have to use a non-US keyboard (e.g., > the bopomofo keyboard for traditional Chinese > speakers), this is really handy. It is sad that > this advantage was never widely advertised.

[osol-discuss] b133 errors with pkg

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Cook
I just upgraded from b125 to b133 last night. Anytime I try to do anything with pkg, I see the following errors: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module rand: This Python has API version 1013, module rand has version 1012. It would appear to me that python-openssl is at the lat

Re: [osol-discuss] WriteBack versus SSD-ZIL

2010-03-05 Thread Erik Trimble
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: In this email, when I say PERC, I really mean either a PERC, or any other hardware WriteBack buffered raid controller with BBU. For future server purchases, I want to know which is faster: (a) A bunch of hard disks with PERC and WriteBack enabled, or (b) A bunch of

[osol-discuss] WriteBack versus SSD-ZIL

2010-03-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
In this email, when I say PERC, I really mean either a PERC, or any other hardware WriteBack buffered raid controller with BBU. For future server purchases, I want to know which is faster: (a) A bunch of hard disks with PERC and WriteBack enabled, or (b) A bunch of hard disks, plus one SSD for

Re: [osol-discuss] osol b133 X freezes

2010-03-05 Thread Bruno Damour
On 03/ 5/10 08:40 AM, Bruno Damour wrote: As far as I understand that bug report, some hardware configuration setting ("GTT") is lost after a suspend / resume? Did you use suspend / resume before Xorg locked up? No. Just browsing the web with firefox. I do not think suspend/resume does wo

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with tun driver

2010-03-05 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Antoine Benkemoun < antoine.benkem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to OpenSolaris coming from a Linux background. I have really been > enjoying OpenSolaris so far. I've almost always been able to find my way out > of different problems. This time I have g

Re: [osol-discuss] osol b133 X freezes

2010-03-05 Thread Bruno Damour
On 03/ 4/10 01:02 PM, John Martin wrote: On 03/ 4/10 12:01 AM, Bruno Damour wrote: if i do truss -p 630 (Xorg process) i get and endless repetition of: /1:setcontext(0xFD7FFFDFEB60) /1:Received signal #14, SIGALRM, in ioctl() [caught] /1:ioctl(14, 0x46445, 0xFD7FFFDFF3FC

[osol-discuss] Performance comparison of OpenSolaris upgrade vs liveupgrade

2010-03-05 Thread Casper . Dik
I've been upgrading a new systems and compare them with SXDE (118 or later) Output: "time, I/O done" Ultra 40, sufficient memory SXDE 28m16 read 924M write 6192M OSOL 29m44 sd1 read 4305M write 2243M M3000, sufficient memory SXDE (+/- 16 minutes, between the upgrade_script wa

[osol-discuss] Problem with tun driver

2010-03-05 Thread Antoine Benkemoun
Hello, I am new to OpenSolaris coming from a Linux background. I have really been enjoying OpenSolaris so far. I've almost always been able to find my way out of different problems. This time I have got a seemingly harder problem. I have an OpenVPN installation that worked perfectly fine just yes