Re: [osol-discuss] Recover data from disk with zfs

2011-02-22 Thread Orvar Korvar
When you created your zpool, you should have specified raidz1, which means ZFS allows one disc to crash without problems. If you have not specified raidz1, it means no discs are allowed to crash - if one disc crashes, your whole zpool is gone. If you have configured raidz1 on your zpool and

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Orvar Korvar
Thanks. Exactly the kind of info I wanted. This means I have to buy a Xeon grade Sandy Bridge, which sucks. I would prefer a cheap i5/whatever. AMD's new Bulldozer with graphics-on-die, does support ECC, but is not an option to me, because I want 3D graphics. Oracle is not supporting AMD cpus

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 22, 2011 Orvar Korvar wrote: This means I have to buy a Xeon grade Sandy Bridge, which sucks. I would prefer a cheap i5/whatever. Actually, the mobile core i5-2515E i7-2715QE will allegedly include ECC RAM support so don't be surprised if some desktop class CPUs will also. -Gary

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/22/2011 6:00 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Feb 22, 2011 Orvar Korvar wrote: This means I have to buy a Xeon grade Sandy Bridge, which sucks. I would prefer a cheap i5/whatever. Actually, the mobile core i5-2515E i7-2715QE will allegedly include ECC RAM support so don't be surprised if some

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/22/2011 4:04 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: Thanks. Exactly the kind of info I wanted. This means I have to buy a Xeon grade Sandy Bridge, which sucks. I would prefer a cheap i5/whatever. AMD's new Bulldozer with graphics-on-die, does support ECC, but is not an option to me, because I want 3D

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/22/11 07:47 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: If you care about 3D, don't use the Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer on-die GPUs. Get a add-in graphics card. They're better supported all around. Both AMD and (particularly) Nvidia have good Solaris drivers for most of their add-in card product line

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/22/2011 8:28 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/22/11 07:47 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: If you care about 3D, don't use the Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer on-die GPUs. Get a add-in graphics card. They're better supported all around. Both AMD and (particularly) Nvidia have good Solaris drivers for

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: On 2/22/2011 6:00 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: On Feb 22, 2011 Orvar Korvar wrote: This means I have to buy a Xeon grade Sandy Bridge, which sucks. I would prefer a cheap i5/whatever. Actually, the mobile core i5-2515E i7-2715QE will allegedly

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 02/22/11 08:46 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: On 2/22/2011 8:28 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/22/11 07:47 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: If you care about 3D, don't use the Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer on-die GPUs. Get a add-in graphics card. They're better supported all around. Both AMD and

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary
On Feb 22, 2011, Erik Trimble wrote: I highly doubt Intel will do this. There's no technical reason not to, but it's a product-line differentiator for them. Have a look note that these are mobile procs, not desktop procs... http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=54643code=i3-2310E

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/22/2011 9:33 AM, Gary wrote: On Feb 22, 2011, Erik Trimble wrote: I highly doubt Intel will do this. There's no technical reason not to, but it's a product-line differentiator for them. Have a look note that these are mobile procs, not desktop procs...

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary
I think it really matters what you're using it for. If you look around on AMD's site you'll see some mention of ECC being important for embedded applications now as well but I have to agree that most desktop users aren't going to care one way or another... Does either the Intel Core i7 processor

[osol-discuss] Firmware download Support For NIC

2011-02-22 Thread raghu
Hi All, Some OS like Linux provide support for firmware file to be stored on disk. So that kernel driver module can access the Firmware file from filesystem and burn into flash. Is there similar mechanism in Solaris. Any documents and samples would be really helpful. Regards Raghu. -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary gdri...@gmail.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: You can spend less with a dedicated predesigned commercial unit... Can you name a few? I didn't catch how many drives you said you needed. And was it this thread that I already responded to -- I'll use 8 drives if I want to use what I

[osol-discuss] Would I be wasting my time with intel P4 3GBram (32bit)

2011-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
I will soon have a pair of older P4 3.2 Ghz (32bit) (single core) to put out to pasture. Would I be wasting my time thinking of using one or both for zfs fileserver, and sharespace to carry out video editing and other Graphics From networked i7 running Win 7.