Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Joe Little
I think people are missing the point here. This is just my $0.02, but the effort is akin to kernel.org. They are maintaining a fully-open base system in which others may build a distribution from. It is a lot of userland too, but its most akin to being kernel, libc, and what one expects in /sbin. T

Re: [osol-discuss] recent broadcom (bge) drivers failing to plumb bge0, but do plumb bge1

2009-01-19 Thread Joe Little
I also tested a B95 driver that failed, so its likely between B85 and B95 that things stopped working. Still trying to isolate... On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Joe Little wrote: > I still end up with the same error: > > ifconfig :SIOCSLIFNAME for ip: bge0: Invalid argument > >

Re: [osol-discuss] recent broadcom (bge) drivers failing to plumb bge0, but do plumb bge1

2009-01-19 Thread Joe Little
-i '"pci14e4,1648"' bge > reboot -- -r > > Hopefully it will work for you. Any problem, please let me know. > > Thanks, > Carson > > > Joe Little wrote: >> >> I have a supermicro-based motherboard, Supermicro H8DA8/H8DAR, in >> three

[osol-discuss] recent broadcom (bge) drivers failing to plumb bge0, but do plumb bge1

2009-01-17 Thread Joe Little
I have a supermicro-based motherboard, Supermicro H8DA8/H8DAR, in three separate systems with is likely an AMD-8131 chipset. It includes broadcom gig-e interfaces that worked fine with my B85 and earlier based opensolaris versioned systems. I moved up to B102, B103, and B104-based solutions recentl

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian/Solaris

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Little
That would be nexenta On May 5, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Salokine Terata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Do you think it's possible one day to have a Debian repository like > Debian/Linux, Debian/Hurd or Debian/kfreebsd ? > > I think it could be intersting to centralize distribution > proble

Re: [osol-discuss] Debian/Solaris

2008-05-05 Thread Joe Little
Sorry, isnt that nexenta? On May 5, 2008, at 12:00 PM, "Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Salokine Terata <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Do you think it's possible one day to have a Debian repository like >> Debian/Linux, Debian/Hurd or D

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS still crashing after patch

2008-05-04 Thread Joe Little
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please note: You will not want to leave zil disabled as this could and would > lead to nfs client corruption. > > Disabling zil for a test will allow you to see if zfs write cache of many > small files on large FS is caus

Re: [osol-discuss] NAS - which OS version, and what hardware is supported?

2008-04-23 Thread Joe Little
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:59 AM, RBell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cant you say the same about opensolaris? Light, slim, fast install, small > distribution size ++ Headless is not a must for me. I have to admit that I > like apt-get, but it is not a must either. > > I would not oppose to paying

Re: [osol-discuss] NAS - which OS version, and what hardware is supported?

2008-04-22 Thread Joe Little
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:34 PM, RBell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've discovered that Nexanta is not an option: > NexentaStor Developer Edition is time-unlimited and full feature product > that can be deployed with up to one terabyte of user data. > > I plan to use way more than 1TB. (For ins

Re: [osol-discuss] NAS - which OS version, and what hardware is supported?

2008-04-15 Thread Joe Little
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Runar Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am in need of a NAS at home, I am currently running Linux (ubuntu), but I > would like to have a look at opensolaris and especially ZFS and Zones. My > problem is that I don't really know what hardware to buy, sin

Re: [osol-discuss] LDAP server

2008-03-07 Thread Joe Little
If you want just x86, then nexenta as a distro has all necessary OpenLDAP and various language/db supported packages. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Edwin Goei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In particular, I'm looking for binary packages for an LDAP server that > runs on opensolaris sparc mainly,

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD Opteron/Athlon erratum 109?

2007-10-17 Thread Joe Little
I had 5 quad-opteron celestica grey boxes, and successfully flashed 2. 2 failed and are brinks. The final one I left unflashed to resolve these issues, and its been as stable as the rest. flasher beware. No fixing a failed flash with these. On 10/17/07, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated

2007-06-21 Thread Joe Little
On 6/21/07, Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: when are we gonna see the same ZFS/Boot integrated on OpenSolaris ? does anyone know ? well, Nexenta is OpenSolaris, as are other distributions of the OpenSolaris code drop. This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Joe Little
On 6/7/07, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: > Announcing new direction of Open Source NexentaOS development: > NexentaCP (Nexenta Core Platform). > > NexentaCP is Dapper/LTS-based core Operating System Platform distributed > as a single-CD ISO, integra

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenLina for Solaris?

2007-05-27 Thread Joe Little
On 5/27/07, Ignacio Marambio Catán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/27/07, Brandon Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just heard about http://www.openlina.com/ (as I'm sure many others here have). Has anyone looked in to getting Solaris on board as well? > solaris has branded zones to run nat

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: OpenSolaris or CentOs Sever?

2007-05-25 Thread Joe Little
On 5/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Back to the main point though: Solaris is (apparently) unable to >grow RAID-Z arrays. And to be fair, neither can Linux ;) You can grow a RAID-Z array as long as you just add a new RAID-Z concatenation; is that not usually what you wan

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-23 Thread Joe Little
On 5/20/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One picks Linux "as the best choice" only if one doesn't know what one is doing. It is as simple as that. > > > > This kind of thing is coming across more and more as irrational hatred. > Take it elsewhere, it's not helpful. It's not hatred, it's

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: About Project Indiana

2007-05-14 Thread Joe Little
On 5/14/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I proposed in an earlier thread that there I felt there should be two products/distros developed within OpenSolaris.org. - OpenSolaris Enterprise Edition (classic Solaris) - OpenSolaris Community Edition (swiss army knife distro) It would be Su

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Little
On 3/19/07, David Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jason, > <3rd grade chanting>Packing's gonna get fixed...packaging's gonna get > fixed...! Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P Isn't that Nexenta? Had to say it. DSL ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris stablization builds

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Little
On 2/14/07, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-14 09:05]: > Joe Little wrote: > >The recent fix-only release of B54 and B55 were a breath of fresh air. > >We utilize OpenSolaris builds in one fashion or another in produc

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris stablization builds

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Little
On 2/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That sounds like a great idea especially for people who are planning on >deploying Solaris Nevada or building software solutions out of it. Would >it be sufficient to have, say, two builds of stabilitzation every 3 months >or so? What t

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris stablization builds

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Little
If its every three months, I would sort of want a good solid two or three weeks of stabilization. However, personally I feel something closer to every two months. But yes, once per quarter seems to gel with peoples calendars. Adam On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:15:56PM -0800, Joe Little wrote:

[osol-discuss] opensolaris stablization builds

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Little
The recent fix-only release of B54 and B55 were a breath of fresh air. We utilize OpenSolaris builds in one fashion or another in production both at Stanford in my role there as well as where I consult for use in file servers. Again, I look upon recent features, fixes, and I'd like to jump to newe

[osol-discuss] Re: B54 and marvell cards

2006-12-20 Thread Joe Little
Some further joy: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6504404 On 12/20/06, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/20/06, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We just put together a new system for ZFS use at a company, and twice > in one week we've ha

[osol-discuss] Re: B54 and marvell cards

2006-12-20 Thread Joe Little
On 12/20/06, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We just put together a new system for ZFS use at a company, and twice in one week we've had the system wedge. You can log on, but the zpools are hosed, and a reboot never occurs if requested since it can't unmount the zfs vol

[osol-discuss] B54 and marvell cards

2006-12-20 Thread Joe Little
We just put together a new system for ZFS use at a company, and twice in one week we've had the system wedge. You can log on, but the zpools are hosed, and a reboot never occurs if requested since it can't unmount the zfs volumes. So, only a power cycle works. In both cases, we get this: Dec 20

[osol-discuss] Re: [sparks-discuss] addendum to previous drop core thread

2006-12-05 Thread Joe Little
On 12/1/06, Doug Leavitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Joe, Thanks for joining the e-mail list and bringing this issue to our attention. My suspicion is that the core dumps you might have been seeing previously might have been one of these: 6482827 nscd dumps core when doing getent passwd in co

[osol-discuss] continuing problems with nscd/libsldap

2006-12-01 Thread Joe Little
I posted the below to the sparks-discuss list but only heard the crickets chirping. So, I'm hoping the wider audience may be able to help: I've joined the sparks list just to bring up the fact that even with B54, we are seeing major problems with nscd handling ldap requests. Prior to the sparks i

[osol-discuss] Re: sgen and other "no_source" stuff

2006-06-19 Thread Joe Little
To my knowledge, mtx and amanda (chg-zd-mtx changer facility, as well as chg-scsi) use sgen on solaris. http://www.amanda.org/docs/tapechangers.html This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@o

[osol-discuss] Re: sgen and other "no_source" stuff

2006-06-18 Thread Joe Little
I am responsible for asking Nexenta about the apparent lack of sgen. I was surprised that such a standard component wasn't included at this stage. At issue is that any tape changer management requires this driver. Either we need to have that a part of ON, or if not, make sure its allowable to pa