It seems the RAID issues mentioned in recent posts have been resolved. On Friday, I upgraded the firmware on the controller and rebooted. 5 days later, the status is still OK:

$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/tw_cli info c0 u0
Password:
Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl […]

I discovered this tonight. I don’t know how long this has been going on.

$ sudo tw_cli info c0

Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVrfy
——————————————————————————
u0 RAID-10 OK […]

Oh… Apparently this afflicted 7.3-RELEASE for a short while, then was corrected in 7.3-STABLE. So I’m not sure what problem I was encountering below. The consensus now is I was hitting MAXCPU. But I should have hit that on 7.2.
I upgraded a VM to FreeBSD 7.3 from 7.2 and now it won’t boot. […]

— /etc/master.passwd 2010-03-08 16:00:49.000000000 +0000
+++ ./etc/master.passwd 2010-08-23 01:04:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.40 2005/06/06 20:19:56 brooks Exp $
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.40.22.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $
#
-root:*:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
+root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
@@ -21,23 +21,3 @@
pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80::0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
-dan:*:1001:1001::0:0:Dan Langille:/home/dan:/usr/local/bin/bash
-pgsql:*:70:70::0:0:PostgreSQL Daemon:/usr/local/pgsql:/bin/sh
-mysql:*:88:88::0:0:MySQL […]

I am impressed…. my gmirror array continued to work even after the drives were renamed from da20 and da24 to ada0 and ada1. This happened when I tried out the ahci(4) for my SATA drives.
It’s the type of thing I’m striving for soon in my ZFS array.
All this started when I wanted […]

I’ve been thinking about giving up my mail servers for a while. After many years of getting great satisfaction from running my own, I’m thinking of letting Google run them for me. Economies of scale means Google can do a much better job than I ever could, and for a very great price. […]

The FreeBSD Foundation says:
“We are pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement resource containers and a simple per-jail resource limits mechanism.”
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2010-July/001335.html

I found this interesting. The usual FreshPorts logging indicated an unusual number of account creations in a short amount of time. So I went looking. I found one IP address had created 20 logins.

freshports.org=# SELECT ip_address,
freshports.org-# count(ip_address)
freshports.org-# […]

While creating the FreeBSD package for 5.0.0, I noticed a few new things to be aware of.
With 5.0.0 comes a new backup catalog script. It parses the bacula-dir.conf file and extracts what it needs from that. This means you only need to specify the database connection information in one place and it is not passed […]

From this morning’s log after a weekend power failure:

Mar 15 09:15:45 subie kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad8 finished.
Mar 15 09:20:58 subie fsck: /dev/mirror/gm0s1f: UNREF FILE I=35 OWNER=root MODE=100400
Mar 15 09:20:58 subie fsck: /dev/mirror/gm0s1f: SIZE=151568652480 MTIME=Mar 13 16:03 2010 (CLEARED)
Mar 15 09:20:58 subie fsck: /dev/mirror/gm0s1f: UNREF FILE I=15356429 OWNER=dan MODE=100644
Mar 15 […]