This is the host I’ve been talking about. Adding this entry to /boot/loader.conf will turn off MFI and enable MRSAS instead. hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=”1″ Then you’ll see expected device names for drives, such as da0 instead of mfisyspd0. This will be done later. The HBA installed in this host is supported by the FreeBSD mrsas driver. The […]
R740? What R740? I don’t have an R740. But I do have an R730. Please try that link instead. Thanks to Mr Barrow for pointing out this error.
I brought home three Dell R730 after saving them from ewaste. Two of them have 8x 3.5″ drive bays. One has 8x 2.5″ drive bays, with with for another 8. This is the one I’m considering for use. I have a fourth R730 in the basement, but I don’t know those specifications, and it already
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EDIT: I’m updating this post with new information, I’m missing some photos – they are on my other laptop… EDIT: If you get stuck with older firmware which cannot use existing DELL infrastructure, give https://updateyodell.net a try. It helped me leapfrog along the upgrade path. I started reading Updating firmware etc on a Dell R720
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After booting, my vms are not started by sysutils/vm-bhyve. Why? Perhaps it’s because I did not set vm_list. Here is me starting them today up after booting the host yesterday. NOTE: I already have a not to myself to add VM monitoring to Nagios. [pro03 dan ~] % slocum Last login: Tue Jan 17 14:52:12
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I’m encountering this issue with net/mosquitto on FreeBSD. [empty dan ~] % grep mosquitto /etc/rc.conf mosquitto_enable=”YES” mosquitto_user=”mosquitto” mosquitto_pidfile=”/var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid” [empty dan ~] % sudo service mosquitto status mosquitto is not running. [empty dan ~] % cat /var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid cat: /var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid: No such file or directory [empty dan ~] % ps auwwx | grep mosq mosquitto 8964 0.0
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After encountering a rare instance where processing a FreeBSD commit caused FreshPorts to run low on resources, I want to investigate how limiting a jail might help this situation. I searched for ‘jail limit’ – found sentencing guidelines. I searched for ‘jail limit freebsd’ and found a FreeBSD Forums referring me to rctl(8), which I
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This host has gone to a new home (2024-03-30). The 5TB drives are still around, and are for sale. I should list those on eBay. For future reference, this is the knew server … oh wait, I think it’s this server which is was mounted in the 4U chassis mentioned in this post. It runs
For my own records, I wiped the drives on 2024-01-03. On 2024-01-06, a chap from NY drove down to buy it off me. Thanks, and safe travels to a good server. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. FYI, this server is named after Joshua Slocum, who was the first person
Copies of data are good. Especially if on a different host. zfs snapshots combined with zfs send | zfs recv make replication of zfs file systems especially easy. I am already using sanoid to manage zfs snapshots. Now I’m going to use syncoid to transfer those snapshots to another host. Both sanoid and syncoid are
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