I’m not complaining. It’s just very amazing how much work a laptop does to start up. As soon as I can get a terminal session I start: [dan@air01:~] $ w 18:13 up 3 mins, 11 users, load averages: 164.29 42.91 15.80 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT dan console – 31Dec19 230days – dan s000 […]
laptop hits load averages: 407.41 128.53 49.18 during start up Read More »
I wrote this post late one night while pondering how to solve this problem. I may have solved it with much less effort. I want to copy a zroot from old drives to new drives. The new drives are in a test box of mine. Once the new drives are configured, I will replace the
replacing an existing zroot with a proper zroot Read More »
Sometimes I’ll be thinking about the hardware I have which is not in use. I’ll know it exists, but not the details. I’ll be in the wrong part of the house to have a quick look, or I might be nowhere near the house when the topic comes up. This post fixes that. These are
This is a small desktop / short tower case which is connected to a couple of tape libraries. This post replaces a previous post. Partitions [dan@tape01:~] $ gpart show => 40 5860533088 ada0 GPT (2.7T) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 984 – free – (492K) 2048 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4196352 5856335872 3 freebsd-zfs
This post has been replaced by a newer post. 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 a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. It is now mounted in a SuperChassis 846E16-R1200B
I rebooted knew yesterday for upgrades. When it came back, the main storage zpool was degraded: Is the drive alive? The drive is not listed at all in /var/run/dmesg.boot. I keep a list of the expected drives in /etc/periodic.conf, for use by a Nagios check: [dan@knew:~] $ /usr/sbin/sysrc -nf /etc/periodic.conf daily_status_smart_devices /dev/da22 /dev/da21 /dev/da20 /dev/da19
zpool degraded – one drive missing from system Read More »
When the time comes to replace a drive, it is very nice to know which drives is missing. I created this drive map to help me figure out which drive disappeared. I created this drive-bay map using a combination of: zpool status sesutil map lsblk camcontrol /var/run/dmesg.boot I have not included /var/run/dmesg.boot here. If you
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This post has been replaced by a new one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. FYI, this server is named after Joshua Slocum, who was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. This server was upgraded on Feb 2 2019. Only the storage persisted. Everything else was upgraded.
When I set up the R720 with internal SSDs, I used a SATA power splitter, a Y-shaped cable. Today I replaced it because of a known fire-hazard. I received an email from a reader urging me to replace it and supplied a reference to a known good cable. I happened to have that very cable.
SATA: Avoid molded ATA adapters, instead, use crimped-on connectors Read More »
This host has been retired. The services were distributed amongst r730-01 and r730-03. This host was often referred to as r720 or r720-01 (after r720-02 appeared on the scene) This replaces a previous post. I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720. It contains: 6 x 400GB SAS SSDs – data01 zpool 2 x 100GB SAS