I planned to create a zroot mirror when I installed FreeBSD on the R720 but the supplier shipped only one of the two purchased SSDs. Today the second drive arrived. Let’s create a zroot mirror. In this post: FreeBSD 12 man 8 zpool Posts I looked at: creating a mirrored ZFS Pool out of a […]
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This post has been replaced by a new one. This replaces a previous post. I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720. It contains 8 x 400GB SSDs and one 80GB SSD for the OS. I’ve added in a SAS 9207-8i card, as mentioned previously. The zpool: The filesystems: And dmesg:
World, please meet tape02. It’s been around for a while, but never properly introduced. For the record:
This is mostly a note to myself. #### Edit: 2018.09.08 : If you see messages like this: $ sudo gmirror insert swap /dev/da5p2 gmirror: Class not found $ gmirror list -a gmirror: Command ‘list’ not available. You probably need to do this: sudo kldload geom_mirror #### I had these drives: They are involved in this
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I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge R610. I’ve installed two 30GB SSDs and installed FreeBSD 11 on it. It will become a tape library server. EDIT: 2017.11.29 – the drives, network card, and SAS card have been moved to the R710. The swap: The zpools: Oh, well, that’s a problem. Let’s fix it: There. Fixed.
This post has been replaced by a newer one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. . This server recently moved to a rack-mount chassis. On an interim basis, it contains an LSI SAS 9101-16i. For future reference, this is the slocum server, which I use for various jails and services.
For future reference, this is the knew server. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. File systems Paritions zpools /var/run/dmesg.boot
I do have a FreeBSD-11 box, cuppy: $ uname -a FreeBSD cuppy.int.unixathome.org 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r279394: Sat Feb 28 21:01:21 UTC 2015 dan@cuppy.unixathome.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ That box is used mostly for testing and/or erasing DLT tapes. The current status of that box is not healthy. It’s running fine, but it is not optimal: Let’s
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This post has been superseded by a newer post. The new SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 SAS cables have arrived and have been connected to the LSI 9200-8E SAS card and to the Dell TL4000 tape library. The updated the dmesg output etc and appear on this page, for future reference. The significant portion is: I will
This post is deprecated by this one. I have a new SAS card for the tape server. This time, we are using an LSI 9200-8E SAS card. I’ve updated the dmesg output etc and put on this page, for future reference. The significant portion is: World, please meet tape01, the newest addition to my home