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I said: You said: I had raised the issue of "avoiding COW/COW" in a an earlier post:

This is one of the most powerful active threads, because it demonstrates: You ask for testing, some others, completely "naked" (innocent concerning the concrete topic of your program) join and dive into your swimming pool, and quickly find a bug...

Not sure if opcache differs when used with nginx, but I never changed an opcache setting aside just enabling the module (it sped up pages all OSs default settings). Some recent PHP 8 release I think integrates opcache (zend_extension = "opcache"...

This is one of the most powerful active threads, because it demonstrates: You ask for testing, some others, completely "naked" (innocent concerning the concrete topic of your program) join and dive into your swimming pool, and quickly find a bug...

He cracked his knuckles like they were about to meet an opponent, not a keyboard. “Alright,” he muttered, staring down the glowing screen, “let’s step into the ring.” The bug had been waiting for him all morning. Nasty one. Slippery. The kind...

ZFS offers a lot of things that you don't get from LVM. Proximity to hardware using "support" (log, special, cache) VDEVs is one of them. At it's most basic, the building block for a VDEV is a hardware device of fixed size. Support VDEVs need...

Yes, exactly! Note that the point of interest is OUTSIDE your quotation marks :) And you had this silent assumption that I knew that COW/COW should be avoided, but I didn't. Silent assumptions, unspoken agreements, whatever you call it: these...

THANKS a lot! FYI the following seems to be some kind of personal diary/log, so I delete it from the forum and put it where it belongs: the preliminary mirror (256 GB SATA SSD + 6 TB SATA HDD, what a funny combination) on my shiny "new" server ;)

I have a RISC based laptop ;) https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/thinkpad-power-series-820.80079/ Still haven't managed to do anything with it.

Yes pci0:3:0:0 for the NVidia. Use your own PCI bus settings for Intel GPU. Intel Video commonly resides on pci0:0:2:0 vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x030000 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x3e9b subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x0906...

So the Intel PCI BUS scheme goes like this generally: Top Level Motherboard features use this range of addresses. 0:0:0 to 0:0:31 Anything under this set is CPU and Motherboard related. Like the GPU. It uses a subset of pci0:0:0:0 at pci0:0:2:0...

I believe that I did. I said "You might want to provision storage to a VM which is not ZFS on the server side". It's all about avoiding COW/COW. ZFS is COW. If your client is COW, then you may want UFS on the server side, and you may want a...

Interesting idea. I see that you have posted above asking about the viability of using ZVOLs for VDEVs. I'm not certain of the answer. ZFS capabilities change all the time. Maybe it's possible. I suggest you plug in a thumb drive and try it...

I have a page, (that has a link to vermaden's better page about vm-bhyve at https://srobb.net/vm-bhyve.html However, lately I've had trouble getting the VMs working after a reboot of the machine hosting the VMs.. Despite that, the general...

No, Ceph is just slow. Placing a VM on it is suicide, similar to old NFS homedirs. You could confirm with a Linux VM is that is an option.

WRITE AMPLIFICATION!!! Ya ya ya now I remember! But only the term... the words.... Ok thx a lot I'll quickly find good explanations and likely I only have to read only halfway (the 1st few paragraphs of pages) and then I can reconstruct the rest.

I have such a box for attaching 2 SCSI devices, but not seen something analogous for SATA. The boxes I see are to be connected through USB to the computer. Nice to see you back!

Google: VM client cow file system on VM server cow file system amplifies rewrites

You didn't tell WHY in your comments above. I understand that my OS wants a fixed-size swap device, and i give it. I understand that for some use cases (DB stuff and VMs) it will be better to use a geom device with no ZFS between geom and the...

Interesting idea. I see that you have posted above asking about the viability of using ZVOLs for VDEVs. I'm not certain of the answer. ZFS capabilities change all the time. Maybe it's possible. I suggest you plug in a thumb drive and try it...

Hi my name is Uğurcan and new to FreeBSD. I loved this operating system. I installed Legendary from pip and it works ootb. Just wanted to inform FreeBSD community. Legendary for anyone doesnt know, its cli Epic Games Launcher.

One thing with Debian, that I found is covered at https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/freebsd-bhyve-uefi-shell As has been said earlier, it may fail to find the boot loader. Your issue sounds different. but the link I give may apply. In the...

Reasoning: We want to minimize the amount of writes to NV RAM, because it wears out, and consumer-grade NV RAM -- which I have, even worse, they're already used -- wears out very quickly. So I'll have 2 extra swap partitions on the rotating...

I have such a box for attaching 2 SCSI devices, but not seen something analogous for SATA. The boxes I see are to be connected through USB to the computer. Nice to see you back!

You can buy consumer-grade used NAS boxes like ccammack mentioned for relatively fair prizes. A few days ago I bought the predecessor of that box that ccammack points to (used) and AFAICT it's semi-professional hardware. No ECC-RAM, no...

The numbers looked like it :) I think you are royally screwed.

https://klarasystems.com/articles/five%e2%80%91year-storage-design-with-openzfs-media-refresh-rebalancing-and-hardware-independence/

https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-and-openzfs-in-quest-for-technical-independence/

'locked' means it may have crashed or not shutdown properly. And a connection refused means the port isn't open, in other words there's nothing running on that port, it is closed.

You can buy consumer-grade used NAS boxes like ccammack mentioned for relatively fair prizes. A few days ago I bought the predecessor of that box that ccammack points to (used) and AFAICT it's semi-professional hardware. No ECC-RAM, no...

It's from Hangzhou. I think it's probably part of the Chinese gov's program to develop RISC-V computing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpacemiT Tom's says the server version is pretty slow. They've branded that laptop chip an "M1'. Well, I...

I would try going to your vm Debian directory, and see if there's a file in there with a .lock at the end of it's name. If so, remove that file then I would try running vm poweroff Debian (or whatever you call it) and then run vm start Debian...

I live in CA where they are trying to take all our money and everything else we own. I suppose one can always drive to Reno NV to buy things banned in CA… same as everybody already does now. I had to go out of my county to buy a water heater...

I have the idea the major retail brands are avoiding the open hardware approach. We should have had boards with 64x64 RISC-V cores by now but they fear non-monolithic computers because it threats the market of disposable systems. Instead of...

How did I know you wouldn't be angry at me? IDK, MUST be some kind of intuition... ;) That's sub-optimal... I try to edit the poll once more to exchange some entries... fails. The list is fixed for me. If I delete the poll, can I create a new...

I have the idea the major retail brands are avoiding the open hardware approach. We should have had boards with 64x64 RISC-V cores by now but they fear non-monolithic computers because it threats the market of disposable systems. Instead of...

Hi friends, upstream said it's OK to ship with Electron 39 (they're already building against 40) so I downgraded the dep as the Latest package repo is building electron39. Conclusion: the package is now available!

For all you know there is a Ceph cluster behind the storage. You need to find out what the storage is backed with.

Aaah, OS/2, the time when win 3.11 (their FINEST, by the way...) was around. I lost my job over OS/2 once...it was a lousy job anyway...but...it's in general not a hot idea to ardently suggest OS/2 to a microsoft solutions provider...🤣🤣🤣

Hello, I'm looking for a compact graphical view of the internal layers of FreeBSD. Searching over the net doesn't help me much ... I've this one below with stat tools, do you think it's relevant / right? This is related to a specific version or...

In any case, you probably need to fiddle with the pin assignments of snd_hda. The driver is really generic and different OEMs can use different pins, the physical implementation is up to them. So you sometimes have to change the pin assignments...

Instead of building the dependencies from ports one can install them as packages with the install-missing-packages ports target. Afterwards, remove them with pkg-autoremove. Before confirming the deletion process, check if there is a package...

https://klarasystems.com/articles/five%e2%80%91year-storage-design-with-openzfs-media-refresh-rebalancing-and-hardware-independence/

https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-and-openzfs-in-quest-for-technical-independence/

We're probably more accustomed to reading it in a RFC 2119 context. Nothing I can find in the admin panel regarding polls.

AFAIK the combination 'must-have' means s/th like "highly desired" or ... Like I tried to explain above! :) "This gadget is a must-have for any serious gamer": Argument to sell useless crap for 10x the fair prize.

I'd have to time it, and keep in mind that it's not a particular apples to apples comparison. It seems to get to the point where I've got the BSD loader screen in a couple seconds and the longest part of the boot process is when I have to tell...

Preliminary answer, sorry TL;DR, I will read the rest of your post later. But this is not my intention. Most likely this is a misunderstanding. The 'must-have' in the thread title means s/th like: "I consider this port extraordinarily valuable...

I personally think that that's generally the best solution unless you have the need for a rack mount system or need something that's smaller. That being said, my NAS right now is just a jail on my desktop PC.

Same here, and I'm sure that the support will be there eventually, I can't imagine that it's as hard to do as it was to get the original support for 32bit binaries.