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Yep. I've salvaged a bunch of LSI SAS cards (various types mpt, mps, etc). Most of them are 8i ports, in other words 8 internal ports so can handle 8 SATA or SAS drives, or even more if you add an extender. Older cards aren't the fastest...

I don't understand why users still use a separate boot partition. I would have created a geli encrypted complete Root-on-ZFS (including /boot), stored the geli key in one of that file systems directories, and configured to attach the other geli...

Yes [EDIT] There might be very rare cases when the SAS controller does not accept a SATA disk/SSD. The SAS standard says they must accept SATA. though.

Almost all members that show as 'deleted' requested deletion. In a very small number of instances it was someone who got banned but who left behind some informative posts that we didn't want to lose. In that case we delete the profile and user...

You connect one in the HBA and get 4 devices in /dev ? Your box treat the SATA disks as were a SAS disk more, but respective protocol? Can I always connect a SATA disk in the place of an SAS one?

My home NAS is a tiny box from 2012 that's still chugging along on an Atom CPU. Sure it's slow as heck but it's just for backups and other low-usage data so I don't really care. It has 6x4TB spinning metal and a USB-stick in there that boots the...

Maybe off topic, but it might belong more into this thread than in mine where the title suggests it's only about /ROOT/default on USB thumb drive vs. internal NVMe SSDs. I'm finghting with the problem that I'd like to set up ZFS cache, zil/slog...

This is an opportunity to practice equanimity which you will need more and more as the world gets more chaotic. 🧘 Don't think he "pressuring" you, think he is "advising" you. Calmly advocate for your position re a career for you and also try to...

I've been really upset lately, because my dad uses ChatGPT for literally everything, even during casual conversation. He's totally convinced that "The robots are going to take over" and the rest of current tech hype, constantly pressuring me from...

TCC is best at one thing - compile speed. There was even some crazy way to boot linux by reading the source code from disc, compile it and boot the in-memory image from tcc. No idea if that still works, but here it is. Is that some JIT? Then...

Please show us gpart show -lp, point where /boot (pool) is located, and to which root file system (pool) /etc/rc.conf belongs to.

It depends on the situation (specific hardware/software/task). Sometimes ZFS is faster, sometimes UFS is faster. For specific tasks either of these is clearly faster. ZFS wins...

I'm surprised that you find UFS faster. I did tests with both a few years ago and ZFS was clearly faster for me. That was on HDDs, basic single-disk setups. I didn't compare the speed on a SSD. I always use ZFS. It doesn't need multiple disks...

No, it follows the proven UNIX philosophy: Do one small (more or less seemingly "simple") task, and do it well. Usually it's used to send & receive ZFS snapshots, and these are differential, so ZFS send/receive do not have to handle that. There...

Interesting article about high quality DACs https://neurosaudio.com/ranking-the-best-dac-chips-for-audiophiles/

There is definitively geli support in the later stage of the boot process, by device names ("daX", "adaX", "ndaX", etc.) or labels ("gpt/<label>", "mirror/<label>", "label/<label>"), see example down below. I assume...

Similar. I write without spell check (I find it breaks my flow). Then I push the whole thing through aspell. The task of jumping through and [accepting] or [ignoring] spelling mistakes is actually quite useful as part of the review process.

Didn't I post a whole PHP-FPM configuration for you quite recently or was it for someone else? I'm having a serious deja vu moment.

Sorry, I was just copying code and running it without really knowing what I was doing.

I think that almost everyone here agrees with that. These forums are a pleasure to use and much of that is due to the moderators.

There's a rather short time limit for that. It got abused by some disgruntled, now former, members so we had to limit it. Just "report" the post you want deleted and we'll delete it for you.

Add create_args_⟨interface⟩ variable to the bridge in /etc/rc.conf: cloned_interfaces="bridge0" ifconfig_bridge0="inet 192.168.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 addm igc1 addm igc2 addm igc3" create_args_bridge0="ether xx:xx:xx:xx:70:70" See bridge...

I'm sitting near Buch, so if you need something which might be in my man-cave, please let me know.

Berlin.

Thanks a lot for the offer! BTW, when I lived in Munich, we had a BSD group and met regularly (once or twice a month). This FreeBSD forum became a good replacement.

% cat /usr/local/etc/apache24/modules.d/001_php-fpm.conf LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache24/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module libexec/apache24/mod_proxy_fcgi.so <IfModule proxy_fcgi_module> <IfModule dir_module>...

It's not, that's the point. You configured Apache to use PHP as (Fast)CGI, not PHP-FPM: echo "AddHandler php-fcgi .php" >> /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf echo "Action php-fcgi /php-fcgi" >> /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf

I'm sitting near Buch, so if you need something which might be in my man-cave, please let me know.

Why do you think it's CGI ? I'm just trying to show this. I did it a few days ago but am having problems recreating it.

Aztec C

https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/webfonts/

There are two ifconfig_bridge0 variable in the rc.conf the the former (ether ...) is overwritten and has no effect. Change the second ifconfig_bridge0 to ifconfig_brige0_alias0. (see /etc/defaults/rc.conf)

Common trap to fall into, yes. rc.conf is essentially a shell script that only contains variable assignments, don't treat them as 'commands'. rc.conf isn't parsed, it gets sourced. foo="FOO" foo="BAR" echo $foo This prints "BAR" because the...

-There are two words in life that will open many doors for you. -And what are those words? -Pull and push. from Alan Ford comics

<?php phpinfo(); ?> This isn't CGI, it's PHP embedded in an HTML document.

Tiny box with 6 disks? Really Tiny? I once made such a stick. The solution I prefer today is pxe booting from the machine that will send data.

My home NAS is a tiny box from 2012 that's still chugging along on an Atom CPU. Sure it's slow as heck but it's just for backups and other low-usage data so I don't really care. It has 6x4TB spinning metal and a USB-stick in there that boots the...

It's not rendering. I just copied some code I found. It probably isn't loading the correct modules of is missing some php pkgs.

What do you mean? It's not rendering the phpinfo page? Or are you seeing the actual php code as text in your browser? Also, you seem to use CGI, which is an old, and entirely different, way of using a scripting engine (or plain executables).

I've tried to use net/hostapd-devel (version 2026.03.23 and the previous one) instead of system hostapd (which works O.K. with my configuration and hardware) and have got the error that there's no driver. I even added line driver=bsd in...

I just checked my Howto and it doesn't work. I'm sure it did at one point. How do I delete the post?

Yes and no. At one level, SAS is a point-to-point link. It goes from one thing to another thing. The first thing in a chain is in practice always an HBA. The second thing can be a disk drive; if you use it this way, SAS is like SATA, as far as...

Yes. :)

Berlin.

hruodr where are you located? This starts to look like something best diagnosed with a beer and some spare parts to check against.

I see there place for 8 Disks, but two outputs. Is SAS like SCSI, a BUS? As far as I know SATA is not, then 8 outputs would be needed. Yes, and exactly that was the theme of the thread, from the beginning. What you mention is of course very...

SFF-8088 Made for SAS, works for SATA as eSATA as long as 1) the controller supports SATA and 2) the enclosure is not overly "smart" and requires SAS Example: Stardom ST8-U5 (I have this device, works great for SATA)

It is definitively working. I had never doubt of it. There were two PSU with same symptoms. The standby led on MB lights. Consume appears when I power on the MB with the button and disappears when I power off. The fan I put when trying to flash...

Here are some pictures of my current work.

The ROC-PC-PRO works great remotely over SSH. Ethernet works. Unfortunately nothing I have tried will make all the USB ports work in FreeBSD. OpenElec firmware makes some USB devices work but not keyboards. Mass storage does work on the OpenElec...