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Tonight I spend most of my time waiting. Waiting for the installation of a “standalone” tinderbox on the Sparc64 platform. The basic idea that I currently have is to see whether it would work at all. So currently the box installed MySQL, perl, php, apache and some more things that are required for the Tinderbox. It only forgot to install the mod_php info so I am rebuilding that at the moment.

When that completes I will test whether it actually does something usefull, and I already found Ion-Mihai to see whether we can setup a QAT for sparc64.

There is one limitation for now. It will only run during daytime. I appreciate my sleep

written by Remko \\ tags: FreeBSD, MySQL, Perl, PHP, tinderbox

This weekend I didn’t invest as much time as I wanted for FreeBSD and the like. I was recreating my ZFS partitions. Why? They worked fine right? Yes they did. Though they were controlled by a highpoint controller, offering a pseudo raid setup (software). Ed Schouten recently told me (something I already knew but started me thinking) that ar0 is uncapable of supporting raid-5 in the first place. So my raid configuration might not have been a raid configuration after all.

This made me feel like: do my periodic backup on DVD (backing up this much data is interesting on DVD, I can tell you that :-)) and I copied over all data to my workstation (which almost has the same storage capabilities, only that’s just two disks, not doing redundancy at all), and burned the beasts on DVD (still am actually).

I destroyed my old ZFS pool (just a disk ‘ar0′) and in the highpoint controller bios I disabled Raid-5 and restarted with just 4 disks. I recreated my ZFS storage with “zfs create raidz data ad14 ad15 ad16 ad17“ which fired up the storage area again. After that I started copying back the data. I copied almost 500GB this weekend already and its still going (and will be for the rest of the night I think). I liked the idea of having my data backupped on my workstation as well, so I’ll probably rsync the storage area every period of time. Probably during the day when I am not home at all, so that the gig’s of data can flow over the wire without doing harm (gbit network). At least its saves a little and I can turn down my machines where needed.

I will also restart my /storage/nfs folders so that I might be able to have my ultrasparc (donated by Robert Blacquiere) do much nicer things again by using networking storage (only fastethernet here (100mbit) but that doesn’t kill the pleasure :)).

So yes not much activity for FreeBSD itself; but laying the foundation to be able to do something like that more again (ultrasparc tindy perhaps?)….

written by Remko \\ tags: FreeBSD, NFS, Storage, tinderbox, ultrasparc, ZFS