Dan Langille @dvl@mastodon.social

The CFP for BSDCan 2019 closes on 19 January. You have about a week left to submit your ideas.

Details here:

https://lists.bsdcan.org/pipermail/bsdcan-announce/2019-January/000172.html

I need to figure out why this zfs scrub takes days: https://gist.github.com/dlangille/76802e4b7655d092c3b906876803b08f

That bootenv move from one zpool to another? It was accomplished over a few hours, a dinner, an HBA which didn't work, a missed bootfs, and smashed rails.

Photos and text here: https://dan.langille.org/2018/12/31/adding-a-zroot-pool-to-an-existing-system/

I've been thinking about which @freebsd periodic scripts I can safely disable. Here are my results:

https://gist.github.com/dlangille/ce60ac76b69f267a3f1de33495a338fc

Any comments?

FreshPorts had a hard time booting yesterday.
Today, the cause was found, but why /etc/fstab suddenly became a problem is not known.
https://twitter.com/DLangille/status/1070360594715430912

Not all at once.

Snorty disapproves of me using my console terminal as a work surface.

Photos from today's chassis swap: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dlangille/sets/72157697910300000/

Tge magical words have appeared!

What time on Monday will the new chassis be ready for pickup at a local FedEx location?

Bacula 7.x is now deprecated on FreeBSD. Please migrate to 9.x :
https://www.freshports.org/commit.php?category=sysutils&port=bacula-server&files=yes&message_id=201811081916.wA8JGQs8007577@repo.freebsd.org

It's been a pretty steady 850 Mb/s from bacula-sd-10 to the R710 (bacula-sd-02) and onto the two LTO-4 tape drives.

That's about 100MB/s which is well below the capacity of an LTO-4 which is 120MB/s per drive. That's why I usually write to only one drive at a time, instead of 2.

I was able to repair the Dell TL4000 tape library. The robotic picker would not move vertically. It was a split gear. The photos of that process are here: https://imgur.com/a/OJ8U91s

I started copying the monthly full backups to tape this afternoon.

This graph is network traffic.

resilvered 630G in 6h59m with 0 errors on Mon Nov 5 23:00:14 2018

I'm having drive issues, and now I suspect it's the drive bay. Here is the drive activity from the 'zpool replace', the drive failing, the power off, and the 'zpool replace' automagically resuming after power on: https://twitter.com/DLangille/status/1059507516562915329

Using smartd to schedule self tests on your drives. I wish I'd done this decades ago.

https://dan.langille.org/2018/11/04/using-smartd-to-automatically-run-tests-on-your-drives/