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up_the_irons: for the record, yes, I changed default partition between 7.2 and 8.0. 7.2 had slices for /usr /var, etc.. 8.0 just has one whopping / slice (ad0s1a) and swap (b)
even if someone puts custom partitioning in the order form, I can't do it. Default installs come from a template. Custom partitioning would require me to actually do the install from scratch, and given there is no setup fee... not gonna do it ;) Everyone can do their own custom partitioning by performing a re-install over VNC
jeev: up_the_irons, is it possible if i have a 400 gig /dev/md0 raid1 partition to create a LVM using some of it's space?
up_the_irons: jeev: software raid?
jeev: sure
up_the_irons: i've never used software raid
jeev: other than dismantling it
anyway, that's not the point
the point is it possible to create a lvm using free space in an existing Linux partition? not LVM
not a lvm partition
up_the_irons: jeev: not really
jeev: ok, if i have to reformat this box one more time
im gonna be pissed
up_the_irons: jeev: you want part of the partition to go to lvm and not the rest? are you high? ;)
jeev: maybe rather than installing with kvm over ip that's slow as shit
with pxeboot that takes forever
i should dismantle hte raid, set up lvm and copy the data over?
up_the_irons: given i don't know your requirements, i'm not going to comment
jeev: its a mess around box at the datcenter
datacenter
RandalSchwartz: heh... sprocketnetworks just got wind of my move
now they say "oh, we offer FreeBSD VPS"
idiots... why aren't you listing that on your website? :)
do you see anythign but Linux or Windows on http://www.sprocketnetworks.com/virtual.htm
no... neither do I. :)
jeev: is that mr spacely's space sprockets?
RandalSchwartz: and their 60GB disk plan is $149/month
and they don't have VNC consoles
which I have now come to love
jeev: RandalSchwartz, that's a lot of adult videos
RandalSchwartz: I don't think their disk is raided either
so - I pointed them at the ARP page... let's see if they want to compete
here's the other thing - PING blue.stonehenge.com (209.223.236.162): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.223.236.162: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=73.464 ms
PING red.stonehenge.com (208.79.95.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.79.95.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=41.408 ms
blue = sprocket
red = ARP
been trying it on various local nets... red is always the winer
winner too
jeev: red and blue, sounds political
toddf: re-install over serial console, I prefer that one, much more secure *grin* vs re-install over vnc
jeev: hmm, openbsd.. not good
-: jeev hides
toddf fires the cruze missle that was not built due to darpa funds redirected to OpenBSD
jeev: heh
toddf: red @ okc cox cablemodem: round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 49.747/54.221/59.090/2.536 ms
blue @ okc cox cablemodem: round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 15.614/19.917/26.320/2.976 ms
not just a small difference, its nearly double the latency
sorry, more than
RandalSchwartz: oh weird.
so it depends on where you're coming from then
toddf: though I'm sure jeev will cringe when he realizes this was generated using openbsd through an OpenBSD/hppa firewall
jlgaddis: red=75ms, blue=84ms from here
toddf: but of course, each fabric of the net has its own resonance frequency that changes the song slightly depending on where you come from and where you go to
RandalSchwartz: yup
jeev: toddf, stop pretending you know anything about how computers, openbsd and networking works!
-: jeev looks away
RandalSchwartz: but anyway, let's see if sprocket wants my business bad enough
I don't think they'll have VNC console anytime soon
toddf: ssh serial consolez is where it's at
no root password sniffable sounds good to me
RandalSchwartz: and now that I've booted and rebooted my virtual DVD enough, I'll really miss that if I don't get it
toddf: note vnc is not encrypted just yet unless you ssh port redirect it
RandalSchwartz: well - yeah, that next
still haven't set that up
toddf: cat $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | mail -s "randalschwartz.pub" support@arpnetworks.com
there, no excuses, cut and paste
or if you're paranoid generate a unique key just for arp
if you think you like vnc wait till you see serial
;-)
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: did you come to love VNC consoles wrt your VPS VNC console, or do you mean VNC in general?
RandalSchwartz: if I had mail on my laptop, sure
which I don't :)
jlgaddis: echo "The problem is undoubtedly`nc bofh.jeffballard.us 666 | grep excuse | sed 's/Your excuse is://g'`" | mail $customer
RandalSchwartz: so I stil have to to transfer the file
pbcopy <id_rsa.pub
...
up_the_irons: toddf: you should pastie the traceroutes of red vs blue
RandalSchwartz: there - done
"support - You've Got Mail!"
toddf: some of us setup our laptops to have mta's that use port 587 or 465 to send mail out securely through a relay regardless of where we're at ;-)
jlgaddis: heh, my traceroute to his .162 box goes from here to indy to atlanta to dc to ny (all over internet2) to san jose to dallas
to arp it's here to indy to atlanta to chicago to dallas to phoenix to la
fun stuff
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: you should be able to login now
toddf: http://pastebin.ca/1739579 <-- red vs blue from okc
drats, no v6, can't traceroute6
up_the_irons: route through dallas is faster than through phoenix
jeev: i hate any presence in dallas
oversold trash network
up_the_irons: that's actually a generalization, the reverse path will be different
i should get some pricing from Savvis though...
might be worth adding them
jlgaddis: just avoid cogent whatever you do
they're cheap as hell, but there's a reason why
toddf: if cogent offered me a decent fiber to my business office I'd take it, but alas nothing reasonable in okc
jlgaddis: they're not that bad, as long as you're multihomed
(to someone else, not to them)
toddf: all you techies move out here, its real cheap cost of living.. maybe enough IT mass might figure out a way to tap into some fiber to make some reasonable symetric data services available
jlgaddis: "here"?
toddf: if I want 10mbit symettric its near $3k/mo
here = oklahoma city, ok
jlgaddis: we lease assloads of dark fiber for 500/mo (per 2 strands)
toddf: no exchange point that I've found, which doesn't help
-: toddf holds his breath for randalschwartz to proclaim 'eureka!' wrt ssh console stuffz
up_the_irons: yeah i'm not about to jump on cogent
jlgaddis: where are you? what distance are you getting on the dark fiber?
jlgaddis: up_the_irons: bloomington, indiana. most of it is no more than 10km, longest is 81km.
up_the_irons: jlgaddis: nice
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jlgaddis: we connect into i-light (http://atlas.grnoc.iu.edu/atlas.cgi?map_name=I-Light) and go out from there
"indiana gigapop"
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up_the_irons: interesting
jeev: oh that's awesome
ballen: very cool
jlgaddis: there's others as well, for internet2, i2 v6, the gigapop, and some other .edu networks
ballen: and you can overlay radar
up_the_irons: that's a pretty damn cool visualization of bandwidth usage
jlgaddis: there's some pretty neat toys
newest one (not yet public) allows customer to provision their own vlan's through their internet2 network
say you have gear in ny and seattle and need a vlan... click click click, done.
jeev: crazy crazy crazy, done.
up_the_irons: jlgaddis: nice
jeev: i'm on my 17th pxe install of slackware cause i can't get this raid1 lvm and stuff with diff boot partition then install grub done
up_the_irons: jeev: one of my admins just had that problem, standby..
jeev: clear the disklabel in fdisk first
just hit "o" (create dos disklabel), then "w" (write changes)
jeev: yea actually i've done it but i've never done it with lvm
up_the_irons: that'll clear any software raid crap on there
jeev: but i think i get the point of it now
honestly it's just grub being gay
ballen: Got a shipment of 13 SAS2 drives and the needed Dell drive caddies... and not fucking screws today
no*
jeev: i need grub cause i want to use xen
damn
ballen: yea
rather annoyed
ordered a 100qty box from Amazon
jeev: waste of government time and money
ballen: 4 bucks
jeev: we need a senate hearing
ballen: hah
oh and I came back to one of my chillers outside cooling tower being frozen solid
thankfully its the only room that has two chillers
so tip of the day... if you turn off all your machines for the holiday... the chiller doesn't need to turn on very often
if you have a water cooling tower
and its below freezing outside
you may have issues
jeev: heh
when you bu y from amazon, do you use a government cc?
ballen: I pass it off to my group office admin
jeev: ah
ballen: she has the cc
jeev: crazy a credit card billable to CTU LA
sick
can you order me a card with my name Jack Bauer ?
ballen: yea thats why not many people get one
up_the_irons: jeev: it's amazing how much harder / disconnected / non-coherent some things are in Linux. I mean, installing a boot loader, why does it have to be so hard? On most *BSD's it's like "disklabel -B <device>". done and done
ballen: and theres a decent amount of approval depending on how much the order is
jeev: yea up_the_irons, lilo rules but not with xen
this is a non-vt capable box i'm setting xen up
just for fun
jlgaddis: oh, that reminds me. i gotta order a 2821.
thanks ballen =)
ballen: heh np
order me one while your at it
could use it
jeev: for example, i set up lame software raid and it's resyncing even though i've formatted it
ballen: although I did find a Pix 501 laying around today
jlgaddis: we have some retards at one site bitching because their fiber and ds-1's (for backup) all run into a 3845
"but what if the router goes down!?"
ballen: lmao
jlgaddis: heh, i think i have a 501 in the bottom of my desk
ballen: then your SOL, next question
jlgaddis: i'm ordering the 2821 and they're paying for it, they just don't know it yet
we'll move the ds-1's over to it to shut 'em up, but it'll cost 'em =)
up_the_irons: jlgaddis: that's a 2800 on your blog, no?
ballen: yea not much use for one, just surprised to find Cisco gear, we were all 3COM (eww I know) now all nortel
jlgaddis: up_the_irons: the header? yeah
RandalSchwartz: yeah, sprocket couldn't even come close
they still insist I should have been able to tell they'd run a FreeBSD VPS for me, by looking at a page that talks only about windows and linux. :)
but no worries
up_the_irons: jlgaddis: i'd have to agree w/ the client; if even their redundant links go into the same equipment, it's not very redundant..
RandalSchwartz: I gave them a chance. :)
they completely blew it off. :)
I mean seriously - http://www.sprocketnetworks.com/virtual.htm - does that imply FreeBSD anywhere?
up_the_irons: jeev: my bro filled out a credit card app and put "W. Axl Rose" on it, and sure enough, he got a credit card that read "W. AXL ROSE" ;)
jeev: damn
up_the_irons: jeev: so go get your jack bauer card
jeev: you can get paypal to send you a jack bauer card honestly
jlgaddis: up_the_irons: oh they have a valid point, sure. but they have a spare sfp and card on site, so it's not a huge deal.
RandalSchwartz: paypal even sent me a card with my name mispelled
they must retype it somewhere
and not just use electronic data
jlgaddis: besides, we're running gigabit over the fiber, and their "backup" is only 3xT1
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: search for "freebsd" turns up nothing on that page
jlgaddis: and those will be at 100% if/when it fails over anyway because of all the students
up_the_irons: http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+site%3Asprocketnetworks.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
RandalSchwartz: ^^ looks to me FreeBSD is only an option on a dedicated server
jlgaddis: damn, gotta run to work and scp the snow leopard disc image to my macbook. bbl.
up_the_irons: later
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jlgaddis: w00t
and i did have a 501 in the bottom of a my desk. and a 5505 on top of it too, apparently.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlgaddis/4249935434/
ballen: hah nice
jeev: hey, im trying this slack lvm, raid1 md0 xen set up one more time.. if it doesn't work, if anyone wants my liver.. i dont drink
jlgaddis: i could use a new one
jeev: ok i'll put you on the waiting list
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RandalSchwartz: hmm. should serial console show me a login prompt?
or do I have to enable soemthign special?
it accepts my serial password
and says [Enter `^Ec?' for help]
but no login prompt
and yet, the box is up and running.
ballen: press enter
?
up_the_irons: yeah, press enter
RandalSchwartz: I have, no response
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: /etc/ttys is your friend
RandalSchwartz: and yet, red is up and running just fine
up_the_irons: uncomment the /dev/ttyu0 line
getty on serial line is not enabled by default on any FreeBSD that I know of
RandalSchwartz: it's uncommented
up_the_irons: nor OpenBSD
RandalSchwartz: err, i mean..
RandalSchwartz: ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: turn it from "off" to "on" and set the terminal from "dialup" to "vt100"
jlgaddis: serial console is enabled by default on sparc64
up_the_irons: jlgaddis: nice
jlgaddis: but i imagine most users don't run into that often =)
up_the_irons: right :)
RandalSchwartz: and then signal something, right?
jlgaddis: sighup init, at a guess
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: yep, but what you signal, i'm not sure
jlgaddis: kill -HUP 1
RandalSchwartz: well - something like that shuts the system down
up_the_irons: at that point, i always had to reboot the VM anyway for some other reason, so never worried about it
RandalSchwartz: kill -HUP 1 says init(8)
here goes
jlgaddis: o/
up_the_irons: m/
RandalSchwartz: aha!
prompt!
up_the_irons: neato
RandalSchwartz: and there I am, logged in
-: up_the_irons puts "kill -HUP 1" into his notes
RandalSchwartz: now how does this set me up for SSH VNC?
oh - I can tunnel on this
duh
up_the_irons: yup
hit 't' for instructions
-: up_the_irons thinks it's "t"
up_the_irons: yup, "t"
in the menu, that is
RandalSchwartz: where... at teh menyu?
jlgaddis: one of those "obvious" things
"t" for instructions
"j" for tar w/ bzip2
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: the "c" option is to interact with your VM's serial line, most often used to run a login getty; the "t" option is to tunnel VNC over SSH and it simply displays instructions on how to do it
RandalSchwartz: ugh - 5555 - 5900 is... :)
ok - crap, can't type a minus sign
can't use this tunnel
PLEASE realize that VNC is traditionally 5900-5999
ports outside this range cause some UIs no end of problems
5555 for example is WRONG. flat out WRONG
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: you can pick any port you want
RandalSchwartz: port 5555 was just the example
RandalSchwartz: yeah, but its' the cut-n-paste example
put 5955 in there instead
then I can type "55" for my VNC port
which in fact, did work
up_the_irons: that's fine, changed
RandalSchwartz: but your choice of 61xx for VNC otherwise as also confusing. :)
for my unencoded VNC
anyway, nice to know that I now have a tunneled console, thanks
all is good
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: 5900 - 5999 is not enough, that's only 100 users
RandalSchwartz: you have more than 100 users on this box?
or is it all choked through the same IP?
for *all* customers?
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: no, but if I think in terms of individual boxes, I can't migrate VMs very easily, because their VNC port numbers will clash
I have a "pool" of boxes and within that pool, the VNC ports do not overlap
different pools can have overlapping ports
RandalSchwartz: understood
-: RandalSchwartz dials down the bitching
up_the_irons: LOL
RandalSchwartz: so far, very happy
up_the_irons: glad to hear
RandalSchwartz: I might exceeed inbound bandwidth for first month
transferring crap from old box
after that, it'll settle down
up_the_irons: roger
RandalSchwartz: I have a very carefully crafted rsync script which *should* be getting all items of interest from old box
-: jlgaddis worked out a nice backup solution
jlgaddis: rsync to off-site box, doing a backup there using plain ol' tar, and a backup to s3 using tarsnap
RandalSchwartz: it's 44GB of data from the old box, but I'll need to refresh any changes once or twice more before turning old box off
up_the_irons: jlgaddis: i've found sending tarballs to S3 quite unreliable; it's like some get there and some just don't. i split them up at the 5G mark of course, also, but to no avail
jlgaddis: so if you do that, just keep on eye on it every now and then; make sure what you think is on there is really on there
jlgaddis: i'm using colin's tarsnap. it actually goes to his servers first, once it's safely there it's transferred (by his software) to s3
and, yeah, i checked it from another box after the first full backup =)
<-- learned a looooong time ago to test backups =)
RandalSchwartz: sending ZFS snapshots is my new preferred offsite backup
someone should set up a disk farm to receive those
there's a business model :)
up_the_irons? :)
-: up_the_irons is on it
RandalSchwartz: seriously... if you could give me a place to send ZFS incrementals that was across the country from you, I'd pay
because a ZFS snapshot is atomic
and a ZFS incremental is the minimal change
up_the_irons: I have very limited experience with ZFS. What exactly does a snapshot consist of? Is there a reason you can't just sent it to S3?
when I think of business models, I try to see who can crush it. And right now, with storage, Amazon is crushing a lot of models
RandalSchwartz: a zfs snapshot is an exact moment-in-time grab
it costs NOTHING to make
up_the_irons: very cool
RandalSchwartz: and then you can "zfs send | ssh remote zfs recv" it
but the next step is...
make a new snapshot
then send only the diffs from old to new to remote
and it understands the diffs
so you have now moved from atomic point 1 to atomic point 2
up_the_irons: ah I see
so zfs needs a way to see the old diffs also
RandalSchwartz: and because it's at the FS level, it's far more efficient than rsync
yeah
up_the_irons: yeah
interesting
RandalSchwartz: ... http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: so what would be the requirements? disk space (obviously), ssh shell ?, zfs on destination ?, ...
-: up_the_irons puts that on the reading list
RandalSchwartz: ... http://www.markround.com/archives/38-ZFS-Replication.html
yes - the disk sadly woudl be the same
you're making a clone, and keeping it up to date
but then you can also sell that service
"we have hot machine spares offsite"
or you could just say "your disk is cloned here, we can move your entire data wherever you want on a fault"
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: so you would need a ZFS formatted fs of the same size at the backup site, along with SSH shell access?
RandalSchwartz: yeah
up_the_irons: anything else?
RandalSchwartz: well - depends on if it's failover or just access
if it's failover, same CPUs
if it's just access, a way to push that data somewhere
you could sell two levels
I mean, I'd pay for just access
but for some business, they'd want COB level
so they'd pay for a hot spare machine
up_the_irons: failover could be problematic because the IPs in Los Angeles would be different than, for example, New York, unless I get a long haul, which would get *quite* expensive. or even with newer MLPS "virtual" links between metro areas, it still is kinda expensive; although something worth looking into
RandalSchwartz: well - you failover at DNS level
so you require a DNS change for switch
up_the_irons: ah gotcha
RandalSchwartz: not a big issue
this is catastrophe planning
not hot switching
up_the_irons: roger
RandalSchwartz: I want my data in Los Angeles and "somewhere else"
or
I want my data and CPU in Los Angeles and "somewhere else"
in the former, I can accept a few hours downtime
in the latter, I can accept TTL downtime :)
up_the_irons: yeah
hah
RandalSchwartz: make sense?
up_the_irons: yup
RandalSchwartz: this would be a great service for your customers
and great for the SOHOs
who need net presence, and some sense of COB
... http://www.markround.com/archives/38-ZFS-Replication.html
up_the_irons: right
yeah i'm looking at that one
RandalSchwartz: oh - did I paste that already :)
damn - did
-: RandalSchwartz pushes the drink away
jlgaddis: failover using dns == fail
RandalSchwartz: jlgaddis - suggestion?
by using DNS, I say "www.stonehenge.com = 1.2.3.4 not 4.5.6.7"
and that'll take TTL to clean up
jlgaddis: yes, but not that aren't costly
RandalSchwartz: so for TTL, I lose hits
oh well :)
-: jlgaddis nods
jlgaddis: i guess if you're not losing revenue, it's not a big deal
RandalSchwartz: well - that's why my TTL is 15 minutes :)
yeah - it's a trade
up_the_irons: i've never really liked DNS failover, but if you can take the TTL downtime, i suppose it works
RandalSchwartz: my site is a brochsure site
not a live site
and twitter was down far more often than me :)
up_the_irons: and I can never trust other people's resolvers to respect my TTL
RandalSchwartz: you have to trust things at some level :)
if you really want protection, buy an offsite traffic director
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: indeed, twitter being down often and facebook getting API DoS'd has lowered everyone's expectation of uptime ;)
RandalSchwartz: so traffic goes to minnesota, then LA
or minnesota, then "other place"
so yes, there are solutions
jlgaddis: we have a hot site several hundred miles away
RandalSchwartz: or even better... yes, www.stonehenge.com points to second site, which mostly proxies to first site
until first site goes dow
then it takes over primary
the nice thing about zfs snaps is they're very very cheap to make and send
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: i presume that something like MySQL, on top of ZFS, would not necessarily "snapshot" well since it could be in the middle of a transaction; in that case, could a better practice be to replicate MySQL some other way, or possibly not even use MySQL at all (ala the popularity of distributed KV data stores now)
RandalSchwartz: I've heard people sending them in tight loops
"make snapshot" "send it" "make snapshot" "send it"
up_the_irons - NO
that's precisely the cool point of zfs snaps
it's ATOMIC
it can reproduce the disk PRECISELY midstream
so if mysql can handle a random reboot, then it can handle the snapshot restart
if it can't, stop using mysql
I know postgresql uses WALs, and does this just fine
as in, the current transaction will likely fail
but everythign committed up to that is done
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: yeah, i don't know what mysql does if it is in the middle of a transaction and it gets rebooted; i assume the transaction simply is never committed
RandalSchwartz: ZFS snapshots are *atomic*
and this makes them far better than rsync replication
bytes are either THIS WAY or THAT WAY
nothing in between
up_the_irons: right
RandalSchwartz: zfs create -r zpool@now
that makes snapshots in *all* filesystems at NOW
up_the_irons: man, i'm gonna have to play around with some of this stuff, sounds exciting
RandalSchwartz: completely atomic
zfs rename zpool@now then
zfs create -r zpool@now
now I have two snapshots that I can increimtanlly send
zfs send -i then zpool@now | ssh remote zpool recv
and now I've send the differences over the wire
and atomic updates all around
repeat as needed
even in a tight loop
it's pretty exciting
up_the_irons: wow, interesting
RandalSchwartz: yeah - so the ability to *cheaply* clone a disk over the wire has gotten far better thanks to zfs
so for people wanting geography backups, this is *the* solution now
presuming they're willing to use ZFS
can you see why I wanted to boot from ZFS now ?
up_the_irons: yeah, ZFS is the only dependency (albeit a big one for some)
i do!
nichangel: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
zroot 2.3T 529M 2.3T 0% /
:D
RandalSchwartz: nice
up_the_irons: i should make a ZFS-enabled default VM and people can order it. Basically it would be the default install w/ ZFS instead of UFS
nichangel: I cheated a little, USB key for /boot
RandalSchwartz: Yeah - the instructions on that page worked
once I followed them to the letter
I'd be available to talk to your clients
I'm happy to share what I know
in fact, I snapshotted @INSTALL right after building my machine
so I could zfs-send you my install :)
but it's only really about a half hour to follow the instructions
just set the root password to "changeme" and the timezone to PST :)
then snapshot that
the rest is completely generic
up_the_irons: LOL
RandalSchwartz: which instructions page? I remember a few being pasted here
RandalSchwartz: uno momento, por favor
... http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
that's the instructions
worked perfectly once I followed them exactl'
y
my failures were because I skipped a step, or tried to add "zfs export" to the end
so I'd say follow those instructions, setting "changeme" for root pw and "PST" for timezone
ballen: why was zfs export of any importance ?
RandalSchwartz: and then snapshot that for new installs
ballen - I thought "zfs export" was like "unmount"
turns out ists more than that
ballen: hah, ah
yea not quite unmount at all
RandalSchwartz: so when I stopped doing that, then reboot saw the disks as "attached here"
which is what it is neede
ballen: ah
nice
RandalSchwartz: export means "the disks are going somewhere else"
up_the_irons: ah
RandalSchwartz: which is why boot said "no zfs to do here"
so follow those instructions EXACTLY
unfortunately, you'll need to do those nce per disk size
since the FS is built each time
as in - you'll have a 120GB-ZFS
and a 60GB-ZFS
etc
up_the_irons: gotcha
cd $HOME
RandalSchwartz: bye
up_the_irons: RandalSchwartz: thanks for all the info, I'm going to play around with it
RandalSchwartz: "cd" => "cd $HOME"
up_the_irons: cd ~
RandalSchwartz: again
redundant :)
"cd"
up_the_irons: true
but just saying
RandalSchwartz: true => : :)
up_the_irons: cd
is a little confusing
RandalSchwartz: if :; then echo yes; else echo no; fi
up_the_irons: interesting
RandalSchwartz: go home sir
up_the_irons: cd
RandalSchwartz: I'm in LA next week
we should meet
up_the_irons: :)
let me know about where you'll be; we can grab lunch around Burbank
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RandalSchwartz: Wokacno!
Wokcano
up_the_irons: LOL
sure
RandalSchwartz: across the street from my $DAYJOB
up_the_irons: green dragon roll, mmmmMMMm
RandalSchwartz: spicy plate :)
I'm at the holiday inn kittycorner from there
up_the_irons: i'll be on later, cd $HOME, for real
RandalSchwartz: my walk to work is half block
bye!
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-: toddf wonders what it'd take to receive zfs incrementals
ballen: zfs receive
piped over ssh
zfs send -> ssh -> zfs receive
toddf: up_the_irons: long haul? just do the same trick dns servers do, advertise the same address multiple locations...
ballen: anycast?
Sashi: anyone in Canada?
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jeev: cd'ing to a variable is pretty funny
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up_the_irons: toddf: anycast? oh please no
can I get some traceroutes on 174.136.96.2
pastie them
new block I set up a week ago, not completely reachable yet, and I need to know who it fails for
can't reach it from Time Warner / RR (big surprise), but works from Slicehost
jeev: goes hrough
through from krypt
up_the_irons: jeev: pastie.org it :)
jeev: 2 VLAN3810.BR1.LAX3.VPLS.NET (67.198.200.61) 5.200 ms 0.698 ms 0.557 ms
3 VLAN2099.BR2.LAX2.VPLS.NET (67.198.200.17) 0.384 ms 0.316 ms 0.314 ms
4 mzima.net.any2ix.coresite.com (206.223.143.2) 4.559 ms 5.067 ms 0.452 ms
5 ge0-arpnet.cust.lax07.mzima.net (67.199.135.102) 1.551 ms 1.604 ms 1.817 ms
6 174.136.96.2 (174.136.96.2) 0.697 ms 0.752 ms 0.587 ms
:>
up_the_irons: oh u whore
jeev: too lazy to open browser
i have 40 open already
up_the_irons: thanks
jeev: jesus man i cant get this system going
i'm gonna try it with crypt, whatever
gonna try two more damn things
trace through att uverse is gay
as usual
up_the_irons: i c