From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 17 22:34:31 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EC6370C3E for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:34:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwilde1@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lj1-x230.google.com (mail-lj1-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::230]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1O1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B7mBt3sw8z4dVx for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:34:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwilde1@gmail.com) Received: by mail-lj1-x230.google.com with SMTP id q4so14473822lji.2 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:34:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:reply-to:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=yYVdSy3zt2vsnfNyLuamIXqTbQphFPf9rdvUDxryZlg=; b=tNi2XrBHVLAcRRoqmAwargFhXiE5pc/bu5GRR99fYZB4qJOzxHQIBwvjzeRckAcPkH a4n29j1bAzZ0msxycsgHhhiXp3D1DPrNvg78QXwiDhI+iwdwsVgGa9NZ9amAmTdN6cb9 AomAen1QS8q5I4OYhI4baYF8J/3tXd+52xVEkH5e3+TK0D/TpgKwXeV7naBEqHqFL9b1 BtWvYiziUSr7iTkHZlykbOf4LcY+yEA7kF/qLPfTDmNgfmoVsRZxUZyJHN02NVpQ7+eH +Y1YtWAhOVI1JOF2Evsa2dBcUI4IYMgOIB0yWKND6KQ1NhiBGZyTwDndNWdpNeexsanF a6AQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:reply-to :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=yYVdSy3zt2vsnfNyLuamIXqTbQphFPf9rdvUDxryZlg=; b=gEJLOP+txa5g9adK7oNxzki0ibtOSDZJogXpsdRpvWjvMgGpiRMSnPQ7BGhc9HNLqT KVhGpGyOj6UmvoHP2gwNUqMB0n17y1auG/KvLl1bjpiIBYXq5brxeXetQJoWbWUTti8S z3VGLqvETPX1EZNfnBqBFiPseMj7Rukwslak/kXqRvZ7piCYU90Xv9OVQffEQIO41UPR HfHRFR5RzwdwbgSSKcObyA4XfGTJChyq4bVQuE5wYEngBPv0x1uJ6Rh/BM+rDWS4jjLk bI8tzcr2du1MbhYc203buwR+zV3FoggxzwrHvDwzqogX9WTwl+nHNJ/LdI9jdYmqce2Z 2Mkw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533NQK9IInoa4CHhevClBUatlBlDpaXf9WVZXR/zxQoGQ7xoobTP 9xmEhEhMDrFgymFoUCuxm3uSqmWpj2YtvUfTZ4wBYnAajsE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyOl2wMKP5QjqgUVNKwwk0YFquItVBt6DolNz+uO2q6dNS2mAFLnwXYGFH51wYJc1/Kx65KE9y18Jw+U0ZAA2g= X-Received: by 2002:a2e:590:: with SMTP id 138mr5277044ljf.85.1595025263027; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:34:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200717192349.GA40739@geeks.org> <20200717211305.79C4F1D2C83C@ary.qy> In-Reply-To: <20200717211305.79C4F1D2C83C@ary.qy> Reply-To: dwilde1@gmail.com From: Donald Wilde Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:34:08 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Freebsd running on used Rack server To: John Levine Cc: freebsd-questions , Doug McIntyre X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4B7mBt3sw8z4dVx X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=tNi2XrBH; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dwilde1@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:4864:20::230 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=dwilde1@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.94 / 15.00]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[dwilde1@gmail.com]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36:c]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; REPLYTO_ADDR_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.01)[-0.005]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2a00:1450::/32, country:US]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.98)[-0.978]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.96)[-0.959]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; FREEMAIL_REPLYTO(0.00)[gmail.com]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::230:from]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.33 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:34:31 -0000 On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 14:13 John Levine wrote: > In article <20200717192349.GA40739@geeks.org> you write: > >You would want to play to FreeBSD's strengths. Ie. especially ZFS. > >Ie many Dell servers would have a RAID card in them instead of a HBA for > direct JBOD support. > >ZFS really works best with direct access to the disks as a JBOD. > > My server is a Dell PowerEdge R410 with two Xeon CPUs, 32GB of RAM, and > four disks > set up as a pair of ZFS mirrors. Works great. > > My main complaint has nothing to do with FreeBSD. The iDRAC remote > console software only > works with Java 6 or older so I have to keep a deliberately not-updated > old PC around to > connect to it. > I used to work for that company on the M1000 team. The iDRAC firmware was one of those nasty little projects where D forced Americans to train their Indian and Chinese replacements before laying them off to please Wall Street. > >