Recent content by lampbearer

Thanks so much for that - it is nice to know that it has helped someone. So - as my latest freebie suggestion, I recently started playing around with my home wifi setup like I did with these dirt-cheap Dell servers and Proxmox (why oh why didn't I figure out to buy cast-away enterprise stuff...

I'm far from an expert on your question. It's a testament to the robustness of Proxmox that from the time I first posted this thread to now I have done exactly zero maintenance of the install -- the combination of the Dell server and this configuration has been absolutely bullet proof and that...

To guletz -- Cost was a big issue to me -- I really would have liked to boot to SSD, but kind of felt I didn't need speed there -- the server's bios take nearly 5 minutes enumerating drives anyway. Conceptually I love everything you wrote -- I thought long and hard about wading into UEFI (as...

Actually I only had 3 on mine I think (I'm assuming you are using VDEVs and partitions interchangably) and you could certainly use the BIOS-targeted partition instead of the Solaris partition. Originally when I was experimenting, I didn't realize Proxmox would create BIOS partitions on a UEFI...

Thank you very much for the very fine additions and clarifications -- in all of my reading, I've never seen the note about dist-upgrade. I'll look into that. I fixed the GB into MB (that was a typo - shame on me for it -- and I really appreciate the correction) My personal reasons for...

Install Proxmox on a Dell R510 server (12 SCSI/SATA bays) with the following criteria: UEFI boot ZFS mirrored boot drives Large Drive support (> 2TB) SSD-backed caching (a Sun F20 flash accelerator with 96GB of cache on 4 chips) Home File Server There were lots of “gotchas” in the process...

I appreciate the confirmation of what I am seeing. I like to learn -- can you provide any information as to WHY it does not work? I appreciate you are saying that it is "by design", but I'm looking for the technical reasons why. Is zfs a different version in the installer environment? Are...

I have zpools defined by-id. They work fine when proxmox is installed and loading. But they show UNAVAIL when using the install disk in debug mode (debug - CTL-D - abort). Even an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade doesn't work (so it isn't something as simple as a newer zfs package). Can anyone...

Thank you for the response. I'm not sure I understand this comment. I never referenced BSD and understand that Proxmox rides on Debian not BSD. I'm guessing that you are implying is that /dev/sdx is acceptable in the proxmox environment due to different behavior of differently-compiled and...

I have read the arguments about this -- essentially proxmox's position is that an EFI boot partition represents a single point of failure and so it is nonsensical. I get that. But politely, if a person installs the EFI partition to all of the RAID boot drives, then that argument is rendered...

On a fresh install of Proxmox on baremetal with RAID1/zfs, proxmox makes a very poor choice - it builds the RAID array using /dev/sdx notation (going totally against everything recommended by zfs). For many reasons /dev/sdx is a very BAD idea since it doesn't take much rebooting or messing...