I am trying out OpenIndiana for the first time. I used the live image OI-hipster-gui-20211031.iso (which seems to be the latest version) to install into a qemu-kvm virtual machine. The very first thing I wanted to do was set up a development environment. According to [this page from the OpenIndiana documentation](http://docs.openindiana.org/contrib/git/#installing-git) , "installing Git on OpenIndiana Hipster is simple." However, I found it to be not so simple:

ppelleti@illumos:~$ sudo pkg install git
Creating Plan (Solver setup): |
pkg install: No matching version of developer/versioning/git can be installed:
  Reject:  pkg://openindiana.org/developer/versioning/git@2.35.1-2022.0.0.0
             to
           pkg://openindiana.org/developer/versioning/git@2.36.1-2022.0.0.0
  Reason:  This version is excluded by installed incorporation consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation@0.5.11-2020.0.1.14595
ppelleti@illumos:~$

I tried installing a different package, and got the same error message:

ppelleti@illumos:~$ sudo pkg install build-essential
Creating Plan (Solver setup): |
pkg install: No matching version of metapackages/build-essential can be installed:
  Reject:  pkg://openindiana.org/metapackages/build-essential@1.0-2022.0.0.1
  Reason:  This version is excluded by installed incorporation consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation@0.5.11-2020.0.1.14595
ppelleti@illumos:~$

I searched the web for "excluded by installed incorporation", and it seems to be a common problem, but it doesn't seem to have a clear solution, especially not one that is applicable to my situation. For example, [this question](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/486281/solaris-11-3-unable-to-install-system-header) seems to indicate it is a problem with the package publisher. Here is my package publisher:

ppelleti@illumos:~$ pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
openindiana.org              origin   online F http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/ 
ppelleti@illumos:~$

This isn't something I set up. This publisher is just what the fresh install of hipster-20211031 came with, right out of the box. The question I linked to seemed to involve the publisher being out of date because of a Solaris support contract expiring, but that doesn't seem to be relevant to my situation, because OpenIndiana is open source, so there shouldn't be any licensing issue. Is there an easy fix for this? Coming from Linux, I was not expecting this level of difficulty. pkg seems to be far more arcane than apt-get is.

I could not find *good* comparison between OmniOS and SmartOS (or OpenIndiana). So what are pros to use OmniOS than SmartOS? (As some people are nitpickers I had to make the question like this. But I would like to know pros/cons...)

I have been searching the illumos man pages for an equivalent of FreeBSD's devd (way to run programs based upon kernel events), but I could not find any. Is there an Illumos/Solaris equivalent of FreeBSD's devd daemon, providing a way to have userland programs run when certain kernel events happen?

I have been using union mounts, such as unionfs on FreeBSD or mergerfs on Linux, and now I would need to do the same on illumos (SmartOS). Reading [illumos](https://illumos.org/man/) or [SmartOS](https://smartos.org/man/) man pages is not helpful. Same with searching them [via external search engine](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fillumos.org%2Fman%2F) . If possible, how can one create a union mount (bind two or more directories to one mountpoint) on illumos / solaris? If not possible, is there anything close to same effect? ## Why In my humble opinion, union-like filesystems are used in relatively complex scenarios. Describing some here would be out of scope for this question. I would like to know if this is possible _a-priori_ in any case, as I would not want an answer solving only a subset of all unionfs possible use-cases. As an example: I need to pick and choose _from the subdirectories_ of read-only zfs datasets, mounted DVD and readonly USB drives, overlaid with read-write datasets. The resulting mount point needs to be available as a cifs share. It would need to be done programmatically after boot, depending on various system factors. For the interested, see referenced articles with some use cases. There are many such sysadmin scenarios. --- https://whattheserver.com/what-are-unionfs-mounts-and-how-to-use-them/ https://medium.com/@knoldus/unionfs-a-file-system-of-a-container-2136cd11a779

I have a FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE machine, hostname DellOptiPlex390. I would like to export the folders /usr/home/jdrch/KeePass & /usr/home/jdrch/Sync and mount them via NFS on an OpenIndiana Hipster GUI machine with IP address 192.168.0.71. My username, jdrch, is the same on both machines. I therefore have the following: My /etc/rc.conf: hostname="DellOptiPlex390" zfs_enable="YES" kld_list="sysctlinfo" ifconfig_re0="DHCP" linux_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" dsbdriverd_enable="YES" sddm_enable="YES" sshd_enable="YES" nfs_client_enable="YES" webmin_enable="YES" smartd_enable="YES" ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_sync_on_start=YES rpcbind_enable="YES" nfs_server_enable="YES" nfsv4_server_enable="YES" mountd_flags="-r" mountd_enable="YES" rpc_lockd_enable="YES" rpc_statd_enable="YES" My /etc/exports: # Export /usr/home as read-write to OpenIndiana /usr/home -alldirs -rw -mapall=MyFreeBSDUsername 192.168.0.71 I'm exporting /usr/home because it's a ZFS filesystem and the [exports(5) manpage](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=exports&sektion=5&manpath=freebsd-release-ports) seems to imply that's necessary. FTA: > All ZFS file systems in the subtree below the NFSv4 tree root must be exported After any update to either of those files I restart both nfsd & mountd on the FreeBSD server. Unfortunately, I haven't had any luck getting the export to mount. Trying to mount one of the export's subfolders fails: # mount DellOptiPlex390:/usr/home/jdrch/KeePass /export/home/jdrch/KeePass NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) nfs mount: mount: /export/home/jdrch/KeePass: Permission denied Trying to mount the exported filesystem also fails: # mount DellOptiPlex390:/usr/home/ /export/home/jdrch/KeePass NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) nfs mount: mount: /export/home/jdrch/KeePass: Permission denied Using sec=sys in the mount command doesn't work, either: # mount -F nfs -o vers=4,sec=sys DellOptiPlex390:/usr/home/jdrch/KeePass /export/home/jdrch/KeePass NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) NFS compound failed for server DellOptiPlex390: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) nfs mount: mount: /export/home/jdrch/KeePass: Permission denied Substituting the FreeBSD server's IP address for its hostname has no effect. What am I doing wrong?

I have smartos machines running a custom application as an smf service (a circonus monitoring agent). On some of these machines the agent errors when starting and gets stuck in a restart loop eventually leading to the machine panicking. For every other smf service I have worked with they will go into "maintenance" mode after restarting a few times but this particular service never seems to. I don't see any way to tweak these settings in the smf manifest and I'm not finding much information about it in the oracle docs. Does anyone know if this is a configurable setting and if so where can I find it? The SMF manifest defines the following restart method:

I run OpenIndianaHipster GUI and would like to ensure that my pkgsrc packages are always the absolute latest available in the repos. What is required to do this (it's not particularly clear to me from the [setup instructions](https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-illumos/)) ? Is simply running # pkgin -y full-upgrade sufficient, or do I *also* have to upgrade from the previous quarterly release pkgsrc trunk set every time a new pkgsrc trunk set quarterly release becomes available?

I am mounting the /dev/tun device of an IllumOS installation (actually OmniOS, but I don't think it makes a difference) inside a lx-brand zone (using add device, set match=\dev\tun, end). Problem is, the CentOS inside the zone expects the tun device to be in /dev/net/tun, not /dev/tun, so OpenVPN is not working. It complains that /dev/net/tun does not exist, which I guess makes sense. What is the difference between having the tun device in /dev or in /dev/net? More importantly, how can I make this work? I have tried symlinking /dev/tun in /dev/net/tun both in IllumOS and in CentOS, but it's not letting me. Any help is appreciated. EDIT: Thanks to the comments I am now able to trick the system into believing that /dev/net/tun exists, however even when trying tunctl -t tun0 -f /dev/tun I get TUNSETIFF: Inappropriate ioctl for device. The full strace is below: execve("/sbin/tunctl", ["tunctl", "-t", "tun0", "-f", "/dev/tun"], [/* 20 vars */]) = 0 brk(NULL) = 0x6020e0 uname({sysname="Linux", nodename="centos-zerotier", ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fffef240000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26396, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 26396, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7fffef040000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\20\35\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2127336, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3940800, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7fffeec00000 mprotect(0x7fffeedb8000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x7fffeefb8000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1b8000) = 0x7fffeefb8000 mmap(0x7fffeefbe000, 16832, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fffeefbe000 close(3) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fffef030000 mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fffef020000 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7fffef020740) = 0 mprotect(0x7fffeefb8000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x601000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7fffef421000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x7fffef040000, 26396) = 0 open("/dev/tun", O_RDWR) = 3 stat("/etc/sysconfig/64bit_strstr_via_64bit_strstr_sse2_unaligned", 0x7fffffefefb0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ioctl(3, TUNSETIFF, 0x7fffffeff460) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) dup(2) = 4 fcntl(4, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) brk(NULL) = 0x6020e0 brk(0x6230e0) = 0x6230e0 brk(NULL) = 0x6230e0 brk(0x624000) = 0x624000 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fffef010000 write(4, "TUNSETIFF: Inappropriate ioctl f"..., 42TUNSETIFF: Inappropriate ioctl for device ) = 42 close(4) = 0 munmap(0x7fffef010000, 8192) = 0 brk(NULL) = 0x624000 brk(NULL) = 0x624000 brk(0x623000) = 0x623000 brk(NULL) = 0x623000 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++

Let's say I set a parameter with the following command, how could I read it back later on? mdb -kwe "spa_load_verify_metadata/W 0" I am trying to read the man page , but I'm only in this OS temporarily and don't understand what it's talking about. The search modifiers are: l Search for the specified 2-byte value. L Search for the specified 4-byte value. M Search for the specified 8-byte value. I would normally expect that value to be in /sys/modules/zfs/parameters/spa_load_verify_metadata where I could just cat the value, but /sys doesn't even exist. I tried finding the variable using find, but it wasn't in the filesystem. I don't understand the concept of where these values are... I'm actually just trying to read the values of other parameters that I know to exist .

This is related to awk print 2 lines back if match but since my command has buffering issues that I'm unable to resolve I think a better approach would be to completely ignore stderr and look for output missing certain lines. So my output will be: Gathering drive descriptors ... Gathering data for drive 0 ... Drive Model: DataTraveler 2.0 Gathering data for drive 1 ... Drive name: id1,sd@n5000cca17096 Drive Model: HUH721010AL4204 Drive Speed: 7200 RPMs Drive Temp: 41 C Gathering data for drive 2 ... Drive name: id1,sd@n5000cca24156 Drive Model: HUH721010AL4204 Drive Speed: 7200 RPMs Drive Temp: 41 C Gathering data for drive 3 ... Drive name: id1,sd@n5000cca8749 Drive Model: HUH721010AL4204 Gathering data for drive 4 ... Drive name: id1,sd@n5000cca19183 Drive Model: HUH721010AL4204 Drive Speed: 7200 RPMs Drive Temp: 41 C Gathering data for drive 5 ... Drive name: id1,sd@n5000cca4607 Drive Model: HUSMH8010BSS204 Gathering data for drive 6 ... Drive name: id1,sd@n5000cca10152 Drive Model: HUH721010AL4204 Drive Speed: 7200 RPMs Drive Temp: 41 C And I would like to output the Drive name for any drive missing the Drive Speed and Drive Temp lines. Output should be: Drive name: id1,sd@n5000cca8749 Drive name: id1,sd@n5000cca4607 This is beyond my capabilities but I'm sure awk can do it but am not set on using awk, anything that accomplishes the task will work (don't have GNU tools). Thanks!

Last week I had issue where SmartOS wouldn't boot suddenly, it just hanged there after "mDNSPlatformRawTime went backwards by 3684530 ticks..." warning. I think this one always appears but I didn't pay attention, its just that it would hang at this point. Then since my zpool didnt contain that much important data, I just unplugged this disk and used another one to create fresh pool, as I thought maybe the disk is the issue (was on cheaper end). Long story short, because its dual-boot, in Windows 7 I noticed that out of 6 sticks of RAM(12 GB), it sees only 2GBs, one stick. Today I got the time, and cleaned up dust plus there was some hair, and there we go, 12GB back, so I definitely think this was the issue. But when I get back to smartos and even on new zpool/disk, when I try to install latest bootstrap, it says that root / filesystem is full. I have not yet mastered Illumos/SmartOS, even though its my plan to delve as far as possible, so I'm not aware of how metadata on specific Zpool works, or what part is changed on USB boot stick itself, after kernel panic.. I remember this message from previous pool: https://illumos.org/msg/FMD-8000-2K Now, is it possible that on new zpool I still have to locate disabled module and enable it? Assuming all this was related to RAM incident when only 2GB was connected. UPDATE: so this is waht worries me, why is ramdisk:a such low capacity and full: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on /devices/ramdisk:a 289M 289M 66K 100% / /devices 0 0 0 0% /devices /dev 0 0 0 0% /dev ctfs 0 0 0 0% /system/contract proc 0 0 0 0% /proc mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab swap 4.76G 980K 4.76G 1% /etc/svc/volatile objfs 0 0 0 0% /system/object bootfs 0 0 0 0% /system/boot sharefs 0 0 0 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab /devices/pseudo/lofi@1:disk 432M 360M 72.4M 84% /usr /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1 432M 360M 72.4M 84% /lib/libc.so.1

I am trying to find answers to some questions on how ZFS works: * does it detect silent corruption via checksums as soon as data is changed (and differs from checksum), automatic in a way (then if there's RAIDZ 1, it would repair by fetching from mirrored disk), OR this works only when accessing corrupted file(during read, and scrubbing of course)? * I am now confused about traditional hardware RAID now - can it detect silent corruption with same certainty as ZFS, and location of corruption as well, and if yes - is it able to do repair as ZFS also? Just need some more precision in explanation on how this works. Thanks.

I had disk with 4 primary partition on it with MBR (/dev/sda): - the first had a NTFS filesystem, with data (/dev/sda1); - the second was a Solaris2 partition, with openindiana (/dev/sda2 on GNU/Linux gparted); - the third was a swap partition (/dev/sda3); - the forth a Linux partition with ext4 (/dev/sda4). I made a mess because I "dd-ed" the first 300MB of the disk with data, so corrupting the mbr (I had no backup of it) and the first partition! I was running on a GNU/Linux OS and I could save part of data in the NTFS partition (via a symbolic link still working), and I could partially rebuild mbr and the partition table (via /sys/ information and fdisk). But I could not read the Solaris2 partition under GNU/Linux (in /sys/... or fdisk) , but I only have a big unallocated space between NTFS partition (/dev/sda1) and the swap (/dev/sda3). I tried to create a partition using all the free blocks in between but I cannot boot openindiana anymore, because I see it was a really poor attempt! Is there a way to find where the Solaris2 partition starts and ends, so I can try to rebuild a correct partition table? I tried also booting the openindiana LiveCd so using a Solaris fdisk but I had no luck at all.

I have a FreeBSD-initialised 8-disk vdev, all 10TB WD RED, now on a server with OmniOS r151026, connected via LSI 3008 HBA. At POST, the card shows all disks with right geometry (I can post picture if necessary). But format reports a wrong (~ 2TB) geometry: format Searching for disks...done c0t5000CCA26BD0CAFAd0: configured with capacity of 2047.71GB c0t5000CCA26BD5AAC5d0: configured with capacity of 2047.71GB c0t5000CCA26BD6B9CCd0: configured with capacity of 2047.71GB c0t5000CCA26BD6C6D4d0: configured with capacity of 2047.71GB c0t5000CCA26BD6E59Cd0: configured with capacity of 2047.71GB c0t5000CCA26BD59F6Dd0: configured with capacity of 2047.71GB c0t5000CCA26BD116ACd0: configured with capacity of 2047.71GB c0t5000CCA26BD6960Ed0: configured with capacity of 2047.71GB format should instead report something like (only first drive listed): AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t5000CCA26BD0CAFAd0 /scsi_vhci/disk@g5000cca26bd0cafa diskinfo correctly reports size (showing only first disk): root@omniosce:~# diskinfo -p TYPE DISK VID PID SIZE RMV SSD SCSI c0t5000CCA26BD0CAFAd0 ATA WDC WD100EFAX-68 10000831348736 no no How to force OmniOS (illumos) "format" properly recognize disk geometry? Thank you in advance. Edit 2018-06-02: Added disk kind and expected result (thanks to @andrew-henle)

I'm trying to set up a sane/usable environment in a barebones OpenSolaris-derivative (OmniOS, a distribution of Illumos/OpenIndiana). I have all the plumbing code I need in .profile, .inputrc, and .bashrc files ready to promote to system-wide use, but no system-wide scripts are being sourced for non-login shells. Bash attempts to load the user's .bashrc file on su, but $HOME (and any other environment variables) remains configured for the previous user. Output from a direct (SSH) login: login as: myuser Using keyboard-interactive authentication. Password: /etc/profile run myuser's .bashrc run myuser's .profile run myuser@Helios:~$ echo ~ /home/myuser myuser@Helios:~$ Output switching user: root@Helios:/etc# su myuser bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied bash-4.2$ id uid=1001(myuser) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),27(sudo) bash-4.2$ echo ~ /root bash-4.2$ Note in particular the attempt to source root's .bashrc instead of myuser's .bashrc. su (without additional arguments) has always worked seamlessly in Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. and I intend to replicate that experience, but what can I do when no system-wide scripts run and the user's scripts cannot be found? I'm inclined to blame OmniOS's version of bash and/or su for missing something, but what exactly is the correct behavior? Can I configure/access/script additional plumbing somewhere which addresses the failure to update $HOME and other envvars? Further notes: - there is no man bash in OmniOS (at least not using MANPATH=/opt/omni/share/man:/opt/mysql55/man:/opt/gcc-4.4.4/man:/usr/gnu/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man) - /etc/bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc never get sourced (which is expected as this is apparently a distribution-specific convention, but Ubuntu does appear to be loading these without reference from .bashrc)

I am using OmniOS which is based off of Illumos. I have a ZFS pool of two SSD's that are mirrored; the pool, known as data is reporting its %b as 100; below is iostat -xn: r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.0 8.0 0.0 61.5 8.7 4.5 1092.6 556.8 39 100 data Unfortunately, there is not actually a lot of throughput going on; iotop reports about 23552 bytes a second. I also ran iostat -E and it reported quite a bit of Transport Errors; we changed the port and they went away. I figured there might be an issue with the drives; SMART reports no issues; I've ran multiple smartctl -t short and smartctl -t long; no issues reported. I ran fmadm faulty and it reported the following: --------------- ------------------------------------ -------------- --------- TIME EVENT-ID MSG-ID SEVERITY --------------- ------------------------------------ -------------- --------- Jun 01 18:34:01 5fdf0c4c-5627-ccaa-d41e-fc5b2d282ab2 ZFS-8000-D3 Major Host : sys1 Platform : xxxx-xxxx Chassis_id : xxxxxxx Product_sn : Fault class : fault.fs.zfs.device Affects : zfs://pool=data/vdev=cad34c3e3be42919 faulted but still in service Problem in : zfs://pool=data/vdev=cad34c3e3be42919 faulted but still in service Description : A ZFS device failed. Refer to http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-D3 for more information. Response : No automated response will occur. Impact : Fault tolerance of the pool may be compromised. Action : Run 'zpool status -x' and replace the bad device. Like it suggests I ran zpool status -x and it reports all pools are healthy. I ran some DTraces and found that all the IO activity is from `` (for the file); which is metadata; so there actually isn't any file IO going on. When I run kstat -p zone_vfs it reports the following: zone_vfs:0:global:100ms_ops 21412 zone_vfs:0:global:10ms_ops 95554 zone_vfs:0:global:10s_ops 1639 zone_vfs:0:global:1s_ops 20752 zone_vfs:0:global:class zone_vfs zone_vfs:0:global:crtime 0 zone_vfs:0:global:delay_cnt 0 zone_vfs:0:global:delay_time 0 zone_vfs:0:global:nread 69700628762 zone_vfs:0:global:nwritten 42450222087 zone_vfs:0:global:reads 14837387 zone_vfs:0:global:rlentime 229340224122 zone_vfs:0:global:rtime 202749379182 zone_vfs:0:global:snaptime 168018.106250637 zone_vfs:0:global:wlentime 153502283827640 zone_vfs:0:global:writes 2599025 zone_vfs:0:global:wtime 113171882481275 zone_vfs:0:global:zonename global The high amount of 1s_ops and 10s_ops are very concerning. I'm thinking that it's the controller but I can't be sure; anyone have any ideas? Or where I can get more info?

3 days ago I upgraded vlc in Openindiana hipster 2018.04 . The problem is that vlc will open but cannot play anything. I thought that it is due to ffmpeg package So, I removed my ffmpeg by pkg://sfe-encumbered/video/ffmpeg pkg://sfe-encumbered/library/video/ffmpeg pkg://sfe-encumbered/media/mplayer2 smplayer pkg://sfe-encumbered/media/vlc and then reinstalled it /usr/bin/pkg install pkg://sfe-encumbered/video/ffmpeg@0.8.5 mplayer2 smplayer media/vlc But the problem is still same

I am testing illumos in some of its variants, currently OmniOS. As I was benchmarking io-bound processes, I saw that rsync was significantly slower in respect to my reference, FreeBSD 12-CURRENT. Using same hardware, same command with same source and target disks: In OmniOS r151026 I measured, test@omniosce:~# time rsync -aPt /zarc/images /home/test/ real 17m25.428s user 28m33.792s sys 2m46.217s In FreeBSD 12-CURRENT: test@freebsd:~ % time rsync -aPt /zarc/images /home/test/ 374.651u 464.028s 11:30.63 121.4% 567+210k 791583+780083io 2pf+0w (Note that FreeBSD 12-CURRENT contains debug switches, so it runs slower than future upcoming RELEASE version). - I noticed that, under FreeBSD, rsync was running as 3 processes, all with nice=0, two of them **consistently using 50% to 70% CPU time**. - On OmniOS, rsync was also running as 3 processes, also with nice=0, but **each one never more than 3%**. Is the CPU usage the reason execution time on same hardware is so different on FreeBSD and illumos? If so, since nice was the same on both OS, why illumos does not allow higher CPU usage? How could one improve rsync execution time on illumos-based OS? Thank you in advance. --- ## 2018-06-02 edit: - Clarified question to make it more specific. Thanks to @rui-f-ribeiro - Answering to @roaima: 1. The source and destination filesystems are both local disks 2. This is not a one-off run for each OS, I have been testing this puzzling situation with many repetitions 3. At ever test I am making sure the destination directory tree is completely empty of files matching those in the source

I am experimenting with Omnios trying to attempt creating a shared zfs dataset using zfs inbuilt nfs inside a zone but every time I attempt to do so I get the following message zfs create -o casesensitivity=mixed -o nbmand=on -o mountpoint=/dat/share -o sharenfs=rw=@192.168.1.0/24 dat/share cannot set property for 'dat': 'sharenfs' cannot be set in a non-global zone So I take this as a sign that you can't use zfs nfs inside a zone so I've attempt to create the zfs nfs share out of the zone and I get the exact same error. cannot create 'dat/share': 'mountpoint' cannot be set on dataset in a non-global zone So now I am stumped and after a couple of hours of fiddling and googling around I am hoping someone can shed some light on what I am doing wrong here.

I installed the illumos (opensolaris) distro Tribblix and can't start Xfce. I tried both with a display manager, slim (I know it's old, but it's the only one they offer), and from the console. The default Xorg WM, twm, however, works perfectly as long as I don't try to run a Xfce programme (e.g. Thunar or Mousepad). Then the entire X server crashes. I've linked to some logs I thought were relevant. Please help! Xfce log: https://pastebin.com/wQfFBmaX Xorg log: https://pastebin.com/fYX8NTmJ