ramjet303

Hi lime Tech (Tom) Re Bonding. Yes the above link does cover what I was referring to. Some years ago I set up link aggregation using Slax and it was fine. All the "extras" rc.bond, ifenslave etc are trivial to set up, its only the bonding module in the library for net drivers that for me at least is a pain to set up since I would need to set up a compiling environment for the UNRAID kernel and driver library. While this is not insurmountable it is a lot to do simply for one module. Perhaps using link aggregation may have no great advantage since disk speeds are the limiter. At present the disks I have (Hitachi 5K3000 2 TB and Seagate @TB Greens start at around 135 MB/sec) and with jperf test I can get network speeds (with tuning )112 MB/Sec). Real world rough tests show around 35-50 MB/SEC using Samba and around 70 -90 MB/SEC using (vs) FTP. I am curious to see if using bonding for 2 GB /sec will yield any improvements. In my case it is effectively free since I have a spare port on the switch and a built in Giga NIC that I do not use over the Intel NIC card I have. While anything that adds unnecessary size to bzroot should be avoided this "extra" make it trivial to test whether there is any real "value added" using bonding. Regards Ramjet303 PS I have some appreciation that the beta development is a very long and demanding task but hope this request can be conveniently fitted in.

Greetings While not a specific beta issue may I request Lime-tech include the Bonding module in the next beta. I have several MB's with Realtek Giga NICS but have used Intel NICs and deactivated the Realtek in BIOS. Since I have spare router ports which support link aggregation and a "spare (Realtek) NIC" I would like to try bonding but it is quiet a lot of trouble to compile a single module. It is trivial to adapt the ifenslave package so if the bonding module was included it would make this exercise a lot easier. My current motherboard has a Atheros 1 GIG NIC (atl1c.ko is the module) which despite notes that it can be problematic seems OK on the brief tests I have done. I should add the current motherboard I use has an Atheros NIC (module atl1c.ko) . The Intel NIC card cost more than the whole motherboard so I would like to test if I can get better value if link aggregation helps with performance reliability etc. Regards Ramjet303

Hi from OZ Just set up UNRAID server (Basic). Have an additional disk (outside of the array) using NTFS. NTFS Slackware package installed along with simple features GUI. Otherwise stock standard. Have used beta 10 and OK. Problems is with powerdown command issues an oops as follows: Aug 17 14:11:45 Tower kernel:BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000040 Aug 17 14:11:45 Tower kernel: IP: [<c131ffdf>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x9/0x1a Aug 17 14:11:45 Tower kernel: *pdpt = 000000002fff5001 *pde = 0000000000000000 Aug 17 14:11:45 Tower kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP If I use a halt command is OK. FYI. I have attached the full system log. Regards Ramjet303 syslog.txt