Title: Deprecating smbfs(5) and removing it before FreeBSD 14

Macer: there. that's where i read it

meena: ah ok. thanks.

guess i can look at fuse but i vaguely remember it being an awkward integration than just mounting it as you would with mount.cifs in linux

windows does have tools for mounting nfs which might be an option

guess it depends on precisely what you want to get working

i usually use smb across the board

yeah it is kinda handy that way

yah

especially for AD mounting auth etc etc

must admit what I do now days though is use a gentoo box as a central mountpoint for a few different things and share it out via samba (modern)

which also works with sshfs and nfs

ah so more like a proxy i guess?

pretty much

i tend to just connect to the fbsd fileserver (runnign samba) which is joined to an AD

I also do the same thing for https/vps have a central server that deals with it and connects how it can to all the rest of the crap

guess it's time to port illumos smbfs client :D

so for me it's all smb heh... in linux, windows, macos

since it's one protocol to rule them all. but fbsd is the only one that doesn't have a mount.cifs or equivalent

and it seems like smb1 mount_smbfs is on its way out heh

it actually does have mount.cifs, but that's the only version it supports

I mean you could just use bhyve to emulate <whatever> mount it via smbfs and then nfs or sshfs back share it to the parent

hacky but should work

yah that's far too ugly.. just had a 1u sitting in my rack doing nothing and wanted to see if i could go ahead and use it like i would proxmox except running fbsd+jails

unfortunately smb mounting is a bit of a dealbreaker although i'm sure there are fuse ways to do it maybe

fuse can be fickle sometimes though

maybe samba 4 comes with a replacement mount utility

naw. mounting is usually on the OS side

samba just serves it up

afaik unless that has changed

Anybody here doing PXE boot and successfully switching the root filesystem to NFSv4?

It is offering a lot of resistance.

how is freebsd doing?

Fine. Why?

I have to write this report for school due in 12 hours, I chose FreeBSD to do it on, it's frustrating a bit lol

there's a section on problem and opportunity so I wrote the company is not doing well but has the greatest potential to roar back type thing

that's probably not accurate is it?

No, lol. Have a look at the companies that use FreeBSD servers

I did it based on my interpretation of the financials

sixpiece: Look at your logs from when you talked to koobs about this, and you should find most of what you want.

thanks

cool sponsors recently

I'm on the 2021 list for such a petty amount

from 2020 to 2021 I see a decrease in the overall balance sheet that is significant

5.02 million total current assets, net loss of 529k, from 5.7 million the rest of the years are normal I think

so it's just 1 bag year really

is competition an issue?

like what are the issues?

scaledagileframework.com does this safe framework look like the company in any way?

Title: SAFe 5 for Lean Enterprises

sorry

thank you mason I copied the conversation I don't know if it's enough at least I removed something tonight that was not right

Is the dedup section still current at wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide#Deduplication ?

Title: ZFSTuningGuide - FreeBSD Wiki

Any recommendation for a PCIe wireless network card that works nicely with FreeBSD 13 for wifi?

A quick internet search is unsatisfactory, and looking substrings from freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/hardware in the pcpartpicker website also doesn't return anything (I'm almost certainly searching the wrong way).

Title: FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE Hardware Notes | The FreeBSD Project

(Only asking if anyone knows off the top of their head though; if not I'll keep searching anyway.)

Intel AX210

I'd start by shortlisting cards with chipsets mentioned in wiki.freebsd.org/dev or the WiFi sections of recent status updates: freebsd.org/status/report-2022-07-2022-09/#_more_wireless_updates, freebsd.org/status/report-2022-04-2022-06/#_wireless_updates, freebsd.org/status/report-2021-10-2…-12/#_intel_wireless_driver_support,

Title: dev - FreeBSD Wiki

or AX201

freebsd.org/status/report-2021-07-2…21-09/#_intel_networking_on_freebsd, or freebsd.org/status/report-2021-07-2…-09/#_intel_wireless_driver_support .

Title: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 3rd Quarter 2021 | The FreeBSD Project

I am sorry, what's the context?

is it easy to remove OSX and installed BSD?

From what?

from a macbook pro

What kind?

M1, Intel with or without T2 chip?

intel

Ok at least you have a chance it might work then :)

It depends very much on the exact model

I try installing it but it says the hard drive is in use

and cannot really format the harddrive.

It could be that you have the Intel+T2 model, it doesn't allow you to write to the SSD if you boot in Linux or BSD

it says Processor 3.5 Ghz dual-Core Intel Core i

7

parv, V_PauAmma_V : Thanks! I'll take a look at those links.

Do you have the model number?

it should be a good challenge

I see only one model mentioned in the wiki: wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Apple_MacBook

Title: Laptops/Apple_MacBook - FreeBSD Wiki

it says Macbook pro 13 Inch 2017 four thunderbolt 3 ports.

Aha that helps a lot

2017 should be pre-T2

But I very much doubt it is well supported by FreeBSD

oh

Thunderbolt is not yet supported

Yes but the ports should work in USB mode

I can boot freebsd

from a USB

It would be more stuff like wifi, bluetooth, brightness etc that will be issues I think

I run FreeBSD on my primary desktop

But it's an intel NUC, pretty standard hardware and I don't even use WiFi or bluetooth

Me two on my HP laptop.

shiroyasha: are you looking for wireless hw suggestions for a desktop board?

Is your SSD showing up as /dev/nvd0?

or /dev/nvme0?

If not it might be trying to write to the USB it's booting from which won't be possible

ax210 might not fully work, outside intel boards

it boots from a USB device. The only thing I cannot do is remove the OS it self.

Hm strange on the older MBP's I've definitely done that with Linux

so I can only have FreeBSD I can install Linux but I don't want that.

and you'll get a setback anyway, with the shim code that comes with ax2*0 support

What device are you trying to write to?

shiroyasha: ask bz@ to port the openbsd if_iwx driver anyway

idwer: Yea, something that lets me have wifi with FreeBSD 13.

For now it seems my best option is choose cards one by one, search what chipset they have, and compare with the links mentioned before.

shiroyasha: this pcie adapter (not the wifi toy) would work, for physical hardware passthrough: aliexpress.com/item/4000369715885.html

parv mentioned similar, but those don't seem to be available in the website where I buy tech stuff from my country (I usually avoid Aliexpress, Amazon, etc, for tech stuff).

shiroyasha: ax2*0 basically is using linux code for the driver (and 802.11 subsystem)

Worst case scenario 1, I go physically to a hardware store and ask specifically for this stuff.

sure - the upside is that aliexpress has a more or less endless stock of cheap hardware

Worstest (?) case scenario 2, I use wired networking to a second router, and use that router to do the wifi stuff to the main router.

on a macbook, i tried linux via uefi like 2 years ago. A driver for the trackpad was supported but it was not as smooth as it used to be

keep in mind that when it comes to "support" it also has another problem within it

I see.

Hi. i'm trying to run civ on wine on frebsd. it works mostly, however the graphics performace is too poor.

my gpu is intel hd 600, my cpu is core i5-6500

s/600/530

maybe ur gpu is too weak?

wine reports often say it is faster than windows version. i was able to get it working on a 4000 HD, which is for ivy bridge.

(on windows.)

I can't see why wine would be faster if you're being limited in terms of GPU.

I'm like to share some data between two jails. It's audio and video files that I'd like to have access to in a Plex jail and in a Nextcloud jail. How should I go about that? I don't want two copies of the same data.

Some zfs sorcery?

NFS

nullfs

cracauer: what would the performance implications be?

debdrup: would that get messy with uid/gids?

sjk: you'll need some way of keeping uids/gids in sync

I never tried NFS on localhost (effectively). I would expect some CPU overhead.

NIS can be used, or you can just keep the uids/gids in sync manually if you're not mixing many jails with nullfs mounts like I do.

I believe I remember being able to mount nullfs and map uids and gids somehow? Will have to google a bit

I mean, nextcloud is just www user, and plex is just, err, plex, or something

Yeah, it's not that hard :)

Sounds like a fun project once (if) the kids are asleep

Title: ID mapping for mounted filesystems [LWN.net]

Should be easy to hack up for FreeBSD, no? :-)

sjk: so long as plex can read the files, it shouldn't care, right?

sjk: remember that docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network-servers/#network-nis (the documentation for how to set up NIS on FreeBSD) is a thing

Title: Chapter 31. Network Servers | FreeBSD Documentation Portal

what? no don't use nis

reviews.freebsd.org/rG521fbb722c33663cf00a83bca70ad7cb790687b3 this is amazing, I wanted single-mount file support for years! Best chrismas present

Title: rG521fbb722c33

Big thanks to dfr !

rtprio: alternatively, do

ngortheone: huh.

Yeah, that'll remove my need for NIS. :P

just create the user and pick the same uid on the other system; unless you lik making things extremely complex for no reason

single-file mount -- sorry, was too excited

when I configure FreeBSD upon install to randomize process id's, hide other user's processes, etc. Where do those settings get saved ?

I looked in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf but didn't see them there

likely in sysctl.conf

last1: <sidenote> I do see security.bsd.allow_destructive_dtrace=0 in my /boot/loader.conf which I believe is one of the security options during install.

last1: <sidenote2> I also see, as idwer suggested, kern.randompid=1 in sysctl.conf

cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/hardening does over the individually

Title: hardening « scripts « bsdinstall « usr.sbin - src - FreeBSD source tree

Some of them need to be set on boot, so they belong in /boot/loader.conf - but I believe the rest go in /etc/sysctl.conf

Oh, a few also go in rc.conf :)