MidnightBSD

New feature in current mport package manager: mport config get

Hadoop 1.x was just added to mports in devel/hadoop.  This took some time to port.   devel/glib20 was recently updated....

The 1.0 release is finally available. Still buidling packages for i386 and plan to do an amd64 package build later in the week.   The single largest issue with the release process has been the web server performance.  The CPU is overloaded and has ... [More] been at solid 100% for several days.  The server has a core i7 7700 in it.  I'm trying to figure out what to buy as an upgrade so that we don't continue to have this issue going forward. As it's actually blocked in multiple processes, a 6 or 8 core chip might be an improvement for the workload.... [Less]

The 1.0 ISOs are on the FTP server. The release notes are nearly written. Waitnig on some updated packages and we'll be able to call this thing....

One of our servers was setup in MidnightBSD 0.7 and had an older ZFS configuration. Over time, the drivers were replaced with 4k advanced format disks. Since ZFS won't let you change the ashift setting on an existing pool, the drivers were not ... [More] running at optimal performance.  MidnightBSD 1.0 current warns about this sutation.  How to fix it?  In this case, there were 2 drives in a mirror and a cache disk as well as another backup pool.  First, we performed a backup to the other pool just to be safe using zfs send -R mypool@snapshot | zfs receive -F backup/mypool, then we removed one of the disks from the pool using zpool detach ada4p1.  We then blew away the partition and created a new gpt partion that was 4k aligned.  gpart add -t mnbsd-zfs -a 4k ada4  Next, we created a new pool called tank  with the one drive.  We then ran zfs send and receive to copy data from mypool to tank.  Once this data is copied, we went into single user mode (shutdown now) and exported both pools. We then imported the new pool tank.  zfs export tank; zfs export mypool; zfs import tank.  This allowed our mount points to kick in.   Next, we repreated the process of repartitioning the second disk, ada3.  We then add it by doing zfs attach tank ada4p1 ada3p1 to include the second disk in the mirror.  Finally we did zpool add cache tank ada1 to re-add our ssd cache drive.  The drive will need to rebuild which can take some time.  This approach prevents any data loss.... [Less]

We're currently working on a large merge of FreeBSD 10-stable (from late may) into MidnightBSD.  A large portion of this work is done, but there are still a few loose ends.  * Symbol adjustments might be made to libc * Several utilities are not ... [More] connected to the build yet.  * There are problems building some of the release targets such as the uefi memstick * A few third party apps were etiher newer or older and not updated.  For example, our svn is still 1.8.x.  * There were bugs in the boot loader code due to a bad merge. Most if not all of this was fixed.  * Some architectures may still be using freebsd partition types, some utilities might not be switched over yet.   We also removed the sensors framework during this migration.  There have been some locking problems in 0.8.x and it requires a rework.   Also, we now have bhyve.  The good news is that it's possible to run FreeBSD on MidnightBSD in bhyve. The trick is to use a freebsd userboot file.  You can compile one from FreeBSD 10.x on midnightbsd or use the new port.  Another option that may work is using the grub port.... [Less]

MidnightBSD 0.8.6 is now available in SVN. In includes the following changes: 1. Heimdal KDC-REP service name validation vulnerability patch 2. Updated USB stack from FreeBSD 9-stable. 3. em(4) update which includes support for newer NICs included ... [More] on Intel Skylake and Kabylake motherboards. USB update includes support for: ASMedia ASM1042A USB 3.0 controller Intel BayTrail USB 3.0 controller Intel Wildcat Point USB 3.0 controller Fresco Logic FL1000G USB 3.0 Broadwell Integrated PCH-LP chipset USB 3.0 Cavium ThunderX USB 3.0 controller Logitech Unifying Receiver CMEDIA CM6206 MELCO WLIUCG300HP NETGEAR WG111V1_2 SIERRA MC7354 SIERRA MC7355 Sierra Wireless MC7430... [Less]

Initial testing of MidnightBSD on a Ryzen 7 1700 CPU with an Asus PRIME x370-pro motherboard indicate that there are some issues that prevent the system from booting. There are two problematic areas: 1. The system timer detection code is not ... [More] finding a timer that will work . 2. The Intel NIC included on this motherboard is not detecting properly and causing a panic.... [Less]

Initial testing of MidnightBSD on a Ryzen 7 1700 CPU with an Asus PRIME x370-pro motherboard indicate that there are some issues that prevent the system from booting. There are two problematic areas: 1. The system timer detection code is not finding ... [More] a timer that will work . 2. The Intel NIC included on this motherboard is not detecting properly and causing a panic. ... [Less]

You can check out MidnightBSD with git svn. For developers git svn clone svn+ssh://[email protected]/home/svn/repos/src/ -T trunk -b stable -t releases (replace with your username of course) For folks looking to fetch the code, you can just use the http protocol instead. Use the URL: http://svn.midnightbsd.org/svn/src/ ...