Re: too many inodes?

2020-04-27 Thread Michael Cheponis
WRONG # Feels...hosed On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:17 PM Christos Zoulas wrote: > In article < > caoax04pbwg4p2cq31v0gz7mpza7bc-jrvc2fusdojl-wgof...@mail.gmail.com>, > Michael Cheponis wrote: > >-=-=-=-=-=- > > > >I plugged in a 10TB USB disk, was work

too many inodes?

2020-04-26 Thread Michael Cheponis
I plugged in a 10TB USB disk, was working fine, then today it got weird. *# ls /t>▒x4S▒▒XWе▒3▒▒Hj▒▒l▒▒gw,▒=▒&▒X▒▒צA▒▒▒B▒w l: Invalid argument* *# umount -f /t* *# fsck -f -tffs /dev/dk0** /dev/rdk0** File system is already clean** Last Mounted on /t** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and

Re: Linux compat and swap

2020-04-22 Thread Michael van Elst
ion (limited in size because with >the amount of memory here and the programs it runs, there should have >been far enough). Why do you think so? -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: NetBSD-9 GPT on disks smaller than 2TB

2020-04-21 Thread Michael van Elst
ge (with GPT). -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Hard Real-Time?

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Cheponis
ry short time. But again, that > is not what defines hard real time. > > If you get into a discussion with someone else, and that someone else > says Unix can't do hard real time, he is still correct, no matter how > much you fiddled around with your RPi. > >Johnny >

Re: Hard Real-Time?

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Cheponis
Thanks to all who contributed here, I'm learning a lot. As to what is 'real time' -- as you can probably tell by watching the video at the URL, the robots were dynamically stable - they had to react within a millisecond (Read sensors; do all control; storage of data for post-run analysis, run all

Re: Question about resize_ffs or resize_root=YES

2020-04-19 Thread Michael van Elst
elated. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Hard Real-Time?

2020-04-15 Thread Michael Cheponis
Is there already a way to do "hard real time" on NetBSD? To me, "hard real time" means from an external pin going 'high' to the 1st instruction of my driver executing is on the order of (up to) 10 usec. Many eons ago, I did this on BSD4.3 VAX 785 and achieved < about 100 usec jitter. It was a

Re: System slowness and graphics-card

2020-04-09 Thread Michael
e - some rectangle fills never complete, the driver waits, times out, resets the blitter, moves on. The visible symptom is X eating up ridiculous amounts of CPU time. have fun Michael

Re: Accented characters console/shell

2020-04-08 Thread Michael van Elst
76nem...@gmx.ch (Pierre Dupond) writes: >Apr 8 12:01:12[949] Load /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc/8x16.pcf.gz (id 61) >Apr 8 12:01:12[949] Failed to open pty Do you have ptyfs mounted ? -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serp

Re: NetBSD 9, Nouveau and Fan Control

2020-04-03 Thread Michael van Elst
choice of the proprietary (binary only) driver from NVidia. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: library path is missing

2020-03-27 Thread Michael van Elst
usr/local. You need a Linux emulated apache. You probably installed one of the emulators/suse* packages, an apache binary from that suse release might work. Greetings, -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential

Re: Dell Mini 1012 network issues

2020-03-27 Thread Michael van Elst
ce does not work. Bad interrupt routing can be an easy explanation, but difficult to fix. Please try to capture the boot dmesg (saved as /var/run/dmesg.boot) so that someone can look at it. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de

Re: Problem cloning at GitHub using HTTPS

2020-03-27 Thread Michael van Elst
ured for openssl. >It is 2020. I am a firm believer the tools should do the work for me. >I don't work for the tools. Other people believe that tools should not make decisions for you, instead they should give you choices. There is probably a middle ground. -- --

Re: library path is missing

2020-03-26 Thread Michael van Elst
che and doesn't work, there are other problems. Maybe apache prints some error messages that give a hint. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: recording audio

2020-03-16 Thread Michael van Elst
lect an input source or to set input gains or to mute individual inputs. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Hundreds of crypto file descriptors for Apache httpd

2020-03-13 Thread Michael van Elst
, then each thread opens a descriptor and shares it for the SSL sessions created from that thread. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Hundreds of crypto file descriptors for Apache httpd

2020-03-12 Thread Michael van Elst
fr...@phoenix.owl.de (Frank Wille) writes: >Michael van Elst wrote: >> I think the only option you have now is to prevent access to /dev/crypto. >Confirmed! I renamed /dev/crypto and all the 200+ file desciptors per >apache process are gone. Horde also feels snappier again and t

Re: UDP buffer sizes

2020-03-11 Thread Michael van Elst
efault sizes, but in your case the program sets the value. nmbclusters is the space where all socket buffers are allocated from. Even with one UDP socket buffer of 4MB the default should be enough, otherwise increase it carefully. Each nmbcluster is 2kB, -- -- Mich

Re: error: field 'ev_timeout' has incomplete type

2020-03-11 Thread Michael van Elst
"config.h" and included only after "util/mini_event.h". That's too late. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Hundreds of crypto file descriptors for Apache httpd

2020-03-10 Thread Michael van Elst
ly loaded it would work, but since it is builtin, it opens /dev/crypto right from the start. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Hundreds of crypto file descriptors for Apache httpd

2020-03-10 Thread Michael van Elst
nk the only option you have now is to prevent access to /dev/crypto. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Hundreds of crypto file descriptors for Apache httpd

2020-03-09 Thread Michael van Elst
? What can I do (besides >restarting Apache or the whole server)? Something is using /dev/crypto. openssl would do that, but only if you configure it. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Linux-Netbsd huge difference of speed, same hardware

2020-03-04 Thread Michael van Elst
to generate the input. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Linux-Netbsd huge difference of speed, same hardware

2020-03-04 Thread Michael van Elst
mar...@duskware.de (Martin Husemann) writes: >> Why the use of the raw device makes a difference. >It avoids another level of buffering in the kernel. The block device also uses tiny 2KB requests that are extra slow for SD cards. -- -- Michael

Re: Avoid wedges from certain devices

2020-03-02 Thread Michael van Elst
n xen load kernels in multiboot >way or NetBSD xen kernels have this ability? It's not the xen kernel that takes the root= parameter. But yes, that's very MD specific how boot parameters can be passed. -- -- Michael van Elst Interne

Re: Avoid wedges from certain devices

2020-03-02 Thread Michael van Elst
device named dk1. You could specify it as a major/minor combination like: config netbsd root on major 168 minor 1 type ? or use a string with a device name config netbsd root on "dk1" type ? or use a string with a wedge name like above. -- --

Re: ZFS Howto first cut

2020-03-01 Thread Michael
eriments on that. have fun Michael

Re: ZFS Howto first cut

2020-03-01 Thread Michael Huff
I think it would be good to explain how to set it up on NetBSD -at least for x64 and x86. Specifically; tell people to put zfs=YES in rc.conf, then give instructions on how to create some pools, and then point to the oracle docs for more on zfs. Although it might be better to point to

Re: Avoid wedges from certain devices

2020-03-01 Thread Michael van Elst
t comment out the wedge scanning in the wd driver. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Avoid wedges from certain devices

2020-03-01 Thread Michael van Elst
mar...@duskware.de (Martin Husemann) writes: >On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 09:41:46PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote: >> From the description it looks like he is using ataraid (ld0) and >> also sees the components (wd0 and wd1). >Duh. Can't the ataraid driver detect this and mark/bl

Re: ZFS howto?

2020-02-29 Thread Michael
mount ... data on /disk type zfs (NFS exported, local) That's it. I ran a full build.sh release on it with no problems. No need to mess with fstab, zfs=yes will take care of it. have fun Michael

Re: Avoid wedges from certain devices

2020-02-29 Thread Michael van Elst
the controller is in RAID mode. If the RAID attachment then fails, you would end with no wedges scanned at all. In this case you need to trigger the scan on the components. Not sure how to do this safely. A workaround is of course to migrated to raidframe. -- --

Re: dk for z/lvm volumes?

2020-02-29 Thread Michael van Elst
t;> #2 0x80a40299 in vpanic () >> #3 0x80a4035d in panic () >> #4 0x8022669d in trap () >> #5 0x8021ed43 in alltraps () >> #6 0x80abd3bf in spec_read () Got it. specfs relies on a sanitized pi_bsize value. I've updated the patch. Ple

Re: dk for z/lvm volumes?

2020-02-29 Thread Michael van Elst
t it, you can still do (from the same sources) and use it to analyze the core file. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: dk for z/lvm volumes?

2020-02-28 Thread Michael van Elst
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 02:12:29PM +, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 20:41, Michael van Elst wrote: > > I've prepared a patch for -current that fixes this issue. > > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/mlelstv/zvol.patch > > After applying

Re: dk for z/lvm volumes?

2020-02-27 Thread Michael van Elst
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: >mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: >>ci4...@gmail.com (Chavdar Ivanov) writes: >>># ccdconfig -c ccd0 0 /dev/zvol/dsk/pail/nbsd1 >>>ccdconfig: ioctl (CCDIOCSET): /dev/ccd0d: Inappropriate ioctl for device >

Re: dk for z/lvm volumes?

2020-02-27 Thread Michael van Elst
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: >ci4...@gmail.com (Chavdar Ivanov) writes: >># ccdconfig -c ccd0 0 /dev/zvol/dsk/pail/nbsd1 >>ccdconfig: ioctl (CCDIOCSET): /dev/ccd0d: Inappropriate ioctl for device >>Apparently not, in this case. I think the comments in

Re: dk for z/lvm volumes?

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
iver can use a regular block device as component and present the result as a disk. Something must be different with a zvol or your system. In any case, the errno value (ENOTTY) is bogus as CCDIOCSET is perfectly valid for the ccd driver. -- -- Michael van Elst In

Re: iSCSI initiator at boot time

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
te and the boot process shouldn't abort when the server fails. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: dk for z/lvm volumes?

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
d0[a-p] -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: dk for z/lvm volumes?

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
omponent, it again presents the result as a partitioned disk. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: vndcompress and wedges

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
nting (vnd0a or vnd0d) and get =E2=80=9Cincorrect superblock=E2= >=80=9D errors. It should work by accessing the raw disk vnd0d (and works here). -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
e redirected with the TIOCCONS ioctl. That's how xconsole works, it opens a pty, redirects console output to it and then logs things written to the pty to an X window. sysinst could do the same and then e.g. present console output in a curses window. -- -- Michael van E

Re: green lines hell

2020-02-26 Thread Michael van Elst
ssed by a driver. I guess it's less power saving but more trying to trigger Windows to install a missing driver. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: NetBSD ZFS compatibility with other OSs

2020-02-24 Thread Michael Huff
I haven't tested it extensively, but I'm able to load zpools I created in NetBSD on Debian 10 and on Centos 8. On 2/24/2020 10:16 AM, Rocky Hotas wrote: Hi all! ZFS is one of the major updates in NetBSD 9.0. As far as I understood, it is an implementation of OpenZFS, as Linux and FreeBSD

Re: iSCSI: NetBSD-9 target, Linux initiator

2020-02-21 Thread Michael van Elst
ore > > compatible. > > Same configuration files or not ? Unfortunately not. -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: iSCSI: NetBSD-9 target, Linux initiator

2020-02-21 Thread Michael van Elst
itrary sized buffer. In my experience the iscsi target (and the userland iscsi initiator) are pretty limited and somewhat broken. I suggest you use the iscsi target from pkgsrc (net/istgt). Much better, faster and more compatible. -- -- Michael van Elst In

Re: NetBSD 9.0 & MBR, X, etc

2020-02-19 Thread Michael Huff
On 2/19/2020 9:51 PM, Clay Daniels wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Clay Daniels wrote:> I have found that the only way it works for me is to use MBR. not GPT. Anyone have any luck with a GPT installation? To answer my own question, it makes sense to run NetBSD on MBR as NetBSD's default

Re: NetBSD 9.0 & MBR, X, etc

2020-02-19 Thread Michael van Elst
a tiny example that is different from the default. Few people stay with the default, they either adapt it or have a private .xinitrc (or .xessionrc if you use xdm instead of startx). >All in all, I'm having fun with this new NetBSD 9.0. Good to hear :) -- -- Michael va

Re: NetBSD ZFS basics?

2020-02-17 Thread Michael Huff
On 2/17/2020 1:37 AM, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 10:17, Michael Huff wrote: Hi I'm playing with netbsd on virtualbox. Because NetBSD can't boot from ZFS (for now) I have two disks; a small one for the system and a larger one to put zfs and other things on. I've figur

NetBSD ZFS basics?

2020-02-17 Thread Michael Huff
Hi I'm playing with netbsd on virtualbox. Because NetBSD can't boot from ZFS (for now) I have two disks; a small one for the system and a larger one to put zfs and other things on. I've figured out how to create and destroy pools and datasets; but I haven't been able to figure out how to

Re: tutorial on how to use iic on raspberry pi?

2020-02-13 Thread Michael van Elst
michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: >dtc -I dtb -O dts bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb does produce similar output as >you mention. But only similar. Check the 'status' line for each entry, it probably says 'disabled' and not 'okay'. You can either modify the DTB or add overlay

Re: tutorial on how to use iic on raspberry pi?

2020-02-12 Thread Michael Cheponis
is not finding any i2c bus. On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 1:41 PM Michael van Elst wrote: > michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22630 Jun 16 2019 bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb* > > > Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 - so I'm not sure which of the

Re: tutorial on how to use iic on raspberry pi?

2020-02-12 Thread Michael van Elst
michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22630 Jun 16 2019 bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb* > Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 - so I'm not sure which of the >highlighted dtb files is used. That one would have i2c enabled. You can disassemble the dtb

Re: tutorial on how to use iic on raspberry pi?

2020-02-12 Thread Michael Cheponis
seem to have i2c* entries. Thanks for all help. On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:01 AM Michael van Elst wrote: > michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: > > >Hi all, I want to hook up a sensor using iic on an RPi. Is there a > >tutorial somewhere on how to do this?

Re: tutorial on how to use iic on raspberry pi?

2020-02-12 Thread Michael van Elst
michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: >Hi all, I want to hook up a sensor using iic on an RPi. Is there a >tutorial somewhere on how to do this? Do I have to compile a specific >config to enable iic because GENERIC doesn't? netbsd-9 has it defined in GENERIC and the

tutorial on how to use iic on raspberry pi?

2020-02-11 Thread Michael Cheponis
Hi all, I want to hook up a sensor using iic on an RPi. Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to do this? Do I have to compile a specific config to enable iic because GENERIC doesn't? I tried this: *# i2cscan iic0 i2cscan: couldn't open iic0: Device not configured# i2cscan iic1

Re: NetBSD and User Private Groups (Unique Groups)

2020-01-29 Thread Michael van Elst
min of the company backup system may still be able to read your files. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Weird network performance problem

2020-01-20 Thread Michael van Elst
65536 (128MB). -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Devices without power management support: dm0 dm1 (LVM / Device Mapper prevents ACPI Sleep State 3)

2020-01-14 Thread Michael van Elst
ut it's unclear whether that's safe. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Ignoring devices

2020-01-10 Thread Michael van Elst
ch all unused disks when booting, e.g. by calling something like 'drvctl -d sd1' in /etc/rc.local. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: disklabel generating wrong fstype

2020-01-09 Thread Michael van Elst
be confused with a FAT filesystem. exFAT is something completely different. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: disklabel generating wrong fstype

2020-01-09 Thread Michael van Elst
byte sectors this is 2TB. A single file has a limit of 4GB. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: disklabel generating wrong fstype

2020-01-09 Thread Michael van Elst
FAT filesystem when you tag the partition as MSDOS. Since the original type (from MBR) was NTFS it is probably an NTFS filesystem. But you can now format sd0e as FAT filesytem with newfs_msdos (deletes all data) and then mount it. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mle

Re: RAID card issues

2019-12-29 Thread Michael van Elst
rtunately nobody needed to care about the details, the cards were just replaced. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: installboot problems with raidframe - amd64

2019-12-26 Thread Michael van Elst
sv2 for new filesystems, in case the extra features become relevant. If it's not too much work I would recreate the filesystem. Greetings, -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Trouble accessing USB modems on NetBSD 8.1 x86_64

2019-11-25 Thread Michael van Elst
by augmenting /etc/sysctl.conf with ddb.onpanic?=1 It's not always possible to write a kernel dump and you need a swap partition that is large enough. From ddb you can try the command "sync", but if it doesn't dump automatically it probably won't work from ddb either. -- --

Re: Trouble accessing USB modems on NetBSD 8.1 x86_64

2019-11-24 Thread Michael van Elst
ver that emulates a tty interface but uses a proprietary protocol when talking to the device. Since NetBSD lacks such a driver, the device attaches as 'ugen', so you could do low-level USB operations yourself via /dev/ugen0.00 (.. ugen0.15) if you knew that proprietary protocol. -- --

Re: NetBSD on CF card

2019-11-12 Thread Michael
ilesystem blocks will be in exactly one CF block. - mount your filesystems with noatime and nodevmtime - put /tmp and /var/tmp in a tmpfs - make sure you've got enough RAM so you don't need/use swap space have fun Michael

Re: Lightweight GUI code editor

2019-10-26 Thread Michael
cite'. > Do you have any suggestion? I'm using joe for text mode and bluefish in X. Bluefish is supposedly made for web development but it supports all sorts of languages with a filesystem tree in a side panel, which is extremely useful when working on kernel code. Both do syntax highlighting and all sorts of other stuff. have fun Michael

Re: Device timeout reading fsbn ...

2019-10-01 Thread Michael van Elst
has :) Some drives do not have SMART enabled by default. You can change that with the atactl command, but some drives only then start to collect statistics. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Device timeout reading fsbn ...

2019-10-01 Thread Michael van Elst
need to move things over to the Hitachi hard drive, including >user data that could not be reinstalled. Backing up the data is of course the first thing. But please also check the disk with smartmontools or 'atatctl wd1 smart status' to see if itself reports problems. -- --

Re: Device timeout reading fsbn ...

2019-09-30 Thread Michael van Elst
amd64, but apparently not with >NetBSD 7.99.1 (an old installation) or FreeBSD. A timeout can have many causes, but here I suspect some issue with NCQ. Try to disable NCQ for that drive with sysctl -w hw.wd0.use_ncq=0 -- -- Michael van Elst Int

Re: efi msdos puzzle

2019-09-10 Thread Michael van Elst
one of the caveats matter, some free space comes handy, e.g. if you want to keep multiple kernels or a multi-boot environment. Greetings, -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: efi msdos puzzle

2019-09-10 Thread Michael van Elst
pr...@cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) writes: >gpt add -a 4k -l efi0 -s 525256 -t efi wd0 With 2 FATs. 4 + 64 * 2 + 65525 * 1 = 65657 4k sectors (or 525256 0.5k sectors). -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens

Re: efi msdos puzzle

2019-09-10 Thread Michael van Elst
096 free (65524 clusters) One cluster (one sector) is already used by the root directory. The 65525 cluster minimum is pretty artificial because FAT16 is good enough for up to 65524 clusters. More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_the_FAT_file_system -- -- M

Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?

2019-08-21 Thread Michael van Elst
0 0# (Cyl. 0 - 1399) You can then use /dev/vnd0a to mount the filesystem. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: time consistently behind 6 seconds every day

2019-08-03 Thread Michael van Elst
illator is used. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Rescanning ahcisata* or atabus* for eSATA

2019-07-28 Thread Michael van Elst
this is EINVAL. atabus has multiple attachment points. You need to rescan with the attribute ata_hl, i.e: drvctl -r -a ata_hl atabus1 -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: External disk (umass) still writing: how to tell?

2019-07-25 Thread Michael van Elst
bridge enabled for you. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: External disk (umass) still writing: how to tell?

2019-07-25 Thread Michael van Elst
tlaro...@polynum.com writes: >2) Is there a way to query the status of the disk in order to give a hint >to the user about if it's safe or not to unplug the external device? It is safe to unplug the device when you have unmounted the filesystem. -- -- M

Re: Accessing a RAID disk attached externally via USB

2019-07-09 Thread Michael van Elst
d also calculate the offset and size of the partition inside the RAID volume and manually add a wedge with these parameters. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Recover deleted FFS files

2019-07-07 Thread Michael van Elst
e for recovery? https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2016-May/271785.html has a list of tools that may help to recover data. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: FFSv1 (UFS1) vs FFSv2 (UFS2)

2019-07-04 Thread Michael van Elst
e attribute storage. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: FFSv1 (UFS1) vs FFSv2 (UFS2)

2019-07-03 Thread Michael van Elst
ts fragments, not physical disk blocks, the effective limit for the filesystem size varies between 1TB (512byte fragments) and 128TB (64kByte fragments). -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-26 Thread Michael van Elst
issymmetry and fallback so it's approaching what I was looking fo. That's the FreeBSD variant of Linux DRBD. A very regular RAID where one part is on a remote machine. And no, we don't have something like it. -- -- Michael van El

Re: sudden appearance of timekeeping problems with netbsd-8 just after 8.1

2019-06-18 Thread Michael van Elst
gt; kern.timecounter.hardware = hpet0 >and things seem ok, at least after 10 minutes. That's what to do, you can also use the ACPI timer. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: Mounting USB drive

2019-06-17 Thread Michael van Elst
2048 on a 16GB drive isn't that common, it's probably correct. A synthesized disklabel would match the MBR, so that one has probably been written to the USB drive. Can you try to erase the label with 'disklabel -D sd0' ? -- --

Re: current transaction too big to flush

2019-06-17 Thread Michael van Elst
t typed as "swap" or "raid". The swap code ignores the type, but the dump code does not. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: a decent wifi dongle?

2019-06-03 Thread Michael van Elst
works fine in 15m distance from the access point. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: GPT BIOS boot

2019-05-31 Thread Michael van Elst
to give you information about the disk, and so is part of the filesystem superblock. Providing inconsistent fake information won't work. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: GPT BIOS boot

2019-05-30 Thread Michael van Elst
od, but it won't help with the bootloader problem either. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: GPT BIOS boot

2019-05-29 Thread Michael van Elst
m the EFI partition instead by putting a configuration into /EFI/NetBSD/boot.cfg. N.B. I haven't actually tried this. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: nfs: operation not permitted to change network attribute

2019-05-24 Thread Michael van Elst
t, this has different issues but works around the limits of the NFS design. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: wedged machine in disklabel run from /etc/daily

2019-05-13 Thread Michael van Elst
re occupied with a real-time process or interrupt handler. But I doubt that his is happening here... None of these _should_ block forever but time out eventually which may take some time, but you _should_ also see error messages on the console. Greetings, -- Mic

Re: wedged machine in disklabel run from /etc/daily

2019-05-12 Thread Michael van Elst
br...@nmsu.edu (Brook Milligan) writes: >> On May 13, 2019, at 3:43 AM, Michael van Elst wrote: >> >> br...@nmsu.edu (Brook Milligan) writes: >> >>> # ps -lp 4904 >>> UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTYTIME COMMAND >>>

Re: wedged machine in disklabel run from /etc/daily

2019-05-12 Thread Michael van Elst
be done (short of a power reset) to unwedge this machine? Probably nothing. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

Re: NetBSD current on RPI2 (vs 8.0_RC1)

2019-04-23 Thread Michael van Elst
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:01:24PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:55:41PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote: > > The display is handled by the firmware, depending on your HDMI display > > you need to configure overscan in /boot/config.txt. > > I had a feel

Re: NetBSD current on RPI2 (vs 8.0_RC1)

2019-04-23 Thread Michael van Elst
overscan in /boot/config.txt. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

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