Current GBDE Problems

2003-10-21 Thread John Stockdale
I upgraded source on the current branch a few days ago and havn't been able to get GBDE to work nicely since. I'm running two separate GBDE devices, one 8MB memory disk, and one 1.2TB hardware raid 5 array, neither of which can I now get to mount. When I initialize a new disk on startup for

Feasibility/Practicality of using GBDE to facilitate encryptedswap, md, /tmp, filesystems

2003-07-26 Thread John Stockdale
Hopefully PHK has a chance to look this one over, but if anyone else has any thoughts I'll take any opinions I can get. ;) I was looking over the 5.2 TODO and got curious as to the changes intended for GBDE to allow integration into the fstab / boot-time mount procedure. Unfortunately I have a

Storage Management/Auditing

2003-07-05 Thread John Stockdale
For lack of a better place to query, and a distinct lack of findings in my last few hours of googling, I was hoping someone on the list might be able to enlighten me on the subject of storage system management and auditing. I'm currently admining a low load, high capacity storage array (Raid

Re: New Kernel Breaks IPFW

2003-06-10 Thread John Stockdale
Yep got it all figured out now. I didn't realize that the interface had changed, so I built a new kernel and rebooted before an installworld and ipfw bitched at me. Lesson learnt ;) Thanks for the feedback -John Alas make buildworld fails for the past few days: === usr.sbin/config snip

New Kernel Breaks IPFW

2003-06-09 Thread John Stockdale
Hey everyone, I just cvsup'd my src today and was going to buildworld later tonight but when I installed the newly built kernel with IPFIREWALL etc. and rebooted, ipfw fell over, specifically, even after ipfw firewall enable, an ipfw show resulted in a core dump. If its useful, I can post the

Re: gbde Performance - 35Mb/s vs 5.2 MB/s

2003-06-06 Thread John Stockdale
Hey Everyone, I've been MIA with regards to the current list lately, but was checking the backlog for gbde stuff and came across this thread. Anyway, I've been running gbde (thanks to Poul for helping me out along the way) on a SMP (2x2.0ghz Xeon) box with a 3ware RAID 5 (8 drive ATA-133

buildworld problem (source cvsup around 10:00pm march 30)

2003-03-31 Thread John Stockdale
I'm running FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT, and just updated my source tree from cvsup10.freebsd.org about 3 hours ago. Upon make buildworld, the make runs fine for about an hour, then spits out: === etc === etc/sendmail make: don't know how to make freebsd.mc. Stop *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code

RE: mdconfig/mdmfs problems - kernel panic

2003-03-21 Thread John Stockdale
) Any suggestions? -Original Message- From: John Stockdale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:41 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: mdconfig/mdmfs problems - kernel panic Ahh, that explains why the multiple /dev/md* didn't help the problem. I'm looking

mdconfig/mdmfs problems - kernel panic

2003-03-17 Thread John Stockdale
OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT, JPSNAP20030314 I'm running a Dual Xeon system with 1GB DDRRAM, and trying to create a ram disk to compile under, specifically to compile the kernel. I've tried several methods, involving either creating one 512MB disk with mdconfig or mdmfs. No matter what options I

RE: mdconfig/mdmfs problems - kernel panic

2003-03-17 Thread John Stockdale
Message- From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:27 AM To: John Stockdale Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mdconfig/mdmfs problems - kernel panic In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Stockdale writes: OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT, JPSNAP20030314 I'm running