Re: HEADS UP Reviewers. VFS changes to be committed.

1999-08-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred P erlstein writes: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Uhm, have any of you actually ever looked at src/sys/kern/vnode_if.src ? I can't really tell if you are commenting on the diffs I provided or if you are commmenting on the comments I have

[mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Volker Stolz
Hi, I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in /etc/fstab which allows normal users to mount/umount devices. Both programs have to be set-uid-root. I´d like that someone reviews the patches (and includes them :). The diffs are at

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-29 Thread Leif Neland
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Hi folks, What follows is a diff that presents Doug's changes (which must have required quite a bit of effort, thanks!) in a slightly different format which I think the grumpies here might prefer. Specifically, case statements look more like

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml]

1999-08-29 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 11:45:42PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: You know how people can get sidetracked easily. :-) For that matter, if chapter.sgml still has a log of why the version changed, then I think it would be a good thing to insert the above comment in param.h. I don't recall

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread JK3
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in [snip] vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff. vs Discussion welcome! You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if the

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Kris Kirby
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: Both. The problem is that you can't cram a signal moving at 10 Mbps through a radio interface designed for 256K, even if it is bandwidth limited to 256K. I'm hoping the 3C503 is ancient enough that I can slow it down by

NFS unmounts while reboot ?

1999-08-29 Thread Martin Blapp
Problem: As I notized, a FreeBSD NFS-client does not unmount it's NFS-mounts during reboot. This can cause problems on the server if it's not BSD. At least Linux complains if there are still nfs-mounted filesystems on the server. It also would be a Good Thing (TM) if /var/db/mountdtab

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote: Quoting JK3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in [snip] vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote: This procedure can be automated by entering the following command in /etc/rc.sysctl sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 Maybe it's

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: # set sysctl variables early as we can if [ -f /etc/rc.sysctl ]; then . /etc/rc.sysctl fi Mind you it doesn't look like it was merged into releng_3 Could someone do this before 3.3? It's useful functionality. Kris To Unsubscribe: send

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Alban Hertroys wrote: I have seen this line a lot lately. It isn't in FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, is it? My /usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.c says: /* * If the mount was successfully, and done by root, tell mountd the * good news. Pid checks are probably

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-29 Thread Darryl Okahata
"Jay West" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The merced executes PA-RISC instructions natively. It also executes x86 instructions natively. If the chip you get doesn't do one or the other, it's because that section has been lobotomized for marketing/contract reasons due to where you get the chip

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Natty Rebel
Quoting Chris D. Faulhaber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote: This procedure can be automated by entering the following command in

Re: Should cam_imask be part of bio_imask ?

1999-08-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
:[General discussion of VM buffer corruption deleted] : :Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Thor suggested adding the CACHETHEN bit back in the adaptec controller. : :To save anyone else the effort, this change only affects Adaptecs :that identify as "aic7890/91" or "aic7896/97". : :Peter

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris Kennaway writes: : Could someone do this before 3.3? It's useful functionality. As the committer of this feature, I've just sent mail to jkh asking for permission. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Anthony Kimball
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option "user" in [snip] vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff. You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if the sysctl variable

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: : I have some frequecy hopping radio modems that use the 82593 to get : 256kbps or so... Speaking of which, I'll give two free to someone that commits to writing a driver for these beasts. It would be an excellent chance for reverse engineering

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Chris D. Faulhaber" writes: : Maybe it's just me, but I think you are confusing this with : {Net|Open}BSD. /etc/rc.sysctl does not exist in FreeBSD. rc.sysctl does too. I added it. Excellent. That will be a nice

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread C. Stephen Gunn
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 10:47:05PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: As the committer of this feature, I've just sent mail to jkh asking for permission. How does this change relate to bin/11031? The above patches weren't written by me, but by a co-worker of mine. It allows for a termcap-like

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: : I have some frequecy hopping radio modems that use the 82593 to get : 256kbps or so... Speaking of which, I'll give two free to someone that commits to writing a driver for these beasts. It would be an excellent chance for

3.2-s nfsv3/udp server daily panic

1999-08-29 Thread Alex G. Bulushev
we use hightly loaded nfsv3/udp server with 5 fbsd nfs client all with 3.2-stable server panics one/two time a day with: panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir then reboot ... another panic: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: ce4c9000 in this case server write: syncing disks... and hangs

Re: HEADS UP Reviewers. VFS changes to be committed.

1999-08-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message pine.bsf.4.05.9908282023450.6392-100...@fw.wintelcom.net, Alfred P erlstein writes: On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Uhm, have any of you actually ever looked at src/sys/kern/vnode_if.src ? I can't really tell if you are commenting on the diffs I provided or if you

[mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Volker Stolz
Hi, I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in /etc/fstab which allows normal users to mount/umount devices. Both programs have to be set-uid-root. I´d like that someone reviews the patches (and includes them :). The diffs are at

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-29 Thread Leif Neland
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Hi folks, What follows is a diff that presents Doug's changes (which must have required quite a bit of effort, thanks!) in a slightly different format which I think the grumpies here might prefer. Specifically, case statements look more like

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml]

1999-08-29 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 11:45:42PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: You know how people can get sidetracked easily. :-) For that matter, if chapter.sgml still has a log of why the version changed, then I think it would be a good thing to insert the above comment in param.h. I don't recall seeing

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread JK3
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in [snip] vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff. vs Discussion welcome! You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if the

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Kris Kirby
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: Both. The problem is that you can't cram a signal moving at 10 Mbps through a radio interface designed for 256K, even if it is bandwidth limited to 256K. I'm hoping the 3C503 is ancient enough that I can slow it down by

NFS unmounts while reboot ?

1999-08-29 Thread Martin Blapp
Problem: As I notized, a FreeBSD NFS-client does not unmount it's NFS-mounts during reboot. This can cause problems on the server if it's not BSD. At least Linux complains if there are still nfs-mounted filesystems on the server. It also would be a Good Thing (TM) if /var/db/mountdtab

Re: NFS unmounts while reboot ?

1999-08-29 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 09:16:57PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: As I notized, a FreeBSD NFS-client does not unmount it's NFS-mounts during reboot. This can cause problems on the One could just made a quick and dirty solution as Linux has, like one line in rc.shutdown: umount -Avt nfs As

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Natty Rebel
Quoting JK3 (j...@bgl.vsnl.net.in): vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in [snip] vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff. vs Discussion welcome! You can allow non-root

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote: Quoting JK3 (j...@bgl.vsnl.net.in): vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in [snip] vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff.

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Chris Piazza
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote: This procedure can be automated by entering the following command in /etc/rc.sysctl sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 Maybe it's just me, but I think you are confusing this with

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 29 Aug, Chris Piazza wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote: This procedure can be automated by entering the following command in /etc/rc.sysctl sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 I have seen this line a lot lately.

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote: This procedure can be automated by entering the following command in /etc/rc.sysctl sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1 Maybe it's

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: # set sysctl variables early as we can if [ -f /etc/rc.sysctl ]; then . /etc/rc.sysctl fi Mind you it doesn't look like it was merged into releng_3 Could someone do this before 3.3? It's useful functionality. Kris To Unsubscribe: send

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Alban Hertroys wrote: I have seen this line a lot lately. It isn't in FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, is it? My /usr/src/sbin/mount/mount.c says: /* * If the mount was successfully, and done by root, tell mountd the * good news. Pid checks are probably

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-29 Thread Darryl Okahata
Jay West jlw...@tseinc.com wrote: The merced executes PA-RISC instructions natively. It also executes x86 instructions natively. If the chip you get doesn't do one or the other, it's because that section has been lobotomized for marketing/contract reasons due to where you get the chip from.

Re: Should cam_imask be part of bio_imask ?

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
[General discussion of VM buffer corruption deleted] Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: Thor suggested adding the CACHETHEN bit back in the adaptec controller. To save anyone else the effort, this change only affects Adaptecs that identify as aic7890/91 or aic7896/97. Peter To

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Natty Rebel
Quoting Chris D. Faulhaber (jed...@fxp.org): On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Natty Rebel wrote: This procedure can be automated by entering the following command in /etc/rc.sysctl

Re: Should cam_imask be part of bio_imask ?

1999-08-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
:[General discussion of VM buffer corruption deleted] : :Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: : Thor suggested adding the CACHETHEN bit back in the adaptec controller. : :To save anyone else the effort, this change only affects Adaptecs :that identify as aic7890/91 or aic7896/97. :

Re: Should cam_imask be part of bio_imask ?

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: Oh my, did I really say Thor ? Sorry about that Tor! Actually, no, I managed to insert that typo into Matt's quote. Sorry to both Tor and Matt. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-29 Thread Wes Peters
Wilko Bulte wrote: As Wes Peters wrote ... If you think Microsoft doesn't have 64-bit NT in development for Merced, you're being awfully gullible. Compaq was insisting that Alpha remained the development platform for NT64 while dropping support for NT32 on the Alpha last week, while

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-29 Thread Wes Peters
Chuck Robey wrote: When I was in the computer architecture classes, I did a lot of modeling of various kinds of things that could be done to speed up a processor (the least of which is cache memory, but it stands as a good for instance thing here). One thing that impressed me, when doing

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Uh, no, HP has already admitted that when Merced ships it will be slower than current-generation PA-RISC CPUs. Which means it will also be slower than Alpha, PowerPC, and UltraSPARC processors you can buy now. Which is just going to make *everyone*

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Warner Losh
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9908281545220.1358-100...@sasami.jurai.net Matthew N. Dodd writes: : On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: : Both. The problem is that you can't cram a signal moving at 10 Mbps : through a radio interface designed for 256K, even if it is bandwidth : limited to 256K.

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Warner Losh
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9908291829260.61952-100...@pawn.primelocation.net Chris D. Faulhaber writes: : Maybe it's just me, but I think you are confusing this with : {Net|Open}BSD. /etc/rc.sysctl does not exist in FreeBSD. rc.sysctl does too. I added it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Warner Losh
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9908291552200.47871-100...@hub.freebsd.org Kris Kennaway writes: : Could someone do this before 3.3? It's useful functionality. As the committer of this feature, I've just sent mail to jkh asking for permission. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Warner Losh
: I have some frequecy hopping radio modems that use the 82593 to get : 256kbps or so... Speaking of which, I'll give two free to someone that commits to writing a driver for these beasts. It would be an excellent chance for reverse engineering skills to be honed. :-) I would prefer

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Anthony Kimball
vs I whacked mount and umount into shape for using an option user in [snip] vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/mount.diff vs http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~stolz/umount.diff. You can allow non-root users to mount and unmount devices if the sysctl variable

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: : I have some frequecy hopping radio modems that use the 82593 to get : 256kbps or so... Speaking of which, I'll give two free to someone that commits to writing a driver for these beasts. It would be an excellent chance for reverse engineering

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message pine.bsf.4.10.9908291829260.61952-100...@pawn.primelocation.net Chris D. Faulhaber writes: : Maybe it's just me, but I think you are confusing this with : {Net|Open}BSD. /etc/rc.sysctl does not exist in FreeBSD. rc.sysctl does too. I

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread C. Stephen Gunn
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 10:47:05PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: As the committer of this feature, I've just sent mail to jkh asking for permission. How does this change relate to bin/11031? The above patches weren't written by me, but by a co-worker of mine. It allows for a termcap-like

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Warner Losh
In message pine.bsf.4.10.9908300059590.1358-100...@sasami.jurai.net Matthew N. Dodd writes: : Of course, I'm assuming that your boards are compatible with the ARCnet : standard programming interface... Actually, no. They are Ethernet drivers with an underdocumented interface. Warner To

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-29 Thread Warner Losh
In message 1999083324.a29...@tsunami.waterspout.com C. Stephen Gunn writes: : The above patches weren't written by me, but by a co-worker of : mine. It allows for a termcap-like configuration file /etc/mountcap : that allows you to specify a mountpoint/device, options, and filesystem :

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-29 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 12:40:20 +0200, Leif Neland wrote: if isyes ${thisvariable} case $1 of [Yy][Ee][Ss]) exit 0 ;; *) exit 1 ;; esac I hope you mean in instead of of and return instead of exit. :-) I like this. One of the reasons I like it so much is because it will make

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-29 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: : I have some frequecy hopping radio modems that use the 82593 to get : 256kbps or so... Speaking of which, I'll give two free to someone that commits to writing a driver for these beasts. It would be an excellent chance for