Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: > Not sure what the right thing to do here is, or even if it's a real > problem, but: > > I have 8 75GB IBM drives striped in a big raid 0 for monkeying with. > > newfs -i 131072 -v /dev/vinum/bighonkindisk seems to very nicely put all > the data that newfs write ou

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Rasmus Skaarup
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > > > I have 8 75GB IBM drives striped in a big raid 0 for monkeying with. > > > > newfs -i 131072 -v /dev/vinum/bighonkindisk seems to very nicely put all > > the data that newfs write out on to the first disk... It l

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Rasmus Skaarup
Rasmus Skaarup wrote: > By 'odd', you mean small, Søren? If this is the case, be careful not to > make the size too small, which will degrade the perfomance because of > the .. beacuse of the drive geometry. Best regards Rasmus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: "Sticky" Keys ?

2000-06-30 Thread Doug Barton
Pascal Hofstee wrote: > > Hi, > > A co-worker of mine who is mobilly handicapped, uses a Windows > "Accessibillity option" called "Sticky Keys" I vaguely remember a discussion about this have you searched the mail archives? Doug -- "Live free or die" - St

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 30 June 2000 at 9:16:33 +0200, Rasmus Skaarup wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > >> It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: >>> >>> I have 8 75GB IBM drives striped in a big raid 0 for monkeying with. >>> >>> newfs -i 131072 -v /dev/vinum/bighonkindisk seems to very nicely put

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:16:33AM +0200, Rasmus Skaarup wrote: > By 'odd', you mean small, Søren? If this is the case, be careful not to > make the size too small, which will degrade the perfomance because of the I presumed he ment 'odd' as in 'not even' David. To Unsubscribe: s

style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Martin Horcicka
Hi, I'm just reading the style(9) man page and I don't understand to two rules: 1. Citation: The kernel has a name associated with parameter types, e.g., in the kernel use: voidfunction(int fd); In header files visible to user land applications, prototypes that are visible mus

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Fri 2000-06-30 (11:38), Martin Horcicka wrote: > 2. Citation: > > Indentation is an 8 character tab. Second level indents are four spaces. > > while (cnt < 20) > z = a + really + long + statement + that + needs + > two lines + gets + indented + four + spaces +

RE: Funky scheduler stuff under heavy I/O.

2000-06-30 Thread Jaye Mathisen
Well, I ran it by Soren, he didn't think so. And Originally when I noticed it, I thought it was vinum (although I'm not using vinum in this case), and mentioned it to greg, and he was leaning that way as well... I'm not sure I buy the controller argument anyway. For each pair of drives on each

Re: Periodic scripts [Was: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security?]

2000-06-30 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hello all, > > Will we be seeing a move in this direction towards a more configurable > > security script? Is anyone planning it? What about a configuration language? On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > IMO, introducing a sort of silent mode to these periodic scripts would help >

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Anders Franzen
Martin Horcicka wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just reading the style(9) man page and I don't understand to two > rules: > > 1. Citation: > > The kernel has a name associated with parameter types, e.g., in the kernel > use: > > voidfunction(int fd); > > In header files visible to user land

XFree86 4.0 - What are people using for dual-head video?

2000-06-30 Thread Thomas Stromberg
This discussion comes up every once in a while on the lists, and I guess it's time for an update. I havent seen anything since the 3.9.17 beta, so here we go.. What dual head video combinations are people using with XFree86 4.0 and FreeBSD? I've got a -CURRENT box right now with an AGP Riva TNT 2

Re: XFree86 4.0 - What are people using for dual-head video?

2000-06-30 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:41:42AM -0400, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > It's my understanding that there still isn't support for the dual-head > cards from Matrox, unless you go with a commercial X server. If anyone > could point me to a dual-head compatibility list, that'd help too. I use XFree86 4

Re: Periodic scripts [Was: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security?]

2000-06-30 Thread Nick Rogness
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Fotis Georgatos wrote: > Why bother with complex shell scripts when you can have most > needed functionality in a single C program? > I've found myself replacing 10-20 lines of shell code with a single line. WHAT? Are you crazy? I've found just the opposite.

Re: Periodic scripts [Was: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ?]

2000-06-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Rognes s writes: >On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Fotis Georgatos wrote: > >> Why bother with complex shell scripts when you can have most >> needed functionality in a single C program? >> I've found myself replacing 10-20 lines of shell code with a single line. > >

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Horcicka writes: : 1. Citation: : : The kernel has a name associated with parameter types, e.g., in the kernel : use: : : voidfunction(int fd); : : In header files visible to user land applications, prototypes that are : visible must use ei

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anders Franzen writes: : IMHO, I would guess that it can prevent userland from typedefing own types. : I.e. If a program : makes an own type : typedef int fd: : : and then includes a header file saying : void function(int fd): : the compiler would complain about t

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: : Don't get us going. No, it isn't. If you run out of room, GW says Actually that should be CW not GW. CW == Conventional Wisdom. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the me

invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-06-30 Thread KATO Takenori
The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is very old and (2) BIOS update is not available and (3) cpuid < 0x619. Following patch automatically disables invlpg when PentiumPro with cpuid < 0x619 is found. Pl

Re: XFree86 4.0 - What are people using for dual-head video?

2000-06-30 Thread Matthew Reimer
Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > This discussion comes up every once in a while on the lists, and I guess > it's time for an update. I havent seen anything since the 3.9.17 beta, so > here we go.. > > What dual head video combinations are people using with XFree86 4.0 and > FreeBSD? I've got a -CURRE

Re: "Sticky" Keys ?

2000-06-30 Thread Mike Walker
You want accessx for X-windows. Solaris, Compaq/Digital, and SGI provide it, but I didn't see anything at www.xfree86.org Searching around the web found a version for Linux http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall98/Linux/download.html Apple has long provided good support with Easy Access. Also, Microsoft

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: > : Don't get us going. No, it isn't. If you run out of room, GW says > > Actually that should be CW not GW. CW == Conventional Wisdom. I was going to point that out, but I didn't want to be

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, June 30, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > No. Anyway, you can set your tab size to whatever you want. So long as > it is a _tab_, and not 2 or 4 or 8 spaces. If you're heading into the > margin constantly, you should simplify your code, or break it up into > (preferably reusable) fu

loader and rootdev help !!

2000-06-30 Thread nathan
I have FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (on i386) What I am trying to do is nfs root boot from the loader (?) I do: ok> unload kernel ok> load diskless_kernel ok> set kernel=diskless_kernel ok> boot -r -h Now what I understand is the -r flag will tell the kernel to overide the rootdev and use the "stati

Bridging problems.. (WaveLan related?)

2000-06-30 Thread Chris Csanady
I have been trying for over a week now to get bridging working, but without success. I have tried both 4.0 and current, but with no luck. Anyways, my setup is as follows.. On one end is a Lucent WavePoint attached to the outside world. (Some sort of switch I believe. I really don't understand

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Wes Peters
Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > On Fri 2000-06-30 (11:38), Martin Horcicka wrote: > > > b. Aren't 8 characters too many? > > No. Anyway, you can set your tab size to whatever you want. So long as > it is a _tab_, and not 2 or 4 or 8 spaces. If you're heading into the > margin constantly, you s

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-06-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, KATO Takenori writ es: >The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some >PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is >very old and (2) BIOS update is not available and (3) cpuid < 0x619. > >Following patch automatically disa

Re: Bridging problems.. (WaveLan related?)

2000-06-30 Thread Chris Csanady
It never fails.. I always post stuff just minutes too soon. Anyways, it seems that the problem is with the WaveLan network. In ad-hoc, or infrastructure mode, the card can only send frames with its own mac address as the source. Apparrently, the card needs to be set up as an access point (or s

Re: Bridging problems.. (WaveLan related?)

2000-06-30 Thread Blaz Zupan
> On my end, I have a box with a wi0 and fxp0--I was hoping to set it > up to do transparent bridging. So far however, I can't get anything > on this side of the bridge box to talk to the outside world. I > can see all the network traffic from my box, however I can't talk > through the bridge.