Re: open() error

I suppose that iso9660 filesystem doesn't support locking ability, UFS does. Vladimir In muc.lists.freebsd.hackers, you wrote: Hello. I've noticed a strange error in open() syscall: when system booted with a CD as root (boot -C) the following code fails with EINVAL: fd = open(c, O_RDONLY |

Re: Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:33:42PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 9:55:13 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: A thing that might bite you here is that ufs is currently limited to 1 TB per volume. Vinum doesn't have that restriction: if you want to create a 20 TB volume,

Re: Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: The point I never digged deeper here is because you already sugested changing the driver layer to 64bit byte numbers which was accepted if I remember right. Yes, I have this on my plate. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: Intel 840 Chipset Discontinue

Mike Smith writes: I was told by several of my distributors that all motherboards based off of the Intel 840 chipset are being discontinued. That means the Supermicro PIIDM3 and PIIIDME, and any other 840 board. Hurray! ;-) I have mixed feelings about this, but on the whole I think

Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: Backtracing showed that the problem was due to the malloc function inside the get_mem function. get_mem() is used to find out the largest possible memory segment. It incrementaly reduces the segment passed to malloc to alloc. It is the

Re: /etc/defaults/make.conf:LEAPSECONDS= true?

Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: I was wondering if this should go inside /etc/defaults/make.conf. Submit a PR. --- /usr/src/etc/defaults/make.conf Sun Jul 16 05:30:30 2000 +++ /tmp/make.conf Fri Jul 21 18:42:35 2000 @@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ # To build perl with thread

Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

: Since the only effect of a cache miss is less efficient use of : the cpu, and since the page zeroing only occurs when the cpu is idle, : I would not expect to see much improvement from attempts to refine : the page-zeroing operation (beyond the simple hysteresis that FreeBSD :

Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

Daniel, On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:01:53AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: Backtracing showed that the problem was due to the malloc function inside the get_mem function. get_mem() is used to find out the largest possible memory segment.