Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 24 November 2003 13:24, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > I'm intrigued by this. Is it possible to build DVDs which will boot on > i386 and/or a variety of architectures? FAQ pointers welcome... I haven't seen one, but I assume the BIOS just reads the ISO9660 FS and does an El Torrito boot as pe

Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-23 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 09:28:37PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > I'd like to make my own distribution DVD's. I know how to make [snip] I'm intrigued by this. Is it possible to build DVDs which will boot on i386 and/or a variety of architectures? FAQ pointers welcome... BMS ___

Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 24 November 2003 12:58, Leo Bicknell wrote: > I'd like to make my own distribution DVD's. I know how to make > CD's, but looking at release(7) I see lots of documentation for > CD's, and none for DVD's. Googling turns up nothing of interest > in the first three pages. > > Can anyone po

Re: Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-23 Thread Colin Percival
At 21:28 23/11/2003 -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: I'd like to make my own distribution DVD's. I know how to make CD's, but looking at release(7) I see lots of documentation for CD's, and none for DVD's. Googling turns up nothing of interest in the first three pages. Can anyone point me to the docum

Making a FreeBSD DVD

2003-11-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
I'd like to make my own distribution DVD's. I know how to make CD's, but looking at release(7) I see lots of documentation for CD's, and none for DVD's. Googling turns up nothing of interest in the first three pages. Can anyone point me to the documentation on how to build DVD's, a-la what the

USB Question: unable to open /dev/ugen0 more than once

2003-11-23 Thread Michael E. Mercer
Hello peoples, I posted this to questions with no reply, I was hoping someone here may be able to give some insight. Question: Should I be able to open /dev/ugen0 more than once? I am using FreeBSD 4.9-Stable, libusb-0.1.7. >From reading the libusb docs, you must open the device for each inter

Minor bug in kern_sysctl.c on stable

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
In kern_sysctl.c I see you guys fixed the OID_AUTO collision with static OID's, but you still have to make the minimum OID_AUTO number 256, not 100 (around line 119 of kern_sysctl.c), or you may conflict with static OID's assigned from loadable modules. I don't know of any situ

XIP and Memory Device driver

2003-11-23 Thread Vincent Jardin
Hi, When a program is stored by a filesystem that is on a MD, are the read-only sections of the binary file duplicated when it is executed ? It could help to save lot of memory ;-) Vincent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Sunday 23 November 2003 04:46 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > On 2003-11-23 00:19 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:54 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > > > On 2003-11-22 11:04 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Stefan Eßer <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Sunday 23 November 2003 04:15 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > On 2003-11-23 00:16 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 21 November 2003 03:56 pm, Stefan Eßer wrote: > > > A simple algorithm could just mark each buffer with a special > > > kind of dirty flag and a counter for the p

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
1. Look for BIO_DELETE in the kernel. 2. Use GBDE or other encryption. 3. Stop bikeshed now, please. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Stefan Eßer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I'm suggesting is to have the obliteration implemented as an > add on to the dirty buffer flush, with the difference that the > buffer contents is prepared for the next step of the erasure process, > written out, and then not declared free but again p

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-23 00:19 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:54 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > > On 2003-11-22 11:04 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Stefan Eßer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I may be way off, but I do not think, that

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Stefan Eßer
On 2003-11-23 00:16 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 November 2003 03:56 pm, Stefan Eßer wrote: > > A simple algorithm could just mark each buffer with a special > > kind of dirty flag and a counter for the pass number (in fact, > > the existing dirty flag could be used,

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:54 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > On 2003-11-22 11:04 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stefan Eßer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I may be way off, but I do not think, that a special thread or > > > a cache flush after each block is required: [.

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 21 November 2003 03:56 pm, Stefan Eßer wrote: > On 2003-11-21 14:09 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for performance, you really need to flush the on-device cache on > > each pass to make sure the bit patterns get written to the platter in > > proper order. I don't see