Re: Parameters passed to ath_hal_setuptxdesc() from ath(4)

2004-09-15 Thread Sam Leffler
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 01:23 pm, Rob Deker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey folks, ~I've recently been working on some patches to the ath(4) driver to allow for raw frame injection, and I've got a question. Our patches will be allowing for full-frame raw

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Sam
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: It looks like Sun is going to obsolete their UFS: http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/?biga=15 Any comments? Anybody tried it yet? It seems like they have built on and extented concepts presented by geom and softupdates. Sun's been using a lot of ideas

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Andrea Campi
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...). [...] Crappy marketing articles. This one's good though. fortune(6) worthy, I mean: Populating 128-bit file systems

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote.. On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...). [...] Crappy marketing articles. This one's

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:43:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote.. On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta,

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:03:22PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:43:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote.. On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Sam
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:03:22PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:43:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote.. On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: Call me

Re: ZFS

2004-09-15 Thread Chris Doherty
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam said: Sun engineers wondered if the 64-bit capabilities of current file systems will continue to suffice over the next 10 to 20 years. Their answer was no. If Moore's Law holds, in 10 to 15 years people will need a 65th bit. As a 128-bit

Re: Booting encrypted

2004-09-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:30:19PM -0500, Frank Knobbe wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:22, Steve Watt wrote: Having the password compiled in to something that's necessarily clear-text on the same media? Sorry for being late... I'm still catching up on piles of email :) Instead of

Re: FibreChannel support

2004-09-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 15), Paul said: Is there anyone using fibrechannel SAN solutions with FreeBSD ? I had a FreeBSD running on a SAN using qlogic cards a few months back but had to put Linux on it. It works fine. I have a couple questions: 1) Is concurrent access possible ? Like in a

Re: Booting encrypted

2004-09-15 Thread ctodd
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:30:19PM -0500, Frank Knobbe wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:22, Steve Watt wrote: Seriously though, tying the boot process to a hardware dependent value that is not accessible from within the booted system might be something to consider. One word that Bruce