Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:33:21PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:22:13PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > > http://green.homeunix.org/~green/nfs_client.deadlock.patch > > > Hmm, could you change it into a diff -u ? > > > > I replaced the patch with one with -

virtual swich

2005-04-19 Thread Donatas
hello, are there any solutions for emulating a network switch between network interfaces under FreeBSD 5.3? i cannot use ng_hub because it does not filter packets by their mac addresses... the purpose is switching between ngeth0,ngeth1 and em0. any ideas are welcome Donatas G. _

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:32:27PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:33:21PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:22:13PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > > > http://green.homeunix.org/~green/nfs_client.deadlock.patch > > > > Hmm, could you ch

Re: virtual swich

2005-04-19 Thread Eric Anderson
Donatas wrote: hello, are there any solutions for emulating a network switch between network interfaces under FreeBSD 5.3? i cannot use ng_hub because it does not filter packets by their mac addresses... the purpose is switching between ngeth0,ngeth1 and em0. any ideas are welcome Is this what you

Re: virtual swich

2005-04-19 Thread Adam Maloney
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: Donatas wrote: hello, are there any solutions for emulating a network switch between network interfaces under FreeBSD 5.3? i cannot use ng_hub because it does not filter packets by their mac addresses... the purpose is switching between ngeth0,ngeth1 and

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > Does this work for you? ... cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -g -nostdinc -I- -I. -I

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:02:58PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > Does this work for you? > > ... > > cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:09:00PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:02:58PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > Does this work for you? > > > > ... > > > > cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -W

PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
Hi, I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No NFS. It's a sort of diskless machine with all the system on ram. When image is small ( <= 45M ) everything boots ok. But if greater, then the kernel does not find the /sbin/init and then reboots over and over, as if t

Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:52:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No > NFS. Any reasons for not using NFS ? > I use i386/5.4RC2/TFTPD/PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT . > (same pb with a 5.3). > > Am I missing something obvio

RE: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
> -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Marc Olzheim > Envoyé : mardi 19 avril 2005 21:06 > À : Emmanuel Chriqui > Cc : freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Objet : Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT proble

Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:31:10PM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: > This is roughly how it works under our linux servers, webservers, etc... I > was hoping to avoid that approach (less work.. less maintenance..). > > Am I the only one on earth to need a big MFSROOT ??? > :) Hmm, I guess so. :-P

RE: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
> Objet : Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:31:10PM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: > > This is roughly how it works under our linux servers, webservers, etc... > I > > was hoping to avoid that approach (less work.. less maintenance..). > > > > Am I the only

RE: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
> Objet : Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem > > Marc Olzheim wrote: > > >On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:52:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. > No > >>NFS. > >> > >> > > > >Any reasons for not

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:16:16PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:09:00PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:02:58PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > > Does

Re: linux call_usermodehelper equivalent in freebsd?

2005-04-19 Thread James Thomason
>Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD to the Linux kernel function >'call_usermodehelper' which wraps execve to do as its name >suggests, call a user mode helper program? Andrew, It depends on what your user mode helper program is intended to do, but the traditional approach is to create a user m

kernel programming

2005-04-19 Thread neuro
where's a good place for kernel programming documentation ? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ABV.BG автоматичен отговор

2005-04-19 Thread neuro
i'm not sure i understnad that language ? if you tell me which one it is I could use googles convertor --neuro On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org wrote: blagodarq za izpratenoto ot Vas pismo nai skoro shte vi otgovorq!! ___ freebsd-hackers@fr

Re: kernel programming

2005-04-19 Thread Joseph Koshy
> where's a good place for kernel programming documentation ? In no particular order: 1. The FreeBSD Developer's Handbook. 2. The FreeBSD Architecture Handbook. 3. The book 'The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System', by Kirk McKusick and George Neville-Neil. 3. The sect

Re: kernel programming

2005-04-19 Thread neuro
yeah thanks for that, i figured the code was a good start. Now that I know the docs i know where to go, cheers for that --neuro On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Joseph Koshy wrote: where's a good place for kernel programming documentation ? In no particular order: 1. The FreeBSD Developer's Handbook. 2. The