Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus: On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:58, Mike Meyer wrote: Right. I typically install / and /usr as distinct files systems for just that reason (/ and /usr have different backup recovery strategies

Re: How to Use ddb(4)?

2006-07-28 Thread Maxime Henrion
Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Maksim Yevmenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so far i only got one (successful) report. would people please give it a try to see if work, so i can commit it. Please commit it. I don't see how it can do any harm. Yes please; I'd like to see this patch in HEAD as

Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas index.sgml

2006-07-28 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote: BTW, a problem that has occurred a number of times in the past is that people have approached us with implementations of ideas in the idea list that it has later transpired we aren't actually interested in (sometimes at all). I think it might

RE: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: M. Warner Losh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:39 PM To: Michael Scheidell Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers libc_r depends on absolute system time to do its sleeps and timeouts, and has

Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas index.sgml

2006-07-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:52:33 +0100 (BST)): [moving to [EMAIL PROTECTED] feel free to redirect if you think there's a more appropriate list] On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Joel Dahl wrote: Modified files: en/projects/ideasindex.sgml Log: - Extend

Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas index.sgml

2006-07-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:45:50 +0100 (BST)): On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote: BTW, a problem that has occurred a number of times in the past is that people have approached us with implementations of ideas in the idea list that it

Re: How to Use ddb(4)?

2006-07-28 Thread maksim yevmenkin
Maxime Henrion wrote: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Maksim Yevmenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so far i only got one (successful) report. would people please give it a try to see if work, so i can commit it. Please commit it. I don't see how it can do any harm. Yes please; I'd like to see

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:33:41PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Small disk drive means smaller than any drive I can buy at the local Best Buy/Circuit City/CompUSA/similar. At the time, I needed an 80GB drive, and paid about $60 for it. Well then your comparison isn't really fair.. Sure, a brand

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-28 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Scheidell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : -Original Message- : From: M. Warner Losh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:39 PM : To: Michael Scheidell : Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org : Subject: Re: FBSD 5.5 and

Re: How to Use ddb(4)?

2006-07-28 Thread Maxime Henrion
maksim yevmenkin wrote: Maxime Henrion wrote: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Maksim Yevmenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so far i only got one (successful) report. would people please give it a try to see if work, so i can commit it. Please commit it. I don't see how it can do any harm. Yes

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-28 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick C. Petty [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:33:41PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Small disk drive means smaller than any drive I can buy at the local Best Buy/Circuit City/CompUSA/similar. At the time, I needed an 80GB drive, and paid about $60 for

Re: How to Use ddb(4)?

2006-07-28 Thread maksim yevmenkin
Maxime Henrion wrote: maksim yevmenkin wrote: Maxime Henrion wrote: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Maksim Yevmenkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so far i only got one (successful) report. would people please give it a try to see if work, so i can commit it. Please commit it. I don't see how it

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-28 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Scheidell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : -Original Message- : From: M. Warner Losh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:39 PM : To: Michael Scheidell : Cc:

Re: New Welcome message for FreeBSD

2006-07-28 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
* Giorgos Keramidas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: New motd-welcome message for FreeBSD. http://www.cwt.uz/motd best regards I like it! Very good. I don't. It is pretty content free when compared with our current default motd. I agree, FreeBSD is serious OS, and it's not good idea to

Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Scheidell
M. Warner Losh wrote: : : I replaced libc_r with libpthread and it immediately reboots the system! Neither of these is good! Does it happen on 6? Don't know, I had enough trouble going from 5.4 to 5.5 :-( 6.x might not even run on my hardware. : I am going to try to nail down just

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: : On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: : Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1, : of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible. : : DragonFly disklabels allow 16

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-28 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: There is another solution for FreeBSD folks, however. You *DO* have four slices to play with. You can put a disklabel with 8 partitions in it on each one (for 32 total). It isn't as convenient, but it does work.

fdescfs functional in 6.1?

2006-07-28 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I will confess, I have on idea if this is what's supposed to be happening. The OpenBSD spam filter system need access to /dev/fd/7. Man page says that I need to mount the fdescfs to get access. Fine. I'm running 6.1-STABLE. So here's what I see, and it looks very odd: devfs is mounted,

Re: fdescfs functional in 6.1?

2006-07-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 28), Jaye Mathisen said: devfs is mounted, fdesc is unmounted: s2# ls -l /dev/fd total 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 250, 0 Jul 25 03:25 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 250, 1 Jul 25 03:28 1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 250, 2 Jul 25 03:27 2 Looks just like I