Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Danny Braniss
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:07:44PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-10-11 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:04PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: Little time ago I was misleaded by the certain people and got an idea that VirtualBox actually works on FreeBSD, so I've made a draft port for it. It doesn't actually work, but since I've spent several hours hacking it and made

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Danny Braniss
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:35:16PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: ZFS boot

2008-10-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:To Matt: : since 'small' nowadays is big enough to hold /, what advantages are there :in having root split up? :also, having this split personality, what if the disk goes? the hammer/zfs :is probably raided ... You mean /boot + root , or do you mean /root vs /usr vs /home? I'll

Re: ZFS boot

2008-10-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On 10/11/08, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With regards to the traditional BSD partitioning scheme, having a separate /usr, /home, /tmp, etc... there's no reason to do that stuff any more with ZFS (or HAMMER). As separate partitions, no. As separate filesystems,

Re: ZFS boot

2008-10-11 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Matt, Matthew Dillon wrote: [...] /boot can be as complex as boot2 allows. There's nothing preventing it from being RAIDed if boot2 supported that, and there's nothing preventing it (once you had ZFS boot capabilities) from being

Re: ZFS boot

2008-10-11 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: FWIW, my system is amd64 with 1 G of memory, which the page implies is insufficient. Is it really? This may be purely subjective, as I have never bench marked the speeds, but when I was first testing zfs on a i386 machine with 1gig ram,

Re: Is it possible to recover from SEGV?

2008-10-11 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Yuri wrote: Let's say I have signal(3) handler set. And I know exactly what instruction caused SEGV and why. Is there a way to access from signal handler CPU registers as they were before signal, modify some of them, clear the signal and continue from the instruction that