Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum

2004-01-12 Thread Nat Lanza
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 11:32, Wes Peters wrote: > A few years ago Perforce was working on a write-through cache so you could > have a local duplicate of the server environment, but I haven't seen that > work come out of the company. That would've rocked for our development > model. They release

Re: Looking for FreeBSD kernel debugging help

2003-06-11 Thread Nat Lanza
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 06:22, Terry Lambert wrote: > Someone should port the network debugging from Darwin using > the tiny IP stack from NetBSD. Well, there's this: http://ipgdb.sourceforge.net/ > IPGDB is a collection of extensions to GDB and FreeBSD-4.3 > to allow two-machine kernel debugging

Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChipdriver("fla").

2003-02-03 Thread Nat Lanza
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 18:06, Terry Lambert wrote: > But if that's the argument for removing it, then it's probably > time to remove the ability to use non-DMA IDE drives from the > ATA driver, and kill all the ethernet drivers that have alignment > requirements for their DMA engines, making m_pullu

Re: to users of threads (GDB support)

2002-02-10 Thread Nat Lanza
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 00:55, Kip Macy wrote: > A working version of gdb 5.1 with full user thread support (fixes for bin/24066, > gnu/33182, and as yet unfiled seg fault when resuming from a non-running > thread) is available at: > http://www.eventdriven.org/freebsd.html Excellent! Thanks for do

Re: Perl module for periodic scripts

2001-06-12 Thread Nat Lanza
understand the anti-perl reactions some people have. Maybe it's not your favorite language, but it's not going away. It's time to accept that. --nat -- nat lanza --- there are no whole truths; [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-26 Thread Nat Lanza
vark solution are right -- directory hashing is a well-known solution to this problem. It isn't a hack at all. No matter what method you use for storing directories, larger directories are going to be slower to use than smaller ones, and hashing filenames fixes that. --nat --

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-19 Thread Nat Lanza
re's been some discussion of having ATA become part of CAM, but I don't remember what the result of it was. You might want to check the list archives. --nat -- nat lanza -- there are no whole truths; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Kernel editing tools.

2001-02-09 Thread Nat Lanza
l kernel source editing tools, I'll echo the emacs+etags suggestion. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are ha

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Nat Lanza
you might be interested in. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe:

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-17 Thread Nat Lanza
versions of 2.1. Nothing documented the current kernel, and because of the drastic changes between versions, much of the documentation for 2.0 was misleading. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: finding source to functions

2000-09-30 Thread Nat Lanza
and produce a patch. If you want to take a look, my version is running at http://lxr.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/freebsd/source/. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there

Re: Code Pal VMS

2000-07-09 Thread Nat Lanza
nix). You need the second one (which is SRM if I recall > correctly, I keep mixing them up) for FreeBSD/OpenBSD and friends too. You can also boot Linux from SRM, but it's a pain in the ass to set it up. It's worth it, though, 'cause then you get a handy se

Re: SCSI HBA device detection?

2000-07-03 Thread Nat Lanza
T_SCSI_IO. > If you're writing a generic ramdisk, this is a really masochistic way to > go about doing it. 8) It's really a mix of an exercise in writing a CAM HBA driver and a first step towards a SCSI-over-IP driver. Also, a SCSI ramdisk can be handy for some of the bench

SCSI HBA device detection?

2000-06-23 Thread Nat Lanza
ly have real devices or a real IO bus. Anyone feel like explaining this? Thanks. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are h