Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
available if I could offer better PR for donations, but it is really outside my power to do so. Does that answer your questions ? Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2004-03-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wm. Da ryl Hawkins writes: I've written a driver for the Intel i8xx TCO watchdog timer for both FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE. Is this written against the sys/watchdog.h API in -current ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Neat little, not so simple project...

2004-02-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with giant. Brownie points: Get slashdotted when they discover you did it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: code compatibility between normal and geom methods for accessingdisk devices

2004-01-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to define something closer. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
or march this year. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, learn to code if need be, donate money so somebody else can code if you can't do anything else. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: GEOM programming resources?

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
instead of the current cdevsw. Don't be mislead by these four easy steps, there is a lot of stuff to do in vinum to get these done, a lot of then undoing things as Greg has already remarked, but if you do it in this order, GEOM will not be your biggest problem in this. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
(Greg) agree to remove it from -current? My proposal is to do just that with both vinum and raidframe until one or possibly both are up to full strength again. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: Future of RAIDFrame

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
at them. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, you have got it all _TOTALLY_ wrong! :-) Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Future of RAIDFrame

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of problems going forward. GPT is our current candidate. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Future of RAIDFrame

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
support. I'm pretty certain we don't want that either. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: secure file flag?

2003-11-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
is no longer a risk to the data. Now *that* is a DIY project for the dedicated hobbyist :-) The terminology and principle, is from atomic weapons which have a similar security profile: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Pal.html enjoy -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus

Re: secure file flag?

2003-11-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wilko Bulte writes: On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:43:30PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have already described one solution to this in my GBDE paper at BSDcon. ... Now *that* is a DIY project for the dedicated hobbyist :-) The terminology and principle

Re: secure file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of the attack scenarios to protect against ? (Not meaning, that secure erase would really solve that problem ...) See my paper for a suggestion about using weak-link/strong-link methods for that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: secure file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
cannot reliably overwrite data on a magnetic media. In particular the difference in read/write geometry and lack of fine control over head placement makes this impossible. The only reliable way to loose data is to encrypt them and throw the key away. Live with it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: secure file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
1. Look for BIO_DELETE in the kernel. 2. Use GBDE or other encryption. 3. Stop bikeshed now, please. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: BTX loader reboot on Soekris comBIOS1.22 fails (patches for btx.s and loader/main.c enclosed)

2003-11-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ljmp $0xf000,$0xfff0). committed to FreeBSD -current. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: geom_mirror implementation

2003-11-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
day down the road, somebody will pick up on the consolidation idea, or maybe he will instead show it to be hopelessly idealistic and burried it firmly. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: FreeBSD mail list etiquette

2003-10-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
projects is of course a different matter). I, and I think other members of FreeBSD, would appreciate it if the members of DragonflyBSD would adhere to this peace-keeping rule as well. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC

Bye hackers@...

2003-10-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Sorry, I'm reducing my email load by dropping off [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want my attention on a problem, send me private email, Cc' me or send it to another list were I'm subscribed. Sorry... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since

Re: rsync vs installworld

2003-10-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
have the code anymore, but the idea is available to anyone who wants it :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: to write a device driver or not to write (i/o, opl3, stupidity)

2003-10-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: settimeofday within jail

2003-10-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Can not dump on raid dev?

2003-09-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
just fixed that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: user malloc from kernel

2003-09-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Major numbers reclaiming for make_dev/MAJOR_AUTO

2003-09-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
or less all the places in the kernel which uses makedev(). As you may have noticed I've started evicting these from the console related code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
will contain large files. It strikes me that driving the block size up (as far as 1M) and having a 256 (or so) fragments might become appropriate. Sounds like a _great_ project for somebody :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and actually fsck them. I am not sure I would advocate 64k blocks yet. I tend to stick with 32k block, 4k fragment myself. This is a problem which is in the cross-hairs for 6.x -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
than I need, it also saves fsck time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
it will give you more I/O bandwidth. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
expected loss of IO be? The loss will mostly be from latency, but how much is impossible to tell I think. The statistics of this, even with my trusty old Erlang table would still be too uncertain to be of any value. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-08-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. This includes various WITNESS- ] related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc debugging flags ] in userland, and various verbose features in the kernel. Many ] developers choose to disable these features on build machines ] to maximize performance. -- Poul-Henning

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-08-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
: 5791796 bytes/sec (file was exported) GG write file: 4071411 bytes/sec (file was exported) GG read device:4635277 bytes/sec (disk device was exported) GG write device: I wasn't able to test Please use /usr/src/tools/tools/ministat to do a proper statistical benchmark. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfsclient bootp_subr.c nfs_diskless.cnfs_vfsops.c nfsdiskless.h

2003-08-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Jeremy wri tes: [Redirected to -hackers because this isn't directly relevant to the actual code committed] On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:04:02AM -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Suggested replacement command sequence on the client: dd if=/dev/zero

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
devices mounting through the network. COOL http://garage.freebsd.pl/geom_gate.tbz I'll look over it when I have a second. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
) can attach to 'mmcr'. This seems straight forward. Maybe I'm missing something. 8-) That's my take too. And MMCR belongs on nexus not on legacy from an architectural point of view. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. In fact what you may want to do is hang the entire MMCR off the nexus as a bus, and hang the various drivers off that bus. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: getting from bio to buf in dastrategy()

2003-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
a bio. Throughout geom bio's are created a destroyed which have no relation to any specific buf, for instance to read the key sectors in gbde. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:18:28PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: I need to add I2C support for a Elan520 based soekris system. The system has the required GPIO pins and there is the iicbb

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:45:43PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:18:28PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: From

small statistics tool in the tree ?

2003-08-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
people at when they run benchmarks. Source: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/ministat Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: uma_zalloc() not checking flags

2003-07-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of calls in the ATM code that have just M_ZERO or even 0 flags. Anything against this check? Good point, please implement! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relatingtoBSDsettlement agreement

2003-06-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the distribution (to the extent that they could). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: imgact_gzip.c

2003-06-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
imgact_gzip.c was heavily a.out aware. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: 0xdeadc0de panic after plugging in USB CompactFlashreader/writer on 5.0-RELEASE

2003-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, +*, *}, + /*quirks*/ DA_Q_NO_6_BYTE|DA_Q_NO_SYNC_CACHE } }; -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: 0xdeadc0de panic after plugging in USB CompactFlashreader/writer on 5.0-RELEASE

2003-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
find it odd, that the quirks are not assigned in the umass code and passed to scsi_da some way, that would be much more reliable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: 0xdeadc0de panic after plugging in USB CompactFlashreader/writer on 5.0-RELEASE

2003-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:10:59PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernd Walter writes: Mine works fine without quirks: port 3 addr 3: full speed, power 100 mA, config 1, Travel Flash(0x1307), PQI(0x0483

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the kernel code, so expect a few non-BDE-complying mistakes. Sorry for that. Thanks, Jason -- Jason Stryker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in the tree: Yeah, right, and sell me the Eifel tower too. There is one count where I will concede that the FreeBSD project sucks: We have really lousy incompetent stupid boring trolls. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: Preliminary gbde performance patchset

2003-05-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
trolling our mailing lists. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Expensive timeout(9) function...

2003-04-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, mostly that it may screw up other time-critical things in the system. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: Expensive timeout(9) function...

2003-04-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. MII access functions are quite time consuming almost any way you look at it. I'm not sure the _tick functions should even be called from a timeout(). In many ways it seems preferable to me to have then run sequentially from a single thread, possibly via a task-queue. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: Expensive timeout(9) function...

2003-04-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-base: What length of delays are you looking for ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: per-open device private data, mmap

2003-03-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
multiple respiratory failures in the re@ team if I even think about it until the RELENG_5 branch has been laid down, so for now you're on your own. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: Makefiles to modify for adding new sys/*.h header files?

2003-03-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
new header files get installed properly when I do a make installworld? None. ... which is a bug. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: D_KQFILTER ltmdm.

2003-03-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
etc -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: 64 bit endian routines

2003-02-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChip driver (fla).

2003-02-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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Re: strange coredump in malloc_bytes()/libc in 4.7p2

2002-11-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
/stdlib/calloc.c:49 I think we can more or less conclude that something has trashed your memory. I'd suggest you try to run your program with ElectricFence or similar. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: kernel basic block profiling

2002-11-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
or is it just a stale feature? I havn't checked it lately, but it should be brought to work again I think, it is a very valuable provider of insight into what code is really executed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Report from EuroBSDCon 2002

2002-11-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
there ! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Report from EuroBSDCon 2002

2002-11-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. I'm pretty sure I heard them say that it was all your fault they got started on this, but then again, I may be totally wrong. Luigi@ had sent a part of his crew from Torino to talk about VPN and other cool networking stuff in FreeBSD. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: tty/pty devices not safe in jail?

2002-11-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-cr_prison) { return (EBUSY); -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: tty/pty devices not safe in jail?

2002-11-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the same prison: : :} else if (pti-pt_prison != td-td_ucred-cr_prison) { :return (EBUSY); : : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 Ah, excellent. Is there a limit inside the prison so a jail cannot

Re: tty/pty devices not safe in jail?

2002-11-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
think running out of ptys is a problem compared to other resource limitations (number of processes etc etc). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: tty/pty devices not safe in jail?

2002-11-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
: You can use up any resource you can get your hand on: processes, disk, filedescriptors, ptys, mbuf clusters, you name it. If you want to add resource limitations to jails, then do it right from the bottom, instead of as local hacks in random drivers or other hotspots. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal

2002-11-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
crunchgen. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Filesystem corruption

2002-11-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
snapshot feature available for 4.X-STABLE (only 5.0)? It works most of the time, but not always. There is no way for dump(8) to realize what has changed under its feet and therefore it sometimes ends up with a bunch of negative blocknumbers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus

Re: Filesystem corruption

2002-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
circumstances? If other circumstances, which ones? The fix is to not run dump(8) on a live filesystem. You should either use a snapshot or umount the device. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hanspeter Roth writes: On Oct 29 at 18:34, Poul-Henning Kamp spoke: That's a slightly more involved issue because you would have to actually try to write to it before you find out that you can't. Isn't there a means to determine the state of the protection

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: IMO, the retry-forever bug is the real problem, but I'm a bit skeptical that it's easy to solve safely. Just revert the commit which added it recently. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: IMO, the retry-forever bug is the real problem, but I'm a bit skeptical that it's easy to solve safely. Just revert the commit which

Re: malloc

2002-10-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
anything about performance, but run a server where you actually have RAM pressure and you might notice the difference. Progress may be overrated, but it seldom goes too far... Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: malloc

2002-10-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: You can find a somewhat more thorough comparison of malloc implementations at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/440671.html . There are many

5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
promise to fix all the issues which come up, but I will do my very best... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] .de writes: Is sysinstall still supposed to copy the contents of the mfsroot- image to /stand ? This at least results in two copies of sysinstall, one in /stand and the other one in /usr/sbin. That is intentional -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] .de writes: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:39:32PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: That is intentional Is it ok then that the sysinstall in /stand of the 0917-JPSNAP immediately dumps core with signal 10 when run on a 1017 -current ? Current

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Never, ever retry. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bakul Shah writes: Oh well. I am not going to argue about this over and over and over again. Thankyou, a very wise decision sir! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], n0go013 writes : On 04.10-18:27, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message n0go013 writes : On 04.10-15:40, fergus wrote: On 04.10-14:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [...] I suspect vinum uses this sysctl to get an inventory of disks in the system, so can I

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. I'm _so_ glad to hear _you_ say that: When will you have made KSE work on sparc64 and ia64 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel E ischen writes: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. I'm _so_ glad

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

2002-10-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, and good riddance. If a buffered access-mode on block devices is desired, it should be implemented either as an ioctl controllable feature, or as a GEOM module. The latter is probably by far the easiest way. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

2002-10-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
close to the point where it can happen... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

2002-10-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to start. There will also be a tutorial friday afternoon about GEOM at BSDCONeuro2002 in amsterdam next month. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: Disk space over 1 TB

2002-09-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
as 64 bit byte offsets, so as such GEOM will solve the problem, and provided the disk-driver authors follow suit, this entire thing can be fixed before 5.0. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: Maybe it's time to commit parts of S/390 port?

2002-09-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
easy now :-) I'm discussing the issue with core@ right now, and if they agree that this should go in the tree, I'll be your designated committer for the first period of time. Stay tuned, I'll get back to you when core@ gives me their conclusion. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

2002-09-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Santcroos writes: On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:41:44PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: The fact that this did work, was it a bug or did this come out due to some other change. The stacktrace from read(2) is below. This hasn't worked for a long time

Re: The poor man's cryptfs

2002-09-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel O'Connor writes: On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 14:18, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Have you seen ports/security/vncrypt? Or src/sys/geom/geom_aes ? Whoo :) I have what I hope is industry-strenght encryption in my development tree with only a few more issues

Re: Supporting HW_WDOG?

2002-09-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce M Simpson writes: What I'd like to do is modify a Soekris net4501 for this. There is a hardware watchdog in the Elan CPU used in the Soekris, I plan to add support for it to the elan-mmcr driver when I get a timeslot for it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: New scsi_target code

2002-09-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Lawson wri tes: On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: IP-over-SCSI ? Well I've just been reading about SCSI over IP so That's

Re: New scsi_target code

2002-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and stability. IP-over-SCSI ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: New scsi_target code

2002-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: IP-over-SCSI ? Well I've just been reading about SCSI over IP so That's different. IP-over-SCSI is a much wanted Myrinet-light over here. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: intermezzo?

2002-09-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Seva Tonkonoh writ es: Hi, I have recently come across an old little discussion about InterMezzo. I 've got the impression that it wasn't really welcome to FreeBSD. What is it ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PCMCIA questions: mapping attribute and common memory?

2002-09-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the appropriate allocations? If so, how do I get at the resource? If not, how would I go about doing this myself in the driver? And what would I want to put in my driver's xxx_probe() routine? Suggest you look at the sys/dev/sio/sio_pccard.c file... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

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