possible bug in/around dscheck()?

Hi, I was mirroring some disks (happily ignoring badblocks), using rsh source_machine dd if=/dev/ad0 bs=1MB | dd of=/dev/ad0 bs=1MB with FreeBSD-4.3-release running both machines. This sometimes (disastrously) aborts when a partition boundary is crossed. Sure enough, dscheck() invoked from dis

Re: name cache size

Thus, Alfred Perlstein wrote... > > how can I increase the size of freebsd's name cache? > sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1 thanks, that worked. -- Sitaram Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/ Phone: (off) 713-348-2265 (rice xBANK), (home) 713-799-8

name cache size

xusers=512). thanks in advance, (should this have gone to -questions instead? wasn't sure..) -- Sitaram Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/ Phone: (off) 713-348-2265 (rice xBANK), (home) 713-799-8980 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

ATA-disk question

ld remedy the fact that requests are taken away from drive queues as soon as they're put there. Hoping for enlightenment, -- Sitaram Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/ Phone (off) 713-348-2265 (rice xBANK) (home) 713-383-6279 (713-EVE-MARY), and if that *keep