Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Stef Walter
Mel Flynn wrote: [1] In order to get this working I had to put a statically compiled ps in the jail This is a pretty standard practice. I always put these statically built into any jails that don't match the outside system. I use the following crunchgen config to accomplish that. Cheers,

Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-09-24 Thread Stef Walter
It seems that FreeBSD has an ABI compatibility policy where major versions remain ABI and API compatible throughout minor point versions. That is to say that the kernel interfaces and libraries for (eg) 7-STABLE, 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE are not supposed to change. Is this a policy of the

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 deadlock (interrupted pmap_remove_pages) with DDB output

2008-06-16 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter wrote: I've been trying to track down a deadlock on some newish production servers running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2. The deadlock occurs on a specific (although mundane) hardware configuration, and each of several servers running this hardware deadlock about once per week

Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-31 Thread Stef Walter
at ata4-master ar1: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad10 at ata5-master In any case, this is water under the bridge for me now. Cheers, Stef Walter ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread Stef Walter
is degraded, the FreeBSD driver thinks it's business as usual. In my case this resulted in file system corruption. Relevant output below. FreeBSD version: 6.3-RELEASE-p2 Cheers, Stef Walter BIOS OUTPUT: Copyright(C) 2003-06 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. RAID Volumes: ID NameLevel

Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread Stef Walter
the Intel MatrixRAID items: http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues Yes, I reported several of those as well as provided patches for them. That was back when I had relevant hardware in my lab. Cheers, Stef Walter ___ freebsd

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-21 Thread Stef Walter
) whenever the status changes, regardless of whether that change takes place when the machine is off or not. Without testing, I can't be sure whether this solves the problem on other ataraid devices. Cheers, Stef Walter ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-20 Thread Stef Walter
specific problem reports and issues are outlined below. Cheers, Stef Walter Fix an early boot panic if you reboot with all drives present when your RAID is marked DEGRADED. This can happen if a drive has an unreadable block and the drive gets detached from the RAID. Rebooting at this point

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-20 Thread Stef Walter
reattached Open PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/108924 FWIW, kern/108924 seems to be a duplicate of kern/102211 Cheers, Stef Walter Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:16:39PM +, Stef Walter wrote: Here's some vital patches for the ataraid driver when using

devfs symlink over device doesn't work

2007-06-26 Thread Stef Walter
not seeing? Reasoning: I'm using devfs in jails, and I'd like anything written (by user space programs, syslogd, etc...) to /dev/console to go to a file in the jail. So at jail startup I'd like to put a symlink over /dev/console to a normal file. Cheers, Stef Walter