SATA using 1MB IO transfer size, I don't know! I think the SATA system will
SATA drives aren't much slower than SCSI.
simply make this 1MB IO transfer size.
as you still want "hardware" RAID5 it looks you simply read maybe every
second word from my mails we exchanged privately.
The reason I want to use hardware RAID is because I got so much problem with
software RAID5 4 years ago on FreeBSD 5.4. I still remember those
nightmares. Furthermore, hardware RAID5 doesn't require much knowledge and
management.
But you could be right, the CPU speed is triple now, software RAID
chroot /mnt /etc/rc.d/ldconfig start
If that don't work:
/sbin/ldconfig -32 -s -f /mnt/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints /mnt/lib \
/mnt/usr/lib
Does that work / change the error or no change at all?
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lost of 32-bit programs won't work, like those assuming some kernel data
is some format, ps,
Some people have reported that when "UDMA33" is shown with SATA disks,
that it's purely cosmetical -- that is to say, the actual transfer speed
can exceed 33MByte/sec. A series of "dd" tests reading/writing to the
yes it can, but it's much slower than native SATA, at least on system
where i te
What you're asking for is "too much" -- and this conversation is
starting to delve into freebsd-hardware, not freebsd-questions.
the simple answer is that software RAID on todays computers vastly
outperforms ANY hardware raid solution, maybe except the ones for 1$
or more.
_
Hi,
I've just finished setting up a new web server, and if I get my DNS
stuff correct hopefully an e-mail server too, for my church.
Originally, the intention was to use RAID1 on the MOBO. However, the
do not ever use "hardware" RAID0/1/10 on motherboard.
first it's not hardware, it's purely s
Ok, I have to pickup gVinum where I left it 4 years ago. Hopefully, the
software is stable now.
AFAIK it's not
at least when i tried it in 6.*
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with regards to Intel MatrixRAID, here you go:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ATA_issues_and_troubleshooting
And yes, these are FreeBSD problems, but the severity is so high that
there is a very good chance you will lose your data in the case of a
failure. Simply put, don't risk it.
B
dump, restore
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Mike Price wrote:
FreeBSD command to make image of the active partition and a command to
restore it?
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And what exactly do you classify controllers such as the Promise TX4310
and the Promise S150 SX4 as? The TX4310 could be classified as
"software RAID", but a few of the features are offloaded onto the
controller. The SX4 is the same way, but has actual on-board cache.
si it do something by har
| | the simple answer is that software RAID on todays computers vastly |
outperforms ANY hardware raid solution, maybe except the ones for 1$ | or
more.
You're basically correct, but I think you're overestimating the price of
a good RAID controller.
no. please give me example of any RAID
There is also one difference which you're forgetting: booting.
for me there is no problem. simply put /boot at the beginning of mirror or
small partition
it's that simple
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I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be
enough,
but it should support 1920x1200 resolution.
I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64.
Anybody can recommend?
none of them are supported on any arch. unless giving somewhat-working
bi
In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD
specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of funds
to create and maintain the driver versus the expected revenue from such
an expenditure.
giving out a specs will be the simplest way.
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giving out a specs will be the simplest way.
Any entity, or corporation, has a right to expect a return on their
investment. To expect a corporation to simply give away something,
quite a difference.
for example - documentation about say pentium 4 assembly language and
opcodes are widely ava
usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB)
avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB)
However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could be
used for buffers or cache:
Mem: 1186M Active, 3902M Inact, 468M Wired, 233M Cache, 214M Buf, 138M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 900K Used, 8191M Fre
Mem: 482M Active, 1044M Inact, 363M Wired, 3792K Cache, 214M Buf, 4023M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
I can understand that on the other machine maybe inactive memory is more
beneficial than cache or buffers, but this system is just sitting there
with 4GB free (and the exact same amount of b
The 3ware 9690SA outperforms gmirror and can be had in 4 port with the
did you made tests comparing it with gmirror with the same config?
battery for $600 or so. 8 port with a battery is closer to $1000
Hardware RAID gets you boot support from stripes,
already said what should be done.
em
active and the program need not be reloaded from disk.
I think non-program code can also be "inactive".
i am sure.
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mdconfig -a -t vnode -f isofile
mount_cd9660 /dev/md0 /somemountpoint
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Im looking for a GUI or command line that will allow me to extract information
within an ISO file... im using FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE KDE4.1.1 AMD64
I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that
didn't help.
Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot off
a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't have
direct console access.
Uhmm... This may seem silly, but did you use f
I've bought a secondry HDD to attach to my server running freebsd 7.0.
I want to enable gmirror on it (will reinstall everything from scratch),
you don't have to.
but I want to know if my hardware is setup correctly as a prerequisite for
doing this operation.
The command
dmesg | grep Seagat
mv: /usr/jail/camel/sbin: Directory not empty
mv: /usr/jail/camel/var/empty: Operation not permitted
mv: /usr/jail/camel/var: Directory not empty
mv: /usr/jail/camel: Directory not empty
mv: /usr/jail: Directory not empty
mv: /bin/rm /usr/jail: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status
I guess I ain't
I tried using fdisk first, same problem, won't let me write to the disk.
Do you will use the entire disk in one partition ? If so, just do:
newfs /dev/ad4
yes you can. i actually do this
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is it possible on FreeBSD
i run asterisk with realtime priority. it works perfectly no matter how
much CPU is loaded by other non-telephony tasks.
but with lots of VM pressure it starts to so... like like tha..that...
what causes it to behave like that and how to fix it.
for example when lot
quantum to 2 from 10 and for now - no voice chopping under high
load. but i will test it more.
What version of FreeBSD are you using for this? Yes, it matters.
7.0
please give me few days to make more precise reports from my users and me
being on place today (not just testing this t
Well, basically you are the only one who can answer that. And that's not
a paradox or an attempt at humor. You should investigate. Maybe
interrupts aren't processed fast enough (hardware sharing an
interrupt?), or memory or kernel resources are low.
well last night i tested it with SCHED_4BSD in
for example when lots of spam comes to server and lots of resource hungry
spamassassin processes are spawned our calls starts to be crappy.
And that's why I always have isolated my telephony servers from
normal-ISP tasks: They provide real-time tasks and should be running
in memory only.
i know
i don't know what's drdb, but
man ggated
man ggatec
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Gian Paolo Buono wrote:
Hi,
do you know a metod from mirror a disk or partition across network same drdb
for linux ?
Bye.,., :)
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Will adding a slice to a gmirror instead of a whole disk work?
of course. slice, partition, even remote partition etc.
The slice is big enough to accommodate the old disk.
Thanks
Craig B
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well last night i tested it with SCHED_4BSD instead of sched_ule, reduced
quantum to 2 from 10 and for now - no voice chopping under high
load. but i will test it more.
What version of FreeBSD are you using for this? Yes, it matters.
got RELENG_7 yesterday by cvs, now SCHED_ULE works
/usr/ports/misc/compat6x
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I am attempting to install a web analysis tool named "Urchin" from Google.
Installation instructions are here:
https://secure.urchin.com/helpwiki/en/Urchin_Installation_Guide_(FreeBSD_and_Linux)
Urchin claims to run on FBSD
irq22: pcm052848 3
irq23: uhci2 ehci1 1 0
cpu0: timer 33503897 1929
irq256: em042054 2
it's MSI interrupt
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"gzip *" will do what you want.
When it encounters something that's already gzip'd, it will skip it,
but will emit a warning that it's doing so.
Otherwise, you could use something like:
find -X . \! -name "*.tar.gz" -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs gzip
i don't understand the difference.
.tar.gz
problem: I can no longer install software with ports (i.e, the /usr/ports
collection.) I have to disable PF to do so. Obviously not a great solution.
Am I correct in guessing that ports uses FTP to grab source files from
FTP or HTTP.
if you have http proxy like squid in your network do
expor
well it's KDE. what do you expect ;)
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Michal Kulczewski wrote:
Hi,
I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7.
I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati
drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it.
they're committing a sin by using another operating system. Open source
is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the
job done, and Linux does, then use Linux! If Windows works for you, use
Windows! There's absolutely no shame in that. Blind, one-sided
except when
in few days old RELENG_7 it's great, much better than anything before.
there are something to fix with realtime priority threads scheduling, i
contacted the author and i think it will be fixed soon.
in case of usual work - just use it. it's very good.
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Desmond Chapman wrot
anyone know something good.
good=simply, works well, preferably no or minimal GUI.
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anyone know something good.
good=simply, works well, preferably no or minimal GUI.
The most reliable is 'net/ekiga'. I've run into problems with
'net/kiax' and crossing NAT. That was nearly two years ago so it may
for now kiax works for me (but no NAT), just they automatic gain control
and n
Jagermiester so this may not make to sense.
The problem I originally ran into is that behind goat fraging NAT I
would run into issues receiving calls. The problem I ran into is that
this is not kiax problem. this may be your NAT problem.
what is doing NAT?
IAX has configurable "ping" time, ki
internet. My freebsd 6.2 box is connected to the internet and has 2 network
cards, rl0 and rl1. rl0 connects to the ISP and rl1 is directly connected via
a long Ethernet cable to the NIC on my dad's machine. While I can access the
internet easily, I want my dad to be able to connect to the inter
7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM.
After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU
registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM
setup.
It does not happen with i386 version.
really no idea, but same is on so
you should stay with i386 (if I remember correctly there are no
working amd64 nVidia drivers).
This won't allow you to use the full 8GB of RAM you have installed,
though, without building a custom kernel with PAE support (and there are
known compatibility problems between PAE and certain kernel d
are you sure there's nothing strange in your make.conf
i just did it with week old RELENG_7
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Unga wrote:
Hi all
I'm trying to compile RELENG_7 kernel on i386.
The "make buildkernel" develops an endian related error:
===> xl (depend)
@ -> /usr/src/sys
machine -> /usr/src
you need cam and atapicam to record DVD
BTW it's much easier to use command line tools to record discs.
/usr/ports/sysutils/growisofs
to record from image:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=imagefile
to record ISO DVD
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0 -r .
(or -rJ to be Joliet compatible)
netstat -in
I have a Marvell Yukon onboard nic.
that's normal ;) but some NORMAL working NIC.
you may try to disable some features on that nic too
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One thing worth trying would be to disable MSI/MSI-X. You can disable
these by adding the following to your /boot/loader.conf :
hw.pci.enable_msix="0"
hw.pci.enable_msi="0"
what's wrong in MSI interrupts?
mskc0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error
mskc0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error
Those
I am very interrested by feedback of "real world" samba admins running it
with FreeBSD
or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer FreeBSD
do what your boss wants. it's his company, and it's his right to make bad
decision
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decision
This is off-topic, but I wholly disagree. As a professional employee, it's my
job to advise my boss on technological matters,
yes - advise
no - persuade!
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If he's a good boss (as the poster seem to be implying) then he will
be asking because he hasn't made his mind up his mind completely, but
yeah don't get fired over it :)
in most cases and with system doing ONLY samba, both linux and freebsd
will work fine.
so his boss is not smart for sure p
A boss hires someone that knows what he/she is talking about and relies on
his/her vision.
so - he/she should not persuade what OS will be, just WHAT should be done.
To get informed this person might get his/her information
before he/she decides what the best solution might be; I do hope he/she
myself back in kde3. i Yanked the startup from /etc/ttys, so *must* have
hit the old kdm[3] from root.
No problem with version3--at least things Work there. What I'm wondering
is: if with some future release, say, 7.2 or 7.3, will our KDE default to
version 4?
my default to xdm, and fvwm2 :)
lpr -P admincolor testfile.txt
printcap:
corp-admin|hp|laserjet|Hewlett Packard LaserJet 5Si:\
:lp=\
:sd=/var/spool/output/corp-admin:rm=corp-admin:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/crlfilter:sh:tr=\f:mx#0:
admincolor|hp|laserjet|LANIER LD160c RPCS:\
If this printer is hooked up on the network (e.g. via Ethernet), I
believe you need to set the lp variable to the hostname or IP address of
the printer, e.g.:
admincolor|hp|laserjet|LANIER LD160c RPCS:\
:lp=192.168.1.100\
:sd=/var/spool/output/admincolor:rm=admincolor:\
:l
I 'solved' this by buying a new nic. It's an Eminent with a RTL8139D
chipset.
you SOLVED it not 'solved'. onboard NICs are usually crap, except high end
motherboard.
they solder in what's cheapest in the moment. if chips are buggy, they add
workaround in windoze drivers.
and finally - for
Because I didn't find sufficient informations and "try and error"
would be incomplete (and insecure regarding the result), I'd like
to ask the following question:
Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D).
It contains a file F with its inode number i(F).
May I state that i(D)
the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the
directories and files
so i made them 0777. the software worked like a charm for about 2 months but
after that
at some point the client couldn't access the files on the samba server.
if it could work for 2 months and then
mount -t msdos /dev/md0s5 /mnt
to be able to get the dd5 on /mnt. I then edited the files I wanted,
replaced them, and copied back to /mnt. I did "umount /mnt" and copied the dd
file back to where it needed to be.
did you mdconfig -d before copying image?
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if it could work for 2 months and then refused - something must have been
changed on the client software side.
No Mr. Puchar nothing changed on the client side.
so what changed on server side so it stopped working after 2 months?
in unix there are no "magic things" - things works or not.
i didn't
had the time to debug it to find out the problem. I would like to know what
happened there.
The good thing is that a future client of my company works with the same
accounting software
and the server runs FBSD so if something goes wrong i'll have the time to
debug properly.
it may be so
.
.
lots of explanations how to make ZFS "stable" and usable deleted after
reading.
.
.
IMHO, you should be using ZFS for what you want to accomplish. If you
do go the UFS2 route, I would recommend you set background_fsck="no" in
definitely yes.
but UFS works fine on 10TB volume :) and wor
disk will be overwritten). Add another disk to this mirror, so it
will
be synchronized with existing disk:
gmirror label -v -b round-robin data da0
add -s like -s 1048576 to prevent splitting one request
on 2 disks.
I thought the -s option was only applicable when using
Good day,
Firstly I like to say that I believe the developers are doing a standup
job and that Freebsd is but the best of the best. I have however one
little problem. There is an issue with Broadcom nic (bge) on the dell
2650 machines that are constantly running Ierrs. The bce,em,xl or any
other
you mean DVD video.
mplayer can play DVD's, just use
-vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=1.wav
in options, this will ignore video and decode audio to 1.wav
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
I bought an original DVD but I cannot play that in my car's audio
player. Is there a tool t
I thought the -s option was only applicable when using "-b split" for the
balancing algorithm. Does "round-robin" not mean simply alternating
between the two disks without ever splitting requests?
no. it means for example with -s 65536 and 1MB request - it will split this
request on 2 disks
May i ask a question. Why do you use phpmyadmin from ports? It installs
well i don't use phpmyadmin at all ;)
lots of libraries hence possible security threats in the future. So instead
of
taking care of updating a bunch of libraries just for phpmyadmin why don't
you simply download it from ht
following:
# pwd
/usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin
assuming it can't be changed by make config, modify port :)
# make all-depends-list | grep x11
/usr/ports/x11/libXpm
/usr/ports/x11/xextproto
/usr/ports/x11/xproto
/usr/ports/x11/libX11
/usr/ports/x11/libXext
/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/libXt
/usr/
group, and root login is disabled in SSH.
Thanks for any help/advice.
You'll need to reboot in single-user mode.
E.g.,
http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#SU-WHEEL-GROUP
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and next time - do enable root login through ssh/rlogin/telnetd
there is no securi
Hello!
I have some problems with my samba/vista "os"
I can't log on from my pc to the samba, it says every time that there is a
password/user problem, I tried to retype almost 50 times the user/pass, to
change it but it don't works.
do you ever meet this problem?
no - i don't use
It guarantees that the root password is passed encrypted.
So, next time do NOT enable root loging via ssh.
Instead, put the non-root user in the wheel group.
funny :)
jerry
if course it's not bright to login as root over telnet through public
network, but too - it's not security hole
6.1-RELEASE-amd64 machine. If I add /usr/lib32 to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
it breaks all of my binaries on my 64-bit machine.
what do you expect else?
this will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit program. it
can't work
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a lease, this happens:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dhcpcd -n eth0
eth0: dhcpcd 4.0.2 starting
eth0: broadcasting for a lease
eth0: offered 10.0.0.176 from 10.0.1.1 `mirrorball'
what's your netmask?
if /24 your dhcp server is misconfigured
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When I try to run the binaries, the following error message is
displayed:
ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1 not found
Abort
I found the following tip to install 32bits libraries:
cd /usr/src
make build32
make install32
ldconfig -32 /usr/lib32
Is that enough?
shou
I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in
64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options
for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal,
I'm not running any games.
you actually need 3D accelerator or just fast 2D card?
i
afaik openGL always requires local display
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I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in
64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options
f
7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso
7.0-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso
7.0-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso
7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
Please could you tell me which files I exactly need to download & burn
to install a "normal" FreeBSD installation? Do I need all
while it's strange you haven't installed amd64 at first place, why
migrating WORKING thing? if it works fine - don't touch.
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Suppose I have 100 Desktops, and I want my DHCP server to _only_
assign IP addresses to these hosts, using MAC addresses, is there a
way to tell the DHCP server to NOT assign any IP address to a machine
whose MAC address it doesn't know?
of course.
and you can assign IP to each M
so good. Began Ralf's procedure for inserting ad4s1 into mirror/gm0. The
synchronization began and reached 6% when this little horror appeared:
ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40
LBA=134802751
GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=5). ad6s1[READ(offset=69018976256,
length=131072)]
GEOM_MI
error=40 LBA=134802751
Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a
classic block/sector failure. This does not appear to be the infamous
famous "DMA timeout" problem, especially if this is the only error
you're getting.
he can temporarity boot with hw.ata.ata_dma=0
macromedia still doesn't support FreeBSD, while it's mostly matter of
recompiling.
if so - simply don't use it
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If I have understood things correctly, gmirror stores all relevant
information about the mirror in the last sector on the provider.
exactly. it doesn't matter how the disks are connected.
all data is in last sector.
for non-mirrored drives it's useful to use glabel to get the same
can't be iSCSI client, but iscsi-target is userlevel app, you may run on
any FreeBSD (most probably under any unix).
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I discovered that adding -txcsum and -rxcsum (i.e.
disabling hardware checksuming) to the ifconfig
statement, the performance was as quick as it is
on that other OS!
there is a lot of buggy chips produced today.
normally the should go to thrash, but - what a problem - they put onto
motherboard
Purely as an example: in my Wiki, section "Network devices", see the
entry for the 88E8040 NIC. I'm still working with Yong-Hyeon to try to
get him access to a laptop that has this chip so he can write the
driver.
the best solution is to not use that cards. it's producer's choice to
loose some
I had a friend who used nvidia. They never complained about it. I will
see if I can find out what model and how they got it to work.
mine (on amd64 board, nforce3 if i remember correctly, i sold that
computer) simply stopped working every 5-10 minutes until you did
ifconfig nve0 down
ifconfig
In general, what you're doing is correct for a block copy. There is
nothing (that I know of) which is faster; you're copying 500GB of data
(including the unused portion -- you *did* ask for a block copy),
and this takes a long time. Be patient.
On the flip side, your blocksize (bs) there is qui
OK, I understand that 1000 isn't good, I just thought it wouldn't harm.
But if it is a transfer rate killer then I'd better think of typing ^C now.
The command is running for 6 hours now.
An idea how I can check the current amount of transfered byed alongside the
running dd command? Or wat
I tried using it but Desktop view window that was initially created when I
first launched kde4 doesn't appear with the second launch.
I believe KDE4 isn't ready yet.
Anyone can use it without major annoyances?
the question should be "Is KDE usable at all on any OS?"
the answer is no, it's crap
it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look.
that's why i compare it to windoze.
and why you need "desktop" (whatever it means) at all?
just window manager is enough, try fvwm2 maybe icewm maybe other etc.
all of them does exactly what's needed. windows management an
and why you need "desktop" (whatever it means) at all?
You need desktop for Unix (Linux) to be adopted by simple users.
why you want unix be adopted by simple users? they already have windows -
perfect for them, and exactly what they deserve
Also GUI makes life much easier even for advanc
they try to compete and fail. doesn't matter who did what first. today
windoze gui is way more usable than kde4.
this is the only thing i agree.
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A couple of things:
1. It's true -- many users require a gentler transition than simply
giving up the "richness" of MS Windows and moving to some spare,
no. they don't require transition at all. they will not learn, use
kde/gnome/whatever windoze-like thing then will get back to windoze.
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Since then I've been quite a fan of XFCE but found
myself slowly but surely converting to minimalism
i.e. the least needed to get done what I need done!
On my desktop FreeBSD this amount to about 6 jobs and for those twm fits the
bill perfectly.
http://81.174.174.115/twm/twmrc.htm
i prefer fv
You have to realize that this is the question of every user's
individual needs. Some users, like for example yourself, like going
deep, using the shell for tasks from everyday life, some users are
more GUI-oriented and like somewhat more graphic approach to the same
tasks.
true. that's why ther
Would there be anything wrong in
cat /dev/ad0 > /dev/da0
?
small block size, IMHO 4kB with cat
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small block size, IMHO 4kB with cat
Not to mention, doesn't cat operate on a character level and not a block
level?
it just do 4kB read. that's all
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New to BSD, Using FreeBSD 7.
I need to build a test fileserver, but I want it to use Raid 5. Googling
says I must use vinum.
there is geom_raid5 available but not integrated with FreeBSD
google,download,compile,use
Looking in the ports I see its not available. The links / sites google
sug
If you replace "raid5" with "redundancy and n-1 capacity" then you could
also look at geom_raid3, which is much simpler to configure than gvinum
and slower with random reads.
if he needs it for large files, then it's excellent.
and also part of the base system. Additionally, FreeBSD 7.x has
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