Re: ATA APM and NCQ support in FreeBSD atacontrol

2008-05-13 Thread Bruce Cran
Ian Smith wrote: I take Jonathan's point that it would be nice to have this functionality in atacontrol, though perhaps the BUGS section in ataidle(8) precludes merging that? cc'ing Bruce Cran in case he wants to add something .. ataidle is at the moment quite dumb about sending commands: it d

Re: ATA APM and NCQ support in FreeBSD atacontrol

2008-05-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:52 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 11 May 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Has any work been done recently towards adding SATA Native Command > > > Queueing as well as ATA APM and acoustic management to

Re: 7.0 issues fixed? upgrade timing?

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Kaduk
On 5/13/08, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There had been large changes to enhance re(4) stablility and many > users reported positive results. But it still seems to have issues > for certain models. See kern/123202, kern/123563. > If you encounter issues on latest re(4), please

Re: good/best practices for gmirror and gjournal on a pair of disks?

2008-05-13 Thread mcdouga9
George Hartzell wrote: Adam McDougall writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > >[...] > > - I've read in the gjournal man page that when it is "... configured > > on top of gmirror(8) or graid3(8) providers, it also keeps them in > > a consistent state..." I've been trying to figure o

Re: problems with ia64

2008-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 13, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Christian J. Wong Cruz wrote: Hello, I'm trying to download the ia64 distribution CDs from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ and the list is [ ... ] if you look at the disc 2 and 3, the size is 364K is it ok?. I'd like to install fr

Re: 7.0 issues fixed? upgrade timing?

2008-05-13 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:22:10PM -0400, Ben Kaduk wrote: > Hi all, > > I only just now subscribed, so my apologies if this has been covered > and my cursory search missed it. > > I am seeing a similar issue to the one described in the email below > (pasted from a web listing of this list

: Re: Socket leak (Was: Re: What triggers "No BufferSpace), ?Available"

2008-05-13 Thread Mark Saad
Hello All This issue goes back some time, but I do not see a solution. Sorry about the cross post not sure where this belongs. Here is an overview of my issue which is similar and I hope someone can point me in the direction of a solution. I have experiencing an odd socket related issue on a

: Re: Socket leak (Was: Re: What triggers "No BufferSpace), ?Available"

2008-05-13 Thread Mark Saad
Hello All This issue goes back some time, but I do not see a solution. Sorry about the cross post not sure where this belongs. Here is an overview of my issue which is similar and I hope someone can point me in the direction of a solution. I have experiencing an odd socket related issue on a

problems with ia64

2008-05-13 Thread Christian J. Wong Cruz
Hello, I'm trying to download the ia64 distribution CDs from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ and the list is [FILE] 7.0-RELEASE-ia64-bootonly.iso. . Feb 25 18:10 62M [VIEW] [DOWNLOAD] [FILE] 7.0-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso . . . Feb 25 18:11429M [VIEW] [DOWNLOAD]

Re: good/best practices for gmirror and gjournal on a pair of disks?

2008-05-13 Thread George Hartzell
Adam McDougall writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > >[...] > > - I've read in the gjournal man page that when it is "... configured > > on top of gmirror(8) or graid3(8) providers, it also keeps them in > > a consistent state..." I've been trying to figure out if this > > simply

Re: good/best practices for gmirror and gjournal on a pair of disks?

2008-05-13 Thread George Hartzell
Adam McDougall writes: > [...] > I believe gjournal uses 1G for journal (2x512) which seemed to be > sufficient on all of the systems where I have used the default, but I > quickly found that using a smaller journal is a bad idea and leads to > panics that I was unable to avoid with tuning.

Re: good/best practices for gmirror and gjournal on a pair of disks?

2008-05-13 Thread Adam McDougall
George Hartzell wrote: I've been running many of my systems for some time now using gmirror on a pair of identical disks, as described by Ralf at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ Each disk has single slice that covers almost all of the disk. These slices are combined into the gmirror

Re: Panic after hung rsync, probably zfs related

2008-05-13 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Stuyts wrote: | Hi, | | While doing an rsync from a zfs filesystem to an external usb hd (also | zfs), the rsync processes hung in zfs state. I could not kill these | processes, although the rest of the server seemingly continued to run | fine. Th

Panic after hung rsync, probably zfs related

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Stuyts
Hi, While doing an rsync from a zfs filesystem to an external usb hd (also zfs), the rsync processes hung in zfs state. I could not kill these processes, although the rest of the server seemingly continued to run fine. The reboot command did not work. Next I tried a shutdown now command.

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-May-13 08:33:03 -0700, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Most all old 32 bit ports should work but upgrading them can >mess things up. All the new compiles will generate 64 bit >binaries but any port dependencies on a shared library will >be wrong. It's actually somewhat worse than t

Re: kqemu support: not compiled

2008-05-13 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Tue, 13 May 2008 00:18:32 EDT bazzoola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On May 12, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: >> >> >> I just cant get kqemu to work on my AMD64 SMP! >> > >> > echo kqemu_enable=YES >> /etc/rc.conf >> > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/k

Re: kqemu support: not compiled

2008-05-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 12 May 2008 20:56:20 -0400 bazzoola wrote: > I just cant get kqemu to work on my AMD64 SMP! > I setenv WITH_KQEMU > I compiled the port with make -DWITH_KQEMU > I edited src.conf and added WITH_KQEMU=yes > I make config and checked KQEMU ALPHA support > I am running > #uname -a > FreeBSD

Re: ATA APM and NCQ support in FreeBSD atacontrol

2008-05-13 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:52 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has any work been done recently towards adding SATA Native Command > > Queueing as well as ATA APM and acoustic management to FreeBSD? > > > > I found this PR (with patch) to add APM and acou

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Pete French
> If you run only the latest standard binaries you are right > but typically one acquires useful things over time and it is > not always possible to recompile them and also, why bother. true, but in this case I want to change a more or less vanilla 7-STABLE/i386 to a more or less vanilla 7-STABLE/

Re: Hard(?) lock when reassociating ath with wpa_supplicant on RELENG_7

2008-05-13 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 19:33 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > > I seem to be able to lock my machine by going into wpa_cli and asking it > > to 'reassoc'. The reason for question mark after "hard" is that debug > > information (caused by wlandebug and athdebug) is be

Re: 7.0 issues fixed? upgrade timing?

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Kaduk
Hi all, I only just now subscribed, so my apologies if this has been covered and my cursory search missed it. I am seeing a similar issue to the one described in the email below (pasted from a web listing of this list). That is, my ssh connection will occasionally be dropped with the message Di

good/best practices for gmirror and gjournal on a pair of disks?

2008-05-13 Thread George Hartzell
I've been running many of my systems for some time now using gmirror on a pair of identical disks, as described by Ralf at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ Each disk has single slice that covers almost all of the disk. These slices are combined into the gmirror device (gm0), which is t

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:59:11 BST Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the 64 bit FreeBSD world, /usr/lib32 contains libraries > > for the x86 binaries and /lib, /usr/lib contain 64 bit > > libraries so a straight install may mess things up. At the > > very least you should backup your 32

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Pete French
> In the 64 bit FreeBSD world, /usr/lib32 contains libraries > for the x86 binaries and /lib, /usr/lib contain 64 bit > libraries so a straight install may mess things up. At the > very least you should backup your 32 bit root partition -- > but I have a feeling my advice is already too late :-)

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:18:36 BST Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a box currently running i386 which I want to change over to > run amd64. I have installed a second drive into the machine on which > I have put a basic install of amd64, and have compiled up the world > and kertnel fr

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete French wrote: | I have a box currently running i386 which I want to change over to | run amd64. I have installed a second drive into the machine on which | I have put a basic install of amd64, and have compiled up the world | and kertnel from sou

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pete French wrote: |> I did roughly the same but slightly different method: | | ah, and did it work o.k. ? | | -pete. | Yes and I have been using the system for almost 8 months now as my primary desktop -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Pete French
> I did roughly the same but slightly different method: ah, and did it work o.k. ? -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Status of ZFS in -stable?

2008-05-13 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hugo Silva wrote: Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello Pierre-Luc, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 6:26:49 AM, you wrote: Hi, I would like to know if the memory allocation problem with zfs has been fixed in -stable? Is zfs considered to be more "stable" now? I am using ZFS on my laptop as a typica

Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Pete French
I have a box currently running i386 which I want to change over to run amd64. I have installed a second drive into the machine on which I have put a basic install of amd64, and have compiled up the world and kertnel from source. Can I simply switch the original partition over by mounting it up and

Re: Status of ZFS in -stable?

2008-05-13 Thread Hugo Silva
Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello Pierre-Luc, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 6:26:49 AM, you wrote: Hi, I would like to know if the memory allocation problem with zfs has been fixed in -stable? Is zfs considered to be more "stable" now? It's still an experimental feature in FreeBSD, thoug

Re: Status of ZFS in -stable?

2008-05-13 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Pierre-Luc, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 6:26:49 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know if the memory allocation problem with zfs has been > fixed in -stable? Is zfs considered to be more "stable" now? It's still an experimental feature in FreeBSD, though the memory allocation issues might