Re: freebsd 8.0 stable amd64/x86 needs ~9min to bootup

2010-01-28 Thread Zavam , Vinícius
2010/1/28 Bruce Simpson b...@incunabulum.net: Try GRUB4DOS. I use this so on boxes where I have Windows installed, I can keep GRUB in the NTFS partition. I haven't seen this issue and am tracking -STABLE on an ASUS V-series machine. Simpson, I forgot to mention... but I tested it using

Re: booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-28 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 20:23 -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2010-01-27 22:27, John Baldwin wrote: GPT was defined along with EFI, so many folks assume that you have to use EFI to boot a GPT-labelled disk. However, FreeBSD has

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-28 Thread Marco van Tol
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:00:35AM -0800, Nick Rogers wrote: Is it advisable to patch 8.0-RELEASE kernel sources with the latest (CURRENT) em driver (i.e., src/sys/dev/e1000)? It looks like there are some updates to the driver since 8.0-RELEASE that may fix some problems? While on the em

Re: booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-28 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2010-01-28 13:06, Robert Noland wrote: John or Marcel can correct me, but I don't think that this is an issue. The bootstrap is located in the pmbr in sector 0 and the GPT headers and tables are in sectors 1 - 34. The bootstrap code knows how to read the GPT tables and can deal with 2 tb

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 27/01/2010 22:26 Tommi Lätti said the following: Seems that the performance is indeed atrocious. I recently (like 2 days ago) had to rescue my zfs pool under opensolaris to spare disks. The performance under OpenSol was what I was expecting, 70MB/s reading and writing at the same time.

Re: [PATCH] VirtualBox headless VNC support by LibVNCServer

2010-01-28 Thread Daisuke Aoyama
Thank you for your reply. I put VBox-VNC-20100127.patch in files an modified the paths to be acceptable to the ports tree and applied the Makefile patch and it works well. (I say this as IMO it's easier to try if you distribute it like that :) I think too. I have created it to use with

Re: booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-28 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 28 January 2010 7:26:24 am Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2010-01-28 13:06, Robert Noland wrote: John or Marcel can correct me, but I don't think that this is an issue. The bootstrap is located in the pmbr in sector 0 and the GPT headers and tables are in sectors 1 - 34. The

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-28 Thread Jack Vogel
I am investigating it, and have a suspicion about what's going on, you can assist in verifying my suspicion. In if_em.c search for em_setup_vlan_hw, you will find a compile time option that uses that only if FreeBSD_version is 700029, hack the code however you wish so that it uses the OLD way

Re: [PATCH] VirtualBox headless VNC support by LibVNCServer

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Daisuke Aoyama wrote: I think too. I have created it to use with FreeNAS. I assumed that it is used internally. The first mail of FreeBSD ML is here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-January/007 336.html Next time, I will try to change you said.

Re: su password prompt to stdout instead of /dev/tty

2010-01-28 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Cyrille Lefevre a écrit : sorry, repost to -standards w/ an s ! jhell a écrit : On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:57, glen.j.barber@ wrote: Cyrille Lefevre wrote: su password prompt is displayed to *stdout* instead of */dev/tty*. # su user $ su root -c date /tmp/date 21 (nothing displayed) $ cat

Re: su password prompt to stdout instead of /dev/tty

2010-01-28 Thread Doug Barton
Has anyone checked what POSIX has to say about this? And does this issue affect more than just su? Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover!http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-28 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:45:10 +0200 Dan Naumov wrote: This discussion made me have a look at my 2tb WD Green disks... So did I. Hm, it's a nice feature: - Model Family: Western Digital RE2-GP family Device Model: WDC WD1000FYPS-01ZKB0 Firmware Version: 02.01B01 User Capacity:1

Re: su password prompt to stdout instead of /dev/tty

2010-01-28 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Doug Barton a écrit : Has anyone checked what POSIX has to say about this? And does this issue affect more than just su? Hi, su isn't posix, not the susv4 way at least ! Regards, Cyrille Lefevre -- mailto:cyrille.lefevre-li...@laposte.net ___