On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:45:04PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> > [adding netdev]
> > [meta-comment: I wish people wouldn't use such unnecessarily broad subjects
> > -- how is it the x86-64 port's or AMD's fault when you have broken
> > hardware?
> > Would anybody write "Silent corruption on
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 08:03:16PM -0700, Jim Paris wrote:
> Since it shows up under heavy load that includes unrelated devices, I
> think ruling out hardware problems is important. Some suggestions:
I've been able to narrow it down to the Realtek Ethernet card. I can't
reproduce the problem usin
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 07:52:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Are you able to provide us with some before-and-after data so we
> can see this corruption.
>
> See, if it's dropped-bits or shifted-data or eight-byte-aligned
> kernel addresses or whatever, that helps us generate theories..
Sure.
Hello,
I discovered a reproducible way of causing silent file corruption.
Unfortunately, this method happens to me my backup procedure :(.
Background: I have five hard drives. sda and sdb are on a SiI 3112
card. sdc and sdd use onboard sata_via. hda uses onboard VIA VT8237
IDE. All filesystems ar
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:08:55AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
> (But you must distinguish people. One complains about the probing,
> another about the numbering. The bios keyword tells lilo about
> the numbering, and it works.)
Well, shouldn't lilo avoid probing if you pass bios=? Currently i
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:01:07AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
> But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5):
It doesn't help.
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> cache_add("/dev/hda",0x300);
> for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
> sprintf(tmp,"/dev/hda%d",i);
> cache_add(tmp,0x300+i);
>
> Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info.
> There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem.
Sure it isn't a problem, but i
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:58:18PM -0500, Stephen C Burns wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Each time I run lilo, I receive the following message in syslog:
>
> modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3
I have the same problem. http://bugs.debian.org/83710
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:22:13AM -0500, Steve Best wrote:
> June 28, 2001:
>
> IBM is pleased to announce the v 1.0.0 release of the open source
> Journaled File System (JFS), a high-performance, and scalable file
> system for Linux.
Great!
I remember that awhile ago there were some case issu
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:29:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Taking that one step further, isn't it a developer's right to "toot their
> own horn" in their code?
Right. In the code. Not in the Linux boot diagnostic information.
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 01:50:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> How about we drop the "printk" altogether, and make it all a comment?
Can we please also drop annoying static informational printk's?
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
The la
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:12:29AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> When was the last time you wrote a large cross-platform GUI that just
> worked on other platforms, without any additional tweaking, after you
> developed it on your Linux machine?
I'd say that would be the last time I wrote something i
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:00:47AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Just the fact that some people use Java (or any other language) does
> not mean, that they don't care about "performance, system-design or
> any elegance whatsoever" [2].
However, the very concept of Java encourages not
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:11:29PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Congratulations. (This is pretty big machine, for the VAX, no? When
> was it build? How much power does it take?)
Nah, it's a VAXstation.
http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/buildvax.html
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:30:38AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> By running the software covered by this license, you agree to
> become my personal slave and you will be obligated to bring
> me coffee each morning for the rest of my life, greating
> me with a "Good morning,
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:34:05AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Should we file bug reports against glibc?
invsqrtpi= 5.64189583547756279280e-01
Inverted square root of pi. Want to file a bug on Pi?
tpi = 6.36619772367581382433e-01,
R0/S0 on [0, 2.00]
I'm not sure what R and S are, but
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:26:20PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Sure- that's not BSD. You were speaking about all kinds of firmware, at least
> I thought you were. Must be too short on sleep.
Yes, I am. New-style BSD licenses are compatible with the GPL. As long
as a piece of firmware contains s
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:59:08AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> If a driver writes 0x63f30e44 (4 bytes) to the card, no problem?
> Fine, how about 0x52e590a84fc8231e (8 bytes) then? You can see
> where this is leading I hope: 200 kB is perfectly fine.
Yes, I thought this way at first. Howeve
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:00:15PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> It is my opinion, such as it is, that a BSD copyright inside of a GPL package
> does not, per se, weaken the GPL. The BSD copyright is, in fact, the more
> permissive license. My reading of both licenses would have me believe that
This message sparked a long thread on the debian-legal mailing list,
which is long since dead. I am personally very curious about whether
this has been resolved upstream. I consider it a very important issue,
which is why I asked for RMS' opinion. He said that what is being done
is clearly not "me
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:05:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > initrd is an unnecessary pain in the ass for most people.
> > It had better not become mandatory.
>
> You would not notice the difference, only your kernel would be
> a bit smaller and the RRPART ioctl disappears.
Would I not
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:30:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't think so. It is necessary, and it is good.
>
> But it is easy to make the transition painless.
> Instead of the current choice between INITRD (yes/no)
> we have INITRD (default built-in / external).
> The built-in versio
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> One of the fundamentals of Unix is that "everything is a file" and that
> you can do everything by reading or writing that file.
But /dev/sda/offset=234234,limit=626737537 isn't a file! ls it and see
if it's there. writing to files that
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:34:13PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Even supposing somebody were loony enough to do that, how would preserving
> an old interface in amber do anything to explore new UI possibilities?
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I _much_ prefer the old
menuconfig t
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:55:26PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> Jonathan Morton writes:
> > >- page_count(page) == (1 + !!page->buffers));
> > Two inversions in a row?
> It is the most straightforward way to make a '1' or '0'
> integer from the NULL state of a pointer.
pa
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:15:53AM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> Hey, this is cool.
>
> How far away is the capability to "teleport" processes from one machine to
> another over the network? Think of the uptime!
http://www.mosix.org
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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:43:27AM -0400, Peter Rival wrote:
> Has anyone looked into memory hot swap/hot add support?
How do you hotswap RAM? What happens to the data that was on the
removed memory module?
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:18:26PM -0700, Fabio Riccardi wrote:
> You can download X15 Alpha 1 from here:
> http://www.chromium.com/X15-Alpha-1.tgz
Where's the source?
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:32:46AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> True, but then imagine trying to hack C (no, that's a CURLY BRACE, and a
> tab! not space! you just broke my makefiles! aargh!), and compiling
> Netfilter (it takes HOW MANY hours to compile init/main.c?!?) on a PDA.
> Hrmz.
I didn't
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:07:48AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> What real value does it have, apart from the geek "look at me, I'm using
> bash" value?
I don't really want to get into it at the moment, but imagine hacking
netfilter without lugging a laptop around. PDA's are sleek and cool,
and us
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:38:01PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> And UNIX on a phone is pure overkill.
Quit being a naysayer. UNIX on a PDA is a wet dream.
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:46:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The speed problem now is in the configurator itself.
> One of my post-1.0.0 challenges is to profile and tune the configurator
> code to within an inch of its life.
Maybe you could kill two birds with one stone by calling 1.0.0
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:32:28AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> The incentive behind the DUL is to force users not to post
> straight out to the world, but to use their ISP's servers
> for outbound email --- normal M$ users do that, after all.
> Only spammers - and UNIX pow
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Date: 2001 April 02
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:05:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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This is why OpenPGP signatures must be used more often.
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:48:35AM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Ok, it appears that some people want the __FILE__, __LINE__ (or equivalent)
> in BUG() and some don't. Fair enough. I used the existing config option
> CONFIG_DEBUG_ERRORS to allow people to choose. There was also interest
> in h
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 04:42:45PM -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> But at least the sound card was in use, FWIW -
Not for me. My xmms was sitting idle when it froze.
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 04:33:42AM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote:
> Yes, I have ReiserFS as well...hrm...
I don't.
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).
Why would zerocopy slow that down?
If zerocopy is simply unoptimized, that's fine for now. But if the
problem is inherent in the implementation or design, that might be a
problem. Any patch which incurs a signifigant slowdown on traditional
networking should be contraversial.
Aaron Lehmann
pl
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:34:26PM +1100, John Sheahan wrote:
> Hi
> my box has been running 2.4.1-pre10 for three days.
> This morning I noticed odd behavioue - ps and top wouuld freeze
> with no output.
I had the same problem with 2.4.1-pre10 and the zerocopy patchset.
I came home one day and
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:29:34PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Well, it's NAT'ing it OK. Are you sure you have a rule like the
> following:
> iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
> ?
# iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables: No chain/
atch from the
patch-o-matic, but did not recieve an immediate response, so I'll
include it below in case anyone else has any ideas.
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:44:17
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:08:00AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > That option seems to conflict with "ipfwadm (2.0-style) support".
> > Preferably, I'd like to stay with friendly old ipfwadm rather than
> > switching firewalling tools _again_.
>
> "I'd rather stay with my friendly old pushbike th
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:32:15AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> FTP is under Connection Tracking support, FTP connection tracking. Does
> the same stuff as ip_masq_ftp. IRC is located in patch-o-matic -
> download iptables 1.2 and do a make patch-o-matic, there is also RPC and
> eggdrop support in
in 2.4.0. Where have they gone? Without important
modules such as ip_masq_ftp.o I cannot use non-passive ftp from behind
the masquerading firewall.
Thanks,
Aaron Lehmann
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:55:58PM +0100, Andr? Dahlqvist wrote:
> I was very surprised when I checked my local kernel.org mirror this
> morning, and noticed that the latest 2.4.1 pre-patch had grown to
> ~180 kb in size. I was even more surprised when I realized that the
> inclusion of reiserfs w
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:58:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A Duron box running 2.4.0-ac5 (and -ac6) shows NaN in many
> places (such as df output showing usage "nan%"). Right now I
> reverted back to 2.4.0-ac4 which does not show the problem.
> The kernel was compiled with CONFIG_MK7 an
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:25:36AM -0500, D. Jeff Dionne wrote:
> uClinux 2.4.0.0pre0 is out. It is on www.uclinux.org and cvs.uclinux.org
I don't think this matters much, but I noticed that several of the
features available in the kernel configuration aren't relevent to 68k.
For example, in arc
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:59:06PM -1000, Ryan Sizemore wrote:
>I have a comp. running mandrake 7.2, and when i go to power it down, it
> gives me a screen full of errors, including a stackdump. It happens as the
> very last thing (including being after the file system is unmounted, so I
> hig
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:09:25PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> NOTE! Getting the 2.4.x kernel up and running is the easy part. The
> machine also has a very recent ATI Rage Mobility chip in it, and you
> need the newest XFree86 CVS snapshot to make it work (along with a
> one-liner patch from
part of it. The system is an Athlon with an IDE disk drive
and an ext2 filesystem on that drive. I can provide further information
if would be helpful.
Thanks,
Aaron Lehmann
p.s. please CC: me in on replys ... thanks
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