Re: Q: sparse file creation in existing data?

2001-06-29 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Ph. Marek wrote: > Hi everybody, > > though looking and grepping through the sources I couldn't find a way (via > fcntl() or whatever) to allow an existing file to get holes. Indeed, I don't think there is any such syscall. > I found that cp has a parameter --sparse (or su

Re: Just FYI...

2001-05-22 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On 22 May 2001, Michael Peddemors wrote: > H.. In principle this sounds good, but... > > This doesn't seem to be in best interest.. Taking it to the extreme, > noone should code the linux kernel for buggy bios's, cards etc anymore > either.. We should all tell em to upgrade their hardware?

Dynamic TCP reserved ports allocated in which range?

2001-04-19 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
Hi List(s) For a firewall setup I need to know in which range applications like rsh, or better yet the rresvport() libc function allocate reserved ports. Do I have to expect ports in the whole 1..1024 range (maybe omitting those already in use by other servers) or is only a limited range used (l

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Szaka writes: > > > > And every time the SIGDANGER comes up, the issue that AIX provides > > > &g

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Szaka writes: > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Every time this subject comes up, I point to AIX and SIGDANGER - a signal > > > sent to processes when the system gets OOM. > > > > And every time the SIGDANGER comes up, the issue tha

Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

2001-03-09 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
Oh my, why I am responding to this garbage thread? On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, J. Dow wrote: > > > From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Please check out this article. Looks like microsoft know open source is the > > > > thing of the future. I woul

Re: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+

2001-01-29 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Nathan Black wrote: > > Here is my scenario. I have a smart array controller 2. I have 6 logical > drives( one on it's own physical drive). I am using the one drive for data > aquisition from an atm board. To locate my problem, I removed all of the atm > stuff. and I am tryi

Re: Kernel 2.2.17, makefile bug

2000-11-30 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Gunter Königsmann wrote: > 'make bzlilo' > compiles the kernel, and runs lilo, but it fails to copy it to > /boot/vmlinuz before that. You remembered to modify the toplevel Makefile (see comments there) if you want the new kernel in /boot rather than the default

Re: 2.2.14 SMP 3com905: transmit timed out: Odd lost irq and ip-stack lockup

2000-10-13 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Oct 9 17:29:02 fwintern kernel: eth0: Interrupt posted but not > > > > delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? > > > > > > This is the infamous APIC bug. I

Re: 2.2.14 SMP 3com905: transmit timed out: Odd lost irq and ip-stack lockup

2000-10-13 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Dr. Michael Weller" wrote: > > > > Dear list, > > > > I run a Compaq Proliant 1500 (dual Pentium 75.200) with hardware raid > > (Smart2) with two ethernet cards 3com905 (b or c, I can't tell you

2.2.14 SMP 3com905: transmit timed out: Odd lost irq and ip-stack lockup

2000-10-11 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
Dear list, I run a Compaq Proliant 1500 (dual Pentium 75.200) with hardware raid (Smart2) with two ethernet cards 3com905 (b or c, I can't tell you right now) as a firewall and web/mail virus scanner which (needless to say) needs to be up 7d/24h. Recently, during a pretty fast download the machi

Re: Small bugfix in ext2/namei.c

2000-09-01 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
Sorry, I've no idea about the ext2 and fs implementation. However did you read the comment below and convince yourself that 'err' is always set correctly? I'm just asking because you don't mention it and no patch to ext2_new_inode that makes it set err correctly is provided. It could be the comme