networked file system

2001-04-20 Thread nbecker
Suppose that an entry on any filesystem could be replaced by a symlink which pointed to a URL, and that an appropriate handler was dispatched for that URL. This would allow, for example, config files to point to a different machine. Right now we can accomplish this by mounting alternative file s

Re: regression testing

2001-03-22 Thread nbecker
> "Richard" == Richard B Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> On 22 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi. I was wondering if there has been any discussion of kernel >> regression testing. Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to depend >> on human testers to veri

regression testing

2001-03-22 Thread nbecker
Hi. I was wondering if there has been any discussion of kernel regression testing. Wouldn't it be great if we didn't have to depend on human testers to verify every change didn't break something? OK, I'll admit I haven't given this a lot of thought. What I'm wondering is whether the user-mode

Whither autofs4?

2001-01-30 Thread nbecker
What is the status of autofs4? There is no mention in 2.4.0/Doc/Changes. There doesn't seem to be any activity in the ftp.kernel.org/.../autofs area. Is autofs4 alive? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: 2.4.0 statd trouble

2001-01-24 Thread nbecker
OK, you can find nfs-utils at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs You can build on RH7 using rpm -ta /tmp/nfs-utils-0.2.1.tar.gz. These are worth mentioning in "Changes". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pleas

2.4.0 statd trouble

2001-01-23 Thread nbecker
linux-2.4.0 I have quite a lot of these log messages: Jan 23 18:28:52 adglinux1 rpc.statd[1532]: gethostbyname error for adglinux1.hns.com Jan 23 18:28:52 adglinux1 rpc.statd[1532]: STAT_FAIL to adglinux1.hns.com for SM_MON of 139.85.108.141 Jan 23 13:28:52 adglinux1 kernel: lockd: cannot monit

2.4.0-test9 3c59x still problems

2000-10-11 Thread nbecker
After upgrade to 2.4.0-test9 3c59x is still giving these messages: Oct 11 06:34:36 adglinux1 kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000. Oct 11 06:34:36 adglinux1 kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 10934497(1) current 10934513(1). Oct 11 06:34:36 adglinux1 kernel: T

Assembler error (2.4.0t9 gcc-2.97)

2000-10-09 Thread nbecker
linux-2.4.0-test9 gcc-2.97 CVS configured for Athlon binutils-2.9.5.0.22-6 Do I need an updated binutils maybe? as --version GNU assembler 2.9.5 [...] gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -m

2.4.0-test8 ethernet problems

2000-09-12 Thread nbecker
I'm getting a lot of these: (3c59x.c:LK1.1.8 13 Aug 2000 Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html $Revision: 1.102.2.25 $ See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe000, 00:10:4b:6a:20:f3, IRQ 11 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx