On Tue, 15 May 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
I never saw an offset different from the block size, though.
Assuming you did have 32-byte errors, you had 7 errors for 1.3 GB.
I have approx. 6 errors for 256 MB. But I have only 128 MB RAM.
Next test: boot with mem=32M (shall I get 0
Hi,
I was investigating redundant path failover with FibreChannel disk devices
during the last weeks. The idea is to use a second, redundant path to a
storage device when the first one fails. Ideally one could also implement
load balancing with these paths.
The problem is really important
At 12:31 PM +1000 2001-05-16, Andrew Morton wrote:
When I ifconfig one of a collection of interfaces, I'm very much
talking about the specific physical interface connected via a
specific physical cable to a specific physical switch port.
Yes, it can be a security trap as well -
On 2001-05-16T08:34:00,
Christoph Biardzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I was investigating redundant path failover with FibreChannel disk devices
during the last weeks. The idea is to use a second, redundant path to a
storage device when the first one fails. Ideally one could also implement
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Phillips) wrote on 16.05.01 in
01051602593001.00406@starship:
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected
serial port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc.
There are well-defined
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
Driver can export a tree and we mount it on fb0. After that you have
the whole set - yes, /dev/fb0/colourspace, etc. - no problem. And no
need to do mknod,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Simmons) wrote on 15.05.01 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I couldn't agree with you more. It gives me headaches at work. One note,
their is a except to the eth0 thing. USB to USB networking. It uses
usb0, etc. I personally which they use eth0.
USB to USB networking
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 15.05.01 in
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Personally, I would also like to see network devices manifest in the
filesystem namespace like everything else.
Yes.
Can we have a meta-rule?
*Every* by-name kernel interface should have a filesystem variant.
That
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
Alan Cox writes:
len = readlink (/proc/self/3, buffer, buflen);
if (strcmp (buffer + len - 2, cd) != 0) {
fprintf (stderr, Not a CD-ROM! Bugger off.\n);
exit (1);
And on my box cd is the cabbage dicer whoops
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
2 (disk domain). I have multiple spindles on multiple SCSI adapters.
So? Same deal. You don't have eth0..N, you have disk0..N.
What's the problem? It's _repeatable_, in that as long as you don't
OK, just correct me if I get this wrong, but this code is taking the LAST 2
characters of the device name and verifying that it is cd. Which would
mean that the standard states that /dev/ginsucd would be a CD-ROM drive?
That is why I feel a name of a device handle shouldnt set how a
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Now, if we just fundamentally try to think about any device as being
hot-pluggable, you realize that things like which PCI slot is this device
in are completely _worthless_ as device identification, because they
fundamentally
On 16 May 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 15.05.01 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Personally, I would also like to see network devices manifest in the
filesystem namespace like everything else.
Yes.
Can we have a meta-rule?
*Every* by-name
Well, I understand that ipip_rcv does some work cleaning sk_buff.
But why after that sk_buff cannot be submitted to ip_rcv, not
netif_rx?
Oops, now I see that you're talking about ip_rcv, not netif_rx...
I'm doing roughly what you're proposing in CIPE (get IP packet
encapsulated in UDP
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:56:41PM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
At 12:31 PM +1000 2001-05-16, Andrew Morton wrote:
When I ifconfig one of a collection of interfaces, I'm very much
talking about the specific physical interface connected via a
specific physical cable to a specific
Hi Mark,
Thanks for getting back to me, yea I'm running my fsb at 100
alreadystill seems to be the same problem.
I donno, I'm just gonna have to mess around with things till I get it right
;-)
Thanks for the guidance anyways.
Regards
David Wilson
Technical Support Centre
The S.A Internet
James Simmons wrote:
I would use write except we use write to draw into the framebuffer. If I
write to the framebuffer with that data the only thing that will happen is
I will get pretty colors on my screen.
Yes. And we also use write to send data to printer. So what? Nobody makes
At 02:30 16/05/2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
And how are you thinking of this working without introducing new
interfaces if the caches are indeed incoherent? Please correct me if I
understand wrong, but when two caches are incoherent, I thought it means
that the
Yes, I did... I checked NumLock and CapsLock too, but any of this turn
seems to work (the leds doesn't change the state).
cat /proc/interrupts shows that IRQ1 doesn't trigger anymore. Although
all services in the machine are working...(weird, isnt't it?)
Regards.
-Jorge
Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
I had always made the assumption that sockets were created because you
couldn't easily map IPv4 semantics onto filesystems. It's unreasonable
to have a file for every possible IP address/port you can communicate
with.
You could have open(/ipv4/127.0.0.1/80) without
Is there support in linux for ATA overlap/queuing ?
It should ( among other things ) improve concurent performance
of two devices on the same channel.
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Actually, no, because it's guaranteed that a trailing /cd is a
CD-ROM. That's the standard.
I don't know what a cabbage dicer is (has it to do with dices?),
but if it is guaranteed that cd is a cd, how are the arabican
device names (extend for klinzhai, chinese, japanese etc.)
supposed to be?
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:33:35PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
Agreed. However, if this thing means I cannot use the -linus
tree without devfs, then it will also mean my VM stuff only
gets tested on -ac kernels...
No Problem. I test most of your VM stuff anyway and I use devfs
on that machine
David,
I am using the gcc-3.0 snapshot of 14.5.2001 from codesourcery (i686 binary).
I have now tried to mimic CPU=386 behaviour (patch posted yesterday night)
and it compiles (just sound fails), by exchanging y and n in
CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK and CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM.
Thanks
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:48:19PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Steven Lembark wrote:
for my part running the system i'd rather have the production
LVM and kernel releases in sync and not have to worry about it.
if i need a beta/inter-version release then i'll deal
Alexander Viro writes:
thing, we could turn mount(2) into
open appropriate fs type
convince the sucker that you are allowed, tell which device you want,
etc.
open mountpoint
mount(fs_fd, dir_fd)
Would work like charm, especially since we could fit the network
The argument that if you use numbering based on where in the
SCSI chain
the disk is, disks don't pop in and out is absolute crap.
It's not true
even for SCSI any more (there are devices that will aquire
their location
dynamically), and it has never been true anywhere else. Give it up.
Hi,
There was a missing release_region in NCR53c406a.c, which fscked up
probing with 'modprobe NCR53c406' like one mode of our installer does.
(Tested by checking the contents of /proc/ioports before and after. After
modprobe it contained junk for the probed port range. It no longer does.)
Hi,
qlogicfas was missing a release_region in autoprobing too.
Ciao, Marcus
Index: drivers/scsi/qlogicfas.c
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RCS file: /build/mm/work/repository/linux-mm/drivers/scsi/qlogicfas.c,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13
I'm trying to run Linux RH 7.1 on the rack-mounted
IBM xSeries 240 with ServeRAID but without success.
I've tried some kernels from 2.2.19-7.0.1smp up to
2.4.3-2.14.14.i686 and 2.4.4.
During boot all kernels reported errors (attached at the end).
When I try to write to disk (untar 100MB)
Hi,
One else case in wd7000.c did not have a release_region().
Ciao, Marcus
Index: drivers/scsi/wd7000.c
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retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 wd7000.c
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I believe thats why there are persistant superblocks on the RAID
partitions. You can switch them around, and it still knows which drive
holds which RAID partition... That's the only way booting off RAID
works, and the only reason for the RAID Autodetect partition type...
you can find those
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We have managed to get a Debian potato system (with the 2.4 updates from
http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian plus xfs-tools which we imported
from woody) to run 2.4.3-XFS.
However, in testing
Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:
The argument that if you use numbering based on where in the
SCSI chain
the disk is, disks don't pop in and out is absolute crap.
It's not true
even for SCSI any more (there are devices that will aquire
their location
dynamically), and it has never
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:59:30AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected
serial port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc.
There are well-defined rules for the first four on
Damn.
/me writes a patch
/me tests and finds an obvious typo
/me fixes and diffs fixed (and tested) version
/me sends the original one.
My apologies. Correct patch (taken between clean tree and
result of make distclean on the tree that gave a kernel
that passes all tests) follows. Please, apply
Hi all.
Several months ago I set up a lvs cluster on smtp servers on 2.2.16
kernels, which now I'm planning to move to 2.4.4.
I am using direct routing alternative so I configure a lo:0 interface
with the address of the virtualserver on every local node so it can
Hi , I encounter an unresolved symbol __bad_udelay when i ported a network
driver from kernel2.2 to 2.4.
Could anyone plz tell me what is the corresponding fxn in 2.4??
Thanks
Jalaja
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Linus, patch is the first chunk of rootfs stuff. I've tried to
get it as small as possible - all it does is addition of absolute root
on ramfs and necessary changes to mount_root/change_root/sys_pivot_root
and follow_dotdot. Real root is mounted atop of the absolute one.
More
Quoth Helge Hafting:
This could be extended to non-raid use - i.e. use the raid autodetect
partition type for non-raid as well. The autodetect routine could
then create /dev/partitions/home, /dev/partitions/usr or
/dev/partitions/name_of_my_choice
for autodetect partitions not
Probably it is somewhere hidden on a faq.. but I will ask
again ...
Can I set a memory area or page to be read-only, i.e.
generate an interrupt when writing is attempted to a certain
page/area?
Thanks, Antonio
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Partition id's seems more interesting than disk id's - we normally
mount partitions not whole disks.
RAID do this well - the raid autodetect partition stores an ID in the
last block,
the remaining N-1 blocks are available for a fs.
This could be
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] wrote:
After the reboot, the keyboard was working 5 minutes and then it
locked. The console was working. I rebooted the machine again and has
been working for 2 days, that the keyboard gets
Jalajadevi Ganapathy wrote:
Hi , I encounter an unresolved symbol __bad_udelay when i ported a network
driver from kernel2.2 to 2.4.
Could anyone plz tell me what is the corresponding fxn in 2.4??
Thanks
Jalaja
You used too large of a value for udelay(). Switch to using mdelay()
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
The 2.4 kernel allows you to rename an interface. So you can build
a little database of (MAC address/name) pairs. Apply this after booting
and before bringing up the interfaces and everything has the name
you wanted, based on MAC address.
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:05:01AM -0400, Jalajadevi Ganapathy wrote:
Hi , I encounter an unresolved symbol __bad_udelay when i ported a network
driver from kernel2.2 to 2.4.
Could anyone plz tell me what is the corresponding fxn in 2.4??
It means that you're udelay()ing way to long in that
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:10:33AM -0700, A Dell'elce wrote:
Can I set a memory area or page to be read-only, i.e.
generate an interrupt when writing is attempted to a certain
page/area?
man mmap and catch SIGSEGV. Or see how the DOSemu VGA emulator
manipulates the virtual VGA memory.
Oystein Viggen wrote:
What happens if I insert a hard drive from another computer which also
has partitions named home, usr, and soforth?
not to belabor the obvious, but there are a lot of issues with this
particular approach.
for those who advocate writing some form of signature into an
On Wed, May 16 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 17:34, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Neil Brown wrote:
Ofcourse setting the queue function that __blk_get_queue call to
do a lookup of the minor and choose an appropriate queue for the
real device wont
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:32:46PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
This leads to the dilemma, that trying to avoid further differences between
our LVM releases and the stock kernel code would force us into postponing
the pending LVM 1.0 release accordingly which OTOH is incovenient for the LVM
So, Is there any alternative. Archives sez not to use mdelay.
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:03:27AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David,
I am using the gcc-3.0 snapshot of 14.5.2001 from codesourcery (i686 binary).
I have now tried to mimic CPU=386 behaviour (patch posted yesterday night)
and it compiles (just sound fails), by exchanging y and n in
Bob Glamm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Finally, there has to be an *easy* way of identifying devices from software.
You're right, I don't care if my network cards are numbered 0-1-2, 2-0-1,
or in any other permutation, *as long as I can write something like this*:
# start up networking
for i in
Hello!
I attached the problem occured with parport and devfs.
I don't exactly know where the problem in the parport source
is. If someone has a patch for it, I will test it.
Nico
# Loading the parport and parport_pc modules for my parallelport
flapp:/home/user/nico/gpm-1.19.3 # modprobe
The same situation appears when using bonding.o. For several years,
Don Becker's (and derived) network drivers support changing MAC address
when the interface is down. So Al's /dev/eth/n/MAC has different
values
depending on whether bonding is active or not. Should /dev/eth/n/MAC
always
Oystein Viggen wrote:
Quoth Helge Hafting:
This could be extended to non-raid use - i.e. use the raid autodetect
partition type for non-raid as well. The autodetect routine could
then create /dev/partitions/home, /dev/partitions/usr or
/dev/partitions/name_of_my_choice
for
As the subject already says, reproduced in 2.4.5-pre2.
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Hmm..seems you are exactly right!
Sorry for that wrong though!
Nico
Philip Blundell wrote:
I attached the problem occured with parport and devfs.
I don't exactly know where the problem in the parport source
is. If someone has a patch for it, I will test it.
I don't think this is a bug.
When is the 'CONFIG_APUS' flag used ?
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Hi,
I just installed a new system using 2.4.4 and later tried 2.4.5pre2 and
2.4.4ac6 and ac9. All versions show the same behaivior.
When doing a cat /var/log/messages, the output slows down after the
first 30 lines and comes to an almost complete stop, with a few lines
showing up every 10sec
I attached the problem occured with parport and devfs.
I don't exactly know where the problem in the parport source
is. If someone has a patch for it, I will test it.
I don't think this is a bug. You need to load the `lp' module.
p.
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
Here is a patch for 2.4.4. linux_logo_bw is used in hgafb.c, which
can be compiled as a module. But linux_logo_bw is not exported.
H.J.
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--- linux-2.4.4-ac9/drivers/video/fbcon.c.mod Tue May 15 15:39:17 2001
+++
Hi Andrea:
Here you go:
/usr/local/bin/gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/inst-kernels/linux-2.4.5-pre2-aa/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c sys.c
sys.c: In function `sys_gethostname':
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed May 16 2001 - 09:33:05 EDT :
When is the 'CONFIG_APUS' flag used ?
On APUS systems ( Amiga PowerUp System - amigas with PPC cards )
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:42:03PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Detailed description of 2.4.5pre2aa1 follows.
00_buffer-2
Reschedule during oom while allocating buffers, still getblk
can deadlock with oom but this will hide it
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:33:05PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
o fixed race in wake-one LIFO in accept(2). Apache must be compiled with
-DSINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to take advantage of that.
00_wake-one-4
Backport 2.4
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:52:04PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
Hi Andrea:
Here you go:
/usr/local/bin/gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/inst-kernels/linux-2.4.5-pre2-aa/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
At 10:02 AM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
It's also true that some buses simply don't yield up physical
locations (ISA springs to mind,
ISA is quite fine, you can use the i/o space as physical locations.
I meant physical not as in physical-vs-virtual addresses (all ISA
Hi Al,
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
One point that might be better done differently - since we
need ramfs for boot I've just made fs/Config.in declare CONFIG_RAMFS
as define_bool CONFIG_RAMFS y. If ramfs grows (e.g. gets resource
limits patches from -ac) we might be
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:37:45AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
At 10:02 AM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
It's also true that some buses simply don't yield up physical
locations (ISA springs to mind,
ISA is quite fine, you can use the i/o space as physical locations.
I
Sorry for the newbie question..
Is it true that the ipc calls like
msgget(),shmget()...
are not really system calls?
Cos in the file asm/unistd.h where the
system calls are listed as __NR_xxx we dont find
the appropriate listing for the ipc calls.
What I guessed was that all the ipc calls are
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We have managed to get a Debian potato system (with the 2.4 updates from
http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian plus xfs-tools which we imported
from woody) to run 2.4.3-XFS.
Well, even if you spank the future violators, what about the current
overlaps?
E.g., the CD-ROM ioctls are overlapping
with the STREAMS ioctls (the latter ones used by LiS and honored by glibc).
V.
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Alan Cox wrote:
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 09:52, Andrea Arcangeli babbled:
These descriptions are very helpful. Are they available somewhere
personally, I wish all kernel announcements were as nice as this. Kudos to
Andrea.
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have to force one of the drivers and/or the bios to make them use separate
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At 11:56 AM +0200 2001-05-16, Chemolli Francesco (USI) wrote:
We could do something like baptizing disks.. Fix some location
(i.e. the absolutely last sector of the disk or the partition table or
whatever) and store there some 32-bit ID
(could be a random number, a progressive number, whatever).
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However, in testing a directory with lots (~177000) of files, we get the
following oops (copied by hand, and run through ksymoops on a Red Hat box
since the Debian one segfaulted :( )
Can you describe your testing beyond using a directory with
At 4:57 PM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:37:45AM -0700, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
At 10:02 AM +0200 2001-05-16, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
It's also true that some buses simply don't yield up physical
locations (ISA springs to mind,
ISA is quite
Hi,
Whenever I boot (2.4.4-ac6) I get this error message if there is a zip
disk in the drive.
hdb: 98288kB, 196576 blocks, 512 sector size, hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS,
4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 5a,
key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0
The drive seems to work
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote:
Linus, Alan et al.: maybe you could think about it again and
accept one larger LVM patch. Thanks.
I'm all for it right now. I'm running LVM on practically all my
machines and would really like to have the latest bugfixes in
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Why not take it a step further than just devices? This is a perfect
model for supporting named forks.
Because this only works on filesystems where directories can't themselves
have
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:33:12AM -0700, Jalaja Devi wrote:
Hi!
Could you please tell me how you fixed the udelay
problem. cuz, I am encountering the same problem in my
driver.
I am not a kernel expert. You should ask it on the kernel mailing
list.
Thanks for your time,
Jalaja
In
I lifted the following kernel-thread code from
../linux/drivers/net/8139too.c, just added a procedure to call.
static int gpib_thread(void *unused)
{
unsigned long timeout;
daemonize();
spin_lock_irq(current-sigmask_lock);
sigemptyset(current-blocked);
Hi HPA, Linus, Alan,
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:19:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Linus Torvalds has requested a moratorium on new device number
assignments. His hope is that a new and better method for device space
handing will emerge as a result.
Alan Cox has requested that I maintain
Andrea,
I doubt that it applies against -ac and I have only very few hard disk space,
so please don't beat me I could not try... (I tried the second-to-last but
it didn't apply either)
But 2.4.3-ac7 works very fine with your older patch.
As noticed, I now solved by CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y
On 16 May 2001 15:28:03 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
Oystein Viggen wrote:
Quoth Helge Hafting:
This could be extended to non-raid use - i.e. use the raid autodetect
partition type for non-raid as well. The autodetect routine could
then create /dev/partitions/home,
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:30:46AM -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
On 16 May 2001 15:28:03 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
Oystein Viggen wrote:
Quoth Helge Hafting:
This could be extended to non-raid use - i.e. use the raid autodetect
partition type for non-raid as well. The
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:18:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
Keep it informational. And NEVER EVER make it part of the design.
What about:
1 (network domain). I have two network interfaces that I connect to
two different network
Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
True, but I was under the impression that Linus' master plan was that the
two would be in entirely separate name spaces using separate cached copies
of the device blocks.
Nothing was said about the superblock at all.
-hpa
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:41:40PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
Here is a patch for 2.4.4. linux_logo_bw is used in hgafb.c, which
can be compiled as a module. But linux_logo_bw is not exported.
linux_logo_bw is __initdata.
How about this
At this point of the discussion I would like to point to the Device Registry
patch (http://www.tjansen.de/devreg) that already solves these problems and
offers stable device ids for the identification of devices and finding their
/dev nodes.
Does your approach solve the problem of
This may be way off, but have you flashed the BIOS to the most
current revision? This machine should work properly. How many
processors and what SR card are you using?
ps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010516 03:07]:
- I'm trying to run Linux RH 7.1 on the rack-mounted
- IBM xSeries 240 with ServeRAID
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:09:32PM +0200, Thomas Kotzian wrote:
From: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Partition id's seems more interesting than disk id's - we normally
mount partitions not whole disks.
RAID do this well - the raid autodetect partition stores an ID in the
last block,
So what is your solution for preventing a boot failure after disks/partitions
change ?
volume labels/UUID ?
As a sys-admin, let me add a vote for this. Having (one day) a prom monitor
program that looks at all the disks, and gives a menu of which one to boot
from would make life so nice.
I
Hallo,
I have a linux system with kernel 2.4.4-ac9 and a win2k partition with
ntfs. Since because of the new ntfs version rw support is disabled, I
wondered how much rw support is broken, why and if I could try at least.
Or maybe some help is appreciated?
Thanks a lot,
Axel Siebenwirth
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To
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
Linus, patch is the first chunk of rootfs stuff. I've tried to
get it as small as possible - all it does is addition of absolute root
on ramfs and necessary changes to mount_root/change_root/sys_pivot_root
and follow_dotdot. Real root is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hacksaw) writes:
So what is your solution for preventing a boot failure after disks/partitions
change ?
volume labels/UUID ?
As a sys-admin, let me add a vote for this. Having (one day) a prom monitor
program that looks at all the disks, and gives a menu of which one
mmap is fine for a fb, but please don't remove read/write.
I can now do a screendump with cat /dev/fb/0 file,
because everything is a file.
Having
/dev/fb/0/brightness
/dev/fb/0/opengl
and so on seems to be a better approach.
One I like to name of the file system to be something else.
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:33:05PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
apache since 1.3.15 has defined SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT ...
That's definitely a good thing.
hmm, i'm not so sure -- 1.3.x is our stable release, and it sounds like
this
hi,
this old problem I had been faced with had been solved with 2.4.3-ac13/14,
but now with kernel 2.4.4-ac9 and all other 2.4.4-acx it came up again.
It's a Realtek 8139C chip on a AT2500 (allied telesyn or sumpin like that)
Instead the former
Apr 24 16:16:57 bello kernel: eth1: Setting
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