[ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linux Kernel, The RPM versions of the Dolphin PCI-SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) adapter drivers have posted at vger.timpanogas.org/sci. This release supports the following SCI Adapters, PSB32, PSB64, and PSB66. This version supports the 32-bit and 64-bit PCI versions of the Dolphin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Relative to some performance questions folks have asked, the SCI adapters are limited by PCI bus speeds. If your system supports 64-bit PCI you get much higher numbers. If you have a system that supports 100+ Megabyte/second PCI throughput, the SCI adapters will exploit it. This test was

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:41:21PM -0700, Todd wrote: Todd, I just got back some more numbers from Dolphin. The newer D330 LC3 chipsets are running at 667 MB/S Link speed, and on a Serverworks HE system, we are seeing 240 MB/S

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:32:08AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:41:21PM -0700, Todd wrote: Also, The numbers were more provided as a comparison between 2.2.x kernels and 2.4.X kernels with SCI. You

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:07:07AM -0700, Todd wrote: folx, On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: What numbers does G-Enet provide doing userspace - userspace transfers, and at what processor overhead? using stock 2.4 kernel and alteon acenic cards with stock firmware we're

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:22:48PM +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:41:21PM -0700, Todd wrote: Sparc servers. The adapters these drivers I posted support are a bi-CMOS implementation of the SCI

Re: __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed

2001-04-26 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:00:12PM +0200, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The request should fail after two or three attempts rather than hang the entire system waiting for memory. Jeff I am seeing this as well on 2.4.3 with both _get_free_pages

Re: Linux support for Microsoft dynamic disks?

2001-05-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:06:03AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Hi all, Is anyone working on supporting the dynamic disk format introduced with Windows 2000? If not, does anyone have the specs / any detailed info on the on disk structures involved? Cheers, Anton Anton,

Re: more 3ware issues

2001-05-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I am working on them with a project here, and they have a lot of issues. Most of these issues just require some hard work. I am seeing problems on 2.2.19 on all machines if you cram 4 of these 8 IDE disk adapters into a single bus. There are some hardware issues with the cards that seem to

/dev/sch0 interface

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Is anyone actuaslly using the /dev/sch0 interface for SCSI tape changers in Linux? I noticed that the device definitions are present, but I do not see any driver shipped in the standard base that actually uses it. Thanks Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: /dev/sch0 interface

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:44:23PM +, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:08:01PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Is anyone actuaslly using the /dev/sch0 interface for SCSI tape changers in Linux? I noticed that the device definitions are present, but I do

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:34:57PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: Copyright infringement would void the GPL, since it would involve conversion (there's that fancy legal word for steal again) of someone else's property into another form if you take someone's code and copy it. Some things

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-28 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:49:28PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: At 14:08 28/05/2001, Yuri Per wrote: Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Does anyone know what NTFS version the NT 3.1 / 3.51 volumes had? If I know I can make sure we don't mount such beasts considering we know the driver would

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:18:41AM +0200, Martin von Loewis wrote: Anyone know about 3.1? It's an HPFS variant. No. NT was using NTFS right from the start. Regards, Martin No. They were not. Their first cuts of NT used an HPFS variant until NTFS could be completed. The guy

TRG vger.timpanogas.org hacked

2001-06-04 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Our master server (vger.timpanogas.org) running 2.2.19 was hacked and completely obliterated by someone using a Novell Proxy Cache via a kernel level exploit in [sys_wait+4]. They somehow created a segmentation fault down inside the kernel, then gained access to the /lib directory and

Re: thread group comments

2000-09-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus Torvalds wrote: Yes. For 2.4.x, I'd love to fix anything that can be used to show real performance bugs. Something like "setuid() is slow when I run it threaded is not a real issue". Something like "pthreads is faster under NT than under Linux" _would_ be a real issue.

[PATCH] 2.2.16 to Enable Variable Size Block Chaining

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus, The following path is submitted to allow variable size sectors runs to be submitted via ll_rw_block() to the disk I/O subsystem. Jeff 881a882,885 /* // this code is being removed to enable passing of variable size block // chained I/O requests. Jeff V. Merkey 888a893,894 **/

[PATCH] 2.4.0-test7 to Enable Variable Block Chaining

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus, The attached patch is submitted to enable variable sector size block chaining via ll_rw_block() in the I/O subsystem layer. Jeff 904a905,907 / // This code is being commented out to allow support for variable chained // block I/O requests. Jeff V. Merkey 915a919 */

NWFS [PATCH] File organization 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-7

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus, I at present have the NWFS utilities and File System drivers as single source base. Obviously, the way your tree is organized, the file system driver proper should be in the kernel tree and the file system utitilies somewhere else. Where should I breakout the file system utils and

[ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
TRG has reprioritized it's long term objectives, and due to resource constraints and short term schedules, the Open Source NDS and Open Source NTFS File System projects are being withdrawn from the Linux Initiative. These projects will be MANOS only, and any interested party is free to acquire

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan Cox wrote: to MANOS, and what a mess indeed. In NetWare, the only time data ever gets copied from incoming packets is: 1. A copy to userspace at a stream head. 2. An incoming write that gets copied into the file cache. Sounds like Linux - one DMA and one copy to user

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jes Sorensen wrote: Yeah I bet NT also has a wonderful graphical click click wush wush environment for it that allows you to spend all your time `improving' your rsi instead of getting real work done. Have you ever looked at NT device driver code? I have, it's not pretty at all so I can

[Fwd: zero-copy TCP]

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
and lower latency on a Network. Mine or Linux's. I bet you $100.00 it will beat the Linux code in every test. Jeff Jes Sorensen wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff, could you start by learning to quote email and not send a full copy of the entire email

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
frame gets completed (since it will get copied anyway), then hit the register bits to initiate a send of the data. Jeff Jes Sorensen wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff all over the place that increases latency. Not to mention the Jeff overhead o

[Fwd: zero-copy TCP]

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jes Sorensen wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Jes, Jeff I wrote the SMP ODI networking layer in NetWare that used today by Jeff over 90,000,000 NetWare users. I also wrote the SMP LLC8022 Jeff Stack, the SMP IPX/SPX Stack, and the SMP

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andi Kleen wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 04:01:24PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Of course not. Linux does not have a kernel debugger, or it would use them. That's what they are used for -- debugging running tasks from a kernel debugger that has it's own task gates. If you have

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan Cox wrote: Sounds like Linux - one DMA and one copy to user space. Alan, Please. I'm in your code and there are copies all over the place. I agree you have a "fast path" for most stuff, but there's all There arent copies all over the case for the paths that occur. Like

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andi Kleen wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 04:28:18PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Alan Cox wrote: We dont copy for checksumming. We fold the single user space copy and the checksum operation into one path, because on any modern CPU it costs precisely the same to copy

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
There's been a few cards around since about 1995, but I don't remember all of them. I do remember having to debug SMP code on them though -- yec Jeff Jes Sorensen wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Jes Sorensen wrote: You just told

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
: Jeff, Have you been in the bottle again? If this is not a joke, it is not funny. On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: TRG has reprioritized it's long term objectives, and due to resource constraints and short term schedules, the Open Source NDS and Open Source NTFS File System

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: I've got a lot of responses to this. Any companies out there who have job postings and the need for some talented networking engineers in Utah, please send us the info so we can post it on our website. If there's Linux work, these guys can do what we did,

Re: [Fwd: Client Server NEWS FLASH: Novell Plans To Can 60% OverTime]

2000-09-02 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: I've got a lot of responses to this. Any companies out there who have job postings and the need for some talented networking engineers in Utah, please send us the info so we can post it on our website. If there's Linux work, these guys can do what we did,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
: On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: A kernel debugger would make all our lives easier and cost me less money in salaries to engineers for particular projects. Which kernel debugger? I use kdb and find it very convenient. I hated it (it was unstable) in the beginning but now (kdb 1.3

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it Jeff Bob Taylor wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jeff V. Merkey" writes: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jes Sorensen wrote: Yeah I bet N

Re: [Fwd: Client Server NEWS FLASH: Novell Plans To Can 60% Over Time]

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
join it and make new lives out of it since this will give them the ability to slowly transition towards assimilation by the Linux World). Jeff "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: The other reason I am withdrawing NDS on Linux is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
If someone writes it, I'll put in into the code. The problem is that this won't stop them. They'll take the code anyway, use it, then lie about it... Jeff Dan Hollis wrote: On 3 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Hedrick) writes: Apology to Jeff, I

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alright Ingo, you asked for it. I am going through it now and going over ALL my notes. I will catalog ALL of them and post it. Is this what you really want? :-) Jeff Ingo Molnar wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: while (x) { x = x-next } all

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
You opened your mouth. :-) Jeff Ingo Molnar wrote: btw., - the maintainers of the 2.4 networking and TCP/IP code are Alexey Kuznetsov and David S. Miller - please direct your findings towards them, not me :-) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Ingo Molnar wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The origin of this comment was related to a comparison of the MSM/TSM/CSM layer in NetWare and Linux. I've already said that Alan's code handles fast paths well and from what I've seen is comparable to NetWare

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Marek Habersack wrote: ** On Sep 05, Jeff V. Merkey scribbled: Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it Excuse me for adding my irrelevant 0.2$ - but what are you doing with Linux then?? Why

[Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux]

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
in their first with our Open Source NetWare look alike. In case you haven't noticed, I just nuked the bridges we had to Microsoft in doing this, and declaered war on them. This should tell you who's side we are on. Jeff On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: "Jeff V. Merkey&q

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Marek Habersack wrote: ** On Sep 05, Jeff V. Merkey scribbled: Linux is more buggy than NT, but at least the source code comes with it so there's no excuse for not getting soeone to fix it Excuse me for adding my irrelevant 0.2$ - but what are you doing with Linux

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alex Buell wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 08:38:38 -0400 (EDT) Tue, 5 Sep 00 13:45:17 BST, you wrote: Sorry, but I just don't take anything he says too seriously anymore... it's either trolling, or arguing mostly, or babbling about how much better other OS's are, but not actually using

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff IPX is a really good LAN protocol (but totally sucks for Jeff internet). A full blown NCP server in-kernel that's toughtly Jeff coupled to the page cache running over IPX would make flames Jeff shoot out of the back

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Dear Stu, I apologize for bothering you, but how possible would it be to let the Linux folks get access to the Nitro docs and docs for Intel ethernet cards in general. There seems to be interest from folks in getting this to improve Linux support for Intel products. Any help would be

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-06 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus Torvalds wrote: Apparently, if you follow the arguments, not having a kernel debugger leads to various maladies: - you crash when something goes wrong, and you fsck and it takes forever and you get frustrated. - people have given up on Linux kernel programming because it's too

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-06 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Linus Torvalds wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: Apparently, if you follow the arguments, not having a kernel debugger leads to various maladies: - you crash when something goes wrong, and you fsck and it takes

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Ingo Molnar wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: [...] Hardware problems require a debugger or logic analyzer to fix. [...] 'kernel problems need a kernel debugger to fix'. How wrong. It says "hardware problems" not "kernel problems". read

Re: Linux/MANOS Kernel Debugger

2000-09-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
instead. Jeff Admin Mailing Lists wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Actually, the solution I think would be to use the MSDOS loader to boot linux. I will look at grabbing the ELF code in Linux and loading Linux from MSDOS -- if this can be accomplished you're

Re: Kernel Debugging Documentation

2000-09-07 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andrea, You're a stud. This is great. :-) Jeff Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Back in May I wrote a quite estensive documentation about all the possible/best ways to debug the Linux Kernel for a talk/tranining that I did in San Jose in May. I find now the time to clean it up and to upload

Re: kernel debugger...

2000-09-08 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
out next year around March. NDS is more of a Microsoft play than a Linux play and Linux already has better internet directory technology than NDS -- NDS is better for managing LAN's. :-) Jeff Stephen Williams wrote: From: "Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Ingo, Your arguments are personal, not technical. Which billiob dollar company did you support with 70 million customers exactly? Not having this out in the field makes folks jobs 100 times harder and more costly for companies to support. When and if you ever run your own business, you'll

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Ingo Molnar wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: My point was basically that omitting useful debugging tools makes it not any less likely that people use the (A) strategy (easy fix instead of real understanding). For some people it is so painfull to work with raw dumps that

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Ingo Molnar wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Your arguments are personal, not technical. [...] no, my arguments are technical, but are simply focused towards the conceptual (horizontal) development of Linux, not the vertical development of Linux (drivers) and support

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-06 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"David S. Miller" wrote: Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:55:07 -0600 From: Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] (What means 'social engineering attempts'?) Attempting to change people's habits by making it hard to debug. Hard work now leads to less work later. This is so true.

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Nathan Paul Simons wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:15:31AM -0700, J. Dow wrote: Properly contemplated and I wonder at the hypocrisy of using a compiler or an assembler instead of carefully hand crafted bits on a blank disk. i think you miss the point. i think that Linus is

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alexander Viro wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: already there, so folks can use it on Linux for now, and I'll stick to printk() and code reviews for my debugging on Linux. Jeff, does it mean that you do not use code reviews on other projects? It's not that hard

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jamie Lokier wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The best info I know of is to get an analyser that plugs into the processor socket (like an american arium) and enable branch trace messaging to monitor the interaction between the processor and the cache controllers. You get info that's

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
utilization was very noticeable on NetWare, since it supports such huge user loads already. :-) Jeff Rik van Riel wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: The person writing and updating page table entries in NetWare 4.1 was clearing the acc

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Jamie, I referenced a great book an an email to Rik Van Reil. It's got a great explanation of this stuff. :-) Jeff Jamie Lokier wrote: Jeff V. Merkey wrote: This means it completely unnecessary to assert LOCK# for the unlock case, since there are no ordering issues persay

Re: M2FS Daemon with a RedHat

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: Alan, I've basically given up on the in-kernel implementation of a daemon for M2FS and am sticking to a user space daemon instead for the remote file system server -- the entire security model in Linux appears to be tightly integrated with the

Re: M2FS Daemon with a RedHar

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan, Thanks! This validates my assumptions. :-) Jeff Alan Cox wrote: M2FS and am sticking to a user space daemon instead for the remote file system server -- the entire security model in Linux appears to be tightly integrated with the user space networking support, so for Linux

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now will you stop trying to incite pointless riots and allow those of us who are trying to use linux-kernel as a useful means of communicating development issues a chance for a decent signal to noise ratio? -ben Ben, Read the thread before

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Keith, If you are volunteering to maintain the MANOS debugger after I hack it into Linux, then I accept. I'll give you an ftp and telnet account on vger.timpanogas.org and you can run with it. :-) Jeff "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: Who pays you? Keith Owens wrote: On Mon, 11 S

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
in 2.4 to put it in. Darren is finishing the VM subsystem. Jeff Keith Owens wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:24:32 -0600, "Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, If you are volunteering to maintain the MANOS debugger after I hack it into Linux, then I accept. I'll give

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
uot; wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:51:20 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I support source level in the kernel. Based on Andi Klein's review, I have grabbed ext2utils and am looking at a minimal int 0x13 interface to load files into memory. hardest pr

Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This was another optimization we learned the hard way by trying numerous approaches to the problem. Jeff Ed

Re: elevator code

2000-09-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Martin, I'm glad you are not still mad at me. :-) I hope this info was helpful. :-) Jeff Martin Dalecki wrote: "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: lessons learned in live customer accounts. In NetWare, requests are merged at A) the boundry between the File Cache and the I/O

Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 (summary of elevator ideas)

2000-09-13 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
You're welcome. :-) Jeff Hans Reiser wrote: "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: One important point on remirroring I did not mention in my post. In NetWare, remirroring scans the disk BACKWARDS (n0) to prevent artificial starvation while remirring is going on. This w

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-09-13 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Amen Brother Jeff Keith Owens wrote: Resend, this time with cc: torvalds. This note puts the case for including a kernel debugger in the master tarballs. These points do not only apply to kdb, they apply to any kernel debugger. Comments about the perceived deficiencies of kdb,

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-09-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I am porting the MANOS debugger to Linux. No changes here. Linus will reject it for the tree, but the offer for SGI and Keith Owens to take it over and merge it with his kdb effort is also genuine. :-) Jeff Daniel Phillips wrote: Marco Colombo wrote: BTW, a kernel debugger *is*

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-09-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I think he did already Keith -- he said he would reject any kernel debugger submissions. :-) Jeff Keith Owens wrote: Various people have replied to my note on "The case for a standard kernel debugger" discussing whether or not it is a good idea. However only one person's reply matters

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-09-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
it, but I think having a "kernel debugger source" for the industry like SGI who wants to fund and promote kernel debugging tools would make more sense and as Keith pointed out, centralize changes and features. :-) Jeff Merkey CEO, TRG "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: I am porti

Re: Microsoft NT/W2K/Linux NTFS Repair/Debug Tool

2000-09-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Cesar, Microsoft has threatened us with litigation due to our support of Linux NTFS development, and we have dissolved our NTFS licensing agreements with Microsoft in response to their demands that cease to support Linux development. Microsoft demanded that we delete any and all NTFS tools we

Re: NTFS repair

2000-09-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Frank, Microsoft has threatened us with litigation due to our support of Linux NTFS development, and we have dissolved our NTFS licensing agreements with Microsoft in response to their demands that cease to support Linux development. Microsoft demanded that we delete any and all NTFS tools we

Re: Microsoft NT/W2K/Linux NTFS Repair/Debug Tool

2000-09-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
ernet/intranet servers like Linux. Linux already has vastly superior internet directory capabilities. :-) Jeff :-) Jeff Andre Hedrick wrote: Wait they attacked you after the request for cross over support? On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Cesar, Microsoft has thre

Re: RAW NTFS Partition

2000-09-14 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Author: Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] previous in thread ยท next in thread Yipes! I have a program that will recover W2K NTFS volumes trashed by Linux NTFS, but it's fairly tough to use, and you have to be careful. It sounds like you wiped the volume manager stuff, but the FS data can

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"David S. Miller" wrote: Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:08:03 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go visit their website and review the materials directy -- these are their claims -- not mine. It's www.novell.com. Ummm... circa April 15th, 199

Re: Linux/MANOS Kernel Debugger

2000-09-05 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
-- it was developed this way intentionally. We just take the MANOS loader, rip out the kernel, load Linux from LLOADER.386, and the debugger is there! Jeff Andi Kleen wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:20:53PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I think it would not be hard to put this in. My problem

Re: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU1 (stext_lock)(2.4.0-test9-pre2)

2000-09-19 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Keith, I've seen a some problems with the way Linus (or whoever) did this. I had a bug I worked on for 5 weeks related to the buggy 2.7 gcc linker on Caldera Linux 2.4 that would for whatever reason fail to fixup all the .test.lock code sections in a file (probably because there were so many

Re: OOPS on booting 2.4.0-test9pre7 during Novell server mounting

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Describein more detail, perhaps I can help. Jeff Petr Vandrovec wrote: Petr! I think, it's you topic Unfortunately, it is not. ipx is maintained by Jay Schulist, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried to do some changes in ipx year ago (removing kernel lock), but after I saw ipx interface

Re: OOPS on booting 2.4.0-test9pre7 during Novell server mo

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
wondering if this problem is confined to 4.X and below. I would think that 5.1 would not have this problem since the SYS:LOGIN directory will get mounted before the IPX and NCP engines load. Let's see if what you suggest fixes this. Jeff Petr Vandrovec wrote: On 29 Sep 00 at 1:51, Jeff V

Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I got a copy from Bob Young at the Red Hat booth at N+I, and the GNOME stuff is tons better than 6.X RedHat, however, the upgrade feature trashed our Red Hat server, and there seems to be some problems with sendmail as well. I will have Larry send to Alan. The GNOME desktop with 7.0 is sexy

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Al, This is going to be a continuing problem for non-Unix file systems like NTFS and NWFS that rely on the ability to read and write variable length sector runs. At some point, the AIO subsystem needs to get fixed. I submitted a patch based on Linus' suggestion that the check in ll_rw_block()

eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan, I have not provided the Trustee and User Space node IOCTL()'s in the current NWFS that posted, but they exist in the Ute-Linux version shipping Oct 1 that supports our NDS implementation. I talked to the Novell guys doing eDirectory on Linux at N+I, and at present, they emulate this stuff

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
this work for them, which would prevent contamination. :-) Jeff "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: Alan, I have not provided the Trustee and User Space node IOCTL()'s in the current NWFS that posted, but they exist in the Ute-Linux version shipping Oct 1 that supports our NDS implemen

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
The next email will educate you. Read it, then let me know. Jeff Alan Cox wrote: and all the ability to use NWFS as a root file system, and I can include these IOCTL() calls for the Trustee Chains (where NDS permissions are stored for users) and User Nodes (which contain backlinks to

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan Cox wrote: What you are about to ship is like swiss cheese, and could render any Linux server a point of attack that will allow a hacker to get into a single server with a replica, then gain access to the entire Network. If it works as described then its already a swiss cheese.

Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: Date:Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:49:04 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is going to be a continuing problem for non-Unix file systems like NTFS and NWFS that rely on the ability to read and write variable le

Linux Kicks Ass Again

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Just in case you guys didn't hear, Linux Networx won best in show for the Servers, Storage, and Peripherals category running Ute-Linux with the M2FS file system on a Linux Networx 1240 Evolocity Cluster Server with 20 clustered processor nodes at NetWorld+Interop in Atlanta this week. Windows

Re: Linux Kicks Ass Again

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: Just in case you guys didn't hear, Linux Networx won best in show for the Servers, Storage, and Peripherals category running Ute-Linux with the M2FS file system on a Linux Networx 1240 Evolocity Cluster Server with 20 clustered processor nodes at NetWor

Re: eDirectory Trustee and User Space IOCTL() in NWFS

2000-09-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Peter Samuelson wrote: [AC] Mind you, until its open source I'll stick with LDAP and kerberos. For one I trust folks like Ted more to get it right. [Jeff Merkey] Who is Ted, BTW? Theodore Y. Ts'o. (You read linux-kernel, so I needn't elaborate.) Peter - To unsubscribe from

MANOS Mailing List

2000-09-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
For anyone wanting to track the MANOS fork of Linux for the purposes of monitoring bugs that show up in the ports of Linux code and drivers to the Open Source NetWare, the MANOS mailing list is active, and you can sign up at [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's set up the same way the lists for linux-kernel

Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats

2000-10-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I will again be able to offer these NTFS tools to repair NTFS partitions. Please begin reforwarding requests from folks with trashed disks to me, and I'll be able to assist folks. Microsoft has apologized and withdrawn their statements. We are very happy this thread ended on a happy note,

Re: about an utility to recover NTFS!

2000-10-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: I recently trashed a NTFS partition writing on it from linux, and I want to recover some important files. I read an email in a kernel mailing list, where you said you have a tool that can recover files from damaged NTFS partitions. How can I get such a tool?

Re: Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats

2000-10-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Rik van Riel wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I will again be able to offer these NTFS tools to repair NTFS partitions. Please begin reforwarding requests from folks with trashed disks to me, and I'll be able to assist folks. Microsoft has apologized and withdrawn

Re: where is the kernel debugger?

2000-10-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
David Ford wrote: my apologies, but could someone point me to the most current release of the debugger? -d -- "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ask for

Re: Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats

2000-10-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Rik van Riel wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: We'll see where it goes, but I am gad they are doing what's right here and putting their customers first. If an MS customer wnats to use Linux and W2K, they should be helping them, and I think perhaps they have come

Re: Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats

2000-10-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andre Hedrick wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: I will again be able to offer these NTFS tools to repair NTFS partitions. Please begin reforwarding requests from folks with trashed disks to me, and I'll be able to assist folks. Microsoft has apologized and withdrawn

Re: Microsoft Withdraws Linux NTFS Threats

2000-10-01 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andre Hedrick wrote: I went to slashdot.org to read the story. There was a historical referrence, in the beginning, that implies that I was accussing Microsoft of using Linux code. The reality was that I offered to help them with the solution I was working on because of the huge mess

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