Re: Fun with SSD and GPT wedges

2019-02-11 Thread Martin Husemann
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:37:57PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote: > Use "-n" to prevent gpt(8) from updating wedges. No, I want to prevent the *kernel* from auto-detecting and updating wedges temporarily. Martin

Re: Fun with SSD and GPT wedges

2019-02-11 Thread John Nemeth
On Feb 12, 7:34am, Martin Husemann wrote: } } I guess part of the confusion you see is because you have a kernel } doing autoconfiguration for GPT partitions (that is automagically } creates new wedges for them if they have certain GPT types), and } explicit "dkctl makewedges" calls in your

Re: Fun with SSD and GPT wedges

2019-02-11 Thread John Nemeth
On Feb 11, 3:42pm, Robert Nestor wrote: } } I've noticed on my system that building packages is very much } I/O bound rather than CPU limited. So in an effort to try and } speed things up I decided to install a cheap SSD as a system } disk. While doing that I noticed some things and I wonder if

Re: Fun with SSD and GPT wedges

2019-02-11 Thread Martin Husemann
I guess part of the confusion you see is because you have a kernel doing autoconfiguration for GPT partitions (that is automagically creates new wedges for them if they have certain GPT types), and explicit "dkctl makewedges" calls in your script. IMHO we should have a way to temporarily suspend

Re: Fun with SSD and GPT wedges

2019-02-11 Thread Michael van Elst
rnes...@mac.com (Robert Nestor) writes: >*) GPT and DKCTL merrily allow me to create wedges that can’t be mapped >because the /dev nodes don’t exist. You can also plug in new disks (e.g. USB) without having the /dev nodes to use them. There are only a small number of nodes pre-created. Creation

Re: Fun with SSD and GPT wedges

2019-02-11 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:42:56 -0600 From:Robert Nestor Message-ID: <3cdc9cf7-291f-481f-88b2-965f4dba0...@mac.com> | *) GPT and DKCTL merrily allow me to create wedges that can’t be | mapped because the /dev nodes don’t exist. There's nothing very interesting

Fun with SSD and GPT wedges

2019-02-11 Thread Robert Nestor
I’ve noticed on my system that building packages is very much I/O bound rather than CPU limited. So in an effort to try and speed things up I decided to install a cheap SSD as a system disk. While doing that I noticed some things and I wonder if they point to problems in NetBSD. I am using

Netbsd 8.0

2019-02-11 Thread jean-francois robert
Hi, guys Maxtor 80 G / clean Goal : Using a part for netbsd 8.0 Unfortunately the install script netbsd 8.0 stop with root: unknown boot: The install program start normally/ correctly at the beginning, on/from the CDROM, which so is recognise by the bios and with surprise after analyse

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

2019-02-11 Thread Sijmen J. Mulder
Op zo feb 10 2019, om 18:40 schreef Sad Clouds: > So the idea is to keep it small and simple, i.e. a few variable, some > simple if/else logic and "Bob's your Uncle". make is good as a build tool, not so much as a portable configuration tool. Hence, when using make, I'd suggest keeping the

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

2019-02-11 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 09:14:45PM +, Sad Clouds wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:53:21 +0100 > tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/risk_comp_1.16.9.0.tar.gz > > > > It cost me at the beginning less time to write it than to try to > > understand how

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

2019-02-11 Thread Brook Milligan
> On Feb 10, 2019, at 11:25 PM, Sad Clouds wrote: > > Hello, I've been looking into ways of writing portable Makefiles and > would like to ask for ideas and find out what works for various people. I have very much liked devel/mk-configure from pkgsrc because it closely follows the idea of