Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Brett Lymn: > As a lot of other people, silent because my laptop is ~5 years old so > hardly helpful. Most of my NetBSD is done on a fujitsu S904 lifebook, I > chose is for the combination of power and light weight. It took quite a > while but my laptop is now well supported, built in wirel

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-23 Thread Pedro Pinho
Same here, HP ProBook 6460b from 2013, i5 CPU, 8GB RAM, replaced the original HDD with a SSD and replaced the crappy broadcom wifi card with an Intel one. Everything working fine, further details here, https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/6-netbsd-a-little-guide-for-newcomers Very recently, I've tried qemu

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-23 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 06:32:55PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote: > > Mostly, it seems folks don't really run NetBSD on laptops, and if they > do they're silent about it. > As a lot of other people, silent because my laptop is ~5 years old so hardly helpful. Most of my NetBSD is done on a fujits

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-23 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 03:13:21PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > Is there something like that existing? the idea being to combine > as much as possible existing facilities and just to insert a simple > client/server encapsulating "disk" data at the right place (the > pseudo-device) to ma

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-23 Thread Rhialto
On Sun 23 Jun 2019 at 11:02:10 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > If there wouldn't be the unsupported sdio wifi issue, I'd strongly > recommend a pinebook ;-) Hm.. well... on the pinebook, I would say that NetBSD's graphics drivers "leave a lot to be desired". Mind you, with the Linux KDE Neon I'm t

Re: current transaction too big to flush

2019-06-23 Thread Dima Veselov
Greetings, the problem is still there and I even have a single file which can not be deleted via standard rm command causing kernel panic. What can be done there? Current situation make WAPBL filesystem unusable. I also can not increase log space. Is that real that 3Gb file deletion take 64Mb of

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-23 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 06:32:55PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote: > Mostly, it seems folks don't really run NetBSD on laptops, and if they > do they're silent about it. I do, and I have been silent. For me everything works on my two Acer ones I currently have, but I could not recommend any currenti

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-23 Thread maya
I don't recommend my laptops because I can name the list of things not working on them (I want to fix them at some point). I can tell you what is missing in a Dell XPS 9550 but given that I have graphical acceleration, external monitor and internal wifi, it's an OK recent laptop for netbsd'ing. h

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-23 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
I have been designing a system that does something a lot like this, to function as a multimedia asset management system. I would love to compare notes with you if you like. Do you want this to work on the block level? It sounds like you do. Things like this do exist, but you have to be very spe