Re: birthtime [was: netbsd : internals : ...?]

2019-07-29 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:14:59 +0200 From:Rocky Hotas Message-ID: <20190729101458.423drwvlknf3hdsd@delpotro> | If you doubt about the usefulness of birthtime, you surely encountered | several reasons to do this. It is almost impossible to demonstrate a negative b

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2019-07-29 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
I just did a quick test of 8.99.51 amd64 from yesterday (self-built, but with no changes) to see how the EFI/GPT installation works using the latest sysinstall (good work, Martin). This was done under VirtualBox, using a newly created NetBSD/amd64 VM with EFI enabled. Everything worked as it shoul

Re: birthtime [was: netbsd : internals : ...?]

2019-07-29 Thread Rocky Hotas
On Jul 27 22:26, Robert Elz wrote: > > An easy way to counter my argument would be to produce a use for > birthtime - something that you can actually use it for. > > Do be aware that "obviously it must be useful" will not do. If you doubt about the usefulness of birthtime, you surely encountered

Re: Rescanning ahcisata* or atabus* for eSATA

2019-07-29 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 03:59:43PM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > > >I can detach with: > > ># drvctl -d wd? > > This will also try to detach the wedges, which fails if a wedge is > still mounted (or opened somehow). > > >But I tried the reverse operation: tryin