Re: getrusage() problems with user vs. system time reporting

2011-11-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:28:49 +, David Laight wrote: Subject: Re: getrusage() problems with user vs. system time reporting > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 04:08:13PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > So, if I understand the way SYSCALL_TIMES_PROCTIMES is implemented it > > effectively converts

Re: fs-independent quotas

2011-11-01 Thread David Holland
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:43:57PM -0500, David Young wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 06:09:27PM +, David Holland wrote: > > > > So, a few months back we got a new improved quota format for FFS. > > > > [...] > > > > > > All right, I give up. > > > > ok, I have been asked by Imp

Re: fs-independent quotas

2011-11-01 Thread David Holland
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:49:29AM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote: > > Unless someone suggests a good word for "limited thing", maybe the best > > option is to invent a term of art and *define* it to mean what you > > want, after the manner of Humpty Dumpty. To that end I suggest > > "quotar" or

Re: fsync, rdiff-backup, wapbl, and WD Elements 1T drive

2011-11-01 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <20010318.pa13ihod001...@ginseng.pulsar-zone.net>, Matthew Mondor wrote: >On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:58:27 -0400 >Greg Troxel wrote: > >> Obligatory actual netbsd tech-kern content: It seems like we really need >> a sync_synchronous(2) system call that guarantees that all file system

Re: fsync, rdiff-backup, wapbl, and WD Elements 1T drive

2011-11-01 Thread Greg Troxel
chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes: > In article <20010318.pa13ihod001...@ginseng.pulsar-zone.net>, > Matthew Mondor wrote: >>On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:58:27 -0400 >>Greg Troxel wrote: >> >>> Obligatory actual netbsd tech-kern content: It seems like we really need >>> a sync_synchro

Re: fsync, rdiff-backup, wapbl, and WD Elements 1T drive

2011-11-01 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:54:45AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > My man page on 5.1 matches Mathew's. > > But, does sync do cache flushes on all disks as well? > > Does SUS require this? I believe fsync_range with FDATASYNC is required to. Note that since it's guaranteed to sync "sufficient me