Re: in which we present an ugly hack to make sys/queue.h CIRCLEQ work

2013-11-26 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
What's your issue with TAILQ? Matt - Christos Zoulas chris...@astron.com wrote: In article 96497888-f8c7-49f2-958b-532a2093b...@gmail.com, Dennis Ferguson dennis.c.fergu...@gmail.com wrote: I think getting rid of uses of the CIRCLEQ macros was the right thing to do in any case,

Re: in which we present an ugly hack to make sys/queue.h CIRCLEQ work

2013-11-26 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
Let me get on the record. It's basically ridiculous to allow GCC 4.8 to redefine the set of permitted C expressions such that it breaks BSD. Matt - Christos Zoulas chris...@zoulas.com wrote: On Nov 26, 8:20pm, m...@linuxbox.com (Matt W. Benjamin) wrote: -- Subject: Re: in which we

Re: Why do we need lua in-tree again? Yet another call for actual evidence, please. (was Re: Moving Lua source codes)

2013-10-18 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
Hi, The linked research was performed on Linux, which has NFsv4.1 and pNFS client implementations. Evidently, you can do this kind of thing with an out-of-tree Lua kernel extension. Matt - Taylor R Campbell riastr...@netbsd.org wrote: [1] https://github.com/dergraf/PacketScript

Re: NGROUPS/NGROUPS_MAX

2013-10-09 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
The higher versions of the protocol prefer sites to avoid AUTH_SYS. For discussion, see here http://nfsworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-deal-on-16-group-id-limitation.html Independent of the auth type, an NFS server could use ordinary methods to associate groups whatever user is selected for a

Re: fixing the vnode lifecycle

2013-09-23 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
Perhaps both are acceptable. Ie, permit an FS to opt-out, then work on new shared primitives. Matt - David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote: Another model entirely, on the other hand, is to get rid of the vfs-level vnode cache and make each fs fully responsible for its own

Re: NFS vs jumbograms?

2013-06-20 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
...@netbsd.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:16:25PM -0400, Matt W. Benjamin wrote: NFS-per se has change a lot since...NFSv4 came out. What NFS versions does NetBSD currently support? I had the sense that it probably tracked Rick Macklem's FreeBSD work at some distance... Like

Re: NFS vs jumbograms?

2013-06-03 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
NFS-per se has change a lot since...NFSv4 came out. What NFS versions does NetBSD currently support? I had the sense that it probably tracked Rick Macklem's FreeBSD work at some distance... Like, does NetBSD support pNFS? Matt - David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote: On Mon,

Re: Lost file-system story

2011-12-12 Thread Matt W. Benjamin
Hi, Why would sync not be effective under MNT_ASYNC? Use of sync is not required to lead to consistency expect with respect to an arbitrary point in time, but I don't think anyone ever believed otherwise. However, there should be no question of metadata never being written out if sync was