Re: Dumb question - loopback mounting an ISO image

2007-09-10 Thread Karthik Subramanian
On 9/9/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Would anyone object to this being present in GENERIC? It seems handy. vn is available as module cheers simon Muchas Gracias! I'll check this out later tonight. K.

Re: NFS question

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Great, thanks a lot! :Btw, Which man page contains doco for all the options? : :Petr man mount_nfs -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NFS scalability

2007-09-10 Thread Michael Neumann
Hi, At Froscon (open source conference), I attended a talk about web-clustering. The speaker described a system with a dozen web-servers, each of which is connected to a central NAS via NFS to serve files. Of course the main task of the web-servers is to serve dynamic files. The speaker used

Re: /etc/rc.d/localdaemons

2007-09-10 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Dave Hayes wrote: The rc.d style scripts run by /etc/rc.d/localdaemons doesn't observe the PROVIDE/REQUIRE/BEFORE keywords that the scripts in /etc/rc.d do. Is there something I'm forgetting to realize here? Maybe put those rcorder-style scripts in /etc/rc.d/. You can

Re: NFS scalability

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :At Froscon (open source conference), I attended a talk about :web-clustering. The speaker described a system with a dozen web-servers, :each of which is connected to a central NAS via NFS to serve files. Of :course the main task of the web-servers is to serve dynamic files. The

Re: /etc/rc.d/localdaemons

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The rc.d style scripts run by /etc/rc.d/localdaemons doesn't observe the :PROVIDE/REQUIRE/BEFORE keywords that the scripts in /etc/rc.d do. : :Is there something I'm forgetting to realize here? :-- :Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] : The opinions expressed

Re: NFS scalability

2007-09-10 Thread steve
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 07:49:51AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Just out of interest (without the time/boxes to try it out myself), do :you guys think this is a good solution? I mean, does NFS handle a lot :concurrent accesses well? I never used NFS... : :Hehe, I know, using HAMMERFS

Re: /etc/rc.d/localdaemons

2007-09-10 Thread Dave Hayes
Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can make your packages install the rcorder-style rc.d scripts by setting PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS=YES in your pkgsrc mk.conf and in your shell environment for pkg_add(1). Ah-ha. Thanks for that. (How did your rc.d scripts get into your $local_startup

Re: /etc/rc.d/localdaemons

2007-09-10 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:52:02AM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: I believe pkgsrc puts rc.d style scripts in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d. I've also put a few in there myself. It hasn't done that for ages. There's two reasons I personally like this idea, one is to keep the startup script with the prefix

Re: /etc/rc.d/localdaemons

2007-09-10 Thread Dave Hayes
Joerg Sonnenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, it is a complete mess. If you really want to keep them separate, use a second directory like /etc/rc.d.pkg and change /etc/rc to scan that as well. Is the code itself a mess or is the idea bad? If the idea is bad, I'd be interested in why, so I

Re: NFS scalability

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Turner
steve wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 07:49:51AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Just out of interest (without the time/boxes to try it out myself), do :you guys think this is a good solution? I mean, does NFS handle a lot :concurrent accesses well? I never used NFS... : haven't played around