Re: DragonflyBSD GEOM? (Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?)

2010-07-28 Thread Adam Vande More
fly for some embedded system, but having more GPL stuff is essentially a non-starter for me as well. I really like HammerFS and would have preferred to see that in FreeBSD over ZFS. -- Adam Vande More

Re: DragonflyBSD GEOM? (Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?)

2010-07-28 Thread Adam Vande More
which >requires a full disk sync after a minor glitch, such as someone >pulling a plug temporarily or a crash/reboot or a misprobe. The gmirror sync after an unclean disconnect is greatly reduced on gjournal volumes, I haven't timed it lately but it's something like 1 to 2 minutes for TB+ sized volumes. -- Adam Vande More

DragonflyBSD GEOM? (Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?)

2010-07-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Alex Hornung wrote: > On 28/07/10 03:30, Adam Vande More wrote: > > [...] although I am > > curious to know why GEOM wasn't chosen. It's both more powerful, and > > easier to use IMO. Some examples of that would be gmirror, glabel

Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?

2010-07-27 Thread Adam Vande More
could easily read. GEOM has many other modules including one that maps to LVM's, a new io scheduler, and a block based journaling system, etc. -- Adam Vande More

Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?

2010-07-27 Thread Adam Vande More
e nice to have a rough map of what such a project entails, especially the Danger, Will Robinson markers. If GEOM where to be completed, gpart should be useable too then only the boot bits need to be solved. -- Adam Vande More

Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?

2010-07-23 Thread Adam Vande More
; it, and use GPT partitions instead? > If by dump it you mean default to GPT style partitioning, I think that is valid discussion. I would say yes, standardization here seems to be a net positive. -- Adam Vande More

Re: HEADS UP: dm, lvm, cryptsetup and initrd on master

2010-07-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Alex wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> as you know I've been working on getting dm and lvm into DragonFly. I've >> just committed my work so far which includes the following

Re: HEADS UP: dm, lvm, cryptsetup and initrd on master

2010-07-11 Thread Adam Vande More
dm userland library > - lvm userland tools > - cryptsetup (with LUKS stuff) > - some further modifications to the initrd stuff > Forgive my ignorance, but how does this stuff work with the kernel? Isn't it GPL'd? If so, isn't that a problem? -- Adam Vande More

Re: PFS mirroring insted of RAID Improved set up - need comments.

2010-04-02 Thread Adam Vande More
e4 quite well. The intel's support TRIM which is pretty useful, except that *BSD doesn't yet to my knowledge. Both my drives were ebay snipes and I haven't had an issue with either although the intel preforms quite a bit better for several reasons. -- Adam Vande More

Re: hammer streaming question

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Vande More
> /pfs/@@0x00012a5b0c00:868G44G25G64%/mnt/tmp > Thanks for the pointer. -- Adam Vande More

hammer streaming question

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Vande More
e the file from the master it's still present in the slave. What am I missing? -- Adam Vande More