Re: Merry X-Mas and 3.0 release after the holidays - date not yet decided

2011-12-25 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Not that my voice has any weight, but I applaud and welcome a 3.0 release. :) -Toby. On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: >    Hello everyone!  First, I apologize for the aborted 2.12 release.  We >    got as far as rolling it but I decided to make a real push to try to >    f

Hang right after "BIOS CD is cd0" on booting dfly-i386-3.0.2_REL.iso

2012-04-11 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Hello all, I'm trying to boot up the 3.0.2 CD ISO (to fix a boot issue with the /boot partition) on my VM, and for some reason, I can't seem to make the ISO get past the line: BIOS CD is cd0 If I add a floppy to the mix, the machine does not get past the line: BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive A: is di

Re: btrfs and atime - is that similar with Hammer?

2012-06-20 Thread Tobias Weingartner
One solution I didn't see, is to pull atime out of the filesystem metadata, and make it a database within it's own file on the filesystem. This does have a number of benefits. For one, the atimes for all files are collected within a simple file, which will get snapshot'ed with other files. And f

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-04 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Been down that path, and almost lost my sanity. The code that probes for disks via the BIOS (in openbsd's boot loader) is just as sensitive, causing hangs, etc. Writing that was... "interesting". The partition table entries are just about as sensitive (as you've found out), and the joy is all th