Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Smarty-pants. ;) Oh, and I forgot to mention that I've been using it since sometime in the very early testing period.

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hurd user survey Date: 06 Mar 2000 11:48:12 -0600 > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes. > 2) If so, is your Hurd box currently running as you expect it to? As a GRUB developer, I should say "yes", because I can boot an

Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread George A. Dowding
1) yes 2) I haven't got past the successful install, because of other committments. My next stage involves getting onto the network. I have a functioning linux box that I am going to attempt to use as a gateway. There appears to be somewhat of a learning curve for me there. 3) Haven't spent

Re: ext2fs data corruptions

2000-03-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:57:11PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:53:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:12:44PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > 1) The corruption always takes the form of a 4k aligned page of zeros >

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Franklin
1) No. Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? > > 2) If so, is your H

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread jargon
06 Mar 2000 11:48:12 -0600 Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the H

Re: ext2fs data corruptions

2000-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 6) If you have a corrupt filesystem, and shut it down sanely, and then > >fsck it, fsck reports no errors. (In other words, the corruption > >is not associated with block map errors or such.) > Not true. I see fsck errors fairly frequently

Re: ext2fs data corruptions

2000-03-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:53:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:12:44PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > 1) The corruption always takes the form of a 4k aligned page of zeros > >showing up. > > Unfortunately, no. The 4096 size is common in normal

Re: ext2fs data corruptions

2000-03-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 12:05:47PM -0800, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > One interesting side-note is that the corruption seems to be limited to > the "ext2fs.static" server. My understanding is that ext2fs.static is used > for the root partition, but the "dynamic" ext2fs is used for all other > mount

Re: ext2fs data corruptions

2000-03-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:12:44PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > 1) The corruption always takes the form of a 4k aligned page of zeros >showing up. Unfortunately, no. The 4096 size is common in normal operation, but untar of gcc gives 3*1024 size block, and I also saw one 2048 siz

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Smarty-pants. ;) -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://gnu.fig.org/)

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes. > 2) I

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread R Joseph Wright
> > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes > > 2) If so, is your Hurd box currently running as you expect it to? It runs a bit better than I expected it to, although I never really use it because a) No ppp b) I don't understand it c) I'm hooked on FreeBSD

RE: ext2fs data corruptions

2000-03-06 Thread Brent Fulgham
> > I'm going to attempt some source staring; And there was much rejoicing in the streets ;-) > if someone could confirm or deny the following assertions (and add > appropriate additional information), that would help me. > > 1) The corruption always takes the form of a 4k aligned page of

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Didier Dubois
Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? No. will try once again a soon as

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Didier Dubois
Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some > idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. > > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? > No > > 2) If so, is your Hurd b

ext2fs data corruptions

2000-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
I'm going to attempt some source staring; if someone could confirm or deny the following assertions (and add appropriate additional information), that would help me. 1) The corruption always takes the form of a 4k aligned page of zeros showing up. 2) The corruption does not happen to directo

Re: Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:48:12AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? Yes - I have had the Hurd running in one form or another for nearly 3 years. > 2) If so, is your Hurd box currently running as you expect it to? Better. I have a web server w

Hurd user survey

2000-03-06 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
I'm taking an informal survey of people who use the Hurd, to get some idea of how things are progressing. Please reply to me privately, or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. 1) Have you successfully gotten the Hurd running? 2) If so, is your Hurd box currently running as you expect it to? 3)

Bug#59433: hurd: group permission not honoured

2000-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps you should instead reassign it to adduser, as that should > be changed to avoid allocating the same id for a user and a group > unless explicitly requested (or perhaps if they have the same > name). Isn't the normal behavior of Debian a

Bug#59433: hurd: group permission not honoured

2000-03-06 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 03:48:55PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > The Hurd supports a feature known as "groupleaders". If your uid=gid, > > then you count as the owner for any files with that group. > > Oh. That would explain it of course.