Re: Port of Niels Provos's file descriptor allocation code

2003-11-28 Thread Brad Knowles
() performance instead? Perhaps the implementation on OpenBSD may be worse than ours, but it may add features that help improve our performance further. Certainly, both issues should be checked as broadly as possible. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty

Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

2003-11-25 Thread Brad Knowles
27;s slower (more or less, depending on which benchmarks you believe). But it is the best implementation that was available, and this is -CURRENT, where things are expected to periodically be in a state of flux while major changes are underway. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

2003-11-25 Thread Brad Knowles
first place. That all sounds wonderful! So, when are you going to deliver this fully functioning and debugged code for inclusion in FreeBSD-5.2? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-24 Thread Brad Knowles
arm -- the delays waiting for responses from nameservers will overwhelm any local delays caused by dynamic vs. static linking. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-22 Thread Brad Knowles
hy shouldn't we have it now? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSH

Re: Atheros Throughput TEST!

2003-10-17 Thread Brad Knowles
and pathload. They're much better tools for getting down into the nitty-gritty details of true network throughput and bottleneck identification. Try using application-layer tools like ftp at a later stage in the testing. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can g

Re: ipnat memory leak?

2003-10-09 Thread Brad Knowles
read. Thank you! -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI$

Re: ipnat memory leak?

2003-10-09 Thread Brad Knowles
more about the added controls you have over this process because it's part of the kernel, as opposed to operating in user space? This is a serious question -- I don't understand, and I'd like to learn. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up

Re: D-Link DWL-520+

2003-10-05 Thread Brad Knowles
cement :-) Or is this a kind of "enhanced 802.b" standart? Where can I read smth about this? See above. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin F

Re: D-Link DWL-520+

2003-10-05 Thread Brad Knowles
ar for wireless networking cards. He's been trying to get specs for 22mbps cards for years, and everything from every vendor requires NDA, and the OEM manufacturer won't even talk to him. If you find any open-source drivers for any 22mbps cards under any OS, please let me know. -- Brad K

Re: Support for 3com 3CRWE154G72 wireless 11g card

2003-10-04 Thread Brad Knowles
Atheros chipset has any support under *BSD. Broadcom won't release the details of their hardware access layer (HAL) except under NDA. Are there any other 802.11g chipsets? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporar

Re: Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)

2003-09-24 Thread Brad Knowles
k stage; it would be obvious when the application failed to link with lots of unresolved pthread symbols. (*) Unless we want to support LD_PRELOAD being able to change the threads library. That would seem to be another reasonable option. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They tha

Re: The bikeshed T-shirt

2003-09-20 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:29 AM -0400 2003/09/21, Daniel Eischen wrote: Can you add a "no -pthread" symbol to it? I could do up an ash grey t-shirt with slightly modified graphics. What would a "no -pthread" symbol look like? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give

Re: The bikeshed T-shirt

2003-09-20 Thread Brad Knowles
ed graphics I created for this shirt are available at <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/pictures/FreeBSD-No-Bikeshed-R.png> and <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/pictures/FreeBSD-No-Bikeshed-L.png>, under the same "No Bikeshed" license under which PHK released the ori

Re: panic: absolutely cannot call smp_ipi_shootdown with interrupts already disabled

2003-09-18 Thread Brad Knowles
done as a port until such time as it's fully ready to take over from the built-in gdb in the system. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin,

Re: The bikeshed T-shirt

2003-09-12 Thread Brad Knowles
=cmvp.6951805>. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI$ P+>++

Re: bikeshed

2003-09-12 Thread Brad Knowles
w.cafeshops.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=cmvp.6951805>. YOU MAY NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES _EVER_ make it the subject of a bikeshed discussion. What about the color of the bikeshed? Can we make that an allowed bikeshed discussion? ;-) -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can giv

Re: The bikeshed T-shirt

2003-09-12 Thread Brad Knowles
;t sure, but on thinking about it some more, I felt more confident that you had meant something else. I guess I over-analyzed your response. I'll put the shirt back up in a few minutes. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a

Re: The bikeshed T-shirt

2003-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
ate the source files from which I will work. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)&g

Re: The bikeshed T-shirt

2003-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:00 AM +0200 2003/09/12, Brad Knowles wrote: Problem solved. See <http://www.cafeshops.com/cmvp.7534915>. Note that these are being sold at cost (something any other CafePress member can confirm). Per PHK's request, I am taking this down. The PNG version I cr

Re: The bikeshed T-shirt

2003-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
quickly take any image you want and put it on a wide variety of different products from t-shirts, hats, aprons, mugs, and a whole host of others. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty

Re: The bikeshed T-shirt

2003-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
The PNG version I created is at <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/pictures/freebsd-bikeshed.png>. Enjoy... I have interpreted your post to mean that it's okay for other people to print up t-shirts, based on this image. However, if you prefer that I take this down, just le

Re: System freezes with radeon 9100 graphics card

2003-08-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:40 PM -0700 2003/08/23, Scott M. Likens wrote: Also please teach your email client to word wrap. That's nasty. According to your headers, you're using Ximian Evolution 1.4.4. According to his headers, he's running Mutt/1.5.4i. You tell me. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL

Re: INET6 in world

2003-08-10 Thread Brad Knowles
ed it (even though that's also a risk), but I absolutely do not want the code loaded unless I'm actually going to be making use of it. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n

Re: INET6 in world

2003-08-05 Thread Brad Knowles
hen I put the IPv4 localhost first. There is no IPv6 in this house, nor is there likely to be any time soon. If I can't kill IPv6 from a configuration standpoint, I'll go ripping out the freakin' code, or I'll use an OS that gives me the option. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAI

Re: Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

2003-08-04 Thread Brad Knowles
ping client. This would also allow you to apply the same solution for jail vs. non-jail environments. Is this a future enhancement that we can realistically look forward to? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporar

Re: Lucent IBSS mode doesn't work in -CURRENT?

2003-08-04 Thread Brad Knowles
day. Can you explain things to me, perhaps in a somewhat simpler fashion, so that I might understand, and maybe even help? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benja

Re: Belkin F5D5020 PCMCIA Card/Notebook Network Card

2003-07-28 Thread Brad Knowles
s card. But still, no answers to this question. Unfortunately, just Googling for "Belkin F5D5020 FreeBSD" doesn't do much good, as it turns up many resellers of this card which claims that it works with FreeBSD, or articles that happen to mention both FreeBSD and this card

We have ath, now what about Broadcom?

2003-07-23 Thread Brad Knowles
state of affairs on this subject, especially as it related to FreeBSD or *BSD in general? Thanks! -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historica

Re: ReiserFS

2003-06-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:50 AM -0700 2003/06/22, Lars Eggert wrote: Make the ReiserFS box an NFS server and mount it on FreeBSD to copy the data over. What if it's the same machine? What if they have only the one machine, so they can't even copy it over to another one, just to copy it back? -- Br

Re: Way forward with BIND 8

2003-06-06 Thread Brad Knowles
nt to hold off on importing BIND 9 until after the looming CURRENT/STABLE transition, I have no problems with that. However, I would like to see you update the web page you previously mentioned. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a li

Re: Way forward with BIND 8

2003-06-06 Thread Brad Knowles
e to do with the status of -CURRENT at the moment than it does with BIND 9. Development is continuing on BIND 8 as well, thus the 8.4.x branch, which includes IPv6 transport. Very limited development. All primary development is being done for BIND 9, and occasionally things are back-ported.

Re: Way forward with BIND 8

2003-06-06 Thread Brad Knowles
//www.isc.org/BINDForum/>)? Are you on the bind-workers mailing list? IMO, if you want to claim that BIND 9 isn't suitable for production use, then I believe you should be prepared to help change that situation. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up es

Re: Way forward with BIND 8

2003-06-06 Thread Brad Knowles
a -CURRENT? Well, the same is true for BIND 9. Indeed, I'd say that BIND 9 is much more mature and production-ready than -CURRENT is most of the time (situations such as the current transition where we're just about to make 5.x the new -STABLE being the one exception I can think

Re: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groffand Texinfo docs

2003-05-02 Thread Brad Knowles
produced by `gzip -9`. Seeing as /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/info is not currently compressed (in 4.6.2-RELEASE), any compression algorithm would be a significant improvement. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little

Re: Anyone working on fsck?

2003-03-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:42 PM -0800 2003/03/18, Terry Lambert wrote: Make sense now? No. However, I am now convinced that I don't understand enough of how the filesystem works to even be able to ask the simplest of questions about how this process can be improved. So, I will now shut up. -- Brad Kn

Re: Anyone working on fsck?

2003-03-18 Thread Brad Knowles
of not finishing the last 30% of something? Yes. Can you substantiate this rather extreme claim? Can you point to specific messages in the archives that demonstrate this? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary saf

Re: Anyone working on fsck?

2003-03-18 Thread Brad Knowles
linear pass, and then you'd be done. If you had one I/O process and multiple worker processes actually scanning the CG maps and updating the second copy, this should just absolutely *fly*. What am I missing here? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up es

Re: Anyone working on fsck?

2003-03-18 Thread Brad Knowles
roblem can't be fixed by a simple cache. 8-(. It seems to me that there could be a logical cache which could be provided by the RAID code, which would sit above the physical block locations, the mirrors of the blocks, the parity data, etc Or is this the part that is provided by the

Re: Anyone working on fsck?

2003-03-17 Thread Brad Knowles
not finishing the last 30% of something? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>:

Re: Plea for base system trim

2003-03-05 Thread Brad Knowles
can't -- "ndc start" being one of the big ones. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT

Re: TI WiFi Drivers

2003-03-03 Thread Brad Knowles
r the BSD license, I'm sure that'd help him write a driver for Linux, and he would be a very happy camper. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benj

Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ?

2003-02-27 Thread Brad Knowles
sically remove all the i386 code from the 5.x tree. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>

Re: WLAN

2003-02-24 Thread Brad Knowles
e buying any of it. Take some wool underwear with you if you go downstairs. ;-) -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Revi

Re: background fsck deadlocks with ufs2 and big disk

2003-02-20 Thread Brad Knowles
seemed to be fine. So, the interaction that I personally witnessed was specifically between vinum RAID-5 and softupdates. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -B

Re: UFS2 regression tests?

2003-02-19 Thread Brad Knowles
to break something! Yeah, especially if it's UFS2, you're doing softupdates with background fsck, and you've used vinum to build the large logical volume. ;-) -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little tempo

Re: UFS2 regression tests?

2003-02-19 Thread Brad Knowles
... a really big test set? Perhaps even set them up to run in continuous mode, so as to really thrash your disks as much as possible as quickly as possible? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve nei

Re: background fsck deadlocks with ufs2 and big disk

2003-02-19 Thread Brad Knowles
& softupdates have had bad interactions with each other for as long as I can remember. Has this truly been a consistent thing (as I seem to recall), or has this been an on-again/off-again situation? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to

Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap

2003-02-14 Thread Brad Knowles
ion with the invited talks I did at LISA 2002 and BSDCon Europe 2002, and people have repeatedly called me to task on this issue. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap

2003-02-14 Thread Brad Knowles
d (SMTP & POP3), smtp-sink & smtp-source (SMTP transmit & receive), mstone (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, etc...), or perhaps others. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safe

Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap

2003-02-14 Thread Brad Knowles
being able to run some comparison benchmarks on my test system here, but I fear that I would not be able to help fix any problems that might be identified. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither

Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap

2003-02-13 Thread Brad Knowles
any other benchmarks that are being considered? What about LMBench? RawIO? Bonnie++? Other disk benchmarks? Do we care about application-layer benchmarks for other protocols, such as SMTP, POP3, or IMAP? Just curious. Thanks! -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that

Re: tmpfile breakage on setuid executables

2003-02-05 Thread Brad Knowles
will test compiling all code with full warnings and the optimizer? Also, can someone explain to me what the heck a "zebra" is, in this context? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neith

Re: Preview: GEOMs statistics code.

2003-02-05 Thread Brad Knowles
through some kind of analysis afterwards. Ahh, I see. Thanks again! -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvan

Re: Preview: GEOMs statistics code.

2003-02-05 Thread Brad Knowles
gs will be needed (And I fear they will show a lot of interesting phenomena). Hmm. I'd like to learn more about this tracelog concept. Can you provide any pointers? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little tempo

Re: Preview: GEOMs statistics code.

2003-02-04 Thread Brad Knowles
as we are reading it, so you can't always take the data it prints out too literally? IMO, that's a perfectly fine limitation to live with, for the results that it allows us to get. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a

Re: Preview: GEOMs statistics code.

2003-02-04 Thread Brad Knowles
sely* what I was thinking! I'm glad someone else had the same idea -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylv

Re: Preview: GEOMs statistics code.

2003-02-04 Thread Brad Knowles
welcome) This is queue depth versus latency, right? I don't suppose a request to provide both would hold any weight with you, would it? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither li

Re: rand() is broken

2003-02-03 Thread Brad Knowles
at Diffie Hellman did, for which the patent expired a little while ago. Did RC4 even exist at the time that Don published that book? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.&qu

Re: split out patch

2003-02-01 Thread Brad Knowles
ce, too. I get impatient when I've done things and I'm waiting on other people to respond. I guess I'm just trying to find out what level of impatience would be appropriate in this kind of situation -- given the amount of time that had passed and the specific day and hours in quest

Re: split out patch

2003-02-01 Thread Brad Knowles
stioning the patch at all, just the apparent impatience. If I am wrong and it is normal to expect a reasonable response within this period of time and within this particular period of time on a Saturday morning, please let me know. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can g

Re: postfix equiv. of sendmail's -bH?

2003-01-18 Thread Brad Knowles
is feature in postfix, short of stopping and starting the service. However, I'll have to check the latest source code to be sure. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.&quo

Re: Re[2]: 80386 out of GENERIC

2002-12-16 Thread Brad Knowles
ompiling the code (as would be necessary, since 386-compatible code would not be included in any of the regular binaries), then there is no such thing as "pre-compiled" anything. Morever, the concept of compiling something is mutually exclusive to getting a pre-compiled copy of that s

Re: FBSD 5.0RC1 install oddity

2002-12-15 Thread Brad Knowles
solution, I couldn't tell you how to replicate it. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)

Re: TTL

2002-12-14 Thread Brad Knowles
ething like 32 hops away, and while his OS was fine, our particular patch revision of HP-UX 9 was hard-coded at 30. We applied a later patch to the machines, and everything went back to normal. This is not a new problem. Unfortunately, many OSes may still have inappropriate values defined.

Re: RC NG, ntp and routed

2002-12-12 Thread Brad Knowles
NFS? So, you need a way to bootstrap the early parts of networking before mounting the later filesystems. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Fran

Re: RC NG, ntp and routed

2002-12-10 Thread Brad Knowles
etBSD specific portions after 5.0? Nope. It's nice to be as close as we can feasibly get, but if it doesn't work then it doesn't work, and we shouldn't unnecessarily handicap ourselves just to be compatible. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that ca

Re: RC NG, ntp and routed

2002-12-09 Thread Brad Knowles
sync with your reference(s). It would be ntpdate that would be the potentially dangerous one making large-scale changes to your system time. Therefore, you definitely want the router stuff before the ntpd stuff. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-05 Thread Brad Knowles
le testing each component individually between now and then should theoretically be doable in 10 tests (as previously mentioned), the combinatorial explosion will be exceptionally nasty. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporar

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-03 Thread Brad Knowles
U workstaion at the office running 4.7-STABLE with an fxp0 NIC does not suffer the same throughput reduction. I've also heard of lots of problems with some machines when the cable is too short, at least in certain combinations. Try successively longer lengths of cable, at least up to 20-3

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-02 Thread Brad Knowles
t handling auto-detect in the same way. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(

Re: Any ideas at all about network problem?

2002-12-02 Thread Brad Knowles
somewhere earlier, and they will be more difficult to track down. Either that, or the problem is actually somewhere else, and you're only seeing the results through your network transfers. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a li

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-29 Thread Brad Knowles
never any good reason to have a case-sensitive file system." Can you believe that? I wrote back to them and stated, "there is never any good reason to have a case-INsensitive filesystem." But, of course, they never replied. :) Try bitching at Jordan. Maybe he can get them to fix

Re: -current unusable after a crash

2002-11-25 Thread Brad Knowles
(. How about we do the safe thing, and only do background fsck if we can prove that the system state is something where it would be suitable? Or would that mean that we almost never do background fsck? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to

Re: gcc 3.2.1 release import?

2002-11-23 Thread Brad Knowles
-CURRENT after the 5.0-RELEASE. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0 problems

2002-11-23 Thread Brad Knowles
x27;ll be running -DP2 on, and given all the network problems I've had lately, I may need to also connect it to the cisco ISDN/Ethernet router -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neith

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to helpdebug5.0 problems

2002-11-23 Thread Brad Knowles
LEASE. These kinds of things get all that much more important when we're talking about a -RELEASE coming up. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin F

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0 problems

2002-11-22 Thread Brad Knowles
lude a patch. IMO, better would be to give the area to another person who is suitably qualified, has the available cycles, and presumably already has a commit bit. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deser

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0 problems

2002-11-22 Thread Brad Knowles
evelopment types to help us debug the problems and get them sorted out -- we've got people who have hardware, and would be more than willing to help test things out, but in the past they haven't gotten much help from the developers. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They

Re: Searching for users of netncp and nwfs to help debug5.0 problems

2002-11-21 Thread Brad Knowles
e that we can help make this a much more successful project. Your assistance in this effort would be greatly appreciated. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.&qu

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Brad Knowles
connected, is authoritative. Sorry, I wasn't think of transient networks. Indeed, that does make things a lot uglier. I'll have to think some more about all the various implications, however. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obta

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Brad Knowles
ormation is the same. You could also use BIND 9 "views". Otherwise, split-horizon can be a pain. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf?

2002-11-18 Thread Brad Knowles
nd start one named for each config, or something. Yeah, I was definitely thinking of a much more general solution. IMO, the switch should either be "One" or "Many", with perhaps an easy way to degenerate a "Many" solution to more easily serve the "One"

Re: New NVidia drivers on -current

2002-11-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:11 AM +0100 2002/11/18, David Holm wrote: BTW, why hasn't anyone set the mailing list to automatically set the reply-to address to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? <http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give u

Re: POSTFIX-- Wietse: tweak and go! --pkg & port: both duds

2000-10-09 Thread Brad Knowles
e to create yet another MySQL database that *was* in the proper format. This would likely lead to synchronization problems, etc -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ========== Brad Knowles, <

Re: POSTFIX-- Wietse: tweak and go! --pkg & port: both duds

2000-10-08 Thread Brad Knowles
on our production systems, but you'd better be prepared to deal with any problems that may occur if you want to do the same. Otherwise, you shouldn't be running a snapshot version. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy =======

Re: POSTFIX-- Wietse: tweak and go! --pkg & port: both duds

2000-10-08 Thread Brad Knowles
ushed (which now makes postfix more suitable for use at an ISP that provides backup MX services for its customers). -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed

2000-09-05 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed

2000-09-04 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed

2000-09-04 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: SMP and softupdates?

2000-08-28 Thread Brad Knowles
e is switch back to using a real uniprocessor kernel, and then see if I could replicate the problems. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ========== Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|| B

Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
thing I can do to help? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====== Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue

Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-26 Thread Brad Knowles
or the SmartRAID V were only "beta" quality), and simply use vinum instead. However, if this card is better supported than I first thought, then I'll be glad to keep it. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy =========

Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1)does

2000-07-06 Thread Brad Knowles
are really and truly completely full on that device. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail

Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1)does

2000-07-04 Thread Brad Knowles
e my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====== Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates softdep.hffs_softdep.c

2000-06-22 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development

2000-06-21 Thread Brad Knowles
ent state of that project is? Thanks! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.4

Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development

2000-06-21 Thread Brad Knowles
27;re waiting for me on this, you might want to buy your burial plot now and go ahead and make all your final arrangements -- you're going to be waiting for a while. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ===

Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development

2000-06-21 Thread Brad Knowles
create an open source version of something similar to perforce? ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====== Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems

Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development

2000-06-19 Thread Brad Knowles
ind I think I'll continue to track RELENG_4 and listen over here to get some idea of what may be ultimately coming down the pike over there for -STABLE. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ======

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