Re: calling all fs experts

2011-12-11 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- Dom 11/12/11, Kostik Belousov ha scritto: > > If you wanted to get responses from experts only, sorry in > advance. > I am no fs expert but just thought I'd mention some things based on my playing with the BSD ext2fs ... > The fs (AKA UFS) uses clustering provided by the block > cache. T

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-11 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- Dom 11/12/11, Julian H. Stacey ha scritto: ... > > I have to say I am surprised by all the people that > > still use CVS (for their own good reasons). > > > > It still would be helpful if cvs users could evaluate > > OpenCVS: it's been experimental for ages now. It does > > seem to have some

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-03 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Daniel; --- On Sat, 12/3/11, Daniel Eischen wrote: ... > > I would love to mirror the SVN repo in the same way > and have an 'svn' in base, or at least something that > could replace CVS in the above scenario. > I have to say I am surprised by all the people that still use CVS (for their own

Re: Upgrade contributed gperf, m4 and flex

2011-11-25 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Thank you Baptiste!! I understand exactly why you want this :). Please close gnu/161289 when you are done. Pedro. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: PHORONIX: OpenCL, GLSL Back-End For LLVM May Soon Open Up

2011-08-30 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
FWIW; Christopher Bergström and Pathscale delivered the EKOPath Compiler Suite, but no one followed up: (From the WantedPorts Wiki) https://github.com/pathscale/path64-suite There has been very low interest in the FreeBSD port, and unfortunately this is a bad signal that we give to companies tha

Anyone that can check a dtrace bug/fix?

2011-05-16 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hello; I was checking out some dtrace links and I noticed a bug found by Bryan Cantrill here: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2011/03/09/when-magic-collides/ the patch is rather easy and looks like it applies to our code (i386 and amd64) too: http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/dtrace-signal.patch I d

Re: HEADS UP: Removal of libobjc from the base system

2011-04-18 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Scott Long wrote: ... > > > > We do not have f2c in tree and it was disconnected > from the build even > > longer than that. > > > > Guess I was looking on an old system, sorry for the noise. > > Scott > Ugh.. pointyhat is all mine please... It's still linked in the

Re: HEADS UP: Removal of libobjc from the base system

2011-04-18 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Scott Long wrote: ... > > Yeah it's too outdated to be of any use. > > > > IMHO, you can axe libf2c too... > > > > Honest question here, is there a newer version of libf2c > that lives in ports and is adopted by people who use > fortran?  The one that I find in the base sy

Re: HEADS UP: Removal of libobjc from the base system

2011-04-17 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Yeah it's too outdated to be of any use. IMHO, you can axe libf2c too... cheers, Pedro. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...

more on non-executable mappings on NetBSD

2003-11-30 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi; I know everyone is busy with the upcoming release, but JIC someone is interested on this, I found this recent progress report post on NetBSD's lists: __ Subject: more on non-executable mappings To: None <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Chuck Silvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List: tech-kern Date: 11/28

FYI: Scalability update

2003-11-05 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/#newdata "[Nov 1 2003] I got an email suggesting that I re-check NetBSD. The results are nothing short of astonishing. In two weeks time the NetBSD team made dramatic improvements. socket: previously O(n), now O(1). bind: greatly improved, but still O(n). Much

Re: misc/53327: Important fix for Latin-american keymap(Latin-amer.kbd)

2003-06-15 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi guys, Last time I submitted a change to this file it took like a year to get it committed.. any chance this can be committed and MFC really soon? It would make a continent happy :). cheers, Pedro. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > Thank you very much for your problem report. > It has

Re: [PATCH 5.x] netns

2003-03-05 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Guys; I have to agree with Terry that the fixes for netns should be committed, and furthermore they should be MFC (using his first patch perhaps). It's a nightmare to try to rescue anything from the Attic, at least it would be nice to have it in better shape before killing it. The flame fest on r

Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap

2003-02-13 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
About benchmarks... FWIW, the reiserfs people were excited about SCO's release of AIM: http://caldera.com/developers/community/contrib/aim.html but the announcement went rather unnoticed in freebsd-fs. cheers, Pedro. __ Y