Re: A few technical items on UFS2 and snapshots...

2004-06-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Joe Schmoe wrote: > --- Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. Is it dangerous to mount all 20 possible > > filesystem snapshots and > > > _leave them mounted_ to use at any time ? > > > > I don't think there is any danger, except that you > > will run > > ou

Re: Getting MAC address?

2004-06-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Rabson wrote: Its really not that hard: > [code] Don't get me wrong - it's not hard, and I've done it already, it's just that I felt there could/should be an ioctl for it :) Onto another subject: despite the recommendations (thanks!) I wanted to try the non-bpf,non-ng approach to things (if

Re: Getting MAC address?

2004-06-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Saturday 26 June 2004 10:15, Ivan Voras wrote: > Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > > IV> How to get the MAC address for an (ethernet) interface? The > > linux code IV> does this: > > IV> retval = ioctl(thisint->sockInt, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr); > > IV

Re: Setting Standby Mode for ATA Disks

2004-06-26 Thread Arne Schwabe
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:51:06 +0200 > Arne Schwabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to set the standby mode for ATA Disks > > [ ... ] >> I googled but I did not found anything like this for FreeBSD :/ > > I think sysutils/ata

Re: A few technical items on UFS2 and snapshots...

2004-06-26 Thread Joe Schmoe
--- Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Is it dangerous to mount all 20 possible > filesystem snapshots and > > _leave them mounted_ to use at any time ? > > I don't think there is any danger, except that you > will run > out of disk space sooner or later. Every snapshot I have ta

Re: Getting MAC address?

2004-06-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: IV> How to get the MAC address for an (ethernet) interface? The linux code IV> does this: IV> retval = ioctl(thisint->sockInt, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr); IV> IV> After some searching, I found SIOCSIFLLADDR ioctl, but it appears there IV> i