Re: FreeBSD and MacOS

2004-06-30 Thread Q
On 30/06/2004, at 4:40 PM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: On 30. Jun 2004, at 3:01, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: While Mach is derived from 4.3BSD (circa 1986~1988), there's been about 15 years worth of divergence since then. For example, FreeBSD is monolithic while Mach is more micro-kernel based. Also the dri

Re: writing to RW-mounted UFS2 snapshots - confirmed.

2004-06-30 Thread Q
On 01/07/2004, at 12:25 PM, Sam Lawrance wrote: This is unexpected. You can successfully mount the snapshot read/write and create and write to files in that snapshot. You can also write to files that existed in the snapshot prior to mounting it read/write. Perhaps the writing is done from a point

Re: writing to RW-mounted UFS2 snapshots - confirmed.

2004-06-30 Thread Sam Lawrance
> This is unexpected. You can successfully mount the snapshot > read/write and create and write to files in that snapshot. You can > also write to files that existed in the snapshot prior to mounting it > read/write. Perhaps the writing is done from a point where the schg flag is not checked

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-06-30 Thread Stephen Hurd
> > Has anyone looked at this? Does anyone have any comments? > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/50827 > > I don't think you'll ever find anyone interested in file locking > anymore. Since they're all advisory, anyway, you can just implement them > at a higher level in your a

writing to RW-mounted UFS2 snapshots - confirmed.

2004-06-30 Thread John Kozubik
It was mentioned earlier this week that UFS2 snapshots could somehow be mounted read/write and then written to. I noticed this a few weeks ago but didn't think much of it. I have reproduced this: mksnap_ffs / /snap1 mkdir /snapmount mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /snap1 -u 4 mount -r /dev/md4 /snapmou