Feature request (pam/nss ldap, nsswitch ldap integration)

2004-10-29 Thread Patrick Dung
Hi First of all, I know that most committers or contributors contribute their work in their free time. I am not asking for any promise but I just want to discuss a possible improvement for FreeBSD. So my suggestion is: integrate pam_ldap, nss_ldap, nsswitch support with ldap and lookupd (ie LDAP

Re: questionable feature in FreeBSD pmake

2004-10-29 Thread Dan Strick
> > Why are you unable to do anything with the command-line? Any of these > will solve your problem. > Bourne: > MAKEOBJDIR=/no_obj_here make > > Bourne or CSH: > env MAKEOBJDIR=/no_obj_here make > > Here is a Makefile that does not use obj/. The special targets can be > placed into a file to be

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Aaron Glenn
Add Western Digital Raptors to the list as well. However I have not had a problem since 5.3-BETA3. aaron.glenn On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:57:33 +, Mikhail P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 29 October 2004 16:50, Mikhail P. wrote: > > Perhaps it is only Seagate <-> FreeBSD5-related. Same d

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Mikhail P. wrote: > On Friday 29 October 2004 16:50, Mikhail P. wrote: > > Perhaps it is only Seagate <-> FreeBSD5-related. Same drives, but with > > FreeBSD4 do work well together without a glitch. > > Actually not only seagates.. similar happened on a 200GB Western Digital d

Re: flushing disk buffer cache

2004-10-29 Thread Don Lewis
On 29 Oct, Siddharth Aggarwal wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > Hmm. At the moment, the user can send an ioctl to define a checkpoint. But > I would guess that this could happen between 2 strategy() function calls > corresponding to the same filesystem operation? Yes. > So if there a way to

Re: flushing disk buffer cache

2004-10-29 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
Thanks for your reply. Hmm. At the moment, the user can send an ioctl to define a checkpoint. But I would guess that this could happen between 2 strategy() function calls corresponding to the same filesystem operation? So if there a way to block filesystem operations while a snapshot is taken? I

Re: flushing disk buffer cache

2004-10-29 Thread Don Lewis
On 29 Oct, Siddharth Aggarwal wrote: > > Another related question ... > > Is it possible to delay or queue up disk writes until I exit from my > function in the kernel (where I am trying to sync with the disk)? Or > make sure that my sync function never goes to sleep waiting for the disk > driver

Re: flushing disk buffer cache

2004-10-29 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
Another related question ... Is it possible to delay or queue up disk writes until I exit from my function in the kernel (where I am trying to sync with the disk)? Or make sure that my sync function never goes to sleep waiting for the disk driver to signal completion of flushes to disk? On Fri,

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Mikhail P.
On Friday 29 October 2004 16:50, Mikhail P. wrote: > Perhaps it is only Seagate <-> FreeBSD5-related. Same drives, but with > FreeBSD4 do work well together without a glitch. Actually not only seagates.. similar happened on a 200GB Western Digital drive to me, FreeBSD-5.3. regards, M. __

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Mikhail P.
On Friday 29 October 2004 16:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The same problem with similar IDE Seagate HDD: > > ad0: ATA-6 disk at ata0-master > ad0: 152627MB (312581808 sectors), 310101 C, 16 H, 63 S, 512 B > [...] > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=10 > LBA=268435455 Perhaps it is only Se

flushing disk buffer cache

2004-10-29 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
Hi, I am writing this pseudo disk driver for disk checkpointing, which intercepts write requests to the disk (ad0s1) and performs a copy on write of the old contents to another partition (ad0s4) before writing out the new contents. So the driver (called shd) is mounted as /dev/shd0a on / /dev/s

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread soralx
> This sounds very possible to me. I have been experiencing the same > error, on a system that I've been trying to set up using 5.3-RC1 and > a new 160Gbyte SATA drives My hardware is: > > atapci0: port > 0xb000-0xb00f,0xac00-0xac03,0xa800-0xa807,0xa400-0xa403,0xa000-0xa007 mem > 0xdf081000-0xdf0

Re: GEOM whitepaper?

2004-10-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Ryan Sommers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any whitepapers, documentation, etc (aside from the new book > about 5.2) on GEOM? I've been reading over the code and it would be nice > to have an annotation to go with it. http://www.google.com/search?q=phk+geom+paper DES -- Dag-Erling Sm

GEOM whitepaper?

2004-10-29 Thread Ryan Sommers
Are there any whitepapers, documentation, etc (aside from the new book about 5.2) on GEOM? I've been reading over the code and it would be nice to have an annotation to go with it. -- Ryan Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list h

Re: 4.8-STABLE kernel crash

2004-10-29 Thread Joseph Koshy
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:30:45 -0300, Allan Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The box has been quite unstable, with restarts every few days > this is the first dump ive got with DDB > I realize this likely isnt enough information, but if you could point me in the > right direction > I can provid

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Hoggarth
On 8th October, Mikhail P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported the error: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=10 LBA=268435455 On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Søren Schmidt wrote: > so that leaves the disks for scrutiny. One thing to try is change the > tripping point where we switch from 28bit mode to 48 b

4.8-STABLE kernel crash

2004-10-29 Thread Allan Marshall
The box has been quite unstable, with restarts every few days this is the first dump ive got with DDB I realize this likely isnt enough information, but if you could point me in the right direction I can provide anymore information required. uname -a FreeBSD *** 4.8-STABLE Free

Re: questionable feature in FreeBSD pmake

2004-10-29 Thread Harti Brandt
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Sean Farley wrote: SF>On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Dan Strick wrote: SF> SF>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:23:02 -0700, Dan Strick wrote: SF>> > SF>> > I just spent a *very* frustrating hour trying to figure out why the SF>> > FreeBSD make program was invoking all commands to make things i