How to get a driver patch into 6.1?

2006-03-30 Thread Steven Hartland
Highpoint have released an updated driver for FreeBSD which fixes a nasty issue with large Seagate drives. What's the best way of ensuring this fixes makes it into 6.1-RELEASE? Source is available here: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20+%20Driver/rr1820a/FreeBSD/rr182x-opensource-bsd-1.14-032

Fundraising for FreeBSD security development

2006-03-30 Thread Colin Percival
Dear FreeBSD users, Slightly more than three years ago, I released FreeBSD Update, my first major contribution to FreeBSD. Since then, I have become a FreeBSD committer, joined the FreeBSD Security Team, released Portsnap, and become the FreeBSD Security Officer. However, as I have gone from bei

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-03-30 Thread Patrick Tracanelli
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Patrick Tracanelli wrote this message on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:14 -0300: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: dump + restore is slow but reliabe. Faster than dd for disks that aren't full :) It also gives you a defrag