Re: numbers don't lie ...

2006-09-25 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: DS> > > > My experiments show that if you have enough memory to host radmdrive for DS> > > > /usr/src you'd better leave it for caching - there were no statistically DS> > > > meaningful performance difference, at least on machines with 1G+ RAM. DS

Re: fsck

2006-09-25 Thread soralx
> > Maybe I can mount a dirty partition. I just need the data off it... > Mount it read-only and get the data off it IMMEDIATELY. I wouldn't try > fsck-ing on any disk with even a single read or write error. Fsck will > fail if it can't find a real sector to allocate, and I don't think it d

distinguishing inode block-list from symlink text

2006-09-25 Thread Perry Hutchison
Can someone point me to a fairly detailed description of how softdep handles "rm", in particular how it determines whether a particular inode (e.g. a symlink) contains text instead of a list of block numbers? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: fsck

2006-09-25 Thread tech
Thanks At 02:53 PM 9/25/2006, you wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:41:18PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe I can mount a dirty partition. I just need the data off it... Mount it read-only and get the data off it IMMEDIATELY. I wouldn't try fsck-ing on any disk with even

Re: fsck

2006-09-25 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:41:18PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe I can mount a dirty partition. I just need the data off it... Mount it read-only and get the data off it IMMEDIATELY. I wouldn't try fsck-ing on any disk with even a single read or write error. Fsck will fail if it

Re: fsck

2006-09-25 Thread tech
Hi Peter, The hard drive is in the fridge right now, in case it's a heat problem. It's FreeBSD version 4.x. It's getting hard read errors, and I'm using -y with fsck so it will continue on to the next error without prompting from me. The same thing happens whether I use the -y flag or not. I

Re: numbers don't lie ...

2006-09-25 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Oliver Fromme wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Reading /usr/src from a physical disk certainly requires > > > quite some I/O that takes more than zero time. > > > > But, in order to populate the ram disk, you must read /usr/src also from > > something, and that also ta

Re: fsck

2006-09-25 Thread Maslan
I've got a /usr partition with some problems. During boot it fails and I'm prompted to run fsck manually. I do so and when fsck has finished it asks me to run it again, and again, and again...it seems to find the same errors each time. It never seems to repair anything. It worked fine on errors it

Re: fsck

2006-09-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2006-Sep-25 12:38:47 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've got a /usr partition with some problems. During boot it fails and I'm >prompted to run fsck manually. I do so and when fsck has finished it asks >me to run it again, and again, and again...it seems to find the same errors >each t

fsck

2006-09-25 Thread tech
I've got a /usr partition with some problems. During boot it fails and I'm prompted to run fsck manually. I do so and when fsck has finished it asks me to run it again, and again, and again...it seems to find the same errors each time. It never seems to repair anything. It worked fine on err

Re: network stack problem in sparc64?

2006-09-25 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Borja Marcos wrote: Hello, I saw this some time ago but always forgot to report it. I'm running a pair of machines with FreeBSD/sparc64 (various versions, one of them is running -STABLE now), and I've seen a problem with the network stack. Looking at buffer and window sizes, earendil# sysc

network stack problem in sparc64?

2006-09-25 Thread Borja Marcos
Hello, I saw this some time ago but always forgot to report it. I'm running a pair of machines with FreeBSD/sparc64 (various versions, one of them is running -STABLE now), and I've seen a problem with the network stack. Looking at buffer and window sizes, earendil# sysctl net.inet.tcp|fgr

Re: numbers don't lie ...

2006-09-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmitry Morozovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My experiments show that if you have enough memory to host radmdrive for > > > /usr/src you'd better leave it for caching - there were no statistically >