On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:44:55PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:19:33 +0100 "Martin Laabs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My solution can just close the pipe at the one "end" of the magic
>> device which would be realy simple to implement in a script.
>
>While you're proposing a
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:27:30AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
>What I wasn't thrilled about, and hoped to trigger a discussion of, was the
>apparent suggestion that FreeBSD must be Linux-compatible at all costs
>because weight of numbers makes Linux and GNU a de-facto standard.
Whilst I agre
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 01:06, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >On 2008-02-23 16:48, "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>This knee-jerk reaction against gnu find functionality baffles me.
> >>The changes are trivial and make FreeBSD more compatible. It is such
> >>
Why compress? It's ancient technology and will be vastly outperformed
Yes, gzip or bzip2 compress better, but they also:
* Are a lot slower.
* Use a lot more data memory.
* Require a lot more code.
Also some nasty person has a software patent on compress...
That was over 20 years ago; th
On 26/02/2008, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As you've shown the magic is in the loader.conf. I don't know a good way
> to handle this other than attempt to load every module (like Microsoft NT
> installer does) - and hope the probe of a driver that doesn't claim a
> device doesn'
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Are there not (at least) two more alternatives?
>
> 1) Add gzip/zlib support to dump. That would seem easier than
> new devices. Then -a would just work.
>
> 2) Instead of using cdrecord directly you have a wrapper which
> "emulates" the dump -a
Achim Patzner wrote:
article below. does anyone know how this affects eli/geli?
There's fairly little any disk crypto system can do to thoroughly defend
against this.
Hm. Strange. Serious hardware is very well suited to do that (usually
by adding well defended crypto hardware). Keys don't hav
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2008-02-23 16:48, "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This knee-jerk reaction against gnu find functionality baffles me.
The changes are trivial and make FreeBSD more compatible. It is such
an obvious no-brainer that I frankly didn't expect anybody to bat
> Why compress? It's ancient technology and will be vastly outperformed
Also some nasty person has a software patent on compress (they filed the
patent application, published the code & waited some years till lots
got hooked, but they didnt patent decompress algorithm & everyone
decompresseed &
Mike Meyer wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:19:33 +0100 "Martin Laabs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:34:31 +0100, wrote:
You might want to play with the -P option to dump. Your above could be
written as:
dump -aL0 -P 'compress -c' /MYFILESYSTEM | cdrecord dev=.
on 22/02/2008 19:00 Torfinn Ingolfsen said the following:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:17:27 +0200
> Andriy Gapon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Everything works great. But recently I had an itch to go trough BIOS
>> settings. I spotted one named "Plug-n-Play OS" and it was set to
>
> The BIOS setti
On 2008-02-23 16:48, "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jonathan McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> : Yes, where it makes sense. I'm not at all convinced that this change makes
> as
> : much sense as you obviously think it does - especia
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:19:33 +0100 "Martin Laabs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:34:31 +0100, wrote:
>
> > You might want to play with the -P option to dump. Your above could be
> > written as:
> >
> > dump -aL0 -P 'compress -c' /MYFILESYSTEM | cdrecord dev=... -
>
Hi,
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:34:31 +0100, wrote:
You might want to play with the -P option to dump. Your above could be
written as:
dump -aL0 -P 'compress -c' /MYFILESYSTEM | cdrecord dev=... -
Unfornunately this does not work as you expect. Dump just takes
its data an pass it to the script s
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Sharad Chandra wrote:
, [Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:]
| Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2008 11:28:42 schrieb Sharad Chandra:
I was looking some where and i found process switching time is around 10ms.
That means time slice is 10ms. say some peace of code just called usleep o
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:36:17 +0100 "Martin Laabs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'll write a script that back up my data on dvd-r and dvd-rams.
> (And some incremental backups also at some internet storage
> services.)
> Therefore I'd like to use dump. It is not too hard to create
> dump-
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:26:04PM +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I was just wondering why we're not shipping a GENERIC type
> configuration that simply loads the modules at startup, rather than a
> statically linked kernel. I thought that was a large part of the push
> for the modular framework in y
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:07:44AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You fail to understand the complex interplay of politics here. These
> people do not want to see beyond it. They want to shut you down
> because
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:43:39PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > { "-empty", c_empty,f_empty,0 },
> : > { "-exec", c_exec, f_exec, 0 },
> : > { "-execdir", c_exec, f_exec, F_EXECDIR },
> : > - { "-false", c_simple, f_no
On 20080225 14:24:12, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting cali clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 24 Feb 2008
>> Note that also, this problem does NOT occur if you use ssh
>> to enter the jail as I believe ssh handles tty allocation in
>> advance.
>
> You don
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:33:30PM +, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> [text]
Guys, can you take this to chat@ please...
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On 25/02/2008, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In response to "Igor Mozolevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Crypto is merely a way of obfuscating data, and we all know the truth
> > about security by obscurity, right?
>
>
> I don't think you correctly understand the concept of "security th
In response to "Igor Mozolevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 24/02/2008, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Igor Mozolevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> > Fact is, data is "sensitive" to different degrees. It's also valuable
> > to different degrees.
> >
> > If you're worried a
Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 14:15:46 schrieb Robert Woolley:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:39:59 +0100
> "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 10:10:56 schrieb Sharad Chandra:
> > > So does it mean, freebsd has limitation. sleeping will only work
> > > for i
Quoting Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 24 Feb 2008
19:26:04 +0900):
G'day,
I was just wondering why we're not shipping a GENERIC type
configuration that simply loads the modules at startup, rather than a
statically linked kernel. I thought that was a large part of the push
for th
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:39:59 +0100
"Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 10:10:56 schrieb Sharad Chandra:
> > So does it mean, freebsd has limitation. sleeping will only work
> > for its value more than 1 milli sec because % of +- error value is
> > comp
Quoting cali clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 24 Feb 2008
19:42:01 +0100):
Hi.
pdksh and derivatives (openbsd ksh, mirbsd mksh etc) all have
the same "bug" with regards to jails. On all of my systems, trying
to start *ksh in a jail results in a message that /dev/tty could
not be opened (
Hi,
I'll write a script that back up my data on dvd-r and dvd-rams.
(And some incremental backups also at some internet storage
services.)
Therefore I'd like to use dump. It is not too hard to create
dump-volumes with fixed size through the -B option. But now
I'd like to use some sort of compres
On 24/02/2008, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Igor Mozolevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> > IMO the possibility of such attack is so remote that it doesn't really
> > warrant any special attention, it's just something that should be kept
> > in mind when writing "secure" cry
Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 11:45:02 schrieb Sharad Chandra:
> I got out-of-order captured packets on my starfire dual port card ie ack
> get lower time-stamp than its corresponding seq in tcp traffic. I don't
> have much nic card level knowledge, so decided to produce delay to send ack
> and incre
, [Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:]
| Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 10:10:56 schrieb Sharad Chandra:
| > So does it mean, freebsd has limitation. sleeping will only work for its
| > value more than 1 milli sec because % of +- error value is comparitivly
| > low? I am curious to know, is there any
Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 10:10:56 schrieb Sharad Chandra:
> So does it mean, freebsd has limitation. sleeping will only work for its
> value more than 1 milli sec because % of +- error value is comparitivly
> low? I am curious to know, is there any method which sleeps for few
> microseconds. Som
, [Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:]
| Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2008 11:28:42 schrieb Sharad Chandra:
| > Does usleep work for you? i just saw it is implemented over nanosleep
| > which passes a struct timeval to "select".
|
| Quoting from POSIX:
|
| """
| The usleep() function will cause the
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