readahead(2) - Linux

2008-03-02 Thread carlos neira
Greetings : is there an equivalent of readahead syscall in linux , for freebsd ?. i was looking at http://preload.sourceforge.net/ , and it needs this . ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ha

Re: multi volume dump with gzip/crypt - solved

2008-03-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Martin Laabs wrote: I solved the dump problem in a not very clean way. First I changed dumps behaviour to ignore the SIGPIPE signal when the -P and -a option is given. The problem with occured than was the loss of data because of the race condition between "write date to p

Re: SIGPIPE propagation

2008-03-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Martin Laabs wrote: as you probably know I want to expand dump in such a way it enableds multivolume dumps also when the output data is written to stdout/a pipe. Now I ran into a serious problem. Dump counts the written bytes to remember where it has to proceede after the