Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:10:12PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >it might be possible to find some way to extend the work domain of an smp >system to stretch across machine lines, to jump across motherboards. Maybe >not to be global (huge latencies scare me away), but what about just going >3 feet, o

Re: Re: vkernel & GSoC, some questions

2008-03-20 Thread Sergey Babkin
>From: Matthew Dillon >To: John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >:Except that you still need "real" hardware concurrency to see some races and >:that is important for testing. I'd worry about the overhead of any > >Hardware and vkernel/qemu environments exercise different code paths >and d

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-20 Thread Stef Walter
Nice list. All the fixes I made were Intel MatrixRAID specific. It should fix the following issue on your list, as well as others not listed. Intel MatrixRAID incompatibilities * Symptom: When using a MatrixRAID-managed RAID1 array, one can crash the kernel when a disk is lost then later reatta

Re: Transferring ports

2008-03-20 Thread Doug Poland
Ivan Voras wrote: On 20/03/2008, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:02:42AM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: >> * Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> Is there a utility that would do that, and if not, does anyone have the >>> time to

fpathconf() and extended attributes

2008-03-20 Thread Václav Haisman
Hi, I am trying to detect whether it is possible to set extended attributes on a file/fd. Now, fpathconf() seems like it could be the right thing but pathconf(2) doesn't mention extended attributes at all and neither does statfs(2). Is there any other way how to detect extended attributes avail

Linux version of libusb that works with FreeBSD

2008-03-20 Thread Isaac Mushinsky
There was a thread on this subject a couple of months ago: a working libusb in /compat/linux. Has anybody tried to make this work? There is a linux binary application I want to run and a photo film scanner that it uses via libusb directly (not sane backend)... _

Re: Transferring ports

2008-03-20 Thread Julian Elischer
Peter Pentchev wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:02:42AM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: The purpose is similar - creating jails out of host system in fast and easy way, possibility to strip everything unneeded (useful for secure minimal jails or flash/livecd/embedded installations of minimal

Re: Transferring ports

2008-03-20 Thread Doug Poland
Peter Pentchev wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:02:42AM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: * Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a utility that would do that, and if not, does anyone have the time to write one? >> Would this not be an appropriate use for packages? If one creates a pa

Re: Transferring ports

2008-03-20 Thread Ivan Voras
On 20/03/2008, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:02:42AM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > >> * Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>> Is there a utility that would do that, and if not, does anyone have the > >>> time to write one?

Re: vkernel & GSoC, some questions

2008-03-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Except that you still need "real" hardware concurrency to see some races and :that is important for testing. I'd worry about the overhead of any :non-hardware assisted virtualization basically enforcing more serialization :and coherency than is present in real-world systems meaning that code w

Re: Transferring ports

2008-03-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:02:42AM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Ivan Voras ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is there a utility that would do that, and if not, does anyone have the > > time to write one? > > Actually, I've already had an idea of utility with pretty similar > functionality for a

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:16:39PM +, Stef Walter wrote: > Here's some vital patches for the ataraid driver when using Intel Matrix > RAID (often found built into mainboards these days). Will this address any of the MatrixRAID and/or ATA issues documented here? http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyC

Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-20 Thread Stef Walter
Here's some vital patches for the ataraid driver when using Intel Matrix RAID (often found built into mainboards these days). These are problems that will bite at the worst time: When a disk goes out in your RAID. A combined patch is attached which applies to FreeBSD 6 and 7, and the various spec

Re: vkernel & GSoC, some questions

2008-03-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 06:48:46 pm Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> :Matt, > :> > :>... > :> > :> :Don't you use something like VMWare for development and debugging? > :> > :> We use vkernel's for development and debugging. Pretty much > :> everything except hardware de

Re: valgrind on FreeBSD 7

2008-03-20 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 06:44:23 schrieb Daniel O'Connor: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > Here's a tarball of what's in perforce right now. I tried it a > > little bit, and it seemed to work for me. Make sure to install the > > kernel module! > > > > http://www.silby.com/valg