Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Absolutely I do NOT have any idea against PC-BSD . My wish is that it Me too. in spite that it is FreeBSD based, it's good it is separate. This means that people that want windows style computing already have something FreeBSD based. So what a problem? __

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My opinion is that most important obstacle in front of FreeBSD is its installation structure : It is NOT possible to install and use a FreeBSD distribution directly as it is . In Linux distributions , when a distribution is installed , the user , NOT root , can use its facilities WITHOUT set

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and are working not toying around - use FreeBSD. Not really true and kind of a poor attitude. possibly but this is what i observe. Yes. many people needing high performance already use FreeBSD, but there are lots of services that could benefit from FreeBSD who are not very aware of it. They

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM, wrote: > Greetings... > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:18:47 -0400 > Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jerry McAllister > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:27:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > > > > >After using L

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread c . hutchinson0
Greetings... On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:18:47 -0400 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jerry McAllister > wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:27:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > > >After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started > > > >usin

Re: serial lirc driver for testing (and a book review)

2012-04-27 Thread Juergen Lock
I have now updated the shar and patch to uart(4) code from head (instead of 9.0), fixed read() not respecting O_NONBLOCK, and improved behaviour at kldunload: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/uart-lirc-preliminary-002.patch and http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/uartlirc-prelim

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Mehmet Erol Sanliturk" > > > > > My opinion is that most important obstacle in front of FreeBSD is > > > its > > > installation structure : > > > > > > > > > It is NOT possibl

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Mehmet Erol Sanliturk" > > My opinion is that most important obstacle in front of FreeBSD is its >> installation structure : >> >> >> It is NOT possible to install and use a FreeBSD distribution directly

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Rick Macklem
Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Mehmet Erol Sanliturk" > > > My opinion is that most important obstacle in front of FreeBSD is > > its > > installation structure : > > > > > > It is NOT possible to install and use a FreeBSD distribution > > directly as it > > is . >

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Mehmet Erol Sanliturk" My opinion is that most important obstacle in front of FreeBSD is its installation structure : It is NOT possible to install and use a FreeBSD distribution directly as it is . I disagree, we find quite the opposite; FreeBSD's curren

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > My opinion is that most important obstacle in front of FreeBSD is its > installation structure : > > It is NOT possible to install and use a FreeBSD distribution directly as it > is . > > In Linux distributions , when a distribution i

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 05:18:47PM -0400, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:27:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > > >After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using > > > >FreeBSD.

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:27:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using > > >FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for > > > > Those who need

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:27:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using > >FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for > > Those who need FreeBSD already use it. no need to promote. Or maybe need > to prom

NFS - slow

2012-04-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is there any way to speed up NFS server? from what i noticed: - reads works fast and good, like accessed locally, readahead up to maxbsize works fine on large files etc. - write works terribly. it performs sync on every write IMHO, setting vfs.nfsrv.async=1 improves things SLIGHTLY, but still

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for Those who need FreeBSD already use it. no need to promote. Or maybe need to promote bigger donations to FreeBSD community from big users. Those who actual

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Andy Young wrote: > After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using > FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for > implementing large-scale storage servers. In my research I found ZFS and > subsequently found FreeBSD. As I learned more about it, I wa

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Jason Hellenthal
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:16:51AM -0400, Andy Young wrote: > After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using > FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for > implementing large-scale storage servers. In my research I found ZFS and > subsequently foun

Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Andy Young
After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for implementing large-scale storage servers. In my research I found ZFS and subsequently found FreeBSD. As I learned more about it, I was incredibly impressed. The

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 27/04/2012 13:37 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: > What you think about this concept: > We can implement some MI API to query disks count and each disk parameters > (mediasize, > sectorsize). This MI code will use some IOCTL that will act with MD "disk"'s > devsw->ioctl. > > devicename.

Re: thread0 usage in syncache_socket()

2012-04-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, April 27, 2012 3:56:06 am Sebastian Huber wrote: > Hi, > > in syncache_socket() in tcp_syncache.c the global variable thread0 is used to > do a in6_pcbconnect() with the ucread of thread0. Why is the thread0 used > here > and not the one of the current thread? The current thread is

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-27 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 27.04.2012 13:14, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> I also have some WIP related to moving partition table handling into MD Oh, i did mean MI part. >> part. You can look here: http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/sys_boot.diff > > I like this patch. OTOH, I couldn't help by wonder if it is possible to > someh

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/04/2012 09:23 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: > On 23.04.2012 1:21, Marius Strobl wrote: >> I can't say much about these patches as a whole as they are rather big >> and I'm not aware of all the details of ZFS. However, one bit that makes >> the current implementation x86-specific is zf

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/04/2012 00:21 Marius Strobl said the following: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 06:37:54PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: [snip] >> I am particularly interested in reviews of my attempt to make ZFS boot >> support >> arch-independent. The arches, of course, would have to add some code to make >> use

thread0 usage in syncache_socket()

2012-04-27 Thread Sebastian Huber
Hi, in syncache_socket() in tcp_syncache.c the global variable thread0 is used to do a in6_pcbconnect() with the ucread of thread0. Why is the thread0 used here and not the one of the current thread? -- Sebastian Huber, embedded brains GmbH Address : Obere Lagerstr. 30, D-82178 Puchheim, Ge