C-FFS anyone?

Hello! I've just read (well, partially) a whitepaper named "Embedded Inodes and Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files" (don't have URL at hand). Ideas presented there are QUIT interesting. Did anyone tried to implement them in BSD? Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Strange behaviour of loaded system

Hello! I've observed a VERY strange behaviour of a moderately-to-heavy loaded system (load average about 5.7 on a 2xPII-400 with 512Mb of RAM): (I have no access to the box right now, and I'm giving only general details; however, I'll be able to produce more details next morning) About 200-300

Re: kern/13593: Problems with FIFO and select

> "Bruce" == Bruce Evans writes: >>> Description: >> Attempt to open FIFO file with O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK results in >> Device not configured error. Bruce> This is because there is no reader when the FIFO is opened for Bruce> writing (O_WRONLY opens of FIFOs normally block waiting for a Bruce>

Re: kern/13593: Problems with FIFO and select

> "Bruce" == Bruce Evans writes: >>> Description: >> Attempt to open FIFO file with O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK results in >> Device not configured error. Bruce> This is because there is no reader when the FIFO is opened for Bruce> writing (O_WRONLY opens of FIFOs normally block waiting for a Bruce>

Problems with FIFO open in non-blocking mode?

Hello! The following program #include #include main() { int control; if ((control = open("STATUS",O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))<0) { perror("Could not open STATUS "); exit(1); } printf("STATUS ready\n"); close(control); r

Problems with FIFO open in non-blocking mode?

Hello! The following program #include #include main() { int control; if ((control = open("STATUS",O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK))<0) { perror("Could not open STATUS "); exit(1); } printf("STATUS ready\n"); close(control); re

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

<37a30852.20e5a...@bellatlantic.net>Sergey Babkin writes: >> Any suggestions, anyone? > >Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ? >That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else. And modify sendmail to throw off mail for nonexistent users?

Solution for mail pseudo-users?

Hello! I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and change password via (SSLed) web interface. So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd. I have a hack that requires to change libc t

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sergey Babkin writes: >> Any suggestions, anyone? > >Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ? >That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else. And modify sendmail to throw off mail for nonexistent users? Alex. -- Alexan

Solution for mail pseudo-users?

Hello! I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and change password via (SSLed) web interface. So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd. I have a hack that requires to change libc

Booting from vinum?

Hello! Is it possible to have a root partition on vinum'ed disk and benefit from mirroring? If yes, how do I do it? Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Booting from vinum?

Hello! Is it possible to have a root partition on vinum'ed disk and benefit from mirroring? If yes, how do I do it? Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message