Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-21 Thread Craig Johnston
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but since switches forward packets > selectively per port, I would think it would be hard to sniff packets on > any port, w/o administrative access to the switch to tell it to mirror > data to a different port.

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-21 Thread Craig Johnston
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but since switches forward packets > selectively per port, I would think it would be hard to sniff packets on > any port, w/o administrative access to the switch to tell it to mirror > data to a different port.

vinum is cool. anyone bitten recently?

1999-07-17 Thread Craig Johnston
Well, I'm looking into doing striping and mirroring on a new webserver I am bringing up (3.2-stable) and I have to say, vinum looks very cool. It took me like half an hour to get it going from first contact. Nice job Greg -- very straightforward. Now, the official status of vinum is still alpha,

vinum is cool. anyone bitten recently?

1999-07-17 Thread Craig Johnston
Well, I'm looking into doing striping and mirroring on a new webserver I am bringing up (3.2-stable) and I have to say, vinum looks very cool. It took me like half an hour to get it going from first contact. Nice job Greg -- very straightforward. Now, the official status of vinum is still alpha,

Re: fsck and large file systems

1999-05-16 Thread Craig Johnston
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Alex Le Heux writes: > > Maybe I'm completely wrong here, but didn't I read somewhere that with > > softupdates it would theoretically be possible to boot the system before > > the fsck and fsck while it's running? > > Yes.. if you make the assumptions t