Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Out of all the O'Reilly books I have, the LDAP one was the most useless. I forgot to say, "and out of all the LDAP books I have *as well*". -- Dave ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Tom Judge wrote: > I would recommend the "LDAP System Administration" book published by > O'Reilly. I wouldn't, unless a recipe book is your style; there are better books (which will have to wait until I get into work tomorrow). Out of all the O'Reilly books I have, the LDA

Re: 6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...

2006-12-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Mike Meyer wrote: > I had an 11/750 that ran BSD 4.2 for years with no problems. When I > tried to upgrade it to BSD 4.3, it would reliably panic in namei during > the boot process. We had about a dozen 750s, and this was our test > machine - so none of them were going to b

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-08-02 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: > As a general comment (not addressed to Tim): There _is_ a downside to > sparsifying files. If you take a sparse file and start filling in the > holes, the net result will be very badly fragmented and hence have very > poor sequential I/O performance.

Re: Bad block -> file mapping

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : LBA -> slice/partition/offset -> fs/inode -> list of file names > : Logic for the second step should be in fsck. > > Yea. I was kinda hoping to find a tool that would do that given the > LBA of the disk... I can do the math by hand, but if I do

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Bob Bomar wrote: > I have a machine that is about to turn 700 days uptime, and I have no > plans on rebooting it any time soon. I just wanted to see if there was > any infomation from the machine that anybody wanted. Its IP address would be a good start :-) Two years of pa

Re: Using PCMCIA ATA adaptor

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : ata2: at port > 0x180-0x187,0x386-0x387 irq 11 function 0 config 37 on pccard0 > > Is the drive master or slave? Master. I'm starting to think that although it claims to be an ATA adaptor, it will only recognise Kingston-brand disks (it was desig

Re: Using PCMCIA ATA adaptor

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : I have a Kingston StrataDrive Plus adaptor, which in conjunction with a > : Windoze driver (and Kingston drives *only*) allow a 2nd ATA drive to be > : connected to a laptop. Any chance that it can be used with FreeBSD? > : > : 5.3-STABLE says "ata

Using PCMCIA ATA adaptor

2005-01-02 Thread Dave Horsfall
I have a Kingston StrataDrive Plus adaptor, which in conjunction with a Windoze driver (and Kingston drives *only*) allow a 2nd ATA drive to be connected to a laptop. Any chance that it can be used with FreeBSD? 5.3-STABLE says "ata2: " -- Dave ___ f

Re: calibrating time

2004-12-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Out of interest, what are you expecting to demonstrate? In FreeBSD, > both sleep(3) and usleep(3) are implemented using nanosleep(2). > (This differs from the traditional implementation of sleep(3) which > used alarm(2) and pause(2)). Or, for that matte

Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

2004-12-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Seems unlikely that faulty server software could cause a disk failure. > One possibility is that your power supply is a but stressed and the > supply rails are out of tolerance. The other possibility is that the > drives are overheating. Higher density

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dmitry Karasik wrote: > I just wonder, if 'rm' is so fearful to you, why bother changing rm(1)? > Write a simple wrapper around, as many sysadmins do for their needs, and > use it instead of rm. Precisely. This is -hackers; why do we need to be protected from ourselves? You