[PATCH] Add flag to makefs to require specfile entries to exist

2013-08-14 Thread Eric van Gyzen
handy when the specfile is the absolute authority for the contents of the image. It fails early and loudly, instead of causing late and sometimes obscure run-time errors. I checked NetBSD-current; the -X flag is available there. Would someone like to commit it for me? Eric commit

Re: possible changes from Panzura

2013-07-10 Thread Eric van Gyzen
> space to handle the entire dump uncompressed" made it too easy for us to > run out of space on our /var/crash partition Yes, please. I've run into this occasionally, but it never annoyed me enough to fix it. Procrastination pays off yet again. ;) Eric __

Re: config(8) -x headscratcher

2013-05-07 Thread Eric van Gyzen
gt;>> >>> -Kimmo >> dmesg(8) output of the system: >> >> http://pastebin.com/hqjsak2n > Kimmo, > > Thanks for the information. Can you try following patch: > > cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/config > fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~wkoszek/patch

Re: [PATCH] Shared library debug .symbols files

2012-12-13 Thread Eric van Gyzen
On 12/13/2012 10:08, Ed Maste wrote: I've been working generating userland debugging symbols, with the goal that we'll build them for each release. The user could install them along with the system, or later on when needed for debugging. The symbols files will also be useful for profiling and t

Re: please review: patch to retain device name for dumpdev.

2012-11-02 Thread Eric van Gyzen
On 11/01/2012 01:48, Alfred Perlstein wrote: /* Registration of dumpers */ int -set_dumper(struct dumperinfo *di) +set_dumper(struct dumperinfo *di, const char *devname) { if (di == NULL) { bzero(&dumper, sizeof dumper); +dumpdevname[0] = '\0'; return (0);

Clang, EFI and bad offsets

2012-07-10 Thread Eric McCorkle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the process of the EFI on intel work, I ran across a strange issue. The procedure for creating loader.efi goes something like this: 1) compile to ELF object files 2) generate an ELF executable with -Bsymbolic and a custom linker script that puts

Fwd: UEFI, Qemu and emulating the secure boot interfaces

2012-06-28 Thread Eric McCorkle
Received this yesterday, about Linux's plans for supporting secure booting with EFI. I've looked into it as a possibility for FreeBSD, but I won't be in a position to do anything about it for some time. But the possibilities are enticing to say the least. Original Message Su

Re: EFI development tools

2012-06-17 Thread Eric McCorkle
On 6/17/12 8:43 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: Eric McCorkle wrote: The -m32 flag seems to be the culprit; removing it fixes the problem. This is why I was having problems, as the offsets in EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE were wrong. In any case, this is a pretty serious error, and someone should try to

Re: EFI development tools

2012-06-17 Thread Eric McCorkle
On 6/17/12 8:26 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hiya, don't suppose you could file a PR for this? Typing one up just now, after figuring out the root cause. The short version is this: __uint64_t gets defined in as unsigned long. This breaks when you use -m32, in which case sizeof(unsigned long)

Re: EFI development tools

2012-06-17 Thread Eric McCorkle
On 6/17/12 6:45 PM, Eric McCorkle wrote: On 6/15/12 6:44 PM, Eric McCorkle wrote: int main() { printf("%d\n", UINT64); return 0; } Correction: it should be sizeof(UINT64) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: EFI development tools

2012-06-17 Thread Eric McCorkle
On 6/15/12 6:44 PM, Eric McCorkle wrote: However, the EFI programs I produce using the EDK system work properly, and don't have the same issues as the ones I produce using what's in the base system. Okay, after a whole lot of slogging, I figured out the root of the problems I'

Re: EFI development tools

2012-06-16 Thread Eric McCorkle
On 06/16/12 06:03, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > Hi, Eric. > > Did you try the GNU EFI toolchain? It contains a good descriptions > on how to build EFI application and we probably can use some > suggestions even without importing it. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi/

EFI development tools

2012-06-15 Thread Eric McCorkle
I've been working on EFI support for intel platforms. I've managed to build the EFI Development Kit (EDK II) and the IASL compiler for FreeBSD, which raises the possibility of integrating them either as ports, or possibly into the base system. Here is some background: Right now, there is only on

Re: usertime stale at about 371k seconds

2012-06-11 Thread Eric van Gyzen
bsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76972 If you filed a PR, please submit a follow-up to both PRs so they reference each other. Thanks, Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To uns

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-17 Thread Eric McCorkle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/12 13:35, Eric McCorkle wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm going to be working on EFI boot support on the amd64/i386 > platforms as a GSoC project. The idea is to allow booting from > EFI (as opposed to legacy BIOS) on

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-17 Thread Eric McCorkle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/12 10:36, John Baldwin wrote: >> Do the kernel and modules actually do anything that depends on >> being in a contiguous space in some way (ie some relocation >> trick)? Because it seems like it shouldn't really matter >> otherwise. > > The

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-17 Thread Eric McCorkle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/12 01:32, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > As i see we already have sys/boot/efi/libefi/efipart.c that uses > EFI BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL to make "part" devsw. EFI BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL > provides access to each disk and partition. AFAIK it supports only > G

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-16 Thread Eric McCorkle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/12 11:44, John Baldwin wrote: > The i386 kernel assumes it starts out with a flat 32-bit mode with > the kernel loaded into a contiguous memory region at a fixed > physical address. If we need a relocatable kernel (as Marcel > hinted at I thi

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-14 Thread Eric McCorkle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/12 07:45, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On May 8, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Eric McCorkle wrote: > >> Here are some specific points to be decided: >> >> * An EFI boot service could potentially function similarly to >

GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-08 Thread Eric McCorkle
s on these matters. - -- Eric McCorkle Computer Science Ph.D Student e...@shadowsun.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPqVlgAAoJENSCzbQ+koZ7CpYP/27NtM6Vz1069OLjV/+BRUt0 yxW4t8Tl5QXmMUroNAwhnABMKnFG7HAkYxa0twMLudalQVRxCPhyY3

Re: FreeBSD on MacBook

2012-05-07 Thread Eric McCorkle
on, containing a BSDlabel. Inside that, there is a swap partition, and a single ZFS instance. When installing, you'll need to use dd to install the first part of zfsboot to the bsdlabel, and the remaining portion to the free space after the ZFS header (there's a guide on how

Re: GSoC: EFI on intel

2012-04-03 Thread Eric McCorkle
On 04/03/12 13:22, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Eric McCorkle writes: > | I'm assessing possible summer of code projects, and the EFI work caught > | my attention. I've been running FreeBSD on a macbook for a little under > | a year now, and booting on EFI is definitely an

Re: GSoC: EFI on intel

2012-04-03 Thread Eric McCorkle
it to a partition reserved for that purpose. Anyway, if I'm going to propose this, I need to list possible mentors. Skill-wise, I'm well equipped to take it on. I anticipate needing someone who's a committer, preferably with good knowledge of the kernel sources. -- Eric

GSoC: EFI on intel

2012-04-02 Thread Eric McCorkle
I'm assessing possible summer of code projects, and the EFI work caught my attention. I've been running FreeBSD on a macbook for a little under a year now, and booting on EFI is definitely an interest to me. Does anyone know if this is still a viable project proposal? I certainly have the skills

Re: malloc pages map to user space

2012-03-22 Thread Eric Saint-Etienne
Here is some code which fails with malloc < 1 page and sometimes succeeds with large mallocs (> 16 pages) What's wrong? #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include // Copyright: skeleton took from an older post on the freebsd list #include #include

Re: malloc pages map to user space

2012-03-22 Thread Eric Saint-Etienne
> If your kernel module creates a device in /dev that implements the > mmap method, then you don't need to worry about mucking around with > vm_maps and objects and whatnot.  Your mmap method just needs to be > able to convert offsets into the device into physical memory > addresses, Yes I'm aware

Re: malloc pages map to user space

2012-03-22 Thread Eric Saint-Etienne
> By using kernel_map instead of kmem_map, vm_map_lookup() now always > return a vm_object. That's a big progress. > As expected, when this object is kmem_object, the user mapping works > fine (for smaller or larger mallocs.) > > Otherwise that object doesn't match kernel_object. It's an anonymous

Re: malloc pages map to user space

2012-03-22 Thread Eric Saint-Etienne
for mapping into user map (using vm_map_find()) doesn't directly fail, it does provide a virtual address in the user map. However I read zeros at that address, from within the user process. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks! Eric ___ freebsd-hac

malloc pages map to user space

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Saint-Etienne
ing cost *for each page*: 1/ a page fault 2/ a call to a pager function that will do the "on demand" mapping. Thank you. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers T

CUDA porting effort?

2012-02-15 Thread Eric McCorkle
Given that NVidia is releasing the CUDA platform source on a limited basis, is anyone actively working to port it to FreeBSD? The reason I ask is that to get access to the source, you have to submit a request explaining what you intend to use it for. It might be a good idea to get ahold of the so

Re: Mem leak : malloc/free + pthreads = leakage?

2011-03-06 Thread Eric Anderson
On Mar 6, 2011, at 6:09 AM, Vlad Galu wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Vlad Galu wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Eric Anderson wrote: > On Mar 5, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Deomid Ryabkov wrote: > > > On 03/05/2011 04:02 AM, Eric Anderson w

Re: Mem leak : malloc/free + pthreads = leakage?

2011-03-06 Thread Eric Anderson
EAD. Under 8.1 > MALLOC_OPTIONS=g will disable the thread-specific caching. See the > malloc(3) man page for the definitive list of available options. Thanks - I think I tried that at one point with no change, but I'll double check just in case. Thanks for the hints! Eric _

Re: Mem leak : malloc/free + pthreads = leakage?

2011-03-05 Thread Eric Anderson
On Mar 5, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Deomid Ryabkov wrote: > On 03/05/2011 04:02 AM, Eric Anderson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a moderately threaded userland program (all C) I am working on (using >> pthreads, freebsd 8.1 64bit). It seems to leak memory (using standard

Re: Mem leak : malloc/free + pthreads = leakage?

2011-03-05 Thread Eric Anderson
On Mar 5, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:02:45PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: >> I have a moderately threaded userland program (all C) I am working >> on (using pthreads, freebsd 8.1 64bit). It seems to leak memory >> (using standard mall

Mem leak : malloc/free + pthreads = leakage?

2011-03-04 Thread Eric Anderson
rest don't seem to matter - I can remove them and still see the leak). Does anyone know of issues regarding malloc/free on multithreaded userland apps? Sorry, I can't post the code.. Thanks! Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: changing label text in boot0

2011-01-15 Thread Eric Schuele
nd > "F2" (slice 2) is "FreeBSD-CURRENT" GRUB might solve your needs. sysutils/grub -- Regards, Eric signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cross-building amd64->i386 fails at RESCUE

2010-02-07 Thread Eric L. Chen
386 > >> setenv TARGET i386 > >> setenv TARGET_ARCH i386 > >> > >> then 'make buildworld' in /usr/src > > > > Can you verify that 'make buildworld TARGET=i386' works? If so, can you > > try just setting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX via sete

Re: Mesh networking

2009-11-03 Thread Eric
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 20:35 +0800, Eric wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 11:52 +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > > Anyone interested in Mesh networking might want to have a look at > > > > http://meshcom.com/en/products/meshdriver/ > > > > We have started to use the

Re: Mesh networking

2009-11-03 Thread Eric
.: I am not affiliated to them other than that I am very impressed > with the quality of the software. Does it IEEE 802.20 compliant? -- Best Regards, Eric L. Chen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Eric Anderson
ed will be done. danny Peter Jeremy We were hitting this quite a bit (also bce), and updated to a recent 7- branch and it seems to be behaving better for now. Running 12 days so far (which is better than what we had been seeing). Eric

Re: Xen in HEAD

2008-08-17 Thread Eric Masson
"Matthew Macy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Kip, > Xen support will be MFC'd when it proves to be sufficiently stable for > some uses. It probably won't make the freeze for 7.1. Xen 3.2 is the > initial target. Dom0/DomU or DomU only please ? Regards Éric Masson -- tétu comme un mule :) E

Re: Xen in HEAD

2008-08-17 Thread Eric Masson
"Kip Macy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DomU only to start off with. The currently planned progression is: > stabilize in HEAD -> SMP -> x86_64 -> dom0 Great, Thanks a lot for your work :) Éric Masson -- Vous faites chier avec vos annonces à la con ! Ou sont les modérateurs ? Ca se dégr

Re: mksnap_ffs time

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Anderson
t won't buy you much. Snapshots also impede on your general file system performance. In FreeBSD 7, you could use ZFS, which would give you the power and control you need (plus FreeBSD 7 has many many performance improvements). Eric ___ fr

Re: nfs v2/v3 and diskless boot problem

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Anderson
ould have something for you to try tonight. Also - can you tell me the exact 'mount' command you tried to do the remount/update? it's only in the diskless boot, where setting boot-nfsroot-options = "nfsv3" in /boot/loader.conf

Re: nfs v2/v3 and diskless boot problem

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Anderson
e the exact 'mount' command you tried to do the remount/update? Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: nfs v2/v3 and diskless boot problem

2008-01-02 Thread Eric Anderson
structure would not be prudent at this time, since almost all servers are 57 * still Version 2 anyhow.) 58 */ Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: nfs v2/v3 and diskless boot problem

2008-01-02 Thread Eric Anderson
0% sure what is happening, but it sounds like the file handle for the mount point or maybe one of the directories is not getting reset on remount. When do you get the BADHANDLE error? Can you capture a tshark/wireshark/tcpdump of the remount and error? Eric __

Re: ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration (atacontrol and gmirror relationship?)

2007-11-27 Thread Eric Crist
have ad0 and ad1, you're probably out of luck. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Would like some simple volunteer work

2007-11-16 Thread Eric Crist
On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: Alexander Leidinger wrote: Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. George Bush? I mow my lawn. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-09 Thread Eric Anderson
will merge the changes (unless there are conflicts). Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Filesystem snapshots dog slow

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Anderson
Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:00:03PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-Oct-16 06:54:11 -0500, Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: will give you a good understanding of what the issue is. Essentially, your disk is hammered making copies of all the cylinder

Re: Interrupt/speed problems with 6.2 NFS server

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Anderson
scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 Anyone have any clue about what might be going on? Can you also send the output of ps -auxl? Also - do you notice this performance drop when running something like one of the network performance

Re: Filesystem snapshots dog slow

2007-10-16 Thread Eric Anderson
g else they wish. I think, that in the end, for some of these aging issues to get resolved, there needs to be another bounty put out on it. I think rsync.net might even have one started for this issue already - you might think about adding to the bounty, or officially offering hardware thro

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-05 Thread Eric Anderson
Sharad Chandra wrote: On Friday 05 October 2007 5:25 pm, Eric Anderson wrote: Sharad Chandra wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2007 6:51 pm, Eric Anderson wrote: >> Sharad Chandra wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are int

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-05 Thread Eric Anderson
age attached to system, nothing else. You must be blocking my mails. camcontrol devlist -v ^^ It will tell you which controllers the devices are on. You can even show devices on a particular controller, say, an isp device. Eric On Friday 05 October 2007 5:19 pm,

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-05 Thread Eric Anderson
Sharad Chandra wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2007 6:51 pm, Eric Anderson wrote: >> Sharad Chandra wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs >>> of external SAN? >> camcontrol devlist

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Eric Anderson
Sharad Chandra wrote: Hello, How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of external SAN? camcontrol devlist -v Might help you.. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Progress for 7.0 - the "what's cooking" page

2007-09-04 Thread Eric Crist
m wrong, but I could have sworn I read something today about linuxolator being 2.6.16 kernel with Fedora Core 6? - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: work praudit with tee & grep

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Crist
raudit /etc/auditpipe | grep --line-buffered -e "xxx" If you just want to pipe to a file, use something like: # praudit /etc/auditpipe | grep --line-buffered -e "$" >> file.log HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks

Re: work praudit with tee & grep

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:21 AMAug 21, 2007, sam wrote: Eric Crist wrote: On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:52 AMAug 21, 2007, sam wrote: Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, sam wrote: I am installed AUDIT http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ audit.html # praudit /etc

Re: process freeze (state *inp)

2007-08-20 Thread Eric F Crist
of sounding rude, the 5.x series of FreeBSD is deprecated. I'm running UnrealIRCd on a few different FreeBSD systems, and I've never had any problems. Try running on 6.2-RELEASE and I'm sure you won't have any problems.

Re: process freeze (state *inp)

2007-08-20 Thread Eric F Crist
of sounding rude, the 5.x series of FreeBSD is deprecated. I'm running UnrealIRCd on a few different FreeBSD systems, and I've never had any problems. Try running on 6.2-RELEASE and I'm sure you won't have any problems.

Re: process freeze (state *inp)

2007-08-20 Thread Eric F Crist
of sounding rude, the 5.x series of FreeBSD is deprecated. I'm running UnrealIRCd on a few different FreeBSD systems, and I've never had any problems. Try running on 6.2-RELEASE and I'm sure you won't have any problems. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks __

Modifying bridged traffic

2007-08-15 Thread Eric Anderson
e/modify the ethernet frames as they pass through? Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to stop attached USB device / send IRP_MN_REMOVE_DEVICE?

2007-08-14 Thread Eric Anderson
Sven Hazejager wrote: So, the question really is: how to send a IRP_MN_REMOVE_DEVICE command? `camcontrol da? stop` seemed to do the trick before (5.2.1-R, AFAIR), but now I'm not sure (looks like it doesn't) sorry, I meant to say that `camcontrol da? stop` does not power down the device anym

Re: permission denied to properly chmod'd files

2007-07-17 Thread Eric Anderson
ndering if it is a FreeBSD oddity that I'm not understanding. If FreeBSD is off the hook, then I'll go bug the Cacti crowd. Are you using NFS at all? If so, check your locking. Otherwise, some more debugging would help - can you become the cacti user, and then access

Re: Tar output mode for installworld

2007-07-15 Thread Eric Anderson
slower because you then have to read a lot of small files off of CD. Or have I missed something? Or, when the day comes that my tarfs implementation is in the tree and root booting enabled, you boot the tar file as the root fs, and use that same tar file to build the syst

Re: Xorg port problem?

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Masson
Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, > Not disputing your answer, but I'm curious. Why would it cause > problems on some systems but not others? I haven't done anything with > my cflags ... Can't give any response, but I was hit by the bug Alex talks about during upgrade. My box ran ou

Re: Accounting test data

2007-05-16 Thread Eric Anderson
s ran... That's supposed to happen - look at the script. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Accounting test data

2007-05-16 Thread Eric Anderson
your machine runs with process accounting enabled, you will need to re-enable it after the script terminates (the script will tell you how). I intend to make the data you send me part of the process accounting regression testing. Many thanks, http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/acct-data/

Re: System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication

2007-05-14 Thread Eric Anderson
etfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 585018626 10485764.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 b: 10485760 swap c: 5860672020unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit Could it be because your root partition is not at offset 0? Eric

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-11 Thread Eric Anderson
older hierarchies and text files and write a libary in C that provides portupgrade functionality. The code under src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/ would be a good base for this. Then you could use a frontend program that makes use of this library. This frontend could be a CLI program or a GUI base

Re: MIME-ifying sysctl types

2007-05-07 Thread Eric Anderson
input: is this idea sane? Are there any utilities that actually parse the type name? The benefit of this conversion is that MIME types are easier on the eyes and will help unfamiliar users understand what's going on. How about adding a -m switch to sysctl that outputs the MIME com

Re: strange bit-shifting

2007-04-03 Thread Eric Anderson
ing like: uint64_t l; l = 1 << 40; but instead did: l = (1 << 30) * 1024; which works fine. This was on i386. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Dual Logic with Qlogic card

2007-03-26 Thread Eric Anderson
nt me in the correct direction to get this working? See geom multipath (gmultipath) in -CURRENT. I think it's going to be MFC'ed at some point.. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: FreeBSD at SXSW

2007-03-14 Thread Eric Anderson
you post a meeting place/time (or a few) to one of the right lists, I'd like to know about it.. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ?

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
e them, or vmware needs to be smarter and emulate that feature. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mount on non-empty directories (Was: sysinstall creates corruptfilesystems after repartitioning)

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
aware but I'd still like to understand by I saw what I did i.e. ls displayed the files yet running vim didnt. I'm going to investigate this more in an effort to determine why I got these results and report back. Thanks for everyone's feedback so far most appreciated. Ok, at this

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 09:37, Steven Hartland wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:11:52AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: Mounting an NFS share on top of a skimmed down /usr is very common, and very desirable. You may mount /usr from a small read-only partition (vnode file, etc) and

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 08:44, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:11:52AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: Mounting an NFS share on top of a skimmed down /usr is very common, and very desirable. You may mount /usr from a small read-only partition (vnode file, etc) and then mount a different

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 08:37, Steven Hartland wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: On 03/02/07 07:46, Steven Hartland wrote: Mounting an NFS share on top of a skimmed down /usr is very common, and very desirable. You may mount /usr from a small read-only partition (vnode file, etc) and then mount a different

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 07:46, Steven Hartland wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: I don't know about the fs corruption, but the double mounts is something you asked it to do (maybe unknowingly). When you added that partition, one of the options is to mount it. Clearly an easy work around in that case the

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
was so badly corrupted. Steve I don't know about the fs corruption, but the double mounts is something you asked it to do (maybe unknowingly). When you added that partition, one of the options is to mount it. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebs

Re: Instruction fault panic while installing 6.2 on VMware Server

2007-03-01 Thread Eric Anderson
Attached is the patch i use for 6.x kernel. Can you both send me the dmesg of these machines? Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory)

2007-02-21 Thread Eric Anderson
On 02/20/07 11:44, Arone Silimantia wrote: --- Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: after this attempt, swapinfo still shows zero swap in use. What does this mean ? Is my system now in an unstable state ? Should I reboot ? Did you try reducing your maxdsiz to something a few h

Re: beefy system exhausted by MRTG port install (Cannot allocate memory)

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Anderson
ducing your maxdsiz to something a few hundred mb's less? Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 5.5 persistent crashing

2007-02-15 Thread Eric Anderson
, or possible kgdb tricks to try. Can you reproduce this easily? Can you explain how you get it to fail? Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: /etc/group limits (REAL limits)

2007-02-07 Thread Eric Anderson
On 02/07/07 07:44, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:17:51PM +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote: On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, 22:56-0600, Eric Anderson wrote: On one of my boxes where I have a decent amount of (less than 50) users in a few groups, I finally hit the limit. Not 1024 bytes

/etc/group limits (REAL limits)

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Anderson
PRERELEASE from about mid-September. I have also seen some issues on amd64, which I went through some debugging with Konstantin Belousov back in November (cc'ed). Thanks! Eric -- ---- Eric AndersonSr. System

Re: nullfs and named pipes.

2007-02-06 Thread Eric Anderson
ion of the null_fs code. Having named pipes work in null_fs filesystems would be a very handy thing indeed. I'd appreciate any insights into this. Just wanted to say that it seems like this should work, and I'm not yet certain why it doesn't. I've looked

Re: Where to start?

2007-01-20 Thread Eric Anderson
On 01/20/07 12:37, LI Xin wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: On 01/20/07 02:48, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Soeren Straarup wrote: Hi I'm looking for a project. Something that would actually be used. Preferely something with kernel and geom. I have looked over the project

Re: Where to start?

2007-01-20 Thread Eric Anderson
ormat. Just turning off softupdates and adding the journal on another device should work. Eric -- ---- Eric AndersonSr. Systems AdministratorCentaur Technology An undefined problem has an infinite

Re: Where to start?

2007-01-19 Thread Eric Anderson
ays people there with ideas. Eric -- ---- Eric AndersonSr. Systems AdministratorCentaur Technology An undefined problem has an infinite number of

Re: NFS attr cache performance

2006-10-30 Thread Eric Anderson
eas are OK..maybe something simple I overlooked. I need to reserve another build server early this week, and go over my options again on whats not been working, and get the list numbers as well. Thanks in advance. See Bruce Evans very recent work on this on freebsd-fs@ mailing l

Re: Yeah, but what does it mean? [Was: Re: File trees: the deeper, the weirder]

2006-10-29 Thread Eric Anderson
ll bet it stands for something along the lines of VNode Least Recently Used. Yep, that's what it means. vn* is commonly used in the kernel for vnodes, and an 'lru' is commonly known for a 'least recently used' sort of list. Eric --

Re: numbers don't lie ...

2006-09-20 Thread Eric Anderson
ave that much RAM, but enough to store /usr/src, then using a RAM disk for it is a win. Reading /usr/src from a physical disk certainly requires quite some I/O that takes more than zero time. But, in order to populate the ram disk, you must r

Re: 6-STABLE filesystem related panics/locks (kgdb output)

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Anderson
On 09/18/06 10:02, Eric Anderson wrote: Hi all, On one of our NFS servers, we've seen repeated filesystem issues with two of the filesystems (it has 4 exported via NFS). It usually manifests itself by a hung 'df -lk' (wedged in 'ufs'), and mountd becomes wedged also

6-STABLE filesystem related panics/locks (kgdb output)

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Anderson
mnt_cred = 0xc59f2080, mnt_data = 0x0, mnt_time = 0, mnt_iosize_max = 131072, mnt_export = 0xc5d25c00, mnt_mntlabel = 0x0, mnt_fslabel = 0x0, mnt_nvnodelistsize = 1, mnt_hashseed = 3369618744, mnt_markercnt = 0, mnt_holdcnt = 0, mnt_holdcntwaiters = 0, mnt_secondary_writes = 0, mnt_s

Re: Hard disk going-bad detection

2006-08-28 Thread Eric Anderson
ke a look at smartd. Eric -- ---- Eric AndersonSr. Systems AdministratorCentaur Technology Anything that works is better than a

Re: 6-STABLE snapshot (background fsck) lock-up

2006-08-27 Thread Eric Anderson
On 08/27/06 00:53, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 08:19:40PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: On 08/26/06 07:44, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:23:36AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Hmm - had another panic. Again, screen shots are here: http

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