Re: Filesystem size limit?

2000-02-15 Thread John Milford
Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Joe seem to want one. This size is certaintly within the reach of an > > ISP now, and disks just keep getting bigger. My administrative bias is > > that partitioning for a reason other then policy should be avoided and > > thus I'd love to see files

Re: Filesystem size limit?

2000-02-15 Thread John Milford
Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:24:30AM -0800, John Milford wrote: > > > > Is there any real interest in moving beyond 1TB? I think that > > it would incur a non-trival overhead as I believe that unsigned ints > > would

Re: Filesystem size limit?

2000-02-15 Thread John Milford
Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /usr/include/sys/disklabel.h: >u_int32_t p_size; /* number of sectors in partition */ > > newfs.c: > int fssize; /* file system size */ > .. > havelabel: > if (fssize == 0) > fssize = pp->p_s

Re: USFS (User Space File System)

1999-07-20 Thread John Milford
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > This seems like an unnecessary complication to me. It would be > easier to simply make it a device that you can open(), read(), and > write() as I first suggested. > > MFS is not a good template for any of this. MFS is very, very simple > and the p

Re: USFS (User Space File System)

1999-07-20 Thread John Milford
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This seems like an unnecessary complication to me. It would be > easier to simply make it a device that you can open(), read(), and > write() as I first suggested. > > MFS is not a good template for any of this. MFS is very, very si

Re: USFS (User Space File System)

1999-07-20 Thread John Milford
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > No, MFS runs in supervisor mode. That mfs process that you see hanging > there is just placemarking the VM space. > > -Matt > Well, I think there is a little more to it than that. I believe it does run in supe

Re: USFS (User Space File System)

1999-07-20 Thread John Milford
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, MFS runs in supervisor mode. That mfs process that you see hanging > there is just placemarking the VM space. > > -Matt > Well, I think there is a little more to it than that. I believe

Re: USFS (User Space File System)

1999-07-19 Thread John Milford
David, Unless I am misunderstanding you, mfs does what you are describing. --John "David E. Cross" wrote: > I am looking at a project that will require a user based process to interact > with the system as if it were a filesystem. The traditional way I have seen > t

Re: USFS (User Space File System)

1999-07-19 Thread John Milford
David, Unless I am misunderstanding you, mfs does what you are describing. --John "David E. Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking at a project that will require a user based process to interact > with the system as if it were a filesystem. The traditional

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread John Milford
You have to have the capibility on the switch, and enable it first. It is called EtherChannel by Cisco, and it is 2 or 4 ports that all have the same MAC addr plugged into the switch, and the switch treats them as one interface. --John Steve Rubin wrote: > >