Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2005 09:58 schrieb Gerald Heinig: > Hi Robert, > > the benchmark you cited is for uniprocessor systems only. > It says nothing about multiprocessor performance, which is what FreeBSD > is aiming for. > It's comparing apples with oranges. No, many users, me included, only run

Re: ZFS

2004-09-16 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2004 17:26 schrieb Andrea Campi: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote: > > Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B > > sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...). > > [...] > > > Crappy marketing articles. > > This

Re: spambouncer tags much freebsd list mail as spam

2003-11-02 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Sonntag, 2. November 2003 16:59 schrieb C. Kukulies: > I installed the spambouncer.org procmail script and before I was switching > the behaviour from SILENT to COMPLAIN I took a look at my spam.incoming > folder and found a lot of messages from freebsd-bugs and freebsd-mobile in > there. > > Bo

Re: generalized mergemaster(8)

2003-03-23 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Freitag, 21. März 2003 20:27 schrieb Garance A Drosihn: > > > > /var/tmp/temproot/etc/rc.d/ and /etc/rc.d/ have 17 differing files. > > (I)nstall, (D)elete, or (R)ecursively examine? [R] > > > >Then I could hit 'I' and update all of /etc/rc.d at once. > > At times I've asked Doug about some ki

Re: scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-23 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Freitag, 21. Februar 2003 22:38 schrieben Sie: > At 10:20 PM +0100 2/19/03, Michael Ranner wrote: > > For what it's worth, we (FreeBSD) have a simple SuperBlock recovery > program in /usr/src/tools/tools/find-sb. I picked up some updates > from Dave Cross for that, and h

Re: scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2003 22:20 schrieb Michael Ranner: > Hello! > > I am trying to learn scan_ffs (original from OpenBSD, ported to FreeBSD > by Robert Watson) about UFS2 on 5-CURRENT, but it will not find the > Superblock and I dont understand exactly both for loops, especi

scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Ranner
Hello! I am trying to learn scan_ffs (original from OpenBSD, ported to FreeBSD by Robert Watson) about UFS2 on 5-CURRENT, but it will not find the Superblock and I dont understand exactly both for loops, especially that 512 byte increment. Scan_ffs is a system tool from OpenBSD to recover erased

Porting NetBSD rfilter/wfilter mount_portal to FreeBSD

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Ranner
Hello! In a first shot, I have ported the rfilter/wfilter functionality from NetBSD's mount_portal to FreeBSD. At the moment I have used the FreeBSD 4.7-p2 sources because of the smaller differences, but if there is interest in merging these features in FreeBSD I will port it and the related man

utmp/utmpx improvement

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Ranner
Hello! I have done some research for utmp improvement for FreeBSD and found the following URL which sounds very intersting: http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2002/debian-bsd-200202/msg00142.html The author has posted an article in freebsd-hackers earlier thie year. What is the current status?

Re: setattr() syscall as proposed by phk

2002-12-15 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Samstag, 14. Dezember 2002 16:24 schrieb Michael Ranner: > Hi there! > > I have implemented the setattr(), lsetattr() and fsetattr() syscalls for > 4.7 and 5.0. You can review my code on > http://www.ranner.jawa.at/freebsd.php. > In between I have modfied 5.0 restore to use

setattr() syscall as proposed by phk

2002-12-14 Thread Michael Ranner
Hi there! I have implemented the setattr(), lsetattr() and fsetattr() syscalls for 4.7 and 5.0. You can review my code on http://www.ranner.jawa.at/freebsd.php. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Regards, /\/\ichael Ranner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -