I don't know who he is either, but much to my regret this nonsense has
forced me off the list.
Bye everyone, it's been a great 9 years, and it's a great OS, and you're
great people!
I hope this mess gets worked out someday.
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Actually, the interesting part would be a survey of which BIOS
> calls are actually used (a survey by a BIOS writer, maybe, hint
> hint 8-)).
we've got a good fellow on freebsd-clusters doing the survey, and then
we're going to see how to hook up freeb
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Were you aware of the OpenBIOS project?
I've only been working with them for about the last three years.
re open firmware: where was taht source tree again?
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Two words: Open Firmware.
"if it has open in the name, it's not"
open firmware is useless to me.
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> I guess it's not OK to make BIOS calls into the BIOS?
not if it's my lazy bios that doesn't support them.
> Isn't that what BIOS's are for?!?
agreed, but I was hoping that we could move beyond this bios stuff. Can't
we all just get along :-)
ron
I thought I saw one of them at freenix a few years back? not sure.
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We would sure like to be able to boot freebsd, but freebsd makes bios
calls.
Any way we can change this (i.e. pass info freebsd needs via tables).
Openbsd boots, so does win2k, so we're not linux-centric.
ron
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, David Schultz wrote:
> Linux used to do that, but AFAIK it doesn't anymore.
Linux puts kvm at 0xc000, kernel at physical 0x10, etc. There
was a time when you could address all of physical memory just by
direct-mapping the PTEs, since base of 0xc000 means KVM sp
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As far as I remember, there is open collector output
> on parallel port, so your wish impossible %-)
oops, I forgot that little deal. Yup, you need a pullup.
you can get PP relay modules for not much.
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Put a voltmeter on the PP port. Measure voltage.
put am ammeter on the PP port. measure current. (start at 10 amps to be
safe, trust me, you're not going to cause the ammeter any trouble).
See if Voc and Isc are in a usable range. If not, go get yerself a little
reed relay or solid state relay.
On 27 Sep 2002, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> > *** But what does prevent a user-level process from executing
> > wild instructions (RESET, traps, other dangerous instructions
> > and undocumented features) ?
>
> I'm probably less knowledgeable then you are but in protected-mode
> programming isn't the k
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Anyone looked at OpenBIOS? The line has to be drawn somewhere... as regards
> supporting multiple chipsets/CPUs. Personally I like the idea of being able
> to do PXE-like booting on non-Intel platforms.
sure, and it will probably run on top of linuxb
I still wish somebody would do a bproc port for freebsd (see
http://www.clustermatic.org)
or get freebsd loadable from linuxbios (http://www.linuxbios.org). We load
plan 9 and WinCE, so how much does freebsd need?
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Sarnoff has done a similar implementation for FreeBSD, called
> MNFS, which had an integrated distributed cache coherency protocol,
> and was implemented for FreeBSD circa 1996.
goodness, that's me!
They're pretty different however. MNFS was for distri
intermezzo probably is not impossible on freebsd. I worked on the early
versions and most of the hard work is done outside the kernel.
It would be nice to see it on freebsd.
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a couple years ago I did 64 boxes with fbsd using a boot cdrom that did
a network install. 7 minutes per box, i punched out 8 cds. Took one hour.
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Multicast! BootIX (nee InCom) have support for this in their BootROMS. it
> might not be hard to hack into Etherboot et al.
bproc now uses multicast for distributing new kernels and init ram disks,
if you want to see an example. It's on sourceforge.
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Michael Smith wrote:
> >
> > Is there some quick, down & dirty way of assessing the bus-speeds of PCI
> > slots/busses on a given box? I have a whole rack of systems with FreeBSD
> > 4.5 on 'em, and need to know the PCI bus configuration for each.
>
> Unfortunately, no. The
On 17 Feb 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > sendfile() isn't zero-copy, it's just two-less-copies.
> > zero-copy means "zero copy-operations within memory"
>
> To an MCSE, maybe.
I think Roy is right.
AFAIK the term "zero copy" was invente
I would give Insure a try if you can't afford Purify. Either one is better
than just about anything else you'll find in the open source world.
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As far as I remember from reading the Lyons' book, there were
> 16 mapping descriptors for text and data each. I think, 1/16
> of the address space is not too big, and in absolute values
> it's the size of today's pages (4KB).
well I had dropped thi
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, DOROVSKOY,IGOR (A-Portsmouth,ex1) wrote:
> I've took a brief look on Unix presentation and was wondering, why author
> says that "...most Unix systems have not permitted shared memory because
> the PDP-11 hardware did not encourage it..."?
where'd they get this? that's an od
A stupid little program you can use to dump the bios and hunt for version
strings etc.
default is to mmap the last 1MB of the 32-bit space and write it to fildes
1. optional arg 1 is the base (it gets << 16 thanks to a strtol bug that
may no longer be there); optional arg 2 is the size.
Tested o
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
> As John said, actually, really going back to real mode is hard. It would
> be easier to just reboot the system, especially since we have probably
> left hardware in odd states.
True. For two kernel monte and LOBOS we never leave protected mode before
boot
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> no, you are right. It's just that the freebsd code for this is a nice
> tutorial, then when he looks at bootimg or whatever it will be easier to
^^^
NOT a typo. bootimg is Werner Almesberger's
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
> It isn't enough to do what he wants, though. He wants to effectively
> return to real mode and jump to a real mode boot strap loader, as if
> in the second stage of a boot manager, after the partition to boot has
> been selected (e.g. "Reboot to Linux",
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Dmitry Konyshev wrote:
> I saw an example of switching in real mode in linux' sources (it looks
> pretty clear) and thouhgt it is possible to do the same under FreeBSD.
> The problem is I'm absolutely lost in FreeBSD's physical memory management
> implementation (page tables a
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Dmitry Konyshev wrote:
> > For some odd reason I need to load another OS (no matter which one,
> > everything that known about it is its boot sector number)
> > at the end of the reboot syscall. Could someone please explain how to
> > switch processor to
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Harti Brandt wrote:
> What's bad about using files? Just to be different? Isn't it easier to
> select, poll, kqueue, what ever on files than on sysctls?
/proc files are horrible if you sample at reasonable rates, say 10-100 hz.
We found (on Linux, maybe fbsd is better) that
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Is there anything wrong with dd(1)?
A lot.
Best way I found was dump | restore, i.e.
mkfs /dev/newdisk
mount /dev/newdisk /newdisk
dump 0f - / | (cd /newdisk; restore rf -)
or equivalent ...
- yes, you can use tar, but you have to remember all the o
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote:
> If you are going to build clusters with over 1000 nodes, you should
> then install a batch system instead of using kernel-based clustering
> services.
I thought we took this one private. Anyway, as I said in private, scalable
kernel services for clustering
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> And directly comparing the number of nodes with Beowulf-style
> clusters is not fair. The Beowulf clusters can be reasonably
> efficiently used only for a very limited class of problems
> with very high parallelism of subtasks, high computational
> comp
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote:
> http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/
A collection of some really bad ideas, not likely to scale well. Note that
they've got up to 30 nodes, wow. Double it once and that's where this kind
of "global everything" idea starts to fall over. Badly.
It would be ne
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Fabián Salamanca wrote:
> I'd like to try to develop code (maybe kernel code modifications or
> external modules) for clustering with FreeBSD, but I'd like to see some
> work in order to know where I might get started, I'm thinking 'bout plain
> C and maybe C++ and some shell
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had almost exactly the same experience with a Tyan motherboard,
> excapt that it was not a network but video card in my case.
> Unplugging the power cord from the machine between removing one
> card and inserting another (or possibly the same) one
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Geez. All I wanted to do was pat Jonathan on the back for coming up
> with what is apparently the most flexible and well though out
> mechanism out there.
it's great work. I was mainly curious to see if anyone had measured this
kind of problem.
Tha
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> At this level, you're basically screwed. A sofware checksum isn't
> even an option on other PCI users, like disk controllers. If you
> don't trust your PCI chipset, what do you do about things like that?
>
> I'm rather curious -- what was the proble
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> No, you're missing the point almost entirely. The checksum is not
> skipped. It is calculated by the DMA engine based on the data that's
> transferred across the I/O bus on the receiver (and / or the sender).
> If the data is incorrect as seen by th
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> I just wanted to say that you did a hell of a job with the csum
> offload stuff in FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the only OS that I'm aware of
> which allows a driver to choose not to handle csum'ing IP frags on
> transmit. Having the option to not handle fra
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, David Malone wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:07:00PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
> > I'm just curious: is it possible to set up an NFS server and a client
> > where the client has very big (28 GB maximum for FreeBSD?) swap area on
> > multiple disks and caches the NFS expor
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > While not Intel, I understand the Alpha port is coming along nicely:
> >
> > http://www.api-networks.com/products/up1000-board.shtml
> > http://www.api-networks.com/products/up1100-board.shtml
> > http://www.api-networks.com/products/up2000-board
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
> I/O space is easy, but memory space is hard. Userspace access to
> physical memory is a big no-no in the *nix world.
I want to disagree just a bit. If you look at myrinet, or the many fpga
cards, it's the standard modus operandi. You have to do it that w
On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Jan Knepper wrote:
> I just checked on this "=+" and "=-" with the guy that wrote the first
> native C++ compiler and he does not recall it at first being that way...
of course not. It had changed long before C++. You have to go back to 1976
to find this.
> I have been prog
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, David E. Cross wrote:
> In my case it would be usefull as I was trying to tell the last time
> 'telnetd' was run. (yes, not perfect, but better than nothing)
well, for caching file systems it is very useful to have an exec set
atime. Helps you figure out which files can be p
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message Matthew Jacob writes:
> : tar cfl - . | (cd /altroot/ && tar xpf -)
>
> Don't use tar. It loses devices, can't handle holey files well and a
> number of other minor clitches. Use dump instead.
For those of you still looking at cluster stuff: I'd take a close look at
www.scyld.com and see what they have. The key piece is bproc, which is now
a sourceforge open source project set up by Erik Hendriks. You might want
to look at bproc and see if that API could be implemented in FreeBSD.
The
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm
> >
> > this gives a blank screen... maybe they removed it.
>
> I found I had some netscape interop problems. Trying hitting reload a
> couple of t
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Hahaha wrote:
>
> > Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and
> > polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a
> > *huge* surprise. Snowhite
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Hahaha wrote:
> Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and
> polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a
> *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven
> Dwarfs enter...
>
>
To
A more complete one than the earlier one (though the earlier one is fine
too).
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From: Chuck Cranor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried no
I am sorry I brought this up without a URL :-(
I'm working on it.
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I still think a really neat source for kernel hacking is Chuck Cranor's
PhD thesis. He describes the kernel equivalent of open-heart surgery:
replacing the old VM with a new one, while keep the kernel alive. Neat
stuff.
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Sorry, the wrong URL.
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Brooks Davis wrote:
> For those who want a simple, stupid way to do this, making an MPI
> application is a convenient first step. MPI is pretty similar to PVM
> except that I don't know of anyone in the high performance computing
> community that still uses PVM for new appli
I just redid the autocacher in totally GPL'ed form. the paper on the
original one is at http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich
The new one is much simpler and works well. This could be useful, it gives
you a caching file system for NFS.
let me know if interested.
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Tim Tsai wrote:
>
> Also, my requirements are significantly more relaxed than a true DSM model
> (and much more lightweight is preferred).. I really just need synchronized
> views of data on a "reasonable" effort basis (i.e. it's OK if one
> client/peer sees slightly older
if your cards are on pci bus 0, not behind a bridge, you can set the base
addresses to pretty much any value you want even after the OS is up -- you
just have to make sure the drivers are all informed. But it's no big deal,
you can do it from user mode if you have access to ports cf8/cfc.
ron
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> I'm booting to single-user in 3 seconds using these things. The IDE delays
> are high, even for Flash IDE, so going for the socket is a good thing.
should have said: single user Linux. FreeBSD did not work, I think because
the bootup s
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, David Miller wrote:
> Would FreeBSD have any idea how to boot off such a beast? Alternatively,
> anyone know of an ISA/PCI adapter with enough bios on it to boot off a
> similar flash?
Put it in millenium disk-on-chip, 60 MB (soon) in the 32-pin DIP slot
found on most mainb
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Danny Braniss wrote:
> anyway,
> NT: ok
> FreeBSD: 4.1.1 does not see it
> BSDi: 4.1 does see the controller but does not find any disks
> Linux: not yet tested.
works here.
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, FengYue wrote:
> It seems that mmap on /dev/zero is more portable.
no really, It won't work at all correctly on linux, and on Tru64 it does
the totally wrong thing, but the (fd = -1, MAP_ANONYMOUS) does the right
thing on tru64.
It's disappointing that this works so unporta
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >Here's a simple test-and-set function for the 386 (tested and works):
> Actually, this isn't particularly good coding. It isn't SMP-safe.
you caught me! I'm a lousy assembly programmer!
Actually, that code is so old it predates SMP by a bit ...
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Jonas Bulow wrote:
> After doing some more thinking about the cmpxchgl-lock, it's quite hard
> to use it together with a technique involving the kernel.
well, no I don't think it is. I used to use it a lot, see my earlier post
from today.
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OK, here's a note from long ago, when this came up before.
Dated: Tue Jul 2 10:48:16 1996
The idea is simple: tset is the fastest, but you only want to spin so
long. Then you want to drop into the kernel, and wait for someone to wake
you up. This thing was quite fast on freebsd, even four year
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jonas Bulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jonas Bulow wrote:
> > >
> > > What is the "BSD-way" of access to shared memory (mmap:ed) secure (avoid
> > > race conditions, etc)? Right now I'm using posix semaphores but I
actually you're not even getting kernel driver source for linux. What
you're getting is an ugly binary blob that looks like the guts of an NT
driver, plus enough source stuff to let the kernel hook to the binary
blob. It's not pretty. And, as you might expect, it's a little prone to
failure.
ron
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Parag Patel wrote:
> It's fairly simple, other than dealing with the
> various motherboard/chipset vagaries.
So far those vagaries are not much code, something like 200 lines tops.
> It's possible to make a complete BIOS based on Linux that in turn loads
> and boots anothe
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Thu 2000-06-15 (15:25), Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 'linuxbios' will only support booting off Linux partitions?
linuxbios is getting to be a misnomer, but ...
linuxbios is a simple chunk of FLASH-based code that gunzips a ker
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Parag Patel wrote:
> No-one else seems to be interested.
actually, that's not quite true. we're seeing a fair amount of interest
here. I suspect vendors are not that interested in supporting another BIOS
unless/until they see potential $$$ ("value proposition" in MBA spea
(paul asks a good microcode question). I can't answer it yet.
Here's my take on this: we're going to do a proof of concept of this idea.
We now have three partners: SiS, Compaq, and Dell. Long-term goal is to
get industry to pick it up. This is a means to an end. I don't want to be
Mr. LinuxBIOS
sorry, jordan.
my bad. Anyway we're going to try a kernel next week that parag sent me.
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here's what we can. Somebody send a kernel for an L440GX+ that has pretty
minimal stuff. I'd prefer it to have IDE, no networking, no SCSI, i.e. a
pretty small thing. I'll try to use it as the payload for linuxbios and
see if it boots.
The key is that freebsd may need to change a few things to m
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> Mike Smith wrote:
> > I'd suggest you go talk to Parag Patel, who's just wasted about three
> > months of his life trying to make SmartFirmware run on _one_ supposedly
> > well-documented board. Parag is nobody's fool, and I consider his
> > results
synergy micro sells power pc boards that boot linux today out of flash.
www.synergy.com
They get it too.
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So, I repeat: easily done, not acceptable to freebsd core.
I think this situation reflects on the freebsd community and not in a
positive way.
If you care, sometime this year you'll be able to buy motherboards that
boot Linux from flash. SiS is working hard on this and has committed
people and
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stefan Molnar wrote:
> Why? PXE will allow net installs, or diskless. And Serial Console
> is already supported. ( On some high end machines serial console works
> in the prom as well).
well, now you see why i'm not pushing linuxbios too hard in the freebsd
world. If y
well linuxbios is what I started here, and I pinged some folks on this
list about supporting freebsd as well as linux, and got a 'no interest'
back from some folks.
I'm still up for it. I think it's easy.
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On Fri, 12 May 2000, Nick Sayer wrote:
> I would like to gather some opinions in regards to _very slightly_
> backing off
> on rexec's security.
>
> rexec makes the following checks, and refuses to allow usage if any are
> true:
>
> uid == 0
I turned off this check at sarnoff six years
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Parag Patel wrote:
> Well, OK, that and I toasted the board. Or
> bent a pin - not sure really.
Hey, there's an idea I like. Toasting the board. Get a nice campfire going
and toast the board. cool.
Should go well with hotdogs and marshmallows.
Did you get actual goo
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Anthony Bourov wrote:
> We host a whole bunch of servers, all FreeBSD, and many of them run on
> intel GX motherboards, which have a feature called EMP. Basically, I didn't
> go to much detail into this, I got that it is a way to monitor/control the
> server through modem/
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote:
> What all you think about that ?
I think you need to do a literature search for, oh, say, six months and
get back to us. You'll need to read ca. 256-512 or so articles. I'm not
kidding. You should start reading papers from the 1960s.
And oh yes, do
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
> Yeep. You don't know Fra Dolcini, do you? That looks like a Really
> Unpleasant Undertaking. 8(
It's getting there. Also SiS is now a supporter. Long term, we may see
motherboards specifically designed for the OSS community, with real docs
yet. Also, I
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
> Well, they're going to have the same basic stuff, and I can see that
> they're not having much fun trying to get there.
actually, "they" is "me": that's my project.
> I'm curious as to what you mean by "have to kill the BIOS" though; I'm
> not seeing w
Question, has anyone tried booting freebsd on raw hardware, i.e. absent a
bios? I am curious as to how good a job it can do if, e.g., no enable bits
are set in PIIX4, BARs are not set on PCI devices, no IRQs are assigned,
and so on. Anyone feel they are close enough to this to say?
See www.acl.la
anybody want to try this on -current?
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:02:40 +0100
From: Michael Lampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: How a normal user can crash any linux system
I found the following by accident playing with PVM. If you
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> Can someone tell me why copy-on-write filesystems would be bad?
It's a good idea. Peter Braam and I have written a device (called memdev)
for linux (sorry!) that implements a virtual-memory-backed copy-on-write
block device (like the loopback device
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> Granted, a lot of Linux distributions are totally unsuited for a server
> environment. Compared to that, I could understand why the
> server-orientedness of FreeBSD is attractive, but I certainly couldn't put
> up a reasonable arguement for either si
You also might want to check out SGI's PCP tools. I know, they're only out
for linux just now, but they are nice and could be ported.
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Luoqi Chen wrote:
> It's almost a regular fork(), we lose all the advantages of a single
> address space. A rfork(RFMEM) wrapper can achieve the same level of
> usability without sacrificing the performance, and IMO is a preferred
> solution.
I don't see this at all. You get
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Alexander Litvin wrote:
> Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > :BTW, concerning rfork(RFMEM). Could somebody explain me, why the
> > :following simple program is coredumping:
> > You cannot call rfork() with RFMEM directly from a C program. You
> > have to u
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> I'm sorry I missed the discussion on rfork()... but I say this only
> because I want to understand.
>
> What were you thinking? rfork()? Why is it a system call?
>
> Almost all of the flags it accepts seem like functionality that can easily
> be im
you can do this kind of thing with the bfd tools ...
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good flag. If you look at my old mnfs stuff you can see our solution : we
ignored sync :-)
This is a good move.
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> I am doing some research on filesystem. I guess it may be faster to put
> the disk inode with its file data together so that both can be read into
> memory in one I/O.
I still don't get it. To get the file, you do a lookup. So the inode is in
memory. Th
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> I have modified FFS filesystem code to put the disk inode at the beginning
> of a file, i.e, the logical block #0 of each file begins with 128 bytes of
> its disk inode and the rest of it are file data.
first question I have is, why?
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Sorry I missed this question. Check www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich for v9fs
and see if you can use it.
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> I used to know that memory to memory copy is done by the DMA controller in
> the I/O bridge (Actually, this knowledge confues me because DMA controller
Now, that brings back memories :-)
check out the original dma chip design, ca. infinite years ago. W
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, David E. Cross wrote:
> I've noticed about 99% of the panics on our machines are the result of NFS,
> more often than not it is the result of a backing store file being blown
> away underneath the client. ie. person editing a file on one machine,
> compiling and running on
Actually I wrote a system call for opening a file given a file handle for
freebsd a while back (oh, gee, has it really been 5 years ...), as part of
mnfs i'll try to find it. You don't need to map it to a filename to
make it go.
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On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> lseek(fileno(fp), 3 * 8192, SEEK_CUR);
don't mix things that use file descriptors with stdio. End of problem.
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