Re: ffsfsn

2001-04-06 Thread thomas graichen
for you. might be worth waiting for the soon to be available postgresql 7.1 which has write ahead logging and can thus run quite safe without fsync (in 7.0 running without fsync might be a bit unsafe in case of a crash i think) t -- thomas graichen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... perfection i

journaling UFS and LFS

1999-10-30 Thread Thomas Graichen
is anybody working on adding journaling to the (Free)BSD ufs - or are there any docs in that direction avalibale - any papers or so ? how much harder this is getting due to the complex FreeBSD vm/buffercache and soft updates ? - is anybody intereseted in starting to work on this ? and the next q

Re: mysterious FreeBSD hardware problems

1999-09-18 Thread Thomas Graichen
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Juha Nurmela wrote: > > Your message at freebsd-hackers: > > Hello, > > This looks like the 'timecounter.method' problem, > with AMD K5 model 0 sugar. > I have had good result from a single patch, > not touching the timecounter stuff, but instead: > > If you can find file s

Re: mysterious FreeBSD hardware problems

1999-09-18 Thread Thomas Graichen
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Juha Nurmela wrote: > > Your message at freebsd-hackers: > > Hello, > > This looks like the 'timecounter.method' problem, > with AMD K5 model 0 sugar. > I have had good result from a single patch, > not touching the timecounter stuff, but instead: > > If you can find file

mysterious FreeBSD hardware problems

1999-09-17 Thread Thomas Graichen
(sorry if this appears here twice - but as far as i can see the first try didn't make it here due to non optimal configuration of my news to mailinglist gateway :-) i'm a bit at the end of my phantasie with this machine i'm writing this here on ... something mystically seems to be broken with runn

mysterious FreeBSD hardware problems

1999-09-17 Thread Thomas Graichen
(sorry if this appears here twice - but as far as i can see the first try didn't make it here due to non optimal configuration of my news to mailinglist gateway :-) i'm a bit at the end of my phantasie with this machine i'm writing this here on ... something mystically seems to be broken with run

booting current with ata0 etc.

1999-09-17 Thread Thomas Graichen
i've just upgraded one of my machines here at work to -current and enabled the ata stuff - but after rebooting it says "cannot mount root" - earlier then i tried this with -current it was working fine and transparent (i.e. without anything to change from wd0 to ad0) - so the question - did anything

booting current with ata0 etc.

1999-09-17 Thread Thomas Graichen
i've just upgraded one of my machines here at work to -current and enabled the ata stuff - but after rebooting it says "cannot mount root" - earlier then i tried this with -current it was working fine and transparent (i.e. without anything to change from wd0 to ad0) - so the question - did anythin

(fwd) Re: dynamically growing ffs

1999-09-15 Thread Thomas Graichen
wouldn't this be also interesting to see for FreeBSD ? - anyone with the required skills having time to have a look at it ? t -- forwarded message -- From: der Mouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: dynamically growing ffs > Is there anything to prevent someone hacking up fsck_ffs to increase

(fwd) Re: dynamically growing ffs

1999-09-15 Thread Thomas Graichen
wouldn't this be also interesting to see for FreeBSD ? - anyone with the required skills having time to have a look at it ? t -- forwarded message -- From: der Mouse Subject: Re: dynamically growing ffs > Is there anything to prevent someone hacking up fsck_ffs to increase > fs->fs_size and ev

SOFTUPDATES and fsck

1999-09-14 Thread Thomas Graichen
hello ... maybe this belongs more to fs than to hackers - but maybe this is the correct place here for it ... i've just read the soft updates paper from: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ at which the soft updates README's in the FreeBSD tree point and ran across the follo

SOFTUPDATES and fsck

1999-09-13 Thread Thomas Graichen
hello ... maybe this belongs more to fs than to hackers - but maybe this is the correct place here for it ... i've just read the soft updates paper from: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ at which the soft updates README's in the FreeBSD tree point and ran across the follow