Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
I am sorry everybody I simply don't get this conversation - Implement it as a port - add it to bash/zsh/tcsh as an option - feel free - But if objective is to make a vanilla FreeBSD easier to use - I can think of 10,000 things (give or take a couple of 1000's) that would be a more wothy target.

Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 13:09:05 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > ... something like this would be *really* valuable to ease > > the transition for people coming from a Linux background. > > I'm sure some folks here would count this as a reason *not* > to provide it >:-> >

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --- Thomas Sparrevohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > ... > > > > > I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and > > without having to do anything special -

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:33:39 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and > > without having to do anything special - That is on CURRENT > > ruinning: No such word > ruining: Wrecking, destroying > running: Working accepta

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 03:08:34 Garrett Cooper wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi; > > > > FWIW, if you just got your new computer with Windows Vista installed and > > were > > hoping to dual boot FreeBSD on it, let me tell you that FreeBSD's bootloader > > will screw things up. > > > > Mi

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Monday 14 May 2007 09:25:12 'Michel Talon' wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:33:23AM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > > > converted INDEX > > into postgresSQL because I was playing around with making a message queue > > based approach - > > an

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> There is a > reason why people have been discussing this for ten years without > getting anywhere. > I suspect that is because that by and large the ports system works ;-) - Having Played around with a couple of Linux distributions - my impression is that "ports" offers a much more manageable

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> > The second point is most important here. This whole thread exists > because people consider the existing ports system to be too slow. How > is using XML going to help with that at all? > But which part? The /var half of the equation - well that depends on the operation - Lookup? E.g

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 17:04:20 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:00:46PM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > > > > The answer is another INDEX/storage structure > > > > Great, I look forward to your detailed proposal. > > > &

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> On Sunday 13 May 2007 23:00, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > The on-disk format seems to be the wrong angle on the issue - The > > current structure Works well - but it has a number of drawbacks - > > however it no way clear whether that The answer is another > > INDEX/

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> FYI, "Using XML" and other buzzword-compliance is not currently on the > table either. Let's all try to maintain some focus, OK? > Well - I now heard the SQL buzzword quite a bit ;-) - but whatever - No matter what angle I take on the register/make INDEX timing issues they are insignificant

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
ion - then people can use SQL/ flat files / existing structures But the tools we still only need one common interface to XML > -Original Message- > From: Benjamin Lutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 May 2007 19:42 > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Cc: Thomas

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Sunday 13 May 2007 11:37:57 Peter Jeremy wrote: > > The options I can see are: > - Ignore the existence of INDEX - which makes computing dependencies > very time consuming > - Fully rebuild INDEX via "make describe" whenever you update any ports > - this takes of the order of an hour > - F

RE: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2007-03-29 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
That is puzzling - I running using on a Nvidia Nforce 590 SLI based machine with no problems using Raid - Mind you this Dell implementation uses only Raid0 - What release are you running? - I have had success With both 6.2, 7.0-Current and AMD-6.2 and AMD-7.0 - On the 64bit there was issues with th

Weird behaviours with SATA DVD Drives

2007-02-11 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
Hi I just got a new system that has two SATA DVD Drives in it. There are a couple of weird issues so I list in order - With the Jan snapshot the kernel only see the DVD Drive that the CD was booted in - but it cannot later on when sysinstall is running use the drive but gives read errors So I

Re: Ancient FreeBSD releases online

2005-07-03 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Sunday 03 July 2005 10:05, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Fedt - Jeg tror at jeg stadigvaek har nogle of de originale CD'er - > ftp://phk.freebsd.dk > > ./386BSD/cd1.iso > ./BSD4.4-LITE/cover.pnm > ./BSD4.4-LITE/cd1.iso > ./BSD4.4-LITE/cd2.iso > ./BSD4.4-LITE/cd3.iso >

Re: Debugging UMA allocation

2005-06-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Sunday 05 June 2005 13:17, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: Ok - After a hand held trace - here are what happens In the call to uma_zcreate for the "PROC" object the slab_zalloc ends up being called twice - it in turn calls vm_map_lock and establishes the first time a exclusive sleep mu

Re: Debugging UMA allocation

2005-06-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Sunday 05 June 2005 12:31, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: Ups - two useless files included - please ignore the plugins.txt and the dmesg - it should have been > Hi > > One of the changes introduced after the 27/05 causes a panic in the initial > boot phases in the > > The panic

Debugging UMA allocation

2005-06-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
Hi One of the changes introduced after the 27/05 causes a panic in the initial boot phases in the The panic occurs on my Dell Lattitude C640 when using both my own kernel and the GENERIC kernel. The panic is _mtx_lock_sleep: Recursed on non-recursive mutex in system map I have traced the t

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-04 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 06:38, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > The technical reasons are very simple. If a new system call is > created, and programs use that new system call, then if you do an > installworld before you boot the kernel, that can result in binaries > not working. This has happened with

Re: RFC: backporting GEOM to the 4.x branch

2005-02-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Monday 28 February 2005 00:15, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Roland Dowdeswell wrote: > > [ cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED], because there has been talk > > of GBDE there in the past.] > > So what? If the write fails in the middle, reading sector will just > produce garbage. I don't think that it's differen

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-06 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 02:31, Matthew Dillon wrote: The university I used to work for had something like it and it got 99% of the cases > Yow. 78 messages and counting. Er, 79 now. I'll bet poor Giorgos > wishes he never started this thread! Get ready. get set DIVE! >

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-03 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
A simple and pragmatic solution is to use alias in what ever shell you are using e.g. alias rm to rm -i. There used to be a simple "delete" command or script that basically moved all files into a ".deleted" directory insted of actually deleting the files - From a practical point of view it does