FreeBSD tar and large files (> 2Gb)

2001-09-22 Thread john_wilson100
I thought this was solved *years* ago: depot:~$ ls -l streets.* -rw-r--r-- 1 john john 2501946753 Sep 22 10:37 streets.dbf depot:~$ tar czvf streets.tgz streets.dbf streets.dbf depot:~$ ls -l streets.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 john john 129 Sep 22 11:20 streets.tgz depot:~$ tar tzvf streets.tgz

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-16 Thread john_wilson100
Hi Greg, On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:04:27 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Subdisk home.p0.s0: > >Size: 40822392320 bytes (38931 MB) > >State: up > >Plex home.p0 at offset 0 (0 B) > >Drive home1 (/dev/ad4s1h) at offset 135680 (132 kB) > > >

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-16 Thread john_wilson100
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:42:38 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 6) Supply an extract of the file /var/log/messages. > > > > Sep 12 14:06:10 depot login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 > > Sep 12 14:07:29 depot login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv1 > > Sep 13 01:58:14 depot /kernel: vinum: loaded > > Sep

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-15 Thread john_wilson100
Hi Greg, I apologise in advance if this message is too long. On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 09:38:20 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > On Saturday, 15 September 2001 at 12:26:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I posted a messag

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-15 Thread john_wilson100
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:52:06 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:26:10PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I posted a message to -hackers several days ago, complete with a kernel > > backtrace.The panic is 100% reproducible on my machine running the > > latest -stab

Vinum Panic (was Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?)

2001-09-13 Thread john_wilson100
Well, I have to say that Vinum feels a lot faster than HPT RAID... I will quantify this statement when someone tells me how to turn off ATA write caching, because sysctl -w hw.ata.wc=0 doesn't work, says "sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.wc' is read only" Unfortunately, Vinum reproducibly panics my machine

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-09-10 Thread john_wilson100
Well, I'm not lying, honest :) Sysinstall gives me a dialog that has three checkboxes: ad4, ad6 and ar0. This got me confused, because I had never heard of ar0, and because the manual page for ar describes some other driver (Digi/Arnet). ad4 says 7476 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors (58643 MB), Off

HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-09-10 Thread john_wilson100
Hi there, I am trying to install FreeBSD on a (pseudo-) hardware ATA RAID volume which consists of two striped ATA disks connected to a Highpoint HPT370 controller."Pseudo-" because FreeBSD detects the individual disks (ad4/ad6) as well as the striped volume (ar0). Besides the fact that ar0

Re: [Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-06 Thread john_wilson100
This is kinda different from what the original poster received. Keep badgering! John > From: Mehrdad Amir > To: john_wilson...@excite.com > Cc: tech_i...@vmware.com > Subject: Re: vmware on freebsd > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:23:31 -0700 > Message-ID: <37a1c373.49578...@vmware.com> > > Hi John

Re: [Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-06 Thread john_wilson100
This is kinda different from what the original poster received. Keep badgering! John > From: Mehrdad Amir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: vmware on freebsd > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:23:31 -0700 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi John,