Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-04-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/04/2012 19:46 Marius Strobl said the following: > Given that you certainly have a well better knowledge of ZFS, it > would be great if we could do it the other way around, i.e. commit > the sparc64 support first and then your patch after adapting > whatever you have in mind with things becomi

Re: NFS - slow

2012-04-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Apr-27 22:05:42 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >is there any way to speed up NFS server? ... >- write works terribly. it performs sync on every write IMHO, You don't mention which NFS server or NFS version you are using but for "traditional" NFS, this is by design. The NFS server is stat

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I prefer "less advanced" FreeBSD >>> >>> Ridiculing other projects is not a great way to show superiority. >> >> +1 >> >> Leave mudslinging to marketing and politicians :).. > as for now you and few other people work hard to DE-p

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 12:14:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > > > Another way to promote FreeBSD - show Solaris first. Yesterday just to > > > look downloaded from oracle. Incredibly slow, no idea > > what's going on not only while installing but when trying to do anything > > and understa

Re: NFS - slow

2012-04-30 Thread Rick Macklem
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > the server is required to do that. (ie. Make sure the data is stored > > on > > stable storage, so it can't be lost if the server crashes/reboots.) > > Expensive NFS servers can use non-volatile RAM to speed this up, but > > a generic > > FreeBSD box can't do that. > > >

Re: how to display C sources in Chromium (file:/// only)

2012-04-30 Thread Evan Martin
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > (hoping this is of interest for hackers- too) > > One of the most annoying features of chromium is that it downloads > instead of displaying various types of files (.c, .h and so on). This has long annoyed me too! > it seems that a partial fi

Re: how to display C sources in Chromium (file:/// only)

2012-04-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:47:21AM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > (hoping this is of interest for hackers- too) > > > > One of the most annoying features of chromium is that it downloads > > instead of displaying various types of files (.c, .h a

Re: NFS - slow

2012-04-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i tried nfsv4, tested under FreeBSD over localhost and it is roughly the same. am i doing something wrong? On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2012-Apr-27 22:05:42 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is there any way to speed up NFS server? ... - write works terribly. it performs sync o

Re: NFS - slow

2012-04-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
new (default on 9) sets it to MAXBSIZE, which is currently 64K, but I would like to get that increased. (A quick test suggested that the kernel works when MAXBSIZE is set to 128K, but I haven't done much testing yet.) From a long time my kernels have MAXBSIZE of 2 megabytes which is right value

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Advertising that it exists and is used is more important than saying "x sucks, use y instead". This is the tone I was getting from the previous response and this is what I discourage as well as others on the list. It was just an example. I don't use FreeBSD because Oracle Solaris sucks