[RFC] Add *.orig/*.rej to svn:ignore in src?

2012-09-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
I noticed that we have a handful of patterns currently ignored in svn:ignore (at least at the top-level… the lower levels don't appear to be set in any particular manner): $ svn propget svn:ignore _.tinderbox.* _.amd64.* _.arm.* _.i386.* _.ia64.* _.mips.* _.pc98.* _.powerpc.* _.sparc64.*

Re: Why fdisk can't open root disk with MBR for writing?

2012-09-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
This is a resend as Benjamin Kaduk dropped the Yuri from CC line, & Yuri was the original first poster in thread who my patch would presumably have helped. Reference: > From: Benjamin Kaduk > Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:49:41 -0400 (EDT) > Message-id: Benjamin Kadu

Re: Why fdisk can't open root disk with MBR for writing?

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Rees
On 16 September 2012 10:23, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > This is a resend as Benjamin Kaduk > dropped the > Yuri > from CC line, & Yuri was the original first poster in thread who > my patch would presumably have helped. > > Reference: >> From: Benjamin Kaduk >> Date: Sat,

Re: Why fdisk can't open root disk with MBR for writing?

2012-09-16 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 15.09.2012 17:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > + When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this: > + .br > + sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 > > I never submitted it as a send-pr, > anyone think I should submit it to help save people ? I don't think this is good idea. Setting

Re: [RFC] Add *.orig/*.rej to svn:ignore in src?

2012-09-16 Thread Chris Rees
On 16 September 2012 10:11, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I noticed that we have a handful of patterns currently ignored in > svn:ignore (at least at the top-level… the lower levels don't appear to be > set in any particular manner): > > $ svn propget svn:ignore > _.tinderbox.* > _.amd64.* > _

Re: Why fdisk can't open root disk with MBR for writing?

2012-09-16 Thread Lokadamus
Am 16.09.2012 11:41, schrieb Chris Rees: On 16 September 2012 10:23, Julian H. Stacey wrote: This is a resend as Benjamin Kaduk dropped the Yuri from CC line, & Yuri was the original first poster in thread who my patch would presumably have helped. Reference: From: Benjamin

Dispersed storage solutions?

2012-09-16 Thread Andy Young
I recently came across a number of really interesting research papers about using erasure coding techniques to store data redundantly across a number of machines. This was pretty exciting for me because I have been looking for this kind of technology for a while. Simply replicating our data is way

gpart is junk

2012-09-16 Thread Jeff Anton
fdisk may be old, but it's a better utility. Better documented, still referenced in the FreeBSD handbook... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html The fdisk -p and fdisk -f are vital functionality which are only reluctantly recognized with the backup and r

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-16 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 16.09.2012 23:12, Jeff Anton wrote: > The whole geom system may be very important and may be the way to move > forward. But if it is so > important, it's important to bring forward all the important functionality > that we know from the > past, i.e. fdisk and bsdlabel or their real useful equ