3.3-RELEASE -> 4-STABLE

2002-04-24 Thread Charlie Watts
Should I go to RELENG_3 and then jump to RELENG_4? Should I hit RELENG_4_0 on the way? Or can I jump straight from 3.3-RELEASE to 4-STABLE? How about if I have another -STABLE box that I can do the installworld from. Can I jump straight to -STABLE in that case? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL

Re: Is FreeBSD more secure than Windows NT or Windows 2000?

2001-07-21 Thread Charlie Watts
is this: Unix does not pretend to be secure when it isn't. If you want file security against folks with access to the hardware, you need strong crypto. This is true on literally any operating system. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet http://www.frontier.net/ To Unsubscri

Filesystem missing space?

2001-07-17 Thread Charlie Watts
f copies of it running with a bunch of locks open. I deleted the 0-byte lockfiles before I killed the programs. Are there any softupdates+lock related problems, or should I be looking elsewhere? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet http://www.frontier.net/ To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: Benchmarks from SysAdmin mag

2001-07-12 Thread Charlie Watts
all hard disk file systems ",async": Given this, which takes precedence? Or am I mis-understanding? I think of the three options as sync, async, and softupdates. If you turn async AND softupdates on, what is really happening? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: soft update should be default

2001-05-06 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hello Charlie, > > Sunday, May 06, 2001, 1:53:20 AM, you wrote: > >> IBM DLTA-307030 Ultra ATA drive (tags/no WC vs. no tags/WC). With > neither > >> option, it is terrible, of course. > > I see the same behaviou

Re[2]: soft update should be default

2001-05-06 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hello Charlie, > > Sunday, May 06, 2001, 1:53:20 AM, you wrote: > > I see the same behaviour on one of those disks, too. But - aren't IBM's > > DTLA-series disks the only IDE drives that support TCQ? > > [ It's a