Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-23 Thread David L. Nicol
Dale Amon wrote: > > Talk about syncronicity... I had just last week asked > about the pro's and con's on this on the crypto list and > have heard nothing at all back. So I'll drop the body > of that message in here: why not port one of the twenty or thirty preexisting tools that let you mount

Dell 4300 + megaraid

2001-04-10 Thread David L. Nicol
Our Dell 4300, plus raid card, works okay with a 2.2.14 kernel, which has a version 107 megaraid.o module. This is many versions behind the version present in 2.4.3. More recent driver modules for the card hand on booting, thus this problem report. The module source does not indicate a recent

another Linux-2.4.2 splat: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.

2001-02-27 Thread David L. Nicol
[david@nicol1 linux]$ make dep make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.2/drivers' make -C acpi fastdep make[4]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.2/drivers/acpi' Makefile:29: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.2/dr

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-02-27 Thread David L. Nicol
Zack Brown wrote: > > Just curious, are there any plans to put Mosix into the standard kernel, > maybe in 2.5, so folks could just configure it and go? it seems that the > number of people with more than one computer might make this a feature many > would at least want to try, especially if it wa

Re: bidirectional named pipe?

2001-02-09 Thread David L. Nicol
"David L. Nicol" wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > I'm porting some software to Linux that requires use of a bidirectional, > > > named pipe. The architecture is as follows: A server creates a named pipe > > > > Pipes are not bid

book review: Understanding the LINUX Kernel

2001-02-09 Thread David L. Nicol
Understanding the Linux Kernel Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati O'Reilly, 2000 Book web site (including a sample chapter) is here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/ Developed and tested as lecture notes for university classes in which the 2.2 kernel was examined, the new O'Reil

Re: bidirectional named pipe?

2001-02-07 Thread David L. Nicol
Alan Cox wrote: > > > I'm porting some software to Linux that requires use of a bidirectional, > > named pipe. The architecture is as follows: A server creates a named pipe > > Pipes are not bidirectional in Linux. We follow traditional non stream > behaviour > > > /dev/spx". I experiemented

Re: OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

2001-02-07 Thread David L. Nicol
Peter Samuelson wrote: > A more useful thing to fall out of the same hacking is loopback > mounting -- i.e. the same filesystem mounted multiple places. In > Linux-land I guess we call it 'mount --bind'. > > Peter Does this kind of thing play nice with nfs and coda, in terms of change notific

Re: How can I understand Linux Network implementation?

2001-01-30 Thread David L. Nicol
Donghui Wen wrote: > > I am hacking the implementation of linux2.4's > networking (IPV4) . Can anyone give me some idea > what material I should read to understand the > data structures and algorithms. I have stevens's > books which talked about BSD's implementation. > > Thanks! > > Donghui Pr

"no such 386 instruction" with gcc 2.95.2

2001-01-25 Thread David L. Nicol
I think I must need to upgrade my assembler, but: 2.4.0/Documentation/Changes does not list an assembler version. make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.0/drivers/md' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/mnt/sdb2/src/linux-2.4.0/include -Wall -Wstrict-proto types -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-s