Re: Probable bug in disklabel(8) -R

2023-02-03 Thread Puru Shartha
Namaste Crystal, Koti Koti Dhanyavaad for your reply. > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2023 at 3:21 PM > From: "Crystal Kolipe" > To: "Puru Shartha" > Cc: "Misc" > Subject: Re: Probable bug in disklabel(8) -R > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 04:02:4

Probable bug in disklabel(8) -R

2023-02-03 Thread Puru Shartha
Namaste misc, Introduction: While using the "-R" option with disklabel(8), in a specific case, the target disk may not match the source disk label parameters. More precisely, the target disk's boundend may not match with the source disk. Overview: A disk with storage greater than 2 TB and 512 by

Re: Probable error in softraid(4) documentation

2023-01-05 Thread Puru Shartha
Namaste Stuart, Tobias, > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2023 at 4:58 PM > From: "Tobias Fiebig" > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Probable error in softraid(4) documentation > > Heho, > > On Wed, 2023-01-04 at 00:04 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > stacking would refer to creating one softra

Re: Is CRONTAB(5) random really random ?

2023-01-05 Thread Puru Shartha
Namaste Rachel, Theo(s), > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2023 at 5:50 PM > From: "Theo de Raadt" > To: "Theo Buehler" > Cc: "Rachel Roch" , "Misc" > Subject: Re: Is CRONTAB(5) random really random ? > > Theo Buehler wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 06:15:43PM +0100, Rachel Roch wrote: > > >

Probable error in softraid(4) documentation

2023-01-03 Thread Puru Shartha
Namaste misc, The softraid(4) documentation states the following in the CAVEAT section [1]: "Stacking disciplines (CRYPTO on top of RAID 1, for example) is not supported at this time." Based on my limited understanding, RAID 1C seems to allow the above. Also, Dhanyavaad Stefan for RAID 1C. Dha

Re: Use daily(8), weekly(8), or monthly(8) but read less mail

2022-12-27 Thread Puru Shartha
Hallo Ibsen, > I want to use the altroot facility, but I don't want to read the mails > about the the backup succeeding and nothing else failing. > > Reading the scripts and the manual pages, I see no support for sending > the daily, weekly, or monthly mails only on failure. I also see > no suppo

RAID 1C: Writing Random Data During Installation

2022-11-27 Thread Puru Shartha
Namaste Misc, ASSUMPTION Consider two disks sd0 and sd1 assembled into sd2 with RAID 1C as the discipline. QUESTION Which of the following is the correct way to write random data for the RAID 1C discipline during installation? 1) # dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1m 2>dd.result | tee /dev/rsd0c > /dev/rsd