Re: SSD "trim" support

2012-03-06 Thread David Laight
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:20:12AM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote: > > macallan1...@gmail.com said: > > do you know if there's an equivalent command for Compact Flash cards? > > Yes, I know. "erase sectors", part of the CFA command set. To use > this, more changes to the wd@ata code are needed, e

Re: NetBSD-based file servers

2012-03-06 Thread Brian Buhrow
hello. I've been using NetBSD in server environments, including file server environments, for 15 years. To me, the fact that you're still running NetBSD-4 aand you've been able to get everything back in working order after a series of unfortunate events, presumably after the machine has r

Re: NetBSD-based file servers

2012-03-06 Thread Edgar Fuß
> that depends on how you measure "users" Well...people whose home directories reside on that file server.

Re: 6.0_BETA: Extreamly slow newfs_ext2fs on 60Gb USB stick

2012-03-06 Thread Izumi Tsutsui
cheusov@ wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > >> For a number of reasons I decided to use ext2 filesystem on 60Gb memory > >> stick. > > : > >> Unfortunately newfs_ext2fs works extreamly slowly > > > > newfs_ext2fs(8) was intended to prepare boot partitions for > > Lin

Re: NetBSD-based file servers

2012-03-06 Thread Hauke Fath
At 20:41 Uhr +0100 05.03.2012, Edgar Fuß wrote: [I'll third the request for sane line lengths, for mail readers as well as for customers like the gnats db] >After the recent problems[*] we've been having with our (4.0/amd64) file >server, I'll surely be facing the question why we're not using tha

Re: 6.0_BETA: Extreamly slow newfs_ext2fs on 60Gb USB stick

2012-03-06 Thread Aleksey Cheusov
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: >> For a number of reasons I decided to use ext2 filesystem on 60Gb memory >> stick. >  : >> Unfortunately newfs_ext2fs works extreamly slowly > > newfs_ext2fs(8) was intended to prepare boot partitions for > Linux based appliances (like cobalt)

Re: SSD "trim" support

2012-03-06 Thread Matthias Drochner
macallan1...@gmail.com said: > do you know if there's an equivalent command for Compact Flash cards? Yes, I know. "erase sectors", part of the CFA command set. To use this, more changes to the wd@ata code are needed, eg use of "write without erase" instead of just "write". > Those I have report

sin_zero, redux

2012-03-06 Thread Mouse
Back about two weeks ago I wrote about sin_zero and its relevance to the radix tree used by AF_INET's routing table. Sunday, I finally got together the round tuits to try eliminating sin_zero altogether, this reinforced by remarks during the previous thread that not everyone has sin_zero and thus