My interest in the Hurd seems to be growing lately. I find over the past four days, I've been running the Hurd more than I have Linux. This assures me that I'm at least going to want to stick with this project for awhile, so I won't feel so wrong taking a workload on.
I still have a lot to learn, hopefully some of these questions can be answered. Since the Hurd crashes on me still, (or I crash it, whatever :) it tends to leave the filesystem dirty. How can I fsck it from the Hurd? I only have that one partition and fsck.ext2 warns me that running it on a mounted filesystem can cause severe damage. Eep. Personally, I think it'd be a little more conveniant if you could instruct ext2fs.static to fsck the partition so it won't be so suprised. It'd make it easier to synchronize things, methinks. Also, the system I'm on has 16 megs of RAM (and 64 megs of swap). ext2fs.static is huge compared to ext2fs. What kind of magic can I go through to replace the dynamically linked one? Running simple commands pages to disk and I just know it's ext2fs.static being brought in and out of secondary storage. Unless someone tells me how to prove otherwise. :) I have the same problem some other fellow reported but it doesn't seem to have been answered yet, so I'll reiterate. I'd like to "mount" some Linux partitions but if I make devices for them, trying to ls -l /dev will freeze on the devices I just created. What gives? The system's memory management seems degenerative. Either that, or some servers are leaking memory. (My system becomes unusable after 15+ hours of uptime). What can I do to pinpoint a leaky process outside of looking at the mem usage in 'ps' ? Also, what the heck are the processes ps reports as '-' ? Their "pids" are 2 and 3. Last question. It takes a few minutes and failed attempts for pfinet to finally start handling packets properly. On a fresh boot, if I try to ping something outside of the local net, it doesn't appear to send any packets. I usually have to ping the ip address held by pfinet, then a machine on the local network, the gateway, and then I can finally reach something outside. Is this a known problem? Thanks a lot. I hope the investment you make in answering my questions now can be returned some day. :) /* ---------- Michael Bacarella( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) | (212) 293-2620 Administration / Development / Support | http://nyct.net/ [ N e w Y o r k C o n n e c t . N E T ] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bringing New York The Internet Service It Deserves! --------- */
