Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?
On 24 August 2010 06:53, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? I've been trying NTFS(-3g). It's been going well, with even occasional Windows thrown in the mix. But it is very slow, mostly, I believe, due to being an userspace implementation. And I do keep backups. With NetBSD through 5.1_RC3, I got unsupported inode size when trying to mount Linux ext2fs partition from NetBSD. I've tested ext2/3 in the past, found it very risky to mix OSs (Linux and FreeBSD only, though). FreeBSD's Ext2 seemed very lacky regarding new FS features. I wouldn't risk it. There is the obvious possibility of using msdos (FAT32); I could run FreeDOS on such a partition as well as using the partition to share data between Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD, and FreeDOS too. Drawback is some problems getting long file names straight, and lack of case sensitivity. But maybe FAT32 is the safest choice? IMHO NTFS should be better, also, NTFS-3G has an (opensource friendly?) company behind it: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD are supposed to be able to read and write NTFS partition, but I see from a very recent thread on this list, subject Re: External HD, that writing to NTFS partition is very dangerous, and I figure that would be also true for NetBSD and Linux, and any other non-MS-Windows-NT-line OS that might have support for NTFS. I haven't seen recent horror stories about NTFS use on Linux, since the userspace/fuse implementations. Haven't had any problemas myself too. Except for a hiccup: one of the implementations (can't remember which) would semi-silently ignore files/paths for which it couldn't parse the charset, that it, it didn't copy the files/dirs, also didn't error, just spit some mumbling in dmesg (this was on Linux also). So beware of your FS charset. As Joshua Isom mentioned, there's also UDF. But IIRC FreeBSD wasn't able to write on it when I checked. Also slow compared to native FSs (same league or worse than the userspace NTFSs). I'd love to go with UDF, if only it had better support/performance. And don't underestimate your backups. -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?
On 24 August 2010 20:48, Gustavo De Nardin gustav...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2010 06:53, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? I've been trying NTFS(-3g). It's been going well, with even occasional Windows thrown in the mix. But it is very slow, mostly, I believe, due to being an userspace implementation. And I do keep backups. I thought I must correct myself: the problem is not exaclt it being slow, but rather using a lot of CPU. On non fast machines, you may easily be bound by the CPU, not I/O. With NetBSD through 5.1_RC3, I got unsupported inode size when trying to mount Linux ext2fs partition from NetBSD. I've tested ext2/3 in the past, found it very risky to mix OSs (Linux and FreeBSD only, though). FreeBSD's Ext2 seemed very lacky regarding new FS features. I wouldn't risk it. There is the obvious possibility of using msdos (FAT32); I could run FreeDOS on such a partition as well as using the partition to share data between Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD, and FreeDOS too. Drawback is some problems getting long file names straight, and lack of case sensitivity. But maybe FAT32 is the safest choice? IMHO NTFS should be better, also, NTFS-3G has an (opensource friendly?) company behind it: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD are supposed to be able to read and write NTFS partition, but I see from a very recent thread on this list, subject Re: External HD, that writing to NTFS partition is very dangerous, and I figure that would be also true for NetBSD and Linux, and any other non-MS-Windows-NT-line OS that might have support for NTFS. I haven't seen recent horror stories about NTFS use on Linux, since the userspace/fuse implementations. Haven't had any problemas myself too. Except for a hiccup: one of the implementations (can't remember which) would semi-silently ignore files/paths for which it couldn't parse the charset, that it, it didn't copy the files/dirs, also didn't error, just spit some mumbling in dmesg (this was on Linux also). So beware of your FS charset. As Joshua Isom mentioned, there's also UDF. But IIRC FreeBSD wasn't able to write on it when I checked. Also slow compared to native FSs (same league or worse than the userspace NTFSs). I'd love to go with UDF, if only it had better support/performance. And don't underestimate your backups. -- (nil) -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Crontab for different ime zones
2009/5/24 GT catch@marketmentat.com: Late entry to this thread, but... I thought I had found an answer to this; at present I think I might have been mistaken. My crontab has about a dozen jobs that need to run in TZ=America/New_York, and another dozen that ideally want TZ=Australia/Sydney... the server default is America/Chicago. [snip] TZ=Australia/Sydney * 13 * * * date /home/mysite/public_html/tmp/log.txt 21 cron will NOT run the script... I bet it will wait until 13:00 CHICAGO time. I have a feeling that I am missing something relatively simple - at which point my dream of a super-cron will be realised and the stupidity of DST can be ignored (as it ought to be... ). I also bet that someone else has worked this out already, somewhere in the internets tubes... but i have been unable to find it. I don't think the regular cron works like that. Check out ports/sysutils/fcron (man 5 fcrontab .. OPTIONS .. timezone ..). -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ssh-copy-id
On 13/07/07, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since FreeBSD does not have ssh-copy-id as part of the OpenSSH package, what is the best way to copy a public key to an account on another host? Some Linuxes (Debian and Ubuntu) have a ssh-copy-id script for this in their OpenSSH packages. Well dunno about best way, but I used to do something like this..: ssh $remote 'mkdir -m 600 .ssh cat - .ssh/authorized_keys' ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub But of course ssh-copy-id is much smarter. -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gconcat on existing filesystem
Hello. Is it expected that 'gconcat create ...' on an existing device with populated filesystem keeps all existing data? That is, is it expected behavior that something like 'umount /dev/ad0s3', 'gconcat create data /dev/ad0s3', 'mount /dev/concat/data /mnt' works, or is it just luck? -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD?
Hello. On 07/02/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD system (userland, including all third party programs) on top of the Linux kernel. There's a debian project to do this, but it's not likely anything that will be merged into FreeBSD (let alone available as a port). It is my understanding that the Debian project is the opposite (running GNU/Linux userland on top of a FreeBSD kernel) of what he asked: http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/. -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS service with a SQL backend
On 20/07/05, Bruno Gallant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked around the ports to find powerdns, but I don't know if it's good or not. There is also dns/bind9-dlz (http://bind-dlz.sourceforge.net/). Supports many database backends. (I never used it, though.) Is there a port or something already available that can convert DNS data stored in sql into the proper format for BIND, or another software with all included? Don't you mean the other way (BIND - SQL)? -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why CDROM operations cause system to be slow and HD operations do not
On 13/07/05, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I read something from CDROM my system gets visibly slow and HD reads/writes do not have the same effect. By default: hw.ata.ata_dma: 1--- affects HD hw.ata.atapi_dma: 0 --- affects CD So: # atacontrol mode 0 Master = UDMA100 --- HD Slave = BIOSPIO # atacontrol mode 1 Master = BIOSPIO --- CD Slave = PIO4 Put 'hw.ata.atapi_dma=1' in /boot/loader.conf to get the CDROM using DMA on the next boot; use atacontrol to turn DMA mode at runtime. -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH and gigabit NICs
On 08/07/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately there seems to be no way to turn off the encryption for SSH, which would be the easiest test. Well, looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/cipher.c, there is a none in struct Cipher. But specifying 'none' in Ciphers in sshd_config, I get Bad SSH2 cipher spec 'none'. trying to start sshd. Does anyone know if/how the none Cipher is really available? I need ssh only for authentication when transfering backups, and encryption makes a difference in transfer speed on slow machines... -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH and gigabit NICs
On 07/07/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a clue what might be going on? Dunno, but you might take a look at /usr/ports/security/hpn-ssh/: --- pkg-descr --- High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center hpn-ssh is a version of OpenSSH modified to support high-performance bulk transfers (such as with scp or rsync). These modifications are required because: SCP and the underlying SSH protocol is network performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. These buffers often end up acting as a brake on the network throughput of SCP especially on long and wide paths. Modifying the ssh code to allow the flow control buffers to be defined at run time eliminates this bottleneck. WWW: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using unix mail with maildir format
On 04/07/05, Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mave a look at the nail port mail/nail It can/does have a mail type interface and reads maildir. Thanks, that's the MUA I was looking for for a long while. :] -- (nil) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pine
2005/5/19, Charles Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is a good alternative to Pine? It would seem it is nolonger available for freebsd? There's Cone (/usr/ports/mail/cone/). I found it similar to Pine. Much easier to use than Mutt. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?
Hi. 2005/4/26, edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE. So, haven't you tried Kpdf from KDE 3.4? It's the best X-windows PDF reader I've used. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:47:41 +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any issues in booting FreeBSD using NTLDR? My machine has Windows XP, Fedora Core 3, and FreeBSD-5.3, and while I know I can use GRUB to boot FreeBSD, I want to try booting it using NTLDR. Just for kicks -- its something I haven't tried so far. :)) I recommend using BootPart: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm. -- (null) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot up notification
Jim Pazarena wrote: I would like one of my servers to send me an email when it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this. Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which can do this? You could set up a cronjob to run at '@reboot': $ crontab -l @reboot echo | mail -s The eagle has landed root See crontab(5). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
