Re: rev 1.61 of /sys/netinet/in.c breaks ISDN

2001-12-10 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:44:47PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Ruslan Ermilov wrote: You need to configure /some/ interface address for the remote end anyway, and it must not clash with any other routing table entry, since ifconfig ... up always adds an entry for the remote IP

Re: Dangerously Decidated yet again (was : cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
Still, it's my opinion that these BIOSes are simply broken: Joerg's personal opinion can go take a hike. The reality of the situation is that this table is required, and we're going to put it there. The reality of the situation is far from being clear. The only thing I can see is

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Peter Wemm wrote: No, it isn't ignored, BIOS'es know that fdisk partitions end on cylinder boundaries, and therefore can intuit what the expected geometry is for the disk in question. And you call that a design? I call it a poor hack, nothing else. The restriction to whatever the BIOS

Re: Dangerously Decidated yet again (was : cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 0:17:14 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Still, it's my opinion that these BIOSes are simply broken: Joerg's personal opinion can go take a hike. The reality of the situation is that this table is required, and we're going to put it there. The reality of the

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Re: stable-current busted

2001-12-10 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:08:32PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Mathieu Arnold wrote: Warner Losh wrote: 4.4-r - current build is very broken right now. I'll investigate and fix. last time I did it, I had a problem with install, adding LDFLAGS+= -static to

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Ah, the thread which would not die... 8^). Joerg Wunsch wrote: /The/ major advantage of DD mode was that all BIOSes (so far :) at least agree on how to access block 0 and the adjacent blocks, so starting our own system there makes those disks portable. I guarantee you that there are a number

Re: Dangerously Decidated yet again (was : cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Greg Lehey wrote: What is it about this particular topic brings out such irrational emotions in you and others? Everyone who has been around for any length of time has been bitten on the arse by it at one time or another, I think. I remember Alfred made a Lapbrick out of a system a while

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Peter Wemm wrote: Can you please clarify for me what specifically you do not like.. Is it: - the cost of 32K of disk space on an average disk these days? (and if so, is reducing that to one sector instead of 62 sufficient?) The idea of a geometry that does not even remotely resembles

Re: stable-current busted

2001-12-10 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:50:50AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:08:32PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Mathieu Arnold wrote: Warner Losh wrote: 4.4-r - current build is very broken right now. I'll investigate and fix. last time I did it, I had a

-CURRENT often panices when exiting from X server to VESA_800x600 console

2001-12-10 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, My -CURRENT box often panices when exiting from X server to console running in VESA_800x600 mode. I was observing this weird behaviour for quite some time now. Also I've noted that the chances of system going down is directly related to the presence of disk activity during the mode change -

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Wemm writes : The problem is, that you **are** using fdisk tables, you have no choice. DD mode included a *broken* fdisk table that specified an illegal geometry. ... This is why it is called dangerous. BTW, I presume you are aware of the way sysinstall

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panic upon manual swapon(8)

2001-12-10 Thread Mikhail Teterin
I typicly run without any swap space configured -- 320Mb of RAM is usually fine. However, after noticing a message get swap space failed (or similar) in the nightly report, I tried to tell my Nov 5 -current to swapon /dev/da0b I used to do this with full impunity in the past,

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Terry Lambert wrote: Joerg Wunsch wrote: /The/ major advantage of DD mode was that all BIOSes (so far :) at least agree on how to access block 0 and the adjacent blocks, so starting our own system there makes those disks portable. I guarantee you that there are a number of

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Joerg Wunsch wrote: I guarantee you that there are a number of controllers which have different ideas of how to do soft sector sparing _at the controller level_ rather than at the drive level. We have dropped support for ESDI controllers long since. :-) Seriously, all the disks we are

Re: stable-current busted

2001-12-10 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:08:32PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Mathieu Arnold wrote: Warner Losh wrote: 4.4-r - current build is very broken right now. I'll investigate and fix. last time I did it, I had a problem with install, adding LDFLAGS+= -static to

NULLFS panic in -CURRENT

2001-12-10 Thread Alexander N. Kabaev
My -CURRENT box got this panic tonight. Apparently, null_inactive tries to vput NULL lowervp vnode, but how lowervp has managed to become NULL is not immediately clear for me :( I have crash dump available, if anyone is interested. #0 dumpsys () at ../../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:492 #1

Re: Dangerously Decidated yet again (was : cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
What is it about this particular topic brings out such irrational emotions in you and others? Because you define as irrational those opinions that don't agree with your own. I don't consider my stance irrational at all, and I find your leaps past logic and commonsense quite irrational in

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
Joerg Wunsch wrote: I guarantee you that there are a number of controllers which have different ideas of how to do soft sector sparing _at the controller level_ rather than at the drive level. We have dropped support for ESDI controllers long since. :-) Seriously, all the

panic: blockable sleep lock (sleep mutex) with today's -CURRENT

2001-12-10 Thread David Wolfskill
I managed to get a panic on my (SMP) build machine on the first reboot after building -CURRENT with sources updated from cvsup13 at around 4:22 AM US/Pacific (8 hrs. west of GMT/UTC) today. (My laptop is still working on the build from the same sources; it is nearing the end of the buildworld

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Spindle sync is an anachronism these days; asynchronous behaviour :(write-behind in particular) is all the rage. You'd be hard-pressed to :find drives that even support it anymore. Woa! Say what? I think you are totally incorrect here Mike. Spindle sync is not an anachronism. You

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:13:20AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Spindle sync is an anachronism these days; asynchronous behaviour :(write-behind in particular) is all the rage. You'd be hard-pressed to :find drives that even support it anymore. Woa! Say what? I think you are

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
: performance without it - for reading OR writing. It doesn't matter : so much for RAID{1,10}, but it matters a whole lot for something like : RAID-5 where the difference between a spindle-synced read or write : and a non-spindle-synched read or write can be upwards of 35%. :

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:For RAID3 that is true. For the other ones... : : performance without it - for reading OR writing. It doesn't matter : so much for RAID{1,10}, but it matters a whole lot for something like : RAID-5 where the difference between a spindle-synced read or write : and a

Re: panic: blockable sleep lock (sleep mutex) with today's -CURRENT

2001-12-10 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:02:24 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I managed to get a panic on my (SMP) build machine on the first reboot after building -CURRENT Well, the laptop finshed building booting from (nearly) the same sources, so I suspect either hardware or an

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Well, for reads a non-stripe-crossing op would still work reasonably : well. But for writes less then full-stripe operations without : spindle sync are going to be terrible due to the read-before-write : requirement (to calculate parity). The disk cache is useless in that :

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 09-Dec-01 Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Peter Wemm wrote: There shouldn't *be* bootblocks on non-boot disks. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da$n count=1 Dont use disklabel -B -rw da$n auto. Use disklabel -rw da$n auto. All my disks have bootblocks and (spare) boot partitions. All the

[SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Hiten Pandya
hi all, this is a wild idea...suggestion... i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... as for JFS, it is developed by IBM for Linux and is licensed under GPL, so we could put this into src/gnu/ It is used on IBM MainFrames and Enterprise

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:01:53PM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: hi all, this is a wild idea...suggestion... i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... Hi Hiten, Search the mail list archives (from www.freebsd.org) for JFS and XFS. You'll

Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Jackie 'business-first' Cook
There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of those things. The command is, as you could have guessed from the subject, xags(1) aka /usr/bin/xargs. It is buggy and cluttered piece of

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Peter Wemm
Ian Dowse wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Wemm writ es : The problem is, that you **are** using fdisk tables, you have no choice. DD mode included a *broken* fdisk table that specified an illegal geometry. ... This is why it is called dangerous. BTW, I presume you are

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing arbitrary length argument list passing right in the operating system. Nice proposal, where's the diff? Yours sincerly, Jackie

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing arbitrary length argument list passing right in the operating system. Nice proposal,

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Julian Elischer
ummm, what are my scripts that use it going to use instead? it seems to work fine, and it's pretty much an expected base utility. Removing it is going to cause quite a bit of confusion. On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: There are days when people get tired with the

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Emiel Kollof
* Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ummm, what are my scripts that use it going to use instead? it seems to work fine, and it's pretty much an expected base utility. Removing it is going to cause quite a bit of confusion. I have to concurr here. Who knows what's going to break when

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Gordon Tetlow
If this isn't a troll, I don't know what is On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of those things. The command is,

RE: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-Dec-01 Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of those things. The command is, as you could have guessed from the subject, xags(1) aka

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:55:36PM +0100, Emiel Kollof wrote: * Julian Elischer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ummm, what are my scripts that use it going to use instead? it seems to work fine, and it's pretty much an expected base utility. Removing it is going to cause quite a bit of

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Brian F. Feldman
Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing arbitrary length argument list passing

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Andrea Campi
Either this is a troll, or it's an attempt at the very first layer 8 (between chair and keyboard) exploit: Version #2 - for enterprise (ie. business) users, who are searching for their way in life (overwhelming majority) (local solution, still): find / -print0 | grep -v

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Emiel Kollof
* Jordan Hubbard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My, is it April 1st already? How quickly time flies! December feels like it was just yesterday! You can say that again... I missed my birthday and the new-years party too. I'm such a geek... :-) Cheers, Emiel -- No man is an island, but some of

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Jordan Hubbard
My, is it April 1st already? How quickly time flies! December feels like it was just yesterday! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-Dec-01 Brian F. Feldman wrote: Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing

Re: *HEADS UP!* This means you!

2001-12-10 Thread Mark Murray
I for one will miss it. I used libexec/telnetd extensively during ia64 bootstrap (and still use it) before we had the crypto stuff going. This was all built by hand, 'make world' still isn't an option there. I also use usr.bin/telnet on other systems where SRA is constantly getting in my

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long-short syndrome in first message. On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 14:01:53 -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: hi all, this is a wild idea...suggestion... i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS (Journaled File

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 10:56:17 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 17:39:35 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: * Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:02] wrote: hi all, this is a wild idea...suggestion... i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 17:47:11 -0500, Anthony Schneider wrote: perhaps there could be an upgrade to offer options SOFTERUPDATES as an equal-but-different alternative to jfs? And what would that do? SOFTERUPDATES includes a switch to

RAID performance (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 10:30:04 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: performance without it - for reading OR writing. It doesn't matter so much for RAID{1,10}, but it matters a whole lot for something like RAID-5 where the difference between a spindle-synced read or write

Dangerously Dedicated (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 9 December 2001 at 16:59:28 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Joerg Wunsch wrote: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to never hear those invalid, unuseful, misleading opinions from you again. ETOOMANYATTRIBUTES? :-) As long as you keep the feature of DD mode intact, i won't

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Anthony Schneider
On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 17:47:11 -0500, Anthony Schneider wrote: I'm no expert on journaled filesystems, but isn't the freebsd softupdates option similar? No, at least not from a technical standpoint. From a user standpoint, they both try to make things faster and more reliable,

Re: RAID performance (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:06:33AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 10:30:04 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: performance without it - for reading OR writing. It doesn't matter so much for RAID{1,10}, but it matters a whole lot for something like RAID-5

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brian F. Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 17:11] wrote: Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1),

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:49:28AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: :For RAID3 that is true. For the other ones... : : performance without it - for reading OR writing. It doesn't matter : so much for RAID{1,10}, but it matters a whole lot for something like : RAID-5 where the

Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/reboot boot_i386.8 src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c src/sys/kern tty_cons.c src/sys/sys cons.h reboot.h

2001-12-10 Thread Nickolay Dudorov
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guido van Rooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: guido 2001/12/10 12:02:22 PST Modified files: sbin/reboot boot_i386.8 sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c sys/i386/i386autoconf.c sys/kern tty_cons.c sys/sys

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: [ ... plot to murder innocent xargs command ... ] Please don't. I use this on a daily basis. It is a much faster way to use find than exec, since it doesn't require a billion instances of grep. As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1),

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Hiten Pandya wrote: i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... Not unless you have plans. When I was an IBM employee, they would not change the license, and so it's impossible to ship a CDROM where it's the boot FS, or boxes on which it is the

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Peter Wemm wrote: Yes, that is much safer, however there are certain bioses that have interesting quirks that the MBR has to work around. The problem when overlapping mbr and boot1 into the same block is that we no longer have the space to do that. boot1.s has got *3* bytes free. Too

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 22:45:22 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Hiten Pandya wrote: i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... Not unless you have plans. When I was an IBM employee, they would not change the license, and so it's

Re: Dangerously dedicated yet again (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
: IBM DTLA drives are known to rotate fast enough near the spindle : that the sustained write speed exceeds the ability of the controller : electronics to keep up, and results in crap being written to disk. I would adssume it actually the tracks FURTHEREST from the spindle..

Re: Dangerously dedicated yet again (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Wouldn't the linear speed be faster closer to the spindle at 7200 RPM : than at the edge? : :The stunning ignorance being displayed in this thread appears to have :reached an all-time low. : :*sigh* Ah, another poor soul who didn't read the first sentence of tuning(7).

Re: Dangerously dedicated yet again (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c)

2001-12-10 Thread Terry Lambert
David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: : IBM DTLA drives are known to rotate fast enough near the spindle : that the sustained write speed exceeds the ability of the controller : electronics to keep up, and results in crap being written to disk. I would adssume it actually the tracks

Re: NCP Broken ?

2001-12-10 Thread Kaltashkin Eugene
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:55:03 -0800 (PST) Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JE: yes ncp and nwfs are broken in -current Hm, and when this be work ? -- Best Regards Kaltashkin Eugene ZHECKA-RIPN To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body