Call for review: crunchide MIPS support from NetBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi everyone, I've ported over the NetBSD crunchide elf32 code which modifies the way symbols are hidden. This allows it to generate crunched binaries for MIPS. The diff is available at - http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/crunchide-mips32-fix-from-netbsd.diff I've ported it to use the ELF

Re: Filesystem wedge, SUJ-related?

2010-08-08 Thread Rene Ladan
On 18-07-2010 15:02, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Gavin Atkinson wrote: Semi-regularly (every two-three days) I'm seeing what appears to be some sort of filesystem wedge. I usually see it initially with web browsers, but it's possible that's only because it's what produces most

Re: glabel force sectorsize patch

2010-08-08 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 14:02, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 8.8.2010 12:30, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 03:57:44AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Hi, In order to help users having 4k sector drives which the system recognizes as 512 byte sector drives, I'm proposing

Re: glabel force sectorsize patch

2010-08-08 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 02:02:17PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: On 8.8.2010 12:30, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: So why do you want to obfuscate glabel with it? For people to start depend on it? Once we start supporting 4kB sectors what do we do with such a change? Remove it and decrease version

Re: glabel force sectorsize patch

2010-08-08 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 02:57:20PM +0200, Marius Nünnerich wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 14:02, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: I'd like to hear comments from the wider audience. In respect with your comment, I will compromise: as 4k sector drives have become available over the counter

Re: glabel force sectorsize patch

2010-08-08 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 21:08, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 8.8.2010 14:57, Marius Nünnerich wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 14:02, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: This mechanism is a band-aid until there's a better way of dealing with 4k drives. I do not like this at all. Even