Re: TESTERS WANTED for ATAng preview 2

2003-08-18 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grap the latest from ftp.deepcore.dk/pub/ATAng and apply the diff files to your src tree, remove the contents of sys/dev/ata and extract the ATAng-*tgz file there, then do the usual drill to get a new kernel... Tried to grab this last night,

Re: HEADS UP! ATAng committed

2003-08-26 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ATAng has just been committed. You need to make world after this update as atacontrol etc needs to pick up the changes. Just want to report initial success with this - my smp machine previously would not recognize my offboard pci-based ide devices

Re: nfs tranfers hang in state getblck or nfsread

2003-08-28 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In this configuration I see a lot of nfs server ...: is not responding and nfs server ...: is alive again when I copy large files (e.g. a CD image). All of them happen in the same second. I haven't looked at the state or priority of the cp

Re: nfs tranfers hang in state getblck or nfsread

2003-08-28 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm also seeing a similar problem - I have a cluster of high-volume mailservers delivering mail over nfs to maildirs on a netapp. The cluster was all 4-stable, but I decided to mix a couple of 5.1 boxes in to see how they would do. [...]

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You have hit one of the main issues still to be resolved in GEOM. (I don't know that phk thinks it's a problem to be resolved or a feature to be documented.) In any case, since GEOM was added you can no longer slice or label an active device.

Re: re-fdisk'ing a partition - permission denied?

2003-09-08 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There was, at one point, talk of adding some sort of geom.dont_blame_phk_when_you_shoot_your_ankle_off sysctl to permit this type of access when the user was absolutely sure they knew exactly what kind of dangerous and potentially corrupting

Re: procfs problem

2003-09-29 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JMmap02# strace -p 730 JMstrace: open(/proc/..., ...): No such file or directory JMtrouble opening proc file You must mount procfs. # fstab; proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 The bi-weekly status

Re: procfs problem

2003-09-29 Thread Jason Stone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JMmap02# strace -p 730 JMstrace: open(/proc/..., ...): No such file or directory JMtrouble opening proc file You must mount procfs. # fstab; proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 The