httpfs

2001-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs works by handing off everything to a userland daemon which handles the actual transaction

Re: httpfs

2001-03-10 Thread Gordon Tetlow
I don't have a link handy, but if you search for it, I'm sure it's out there. Linux had something like this called PerlFS which was much more generic. The general gist of it was you could use it to make fs's of things like http and ftp. It was extendable (I think) so you could make your own fs

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Peter Wemm
Chen Zhao wrote: \- Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated on /-[Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:02:22PM -0800]: NDA's in this particular space serve a limited set of purposes: - They constitute engineering damage control; witness Realtek's unhappiness at Bill's honest commentary on

Problem with K6-2/500 CPU

2001-03-10 Thread Dmitry Sivachenko
Hello! I use recent FreeBSD-4-STABLE. When I changed my processor from Intel Pentium 200 MMX to AMD K6-2 500, I can neither recompile operating system nor compile other programs. From kernel compilation: cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Chen Zhao
\- Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated on /- [Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:49:12AM -0800]: I have the NDA'ed docs for the Intel gig and fxp cards. After Intel's spectacular efforts to bury Johnathan Lemon's driver for their gig card (that outperformed the Intel Linux driver by something like

Re: Problem with K6-2/500 CPU

2001-03-10 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:43:00PM +0300, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote: Smells like dodgy hardware, especially memory. You are not overclocking are you? There are no problems with K6-2 FreeBSD, I ran it on a K6-2 @400 very successfully (now have an Athlon box). Wilko Hello! I use recent

Re: httpfs

2001-03-10 Thread Mathew KANNER
On Mar 10, Kris Kennaway wrote: A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs works by handing off everything to a userland daemon

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chen Zhao writes: What is the next most (unofficially of course :) recommended NIC in terms of driver stability, card reliability and performance, and driver efficiency (low overhead, etc.), ignoring for the moment actual NIC price, and just judging from a technical

context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Michael Lucas
Hello, I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has convinced me to ask. In an article O'Reilly published yesterday, I stated (per the Handbook) that context diffs were the correct way to submit patches with

Re: Getting started (hacking that is)

2001-03-10 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: "Avery Fay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Getting started (hacking that is) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:02:49 -0500 I am interested in contributing code to the FreeBSD project, specifically the kernel but I am not opposed to helping out with user applications if they are in dire need of

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Lucas writes: Hello, I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has convinced me to ask. In an article O'Reilly published yesterday, I stated (per the Handbook) that context

Re: httpfs

2001-03-10 Thread Robert Watson
I need not remind you that file systems front-ending onto random protocols are a bad idea for a huge number of reasons :-). That said, you might take a look at Intermezzo, which someone has already refered to indirectly in response to your e-mail -- Intermezzo is a file system for Linux (based

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Romain Kang
As a newcomer to this, I'm a little confused. There's a slew of datasheets at Intel's web site http://www.intel.com/design/network/datashts/index.htm that don't seem to require NDA. (Just this week, I used the 82559 docs to implement a polled version of if_fxp). If the components in

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010310 10:37] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Lucas writes: Hello, I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has convinced me to ask. In an article

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: As a newcomer to this, I'm a little confused. There's a slew of datasheets at Intel's web site http://www.intel.com/design/network/datashts/index.htm that don't seem to require NDA. (Just this week, I used the 82559

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Michael Lucas wrote: Hello, I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has convinced me to ask. In an article O'Reilly published yesterday, I stated (per the Handbook) that context diffs were the

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Dennis
At 01:11 AM 03/10/2001, Bill Paul wrote: I think its been mentioned several times in this and other threads that intel has a driver for LINUX that is effective documentation on the board, and the code is public (although you may have to stick an intel copyright in the code also).

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Dennis
The tulip cards can be quirky, if nothing else. I used to like the VIA Rhine cards, because they were cheap, and I had no problems with them... until suddenly they started crashing at 100Mbps. I don't know why; I ran some of them under very heavy loads at 100Mbps. I can't tell whether it was

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Jordan Hubbard
The handbook is wrong. Unidiffs are a far more advanced lifeform than context diffs. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Dennis
At 01:49 PM 03/10/2001, Romain Kang wrote: As a newcomer to this, I'm a little confused. There's a slew of datasheets at Intel's web site http://www.intel.com/design/network/datashts/index.htm that don't seem to require NDA. (Just this week, I used the 82559 docs to implement a polled

Re[2]: Problem with K6-2/500 CPU

2001-03-10 Thread
Hello Wilko, Saturday, March 10, 2001, 7:14:08 PM, you wrote: WB On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:43:00PM +0300, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote: WB Smells like dodgy hardware, especially memory. You are not WB overclocking are you? WB There are no problems with K6-2 FreeBSD, I ran it on a K6-2 @400 WB

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Tim
Is there a point of contact at Intel that we could all send e-mail to or even send a formal letter? I am sure my buying 50 or so boards a year isn't going to make a dent at Intel's bottom line, but considering how their stock is doing lately and if we all contribute... Thanks, Tim To

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. Any chance this can be done through an async event rather than by polling? -- Justin To Unsubscribe:

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Dennis
At 03:37 PM 03/10/2001, Tim wrote: Is there a point of contact at Intel that we could all send e-mail to or even send a formal letter? I am sure my buying 50 or so boards a year isn't going to make a dent at Intel's bottom line, but considering how their stock is doing lately and if we all

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Unified diffs are also context diffs. Context diffs are named such because they contain undisturbed context around the changed lines, unlike normal diffs. Erm, no. :) Both context and unidiffs show surrounding context, it's simply the meta-data format which changes. In the case of

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
My point of (failed) contact last April was a Gary @ 503 264 7243 (I was informed by Theo that he was "Intel's 'Open Source' representative) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jordan Hubbard writes: Unified diffs are also context diffs. Context diffs are named such because they contain undisturbed context around the changed lines, unlike normal diffs. Erm, no. :) Both context and unidiffs show surrounding context, it's simply the

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Dennis
At 03:42 PM 03/10/2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. Any chance this can be done through an async event rather

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Paul
Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. Any chance this can be done through an async event rather than by polling? If there was, I would

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. Any chance this can be done through an async event rather than by polling? If there was, I would

Re: Problem with K6-2/500 CPU

2001-03-10 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:21:59PM +0300, Dmitrij Sivacenko wrote: WB Smells like dodgy hardware, especially memory. You are not WB overclocking are you? WB There are no problems with K6-2 FreeBSD, I ran it on a K6-2 @400 WB very successfully (now have an Athlon box). WB Wilko I

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Paul
Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. Any chance this can be done through an async event rather than by polling? If there was, I

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-03-10 Thread Kris Kirby
On 18 Jan 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Fun Things To Do With Disks #9,187: Take a powered-up disk out of a hot-swap storage array and experiment with the gyro effect while the disk spins down in your hands. Higher RPMs give better results; try one of the 'cudas from that E10K in the

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 10-Mar-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: The handbook is wrong. Unidiffs are a far more advanced lifeform than context diffs. :) - Jordan As phk explained, a unified diff is a context diff. :) If many changed lines are interleaved with unchanged lines, I find that a context diff is far easier

Re: Intel PRO/100+ PCI problem

2001-03-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Richard Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Rafael Tonin wrote: Anyone knows how to get this card to work? Go into your BIOS config and turn off the option for "PLUG PLAY OS". It should be with the PCI menu. No, turn "PLUG PLAY OS" *on* and add 'options PNPBIOS' to your

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jordan Hubbard writes: Both context and unidiffs show surrounding context, it's simply the meta-data format which changes. [...] I repeat, with added emphasis: [...] You're both either slightly off, or not expressing

[OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread David Miller
Apologies for the off topic nature of the question... I see FC drives for sale unbelievably cheap in a number of places. megahaus.com has 36 GB IBM FC drives for $219, pricewatch has 9 GB and 18 GB drives from seagate and IBM for under $100. The issue, of course, is that one needs a low cost

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Dan Feldman
www.cinonic.com, I think. - dan feldman student, garfield high school, seattle On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, David Miller wrote: Apologies for the off topic nature of the question... I see FC drives for sale unbelievably cheap in a number of places. megahaus.com has 36 GB IBM FC drives for

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Dan Feldman
Sorry to continue more OT stuff, but: What FC host adapters are working well in FreeBSD? I just found an Adaptec model used for very cheap. It's actually possible that Fiber Channel could be cheaper than Ultra160 if you build your own enclosure with Cinonic cards, buy clearance 1 GHz drives,

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Lucas writes: : Is the Handbook correct, or are unified diffs preferred? I'll be : happy to fix my article and submit a PR to correct the Handbook if : this is the case. diff -c or diff -u is 1000% better than palin diff. That's what is ment by "context" in

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Lemon writes: : You can't find the answers to any of these in the datasheets. The : datasheets may provide a tiny bit of information, and hint at how things : actually operate, but there is not sufficient information to develop a : driver from them. Their

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Peter Seebach
Okay, maybe I'm missing something... 1. Has anyone tried one of these new Intel parts with BSD/OS? 2. Do any of the people involved with this have source licenses to BSD/OS? I am quite sure BSDi hasn't been swamped with "help, my Intel card isn't working" requests. I'm also quite sure that

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
Okay, maybe I'm missing something... 1. Has anyone tried one of these new Intel parts with BSD/OS? 2. Do any of the people involved with this have source licenses to BSD/OS? I am quite sure BSDi hasn't been swamped with "help, my Intel card isn't working" requests. I'm also quite sure

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith writes: The FreeBSD project already has a BSD/OS source distribution, however the required information is NOT THERE. Ok? Okay. I just figured I'd ask, since it's information I have. Hmm. Out of idle curiousity, has the NIH syndrome died down enough

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
Out of idle curiousity, has the NIH syndrome died down enough that it might hypothetically be possible for the three major *BSD camps to cooperate on this kind of thing? No, I'm afraid it hasn't. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Joseph Scott
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Michael Lucas wrote: Hello, I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has convinced me to ask. In an article O'Reilly published yesterday, I stated (per the Handbook) that context

Re: Kernel area libmish stuff

2001-03-10 Thread Farooq Mela
Jordan DeLong wrote: I was thinking of just getting a sintable array and making a few simple functions, so the whole of libm doesn't need to be statically linked into the module (from my understanding, once loaded, this module wont ever get paged out, and thus it'd be _bad_ for it to be big).

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-10 Thread Wes Peters
Tim wrote: Is there a point of contact at Intel that we could all send e-mail to or even send a formal letter? I am sure my buying 50 or so boards a year isn't going to make a dent at Intel's bottom line, but considering how their stock is doing lately and if we all contribute... Craig

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
The JMR 4-bay is about as cheap as you'll find as far as I know. The 2K$ plus is for the 10 slot. There might be something cheaper at http://www.scsistuff.com. Yes. Pricey. The only other thing is to find (and I don't know a source) of paddlebard adapters with the 40-pin SCA connector, a +5/+12

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Dan Feldman wrote: Sorry to continue more OT stuff, but: What FC host adapters are working well in FreeBSD? I just found an Adaptec model used for very cheap. It's actually possible that Fiber Channel could be cheaper than Ultra160 if you build your own enclosure