How to invalidate NFS read cache?

2009-05-08 Thread Konrad Heuer
Hello, sporadically, I observe a strange but serious problem in our large NFS environment. NFS servers are Linux and OS X with StorNext/Xsan cluster filesystems, NFS clients Linux and FreeBSD. NFS client A changes a file, but nfs client B (running on FreeBSD) does still see the old

undetected umass device

2009-05-08 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, this is a: USB to Parallel-ATA bridge(0x0c05), Sunplus Technology Inc.(0x04fc) or in english, a nifty dongle that can be connected to ata/sata disk, but umass fails to detected it fully, and detaches it. any hints? quircks? thanks, danny

Re: undetected umass device

2009-05-08 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Friday 08 May 2009, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, this is a: USB to Parallel-ATA bridge(0x0c05), Sunplus Technology Inc.(0x04fc) or in english, a nifty dongle that can be connected to ata/sata disk, but umass fails to detected it fully, and detaches it. any hints? quircks? thanks,

Re: undetected umass device

2009-05-08 Thread Danny Braniss
On Friday 08 May 2009, Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, this is a: USB to Parallel-ATA bridge(0x0c05), Sunplus Technology Inc.(0x04fc) or in english, a nifty dongle that can be connected to ata/sata disk, but umass fails to detected it fully, and detaches it. any hints? quircks?

fputsock()/fgetsock() replacement

2009-05-08 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, Since the comment in the kernel is: 'Note: fputsock() is deprecated, see comment for fgetsock().' I'm looking for a replacement, on the other hand, this quote: deprecated Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the process of

kthreads and sched_relinquish

2009-05-08 Thread Andrew Brampton
Hi, I'm writing a FreeBSD kernel module and I think I really misunderstand something. My module spawns a thread, which should be running while the module is loaded. The thread does some work and then should yield for other threads. However, if there are no other threads waiting, then I would like

Re: kthreads and sched_relinquish

2009-05-08 Thread Ryan Stone
Your kernel thread likely has a higher priority than userspace threads. Ryan Stone ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: fdescfs brokenness

2009-05-08 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 08:07:46PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: Colin Percival recently pointed out some issues with tar and fdescfs. Part of the problem here is tar; I need to rethink some of the traversal logic. But fdescfs is really wonky: * This is a nit, but: ls /dev/fd/18 should

Re: bootstrapping gnat GCC on amd64

2009-05-08 Thread xorquewasp
Just an update. Finally managed to get the i386 - amd64 compiler to compile gcc 4.4.0. It took a few Makefile patches as for some reason, cross compilation breaks gnatmake. About to try to get the amd64 compiler to compile itself and run the test suite. Added a system-freebsd_x86_64.ads profile

Re: concurrent sysctl implementation

2009-05-08 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi, * vasanth raonaik vasanth.raon...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Jt, I am a newbee in this alias. I am having a very basic question. It would be really good if you could give me some of this information. Could you please elaborate on what is the current architecture of sysctl implementation

Re: fdescfs brokenness

2009-05-08 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:12:03PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 08:07:46PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: Colin Percival recently pointed out some issues with tar and fdescfs. Part of the problem here is tar; I need to rethink some of the traversal logic. But

Re: concurrent sysctl implementation

2009-05-08 Thread jt
Ed, Thanks :) I'll be implementing this as discussed over the next few months thanks for the technical detail I've been extremely busy with finals. I will write the list with my thoughts within the next week, sorry for the delay. =jt On May 8, 2009, at 17:41, Ed Schouten e...@80386.nl