seeking and seekability (was: tar tfv /dev/cd0 speedup patch)

2010-02-19 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 19.02.2010, 06:03 Uhr, schrieb Tim Kientzle kient...@freebsd.org: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:34:59PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: Ok here is a new version of the patch with these things fixed and the Linux case added: (Linux case not tested yet, and yes I did this

Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load (igb issue?)

2010-02-19 Thread Jack Vogel
This thread is confusing, first he says its an igb problem, then you offer an em patch :) I have an important rev of igb that I am about ready to release, anyone that wishes to test against a problem they have would be welcome to have early access, just let me know. I am not sure about this

mptable(1) typo

2010-02-19 Thread Jakub Lach
Hello. There's small typo in mptable output - Bus Heirarchy from mptable.c tableEntry extendedtableEntryTypes[] = { { 128, 20, System Address Space }, { 129, 8, Bus Heirarchy }, { 130, 8, Compatibility Bus Address } }; -best regards, Jakub Lach -- View this message in

Re: mptable(1) typo

2010-02-19 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 19 February 2010 5:46:50 am Jakub Lach wrote: Hello. There's small typo in mptable output - Bus Heirarchy from mptable.c tableEntry extendedtableEntryTypes[] = { { 128, 20, System Address Space }, { 129, 8, Bus Heirarchy }, { 130, 8, Compatibility Bus

GEOM_ULZMA

2010-02-19 Thread Alexandr Rybalko
Hi, I wrote a module GEOM_ULZMA (such as GEOM_UZIP, but compression with lzma), in connection with this is an issue best left lzma code in the file geom_ulzma.c or store lzma library separately. If separately, then where better? Maybe in future make lzma and gzip library kernel interface for

Re: GEOM_ULZMA

2010-02-19 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/19/10 15:36, Alexandr Rybalko wrote: Hi, I wrote a module GEOM_ULZMA (such as GEOM_UZIP, but compression with lzma), in connection with this is an issue best left lzma One of the (relatively) unexpected problems with such block-level compression is its efficienty - since you need to

Anyone updating the Project Ideas page?

2010-02-19 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hello; I've sent some private messages before trying to get some updates to the Project ideas page http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ideas.html For example, thinking of the next SoC: Analyze NetBSD's ext2fs regarding valuable improvements - This was done as GSoC project. Nothing there to

ntpd hangs under FBSD 8

2010-02-19 Thread Peter Steele
I posted this originally on the -questions list but did not make any headway. We have an application where the user can change the date/time via a GUI. One of the options the user has is to specify that the time is to be synced using ntp. Our coding worked fine under BSD 7 but since we've moved

Re: Sudden mbuf demand increase and shortage under the load (igb issue?)

2010-02-19 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:43:20PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: This thread is confusing, first he says its an igb problem, then you offer an em patch :) I have an important rev of igb that I am about ready to release, anyone that wishes to test against a problem they have would be welcome to

Re: linprocfs proc/pid/environ patch list question

2010-02-19 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
2010/2/18 Kostik Belousov kostik...@gmail.com: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:48:35PM +0100, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Kostik Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: Hi, I have a small patch

Re: tar tfv /dev/cd0 speedup patch

2010-02-19 Thread Juergen Lock
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:12:24PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Juergen Lock n...@jelal.kn-bremen.de wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:38:30PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: Juergen Lock wrote:  ...  since bsdtar/libarchive know iso9660 I just did the

Re: tar tfv /dev/cd0 speedup patch

2010-02-19 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:03:33PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:34:59PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: Ok here is a new version of the patch with these things fixed and the Linux case added: (Linux case not tested yet, and yes I did this on

Re: GEOM_ULZMA

2010-02-19 Thread Alex RAY
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:36:40 +0100 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 02/19/10 15:36, Alexandr Rybalko wrote: Hi, I wrote a module GEOM_ULZMA (such as GEOM_UZIP, but compression with lzma), in connection with this is an issue best left lzma One of the (relatively) unexpected

Re: junior tasks wiki page - please add stuff

2010-02-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:51 PM, R. Tyler Ballance ty...@monkeypox.org wrote: On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, jhell wrote: It would be awesome if for some way the PR database could be tied into this so items in the database could be promoted as junior tasks.  Adding to that, an option in the PR web for

Re: junior tasks wiki page - please add stuff

2010-02-19 Thread R. Tyler Ballance
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, jhell wrote: It would be awesome if for some way the PR database could be tied into this so items in the database could be promoted as junior tasks. Adding to that, an option in the PR web for someone to be able to vote on certain PR's that should be promoted and

Re: tar tfv /dev/cd0 speedup patch

2010-02-19 Thread Tim Kientzle
Juergen, I was looking at your Linux code here and thought the technique of trying lseek(SEEK_END) might work. Unfortunately, it doesn't: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) gives zero for both /dev/sa0 (a tape drive) and /dev/cd0 (an optical drive). Are you sure it works on Linux? Tim P.S. Here's the

Re: tar tfv /dev/cd0 speedup patch

2010-02-19 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Saturday 20 February 2010 12:20 am, Tim Kientzle wrote: Juergen, I was looking at your Linux code here and thought the technique of trying lseek(SEEK_END) might work. Unfortunately, it doesn't: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) gives zero for both /dev/sa0 (a tape drive) and /dev/cd0 (an optical