possible bug in/around dscheck()?

2001-05-11 Thread Sitaram Iyer
Hi, I was mirroring some disks (happily ignoring badblocks), using rsh source_machine dd if=/dev/ad0 bs=1MB | dd of=/dev/ad0 bs=1MB with FreeBSD-4.3-release running both machines. This sometimes (disastrously) aborts when a partition boundary is crossed. Sure enough, dscheck() invoked from

name cache size

2000-07-02 Thread Sitaram Iyer
). thanks in advance, (should this have gone to -questions instead? wasn't sure..) -- Sitaram Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/ Phone: (off) 713-348-2265 (rice xBANK), (home) 713-799-8980 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: name cache size

2000-07-02 Thread Sitaram Iyer
Thus, Alfred Perlstein wrote... how can I increase the size of freebsd's name cache? sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1 thanks, that worked. -- Sitaram Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/ Phone: (off) 713-348-2265 (rice xBANK), (home) 713-799-8980 To Unsubscribe: send

ATA-disk question

2000-03-11 Thread Sitaram Iyer
e taken away from drive queues as soon as they're put there. Hoping for enlightenment, -- Sitaram Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/ Phone (off) 713-348-2265 (rice xBANK) (home) 713-383-6279 (713-EVE-MARY), and if that *keeps ringing*, then 713-799-8