RE: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-15 Thread Macy, Kip
er 14, 2004 5:38 PM To: Macy, Kip Cc: Danny Braniss; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Peter Blok Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:05:25 -0800 (PST), Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hardware-based iSCSI HBAs solve this by having their own memory a

iSCSI, was Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-15 Thread Danny Braniss
let me start by a local saying: Q- What's a camel A- It's a horse designed by a committee. BTW, the camel is a very efficient piece of equipment. If I would plan a 24/7 life support system I would not use iSCSI. (having to rely on packets traveling the Internet, DOS, etc, is not go

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-14 Thread Kip Macy
> Hardware-based iSCSI HBAs solve this by having their own memory and > TCP stack separate from the OS. Software-only iSCSI initiators such > as linux-iscsi usually just hope it doesn't happen, and that's why I > don't usually recommend software-only iSCSI initiators to anyone. How is that any be

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-14 Thread Scott M. Ferris
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:05:25 -0800 (PST), Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hardware-based iSCSI HBAs solve this by having their own memory and > > TCP stack separate from the OS. Software-only iSCSI initiators such > > as linux-iscsi usually just hope it doesn't happen, and that's why I > >

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-14 Thread Scott M. Ferris
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:02:40 +, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that this isn't different from any sufficiently complex HBA driver, > except that the code that can operate under these conditions is more > complex for iscsi. I don't understand why you think the situation

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-14 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:47:15PM -0600, Scott M. Ferris wrote.. > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:29:19 +0200, Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great!, we seem to be on the same wavelength, im now writing (at about one > > char a minute) the login user program, and somehow - to be discovered -

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-14 Thread Scott M. Ferris
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:29:19 +0200, Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great!, we seem to be on the same wavelength, im now writing (at about one > char a minute) the login user program, and somehow - to be discovered -, the > socket will be passed to the kernel. > my main efford, at the mo

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-13 Thread Danny Braniss
Great!, we seem to be on the same wavelength, im now writing (at about one char a minute) the login user program, and somehow - to be discovered -, the socket will be passed to the kernel. my main efford, at the moment, is a) to &^%$$## understand the RFC (i think they used a scrambler) and b) defi

RE: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Blok
er 12, 2004 9:05 AM To: Peter Blok Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months > Hi Danny, > > Great! I am still in a design proof-of-concept phase, but I appreciate your > help. I'll keep you posted. > > Peter hi Peter, re-readi

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-12 Thread Danny Braniss
> Hi Danny, > > Great! I am still in a design proof-of-concept phase, but I appreciate your > help. I'll keep you posted. > > Peter hi Peter, re-reading your email, i realize you are interested in the target side of iSCSI, and me more on the initiator side, so i decided to bite the bulle

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-05 Thread Chris Pressey
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:02:40 -0700 Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I know that I said last month that we were going to stop promising > specific features for the next major release. However, I'd like to > throw out a list of things that would be really nice to have in the > futu

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-03 Thread J.R. Oldroyd
How about some form of streamlined video input support? I realize Linux's v4l model doesn't fit too well here, but what they have done there provides support for all sorts of common video devices, and makes them all available to pretty much any program that wants video input. FreeBSD is far behin

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-03 Thread jmab
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:41:53PM +0100, Andre Oppermann typed: :: Data redundancy would require a UFS/FFS redesign. I'm 'only' talking :: about enhancing UFS/FFS but keeping anything ondisk the same (plus :: some more elements). Well, from my point of view, I would see this as some strong geom

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-03 Thread Jose M Rodriguez
El Viernes, 3 de Diciembre de 2004 13:29, Devon H. O'Dell escribió: > Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > El Jueves, 2 de Diciembre de 2004 02:23, Peter Kieser escribió: > >>Scott Long wrote: [ ... ] > > Also, I can remenber, al last, other previous try. Please, use a > > safe path. As a reference, Mandr

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-03 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
Anaconda is also GPLed and also requires a good few changes for most of it to run under FreeBSD. I haven't made any of these changes, but we looked into using Anaconda in DragonFly before we started on our own installer, and it would have just been too much work for the deadline we had (our 1.

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-03 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Jose M Rodriguez wrote: El Jueves, 2 de Diciembre de 2004 02:23, Peter Kieser escribió: Scott Long wrote: 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, but the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art. It's fairly good at the simple task that it does, but it's

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-03 Thread Jose M Rodriguez
El Jueves, 2 de Diciembre de 2004 02:23, Peter Kieser escribió: > Scott Long wrote: > > 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, > > but the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art. > > It's fairly good at the simple task that it does, but it's becoming >

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-03 Thread Jose M Rodriguez
El Jueves, 2 de Diciembre de 2004 00:19, Scott Long escribió: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:10:57PM -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote: > >>Another issue I had with the dfly installer was one point I believe > >> needs to be central to any next-gen installer. > >> Internationalisatio

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Scott Long
Peter Wemm wrote: On Wednesday 01 December 2004 05:17 pm, Foxfair Hu wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: All, [] 1. Keyboard multiplexer. We are running into problems with making ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs. Having a virtua

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Wemm
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 05:17 pm, Foxfair Hu wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > All, > > [] > > > 1. Keyboard multiplexer. We are running into problems with making > > ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs. > > Having a v

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Scott Long wrote: Stephan Uphoff wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:41, Andre Oppermann wrote: The holy grail of course is to mount the same filesystem 'rw' on more than one box, preferrably more than two. This requires some more involved synchronization and locking on top of the cache invalidation.

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Stephan Uphoff wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:41, Andre Oppermann wrote: Scott Long wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very powerf

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Scott Long
Stephan Uphoff wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:41, Andre Oppermann wrote: Scott Long wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very powerf

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> >> 4. Journaled filesystem. > > > > The stage of the current implementation is, as I said, read-only. > > Further, it's currently i386 only. > > In theory, it shouldn't be tied to i386, but I never tested it somewhere > else unfortunately. > Got that from the reiserfs port which says it doesn

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:41, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > > 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and > > clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many > > storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very > > powerful.

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:47:36PM +0200, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 15:02:40, scottl wrote about "My project wish-list for > the next 12 months": > > [...] > > 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, but > > th

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 15:02:40, scottl wrote about "My project wish-list for the next 12 months": [...] > 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, but > the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art. It's > fairly good at the

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> 4. Journaled filesystem. While we can debate the merits of speed and > data integrety of journalling vs. softupdates, the simple fact remains > that softupdates still requires a fsck run on recovery, and the > multi-terabyte filesystems that are possible these days make fsck a very > long and u

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:37:59PM -0700, Scott Long wrote.. > Jason C. Wells wrote: > >--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and > >>clustered filesystems that allow data to be

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2004-Dec-02 07:55:30 +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: >On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:44:32 +0530 >"Kamal R. Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I find X windows to be a bit too compute intensive. Maybe something >> like apple's interface would be a good alternative [for those who >> don't need X-wind

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
Andre Oppermann wrote: Sam wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote: Scott Long wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very pow

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Sam wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote: Scott Long wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very powerful. RedHat recently

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Sam
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote: Scott Long wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very powerful. RedHat recently bought Sis

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Andre Oppermann
Scott Long wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very powerful. RedHat recently bought Sistina and re-opened the GFS source code, so

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Adam Maloney
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Brad Knowles wrote: It's interesting that you mention this. I've been giving some thought to how I might be able to dive in and start seriously working on building my UltraSPARC cluster (based on the four U10 clones I have already, plus as many U5s as I can throw into the m

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Danny Braniss
> As far as the iSCSI stuff, I have the Lucent stuff and am trying to use it > as a reference to build an iSCSI target. I have been experimenting a bit. > > The design goal is to have the negotiation stuff running in a user daemon, > while the target data handling is completely in the kernel. I wa

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Garrett Wollman
[Cc list trimmed] < said: > The lack of speed in some apps can be blamed mostly on the toolkits. I'll second that. > GTK+ 1.2 was a speed demon, GTK+ 2.x is a lot slower. And either one is an enormous hog compared to Athena widgets. (This is something of an accomplishment, since people have b

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:38 PM -0800 2004-12-01, Kris Kennaway quoted Jason C. Wells: This sounds very close to OpenAFS. I don't know what distinguishes a SAN from other types of NAS. OpenAFS does everything you mentioned in the above paragraph. OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now. I'd be very intereste

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Scott Long wrote: > 2. New installer. [... sysinstall] is fairly good at the simple > task that it does [ ... ] I'll put my bugmeister-hat on and simply say that query-pr suggests otherwise. I have not spent sufficient time examining each of the PRs to figure out what the b

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > This sounds very close to OpenAFS. I don't know what distinguishes a SAN > from other types of NAS. OpenAFS does everything you mentioned in the > above paragraph. OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now. AFS's consistency model is wholly unsuitable for clustering. -GAWollman

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Jason C. Wells
--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very powerful.

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Wednesday, 1. December 2004 23:14, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > > All, > > > > I know that I said last month that we were going to stop promising > > specific features for the next major release. However, I'd like to > > throw out a list of things that would be really nice to ha

RE: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Blok
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: My project wish-list for the next 12 months All, I know that I said last month that we were going to stop promising specific features for the next major release. However, I'd like to throw out a list of things that would be really nice to have in the future, whe

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes: >All, > >I know that I said last month that we were going to stop promising >specific features for the next major release. However, I'd like to >throw out a list of things that would be really nice to have in the >future, whether its 6.0 or 7.0 or

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Masson
> "Scott" == Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, Scott> 1. Keyboard multiplexer. We are running into problems with Scott> making ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work Scott> with KVMs. Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the Scott> various real keybo

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Ryan Sommers wrote: Scott Long said: 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, but the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art. It's fairly good at the simple task that it does, but it's becoming harder and harder to fix bugs and extend functionality in it

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:44:32 +0530 "Kamal R. Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Please don't top-post] > I find X windows to be a bit too compute intensive. Maybe something > like apple's interface would be a good alternative [for those who > don't need X-windows' powerful graphic features]. Wh

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > > 1. Keyboard multiplexer. : > : > I actually fail to stop thinking about a complete syscons and pcvt : > replacement. You know, the one and only console implementation that : > makes all others obsolete. Big pla

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread John Hay
> > > > 1. Keyboard multiplexer. > > I actually fail to stop thinking about a complete syscons and pcvt > replacement. You know, the one and only console implementation that > makes all others obsolete. Big plans, little time, yada yada yada... It would be nice if one would still be able to use

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
I find X windows to be a bit too compute intensive. Maybe something like apple's interface would be a good alternative [for those who don't need X-windows' powerful graphic features]. regards -kamal Scott Long wrote: Jason C. Wells wrote: --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Lon

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : 1. Keyboard multiplexer. We are running into problems with making : ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs. : Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the various real : keyboa

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Scott Long
Foxfair Hu wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: All, [] 1. Keyboard multiplexer. We are running into problems with making ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs. Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the various real keyboar

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Peter Kieser
Scott Long wrote: 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, but the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art. It's fairly good at the simple task that it does, but it's becoming harder and harder to fix bugs and extend functionality in it. It's also fairly

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Foxfair Hu
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > All, > [] > > 1. Keyboard multiplexer. We are running into problems with making > ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work with KVMs. > Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the various real > keyboard

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Scott Long
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: 1. Keyboard multiplexer. I actually fail to stop thinking about a complete syscons and pcvt replacement. You know, the one and only console implementation that makes all others obsolete. Big plans, little time, ya

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:02:40PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > 1. Keyboard multiplexer. I actually fail to stop thinking about a complete syscons and pcvt replacement. You know, the one and only console implementation that makes all others obsolete. Big plans, little time, yada yada yada... >

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 01), Jason C. Wells said: > --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and > >clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many > >storage enpo

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Scott Long
Jason C. Wells wrote: --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the S

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:29:10PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and > >clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many >

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Scott Long
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:10:57PM -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote: Another issue I had with the dfly installer was one point I believe needs to be central to any next-gen installer. Internationalisation. Careful not to pile on so many wishes that achieving anything becomes impossi

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:10:57PM -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote: > Another issue I had with the dfly installer was one point I believe needs > to be central to any next-gen installer. Internationalisation. Careful not to pile on so many wishes that achieving anything becomes impossible. Our current

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Ryan Sommers
Scott Long said: > 2. New installer. I know some people still consider this a joke, but > the reality is that sysinstall is no longer state of the art. It's > fairly good at the simple task that it does, but it's becoming harder > and harder to fix bugs and extend functionality in it. It's als

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Andre Oppermann
Scott Long wrote: All, I know that I said last month that we were going to stop promising specific features for the next major release. However, I'd like to throw out a list of things that would be really nice to have in the future, whether its 6.0 or 7.0 or whatever. Most of these tasks are not

My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Scott Long
All, I know that I said last month that we were going to stop promising specific features for the next major release. However, I'd like to throw out a list of things that would be really nice to have in the future, whether its 6.0 or 7.0 or whatever. Most of these tasks are not trivial, but I hop