Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
matter of deciding whether this is something worthwhile doing, and seeing if mark podlipec (Xanim's author) can handle cash or he needs a preinstalled machine shipped to him. vmware to the rescue? + a couple of hundred megs of disk space possibly, yes... luigi To

RE: 3.1 cc -aout - No go? AGAIN after make world

1999-05-12 Thread Josh2 Lists
Is it the same for 3.1-Release? That is what I am running. I hope so! Josh On 12-May-99 John Baldwin wrote: If you are doing it with current -stable sources, you need to define WANT_AOUT (sp?) to true in /etc/make.conf and make world again. That oughta get you the aout bits you need in

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-12 Thread Tommy Hallgren
Hi! I don't know about the others, but I look forward to the functionality you may add. Regards, Tommy --- Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com wrote: Hmm. I sent this message a few days ago and it has been silently ignored. Should I consider that an OK to extern the get_mode_param function in

Re: 3.1 cc -aout - No go? AGAIN after make world

1999-05-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 12 May 1999 00:46:25 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: If you are doing it with current -stable sources, you need to define WANT_AOUT (sp?) to true in /etc/make.conf and make world again. That oughta get you the aout bits you need in /usr/lib/aout. I take it the aout bits installed will

Re: Termcap and cursor keys

1999-05-12 Thread andrew
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: The cursor keys generate 2 different sequences depending on wether they are in normal mode or application mode: normal sends CSI A (where CSI is 0x9b in 8-bit mode or ESC [ in 7-bit mode) and application sends SS3 A (where SS3 is 0x8f in 8-bit

RE: 3.1 cc -aout - No go? AGAIN after make world

1999-05-12 Thread John Baldwin
With 3.1-R the default is to build and aout and elf world. Make sure you don't have NO_AOUT uncommented in your /etc/make.conf as that turns aout off. On 12-May-99 Josh2 Lists wrote: Is it the same for 3.1-Release? That is what I am running. I hope so! Josh On 12-May-99 John Baldwin

Re: 3.1 cc -aout - No go? AGAIN after make world

1999-05-12 Thread John Baldwin
On 12-May-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Wed, 12 May 1999 00:46:25 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: If you are doing it with current -stable sources, you need to define WANT_AOUT (sp?) to true in /etc/make.conf and make world again. That oughta get you the aout bits you need in /usr/lib/aout.

Re: 3.1 cc -aout - No go? AGAIN after make world

1999-05-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 12 May 1999 07:24:55 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Nope, the WANT_AOUT forces them to be compiled as part of the world build. That is they only way I know of thus far to build crt0.o and friends which are needed for linking aout executables. Ah, gotcha. Seems like crt0.o and its

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-12 Thread Kelly Yancey
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: Hi, Hmm. I sent this message a few days ago and it has been silently ignored. Should I consider that an OK to extern the get_mode_param function in vga_isa.c? Or should I take that as a mass go ahead, we're not going to commit the code anyway? :(

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-12 Thread Mark Podlipec
Luigi Rizzo wrote: [I am Bcc-ing Mark Podlipec since he might give us some input -- Mark, we were discussing about FreeBSD versions of the DLL's] but the xanim author won't go that route. See http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_dlls.html . The short form is that the NDA he's under (or

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
I'd really rather have the cross-compilers. One for ELF and one for the older freebsd object file format(A.OUT?). That way every time I make a change I can just type make freebsdELF and make freebsd right afterwards. ... The problem with a separate machine(or OS partition) is the time it

Metablock caching negative block #

1999-05-12 Thread Zhihui Zhang
It seems to me that metablocks such as filesystem superblock and cylinder group control blocks are associated with the device vnode. The indirect blocks are associated with the file using them to find data blocks. These indirect blocks are identified by negative block numbers. This makes the

Re: Metablock caching negative block #

1999-05-12 Thread Stefan Bethke
Zhihui Zhang zzh...@cs.binghamton.edu wrote: By the way, all other metablocks seem to be delay-written. In other words, they are not written synchronously. What happens if the system crashes before their updates go to disk. I read in the mailinglist that FreeBSD metadata I/O are

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-12 Thread Masachika ISHIZUKA
The only reason some of the linux codecs are not useable on FreeBSD is the reference of symbol __IO_stderr, it should be quite easy to convert them to references to __sF[2]. Compile this little program, use it to process the linux .xa files, and they should be useable on FreeBSD. Hi. This

Re: FreeBSD native xanim (was Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? )

1999-05-12 Thread Brian Handy
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Masachika ISHIZUKA wrote: The only reason some of the linux codecs are not useable on FreeBSD is the reference of symbol __IO_stderr, it should be quite easy to convert them to references to __sF[2]. Compile this little program, use it to process the linux .xa files, and

Re: FreeBSD native xanim

1999-05-12 Thread W Gerald Hicks
I'd really rather have the cross-compilers. Me too, but for other reasons. If you are using CVS then the problems you mention of working between systems will be greatly minimized. Besides, we'd really like to see you try FreeBSD :-) My major problem with the approach you are considering

fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Jim Carroll
I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, fsck chokes trying to alloc enough blocks to store it's internal data structures (128 MB RAM, 128 MB Swap) We would like to treat

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Marius Bendiksen
I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, fsck chokes trying to alloc enough blocks to store it's internal data structures (128 MB RAM, 128 MB Swap) Might not the use of LFS

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, fsck chokes trying to alloc enough blocks to store it's internal data structures (128 MB RAM, 128 MB Swap) Huh- I remember

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Mark J. Taylor
The problem that we ran into in a system with several 130 MB RAID5 arrays is that the fsck was running out of RAM+swap. We had to add a vnode to swap to before the fsck would complete (basically added more swap space). We had to have over 100 MB swap space to fsck the 130 MB volume, and the

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : : I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file : systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, : fsck chokes trying to alloc enough blocks to store it's internal data : structures (128 MB RAM, 128 MB Swap) : : We would like to

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Jim Carroll
I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, fsck chokes trying to alloc enough blocks to store it's internal data structures (128 MB RAM, 128 MB Swap)

Re: Redirection service

1999-05-12 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Tomas TPS Ulej wrote: I saw bounce package and also linux redir. More information about trasparent proxy I found at http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Projects/IPfwd/ is there solution for FreeBSD? I need this: BOX A (195.168.11.1) - REDIR (195.168.11.5) - DEST 1

Re: USENIX FreeBSD Dinner

1999-05-12 Thread Mike Smith
As long as you don't insist on trying your ?Irish? (Not) accent out like last time... no problem, mate, got a new one fer you this year. I'd avoid that one, since there will be plenty of the authentic article around to show up your shabby impersonation. Pick something more

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
I've been doing 120GB+ filesystems for FreeBSD for quite some time. The real fun will be the 1TB filesystems. How much Swap disk space have you allocated on machines that you fsck'ed that were this large ? Well, here's a current FreeBSD machine that has a couple 60GB raid boxes

Re: USENIX FreeBSD Dinner

1999-05-12 Thread Josef Grosch
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:24:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: As long as you don't insist on trying your ?Irish? (Not) accent out like last time... no problem, mate, got a new one fer you this year. I'd avoid that one, since there will be plenty of the authentic article

Re: modex support

1999-05-12 Thread Mike Smith
and all was dandy. However, I'de like to see this actually have a chance is h*ll of getting into FreeBSD so I figured that since it is fairly useless to most people (I've got some plans for it) that the best thing to do would be to make a KLD (like vesa.ko). I don't think so. Your code is

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:38:00PM -0400, a little birdie told me that Jim Carroll remarked I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, fsck chokes trying to alloc enough

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 12 May 1999 at 15:18:22 -0400, Mark J. Taylor wrote: On 12-May-99 Matthew Jacob wrote: I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine, fsck chokes trying to alloc

Re: USENIX FreeBSD Dinner

1999-05-12 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
How about Klingon? I doubt anyone would question how authentic your accent is ;-) how about gelfi'll bring a handkerchief so that everyone stays dry. ;P jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: USENIX FreeBSD Dinner

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: How about Klingon? I doubt anyone would question how authentic your accent is ;-) how about gelfi'll bring a handkerchief so that everyone stays dry. ;P Will people please stop posting this stuff to -hackers. -- John Birrell -

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Chuck Youse
Whoa ... can anyone substantiate that this poor performance is typical or atypical of DPT SCSI RAID controllers? I was just about to drop $6000 on a DPT SmartRAID IV 64MB. . . Chuck Youse Director of Systems cyo...@cybersites.com On Thu, 13 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 12 May

Re: USENIX FreeBSD Dinner

1999-05-12 Thread Warner Losh
In message 19990513003507.cda7015...@hub.freebsd.org Jonathan M. Bresler writes: : how about gelfi'll bring a handkerchief so that everyone : stays dry. ;P What? No spoo? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the