Hello
This is regarding the dump utility cache efficiency analysis post made on
February '07 by Peter Jeremy [
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019666.html]
and if this project is still open. I would be interested to begin exploring
FreeBSD (and
On 2009-Jun-23 15:52:04 -0400, Nirmal Thacker thacker.nir...@gmail.com wrote:
I would first like to understand the opinions of anyone who has looked at
this problem or think this would be a worthwhile project to start off with.
I'm aware of the following references:
hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
telling app developers what to use?
Wojciech Puchar schrieb am 2009-06-17:
cheers.
Are you sure this is wise? after all 125 millibytes would
Alexander Best wrote:
hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
telling app developers what to use?
Sure. The standard for scale-prefixes is defined by the Systeme
Internationale as part
Alexander Best wrote:
hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
telling app developers what to use?
It might be appropriate to use expand_number() here. This is what some
other tools do
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:52:04 -0400 Nirmal Thacker
thacker.nir...@gmail.com wrote:
I would also appreciate if I could get simple tips and pointers of
setting up my machine for the project. I understand this would be on
the lines of:
1. Installing a stable FreeBSD build
2. Check out a
Quoting Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de:
hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate
kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard
telling app developers what to use?
Actually thats only BSD's dd. GNU dd only accepts
My open source class this summer has a lot of people in it looking for 8
week projects.
If you have a decently spec'd out project that a Junior/Senior CS
student can accomplish, send me a link or pointer to it and I'll see if
I can get the project some attention.
Sean
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions
I ll begin by running, benchmarking, understanding dump for myself and take
up Matt's suggestions above to understand the unified caching implementation
in more detail
-n
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Peter Jeremy
peterjer...@optushome.com.auwrote:
Personally id stay away from dd. Create the partitions and file systems
manually, and install the boot loader, then rsync the data across. It will
be a lot faster in most cases, as unlike dd you wont be copying unused
space. Something like this should do the job
Rsync -aPH --exclude=/mnt/** /
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