Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum

2004-01-12 Thread Nat Lanza
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 11:32, Wes Peters wrote: A few years ago Perforce was working on a write-through cache so you could have a local duplicate of the server environment, but I haven't seen that work come out of the company. That would've rocked for our development model. They released

Re: Looking for FreeBSD kernel debugging help

2003-06-11 Thread Nat Lanza
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 06:22, Terry Lambert wrote: Someone should port the network debugging from Darwin using the tiny IP stack from NetBSD. Well, there's this: http://ipgdb.sourceforge.net/ IPGDB is a collection of extensions to GDB and FreeBSD-4.3 to allow two-machine kernel debugging

Re: End-Of-Life announcement for M-Systems DiskOnChipdriver(fla).

2003-02-03 Thread Nat Lanza
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 18:06, Terry Lambert wrote: But if that's the argument for removing it, then it's probably time to remove the ability to use non-DMA IDE drives from the ATA driver, and kill all the ethernet drivers that have alignment requirements for their DMA engines, making m_pullup

Re: to users of threads (GDB support)

2002-02-10 Thread Nat Lanza
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 00:55, Kip Macy wrote: A working version of gdb 5.1 with full user thread support (fixes for bin/24066, gnu/33182, and as yet unfiled seg fault when resuming from a non-running thread) is available at: http://www.eventdriven.org/freebsd.html Excellent! Thanks for doing

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-26 Thread Nat Lanza
. It isn't a hack at all. No matter what method you use for storing directories, larger directories are going to be slower to use than smaller ones, and hashing filenames fixes that. --nat -- nat lanza --- there are no whole truths; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-19 Thread Nat Lanza
ATA become part of CAM, but I don't remember what the result of it was. You might want to check the list archives. --nat -- nat lanza -- there are no whole truths; [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- all truths are half-truths http://www.cs.cmu.edu

Re: Kernel editing tools.

2001-02-09 Thread Nat Lanza
the emacs+etags suggestion. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-19 Thread Nat Lanza
be interested in. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-17 Thread Nat Lanza
documented the current kernel, and because of the drastic changes between versions, much of the documentation for 2.0 was misleading. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.

Re: finding source to functions

2000-09-30 Thread Nat Lanza
h. If you want to take a look, my version is running at http://lxr.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/freebsd/source/. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths;

Re: Code Pal VMS

2000-07-09 Thread Nat Lanza
one (which is SRM if I recall correctly, I keep mixing them up) for FreeBSD/OpenBSD and friends too. You can also boot Linux from SRM, but it's a pain in the ass to set it up. It's worth it, though, 'cause then you get a handy serial console. --nat -- nat lanza - research

Re: SCSI HBA device detection?

2000-07-03 Thread Nat Lanza
ramdisk, this is a really masochistic way to go about doing it. 8) It's really a mix of an exercise in writing a CAM HBA driver and a first step towards a SCSI-over-IP driver. Also, a SCSI ramdisk can be handy for some of the benchmarking and tracing we do. --nat -- nat lanza

SCSI HBA device detection?

2000-06-23 Thread Nat Lanza
or a real IO bus. Anyone feel like explaining this? Thanks. --nat -- nat lanza - research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred