Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Igor V. Ruzanov
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to do and why it does, |in fact, make sense, but it's really beside the point. I just want to know |if there is any scalable

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:48:58AM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: > > |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a > |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to do and why it does, > |in fact, make sense, but i

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Igor V. Ruzanov
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Erik Trulsson wrote: |On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:48:58AM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: |> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote: |> |> |That doesn't answer my question. I'm not even using make. I could write a |> |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to d

Re: Administrating more than 10 servers

2010-10-25 Thread Ahmed Ossama
Thanks guys, I have collected a lot of info, I guess I have to arrange them into some procedures and steps. I will be using nagios and puppet, and certainly a version control system (most probably subversion). Also I am going export a site wide directory of the common files via NFS. And follow

Re: geli keys

2010-10-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:07:11 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: > RW wrote: > > > > > > The geli(8) man page suggests initializing a geli provider with a > > > random keyfile (geli init -K). It also asks for a passphrase by > > > default. > > > > > > What happens if a provider is initialized without t

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/25/10 03:05, Kenton Varda wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to write some code which monitors a possibly-large directory > tree for changes. Specifically, it's a build system, and I want it to > automatically start rebuilding whenever I modify a source file. > > So far the approach I've tak

how to disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD

2010-10-25 Thread Chetan Shukla
Hi, How we can disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD. I tried lsmod and kldstat but neither of them worked. Regards, Chetan "DISCLAIMER: This message is proprietary to Aricent and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain p

ghostscript install problem

2010-10-25 Thread Fred
Hello, I am trying to install ghostscript8 from ports on 8.0-RELEASE-p4. The build stops when /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/ghostscript-8.64/epag-3.09/ert is to be installed in /usr/local/bin. The error is file not found. Error code 71. I tried going to the epag-3.09 directory: make

Re: how to disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD

2010-10-25 Thread Rob Farmer
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:11, Chetan Shukla wrote: > Hi, > How we can disable SCTP kernel in FreeBSD. > I tried lsmod and kldstat but neither of them worked. lsmod is a linux command and kldstat shows modules that are loaded. In the GENERIC kernel SCTP is compiled in, so it won't show up this wa

ZFS and NFS, can't see subvolumes.

2010-10-25 Thread Mickaël Canévet
Hi, I have a problem whith ZFS + NFS export. I have a zpool 'data' that contains subvolumes 'user' and 'group' that also contains subvolumes. I share data (zfs set sharenfs=on data) and showmount shows all my exports: /data Everyone /data/user Everyone /data/user/foo Everyone /data/user/

Re: ZFS and NFS, can't see subvolumes.

2010-10-25 Thread Polytropon
Please excuse me for not answering your question directly AND bringing up an "old discussion" again, but: On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:58:19 +0200, Mickaël Canévet wrote: > When I mount /data on my client, I see folders user and group, but not > user/foo, user/bar, group/foo, group/bar. The correct wo

Re: ZFS and NFS, can't see subvolumes.

2010-10-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Mickaël Canévet wrote: > Hi, I have a problem whith ZFS + NFS export. > > I have a zpool 'data' that contains subvolumes 'user' and 'group' that > also contains subvolumes. > > I share data (zfs set sharenfs=on data) and showmount shows all my > exports: > > /data

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Kenton Varda
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote: > I thought so too but was not sure about his problem. With > kqueue()/kevent() we can monitor every open file descriptor. So how many > files are laid down in the directory tree, 100, 1000, 15000? In every > such way its possible to write o

Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?

2010-10-25 Thread Kenton Varda
Ivan Voras wrote: > Short answer: no. > > Long answer: There should be. There were past discussions on writing > such a facility to e.g. receive events for all files on per-mountpoint > basis (which you could filter...), but we're not there yet. Thanks! That answers my question. I'll find some s

FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5, KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3, and Thunderbird 3.1.5. The machine is an older Dell GX270 P4 2.4 GHz

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Henry Olyer
The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team. I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we should have scripts that describe every aspect of a computer, so that such scripts can be mecha

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyer wrote: > The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this > going.  But I know it does.  And I don't blame the FreeBSD team. > > I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists.  ie., we should > have scripts that describe

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Ian Gibson
What's the situation re: PC-BSD? I thought they were 'FreeBSD on the desktop', leaving FreeBSD itself to focus on being a great server OS. Isn't the whole point of PC-BSD to remove the need to do what the OP did i.e. spend days or weeks installing and configuring FreeBSD with desktop applicati

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > Good Day; > > It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an > operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5, > KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3, > an

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/25/10 20:11, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Henry Olyer wrote: The problem here is that it shouldn't take so much effort to get this going. But I know it does. And I don't blame the FreeBSD team. I do blame the organizational infra-structure that exists. ie., we

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I spoke a little too soon. I was UPGRADING to KDE4 4.5.2 as I was typing the message. 'portupgrade kde4' was @ approx. 38% when it error'd out on something about 'kdelibs4-4.4.5' too old. Going to /usr/ports/kdelibs4 and 'make clean', 'make', bo

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Rob Farmer
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 17:25, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > 4 weeks ago I backed up all my data and reformatted from Debian 'lenny' to > GPT/ZFS/8.1-RELEASE.  The next two weeks did not go so well.  While I tried > hard to get ZFS formatted drives to work reliably, intermittent unexplained > core d