Re: Version nomenclature [was RELENG_7 to 8]

2009-08-15 Thread Jason J. Hellenthal
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:48:27 -0400 grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: Wanted to put in a suggestion. Users are constantly confused and asking questions about the FreeBSD version naming scheme, somehow not quite picking it up right, which is which, where to use it, etc. And though I know

Re: Version nomenclature [was RELENG_7 to 8]

2009-08-15 Thread N.J. Mann
In message d2e731a10908142248o6ee77e1ie89a62f3c0937...@mail.gmail.com, grarpamp (grarp...@gmail.com) wrote: [...] uname: '7.2-STABLE #0 date of compile' isn't quite the same solid reference as RELENG_7 as of yesterdays code. Which is what it is, not the zero-eth 7.2

Re: Version nomenclature [was RELENG_7 to 8]

2009-08-15 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, STABLE and CURRENT could only point to two things and there were about 10 potential tags involved. Tags... You say tags. Now, freebsd is an constantly evolving project. It's never finished. And when a branch is, it's EOL. It took me two minutes, back in 97 to get the grasp and at that

Re: Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-15 Thread Jeff Richards
I am now trying to rsync large files from the 320GB gmirror+gjournal device to the 2nd 1TB gmirror+gjournal device.  Using gstat I see the 320GB device active all the time while the 1TB device loads in spurts.  There will be periods of multiple seconds where the target providers are completely

Re: Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-15 Thread Jeff Richards
I was checking sysctl and noticed skipped_byes, alloc_failures,low_mem all increasing on geom.journal. $sysctl -a | grep geom kern.geom.collectstats: 1 kern.geom.debugflags: 0 kern.geom.label.debug: 0 kern.geom.mirror.sync_requests: 2 kern.geom.mirror.disconnect_on_failure: 1

Re: Going to BSD 8 from RELENG_7

2009-08-15 Thread Doug Barton
Dan Allen wrote: I cvsup and build RELENG_7 many times a week. This has served me well (except for the ZFS boot problem I had that went in and was backed out) for quite a while. I like to track a STABLE release. When BSD 7 went to 7.1 and to 7.2, it all just happened automatically with

Re: Multiple USB drives stability question

2009-08-15 Thread Ben Stuyts
Jeff, On 15 aug 2009, at 05:04, Jeff Richards wrote: (da6:umass-sim6:6:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE(10). CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... I've had lots of stability issues with USB drives until I added some quirks to prevent the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE from happening. For example: Index: