mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Andrei Kolu
Hello! As long time FreeBSD user I am concerned about RELEASE and STABLE configuration files inconsistency. No big deal but really annoying if you want to upgrade systems occassionally. The problem is that there is huge amount of old files between RELEASE and STABLE config files- more

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Andrei Kolu wrote: Hello! As long time FreeBSD user I am concerned about RELEASE and STABLE configuration files inconsistency. This topic was covered recently, you might want to check the archives. -# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6,v 1.37.18.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Andrei Kolu
Doug Barton wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Andrei Kolu wrote: Hello! As long time FreeBSD user I am concerned about RELEASE and STABLE configuration files inconsistency. This topic was covered recently, you might want to check the archives. -# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6,v 1.37.18.1

Re: Tester wanted for multipath failover iSCSI target software

2009-03-12 Thread Andrei Kolu
Daisuke Aoyama wrote: I am interested in giving this a try, though not immediately as I am away from the office at the moment. Do I need to apply a patch to iscontrol to make it work though ? I can't work it out from your statement above. Yes, you need. Than ks. Is the intent to integrate

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Barton
Andrei Kolu wrote: Doug Barton wrote: -# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6,v 1.37.18.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6,v 1.37 2004/10/07 13:55:26 mtm Exp $ What you're seeing is an artifact of the way that CVS deals with cutting a release. Even

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:22:19AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: What you're seeing is an artifact of the way that CVS deals with cutting a release. Even though the content of the files is the same, the CVS Id is updated in the release branch so that you can track revisions to that file that

Re: Performance with hundreds of nullfs mounts?

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Russell Jackson wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: hi, I seem to remember hearing an anecdote somewhere that using hundreds (or thousands?) nullfs mounts for jails results in unreasonably bad file system access performance. Does somebody have this kind of setup / is it true? I was doing this with

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 12 March 2009 18:17:53 Doug Barton wrote: I hope this issue will be resolved. What you're seeing is a mildly annoying side effect of how CVS works. There is nothing to resolve. I wouldn't classify it as mildly annoying that you need to manually intervene in every single file..

Re: Tester wanted for multipath failover iSCSI target software

2009-03-12 Thread Pete French
I have tested net/istgt for couple of days with Windows XP and it works more reliable than NetBSD net/iscsi-target. With NetBSD implementation sometimes I lost partition filesystem information after disconnecting server from network or rebooting my computer. I am just trying it against the

Re: Tester wanted for multipath failover iSCSI target software

2009-03-12 Thread Daisuke Aoyama
Hi, Thank you for reporting. I have tested net/istgt for couple of days with Windows XP and it works more reliable than NetBSD net/iscsi-target. With NetBSD implementation sometimes I lost partition filesystem information after disconnecting server from network or rebooting my computer. Yes,

Re: Tester wanted for multipath failover iSCSI target software

2009-03-12 Thread Daisuke Aoyama
Thank you for reporting. On the other hand I have got some errors that I am trying to get to the bottom of. I set up a zpool laast night on a remote disc using the netbsd initiator and copied about 50 gig of data to it as lots of small files. I then switched to the istgt initiator this morning

Re: Tester wanted for multipath failover iSCSI target software

2009-03-12 Thread Pete French
Thank you for reporting. ... I'm very interested in this case. Well, I just finihsed doing a 'zpool scrub' on the disc image mounted locally on the machine which was running istgt. That still shows some errors - but only 36 of them, compares to the 9000+ I get when running the scrub mounted

Re: 7.1 panic vm_page_startup: inconsistent page counts

2009-03-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 12 March 2009 12:36:46 am Peter Jeremy wrote: I'm trying to upgrade an 11 month old FreeBSD 7 image in a VMware 4.5.2 guest to an up-to-date -stable and it panics as above. I've added a printf to report the two counts and there's a difference of one page. I don't have any

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 12 March 2009 3:22:19 am Doug Barton wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Andrei Kolu wrote: Hello! As long time FreeBSD user I am concerned about RELEASE and STABLE configuration files inconsistency. This topic was covered recently, you might want to check the archives. -#

Re: Tester wanted for multipath failover iSCSI target software

2009-03-12 Thread Pete French
Oh dear doing the test again caused the client machine to panic, with the following message: panic: solaris assert: 0 == dmu_buf_hold(os, lr-lr_foid, boff, zgd, db), file /usr/src/sys/modules/zfs/../../cddl/controb/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_nops.c, line: 955 (that was copied out by

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
This is what I have in my /etc/mergemaster.rc; it will probably help in your case: DIFF_FLAG='-Bub' DIFF_OPTIONS='-I$FreeBSD:.*[$]' IGNORE_MOTD=yes The first line causes diff to not display changes that only affect whitespace. The second line ignores the CVS id lines, so that files will compare

HEADS UP: Atheros HAL merged to RELENG_7

2009-03-12 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hello all, This is just a note to let you all know that the open source Atheros HAL has been merged from HEAD to -STABLE. I tested it out OK on an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T43 with an AR5212 in HostAP and STA mode, and on an ASUS EeePC 701 with AH5424 (PCI-express) in STA mode. The ath_rate*

Re: HEADS UP: Atheros HAL merged to RELENG_7

2009-03-12 Thread Neal Hogan
Wondering . . . did you mean 'AR5424', not 'AH5424'? I'm asking because I have an atheros AR5424 and am (patiently) waiting for support and can't find info on an atheros AH5424. Thanks. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Bruce Simpson b...@incunabulum.net wrote: Hello all, This is just a

vpn1411 in Laptop (Thinkpad T31)

2009-03-12 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, this might seem like a strange question, but I wonder if there would be any benefit by using a vpn1411 minipci card to encrypt/decrypt geli encrypted partitions on the fly. I'm using a Thinkpad T31 with a P4 at 2GHz and playing back HD Videos doesn't work flawlessly from the encrypted

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 13 March 2009 01:35:27 Oliver Fromme wrote: PS: I think the above options should _not_ be on by default, because that would be a POLA violation. Those people who want them can easily add them to their mergemaster.rc file. Perhaps they should be suggested in the man page.. I agree

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:05:27PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: This is what I have in my /etc/mergemaster.rc; it will probably help in your case: DIFF_FLAG='-Bub' DIFF_OPTIONS='-I$FreeBSD:.*[$]' IGNORE_MOTD=yes Yes, it helps and I like it. But I'm forced to put it to each and every box I

Re: mergemaster annoyance or not?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Barton
Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:05:27PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: This is what I have in my /etc/mergemaster.rc; it will probably help in your case: DIFF_FLAG='-Bub' DIFF_OPTIONS='-I$FreeBSD:.*[$]' IGNORE_MOTD=yes Newer versions of mergemaster prefer the following:

NICs locking up, *tcp_sc_h

2009-03-12 Thread Nick Withers
Hello all, I recently installed my first amd64 system (currently running RELENG_7 from 2009-03-11) to replace an aged ppc box and have been having dramas with the network locking up. Breaking into the debugger manually and ps-ing shows the network card (e.g., [irq20: fxp0+]) in state LL in