Re: sysctl lock in RELENG_6

2009-03-20 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Kostik Belousov wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:01:25AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:48:22PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: I've digged commit logs a bit and found this change MFC'd to RELENG_7 but not RELENG_6:

ugen and Gemplus SC reader

2009-03-20 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi, whenever I try to use openct/opensc to use my gemplus USB smartcard readers, I get the following in dmesg: ugenioctl: USB_SET_SHORT_XFER, no pipe The readers work fine on MacOS X and (reportedly) Linux, and the driver included in openct should support it. I can't find any PC/SC

gemor mirror and priority

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, Is this still correct: Note that you want to insert the remote disk into the mirror first. The disk in the mirror with the highest priority gets used first if you set the balance algorithm to 'prefer'--it seems like a good idea to make sure that's the local disk... The first

Re: gemor mirror and priority

2009-03-20 Thread Pete French
Is this still correct: Yup - I made a patch to start the priorities in the middle of the range and to add a 'prefer-low' to reverse the way it is selected to get round the problem though. You can try it out if you want... -pete. ___

Re: gemor mirror and priority

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Lambrev
On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Pete French wrote: Is this still correct: Yup - I made a patch to start the priorities in the middle of the range and to add a 'prefer-low' to reverse the way it is selected to get round the problem though. You can try it out if you want... -pete. If it can

Re: gemor mirror and priority

2009-03-20 Thread Pete French
If it can apply to 7-stable or 7.1-release I'll be even grateful to have it ;) Find it here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=123630 That was relative to 7.0 - I havent tried it on 7.1. I was hopinh that the changes would be incorporated, but pjd didn't like the solution and said

Re: gemor mirror and priority

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Thanks for the patch. I'll try it and report after the weekend :) On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Pete French wrote: If it can apply to 7-stable or 7.1-release I'll be even grateful to have it ;) Find it here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=123630 That was relative to 7.0 - I

Re: gemor mirror and priority

2009-03-20 Thread Pete French
I'll try it and report after the weekend :) It should be OK - we ran it here on the main database server until a couple of months ago, which I went back to using vanilla 7.1 in an attempt to try and track down a bug. I will probably continue to use the patch in future though - it's very stable,

Is some combination of gmirror, md file systems, snapshots and, maybe, quotas considered harmful?

2009-03-20 Thread Scott Lambert
I have a previously stable machine, other than a one time panic in soft-updates which I could never reproduce, running RELENG_7 from July 23, 2008. Starting update: Wed Jul 23 01:29:47 CDT 2008 Finished update: Wed Jul 23 01:31:13 CDT 2008 I had the userquota option in the fstab for /home, but I