Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? (from JAN 10)

2012-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/16/12 11:41 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: adding jkim as he seems to be the last person working with TSC. On 2/16/12 6:42 PM, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 10:19, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/16/12 5:56 PM, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 8:42, Julian Elischer wrote: Adding David Xu for his

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? [possible answer]

2012-02-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/02/2012 03:55 Julian Elischer said the following: kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) i8254(0) HPET(950) ACPI-fast(900) dummy(-100) kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 switching the machine from TSC_low to ACPI-fast

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/02/2012 07:37 Freddie Cash said the following: Seems to me that we need a GEOM-aware loader I am also adding a GEOM-aware BIOS/firmware to the wish-list. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 on 17/02/2012 09:04 Hiroki Sato said the following: No, the issue is our gptloader assumes the backup header is always located at the (physical) last sector while this is not mandatory in the UEFI specification. Are you sure? Unified Extensible

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Pete French
I wasn't aware you could do that. I was only aware that it was the other way around. That (my) misconception seems to also be relayed by others such as Miroslav who said: Should this not be the recommended way of doing things even for MBR disks ? I have a lot of machines booting from

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? (from JAN 10)

2012-02-17 Thread David Xu
On 2012/2/17 16:06, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/16/12 11:41 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: adding jkim as he seems to be the last person working with TSC. On 2/16/12 6:42 PM, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 10:19, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/16/12 5:56 PM, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 8:42,

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info (from Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:49:56 -0200): On Tue, February 14, 2012 08:31, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Embedded devices are out of the scope of this, normally you do a lot of other modifictions to such systems anyway, so a custom kernel should be

Re: Custom kernel poll summary (was: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel)

2012-02-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com (from Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:26:54 -0800): On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 2:37:55 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:   1 IPSTEALTH                      - changes ipfw module only? I don't think this

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Hiroki Sato
Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote in 4f3e3000.9000...@freebsd.org: av -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- av Hash: SHA1 av av on 17/02/2012 09:04 Hiroki Sato said the following: av No, the issue is our gptloader assumes the backup header is always located av at the (physical) last sector

Re: Custom kernel poll summary (was: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel)

2012-02-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: Quoting Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com (from Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:26:54 -0800): On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 2:37:55 +0100, Alexander Leidinger

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Pete French petefre...@ingresso.co.uk wrote: I wasn't aware you could do that.  I was only aware that it was the other way around.  That (my) misconception seems to also be relayed by others such as Miroslav who said: Should this not be the recommended way of

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Pete French
The problem with mirroring partitions is that you thrash the disk during the rebuild after replacing a failed disk. And the more partitions you have, the worse it gets. yes, this is true - actually I have had this on older machiens, and have had to stop the rebuilds of each bit until the

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/02/2012 16:28 Hiroki Sato said the following: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote in 4f3e3000.9000...@freebsd.org: av -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- av Hash: SHA1 av av on 17/02/2012 09:04 Hiroki Sato said the following: av No, the issue is our gptloader assumes the backup

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Pete French petefre...@ingresso.co.uk wrote: I wasn't aware you could do that.  I was only aware that it was the other way around.  That (my) misconception seems to also be relayed by others such as Miroslav who said:

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Michiel Boland
On 02/17/2012 16:21, Freddie Cash wrote: [...] The problem with mirroring partitions is that you thrash the disk during the rebuild after replacing a failed disk. And the more partitions you have, the worse it gets. I guess that if you do per-slice mirroring you should turn off autosync,

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? (from JAN 10)

2012-02-17 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Friday 17 February 2012 06:28 am, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 16:06, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/16/12 11:41 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: adding jkim as he seems to be the last person working with TSC. On 2/16/12 6:42 PM, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 10:19, Julian Elischer wrote: On

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? [possible answer]

2012-02-17 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Thursday 16 February 2012 08:55 pm, Julian Elischer wrote: kern.timecounter.tick: 1 kern.timecounter.choice: TSC-low(1000) i8254(0) HPET(950) ACPI-fast(900) dummy(-100) kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast kern.timecounter.stepwarnings: 0 switching the machine from TSC_low to

kerberized NFS

2012-02-17 Thread Giulio Ferro
Thanks everybody again for your help with setting up a working kerberized nfsv4 system. I was able to user-mount a nfsv4 share with krb5 security, and I was trying to do the same as root. Unfortunately the patch I found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/rpcsec_gss.patch fails to apply

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Pete French wrote: I wasn't aware you could do that. I was only aware that it was the other way around. That (my) misconception seems to also be relayed by others such as Miroslav who said: Should this not be the recommended way of doing things even for MBR disks ? I have a lot of machines

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Pete French
Yes it does? Am I the only one person on the whole earth seeing the big difference in easy setup of mirroring two drives instead of many individual partitions? Sorry, I wasnt suggesting that you should always mirror the indiviudual partititons - just I happen to do that where I am mixing ZFS

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? (from JAN 10)

2012-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/17/12 3:28 AM, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 16:06, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/16/12 11:41 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: adding jkim as he seems to be the last person working with TSC. On 2/16/12 6:42 PM, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 10:19, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/16/12 5:56 PM,

devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-17 Thread vermaden
Hi, I have finally made some effort on writing flexible yet very simple automounter for FreeBSD desktop. Feel free to submit me BUG reports ;) It currently supports these file formats: -- NTFS(rw) requires [port]sysutils/fusefs-ntfs[/port] -- FAT/FAT32 -- exFAT requires

Re: Custom kernel poll summary (was: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel)

2012-02-17 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 14.02.2012 um 12:37 schrieb Alexander Leidinger: 1 FLOWTABLE The last time I included this in a kernel it seemed to have odd effects on TCP connections. Admittedly, that was probably two years or so ago, and I never bothered to find out what was happening in detail. Is it safe now?

The New BSD Installer thread has shown me that I am totally obsolete in disk partitioning.

2012-02-17 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
I've been following the above mentioned thread because I wasn't convinced by the new bsd installer on my latest installation. Now, the problem that I am seeing is no longer the new installer but that I am obsolete in modern freebsd disk partitioning options and reliability of each. I've been

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-17 Thread vermaden
I already made some changes for the 'better' ... Here is the latest version: #! /bin/sh PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin LOG=/var/log/automount.log STATE=/var/run/automount.state DATEFMT=%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S __create_mount_point() { # /* 1=DEV */ MNT=/mnt/$(

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:09:55PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Pete French wrote: Should this not be the recommended way of doing things even for MBR disks ? I have a lot of machines booting from gmirror, but we always do it by mirroring MBR partitions (or GPT ones). I cant see why you

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 on 17/02/2012 16:28 Hiroki Sato said the following: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote in 4f3e3000.9000...@freebsd.org: av -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- av Hash: SHA1 av av on 17/02/2012 09:04 Hiroki Sato said the following: av No, the

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: And just in case: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Specification Version 2.3.1, Errata A September 7, 2011 says: [snip] Two GPT Header structures are stored on the device: the primary and the backup. The primary GPT

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-17 Thread vermaden
... even newer version, seems to have all 'problems' fixed now ;) #! /bin/sh PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin LOG=/var/log/automount.log STATE=/var/run/automount.state DATEFMT=%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S __create_mount_point() { # /* 1=DEV */ MNT=/mnt/$( basename ${1} )

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-17 Thread vermaden
Latest version with additional checks for NTFS and FAT32, to be precise, for NTFS filesystem with label FAT and for FAT filesystem with label NTFS ;) #! /bin/sh PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin LOG=/var/log/automount.log STATE=/var/run/automount.state

Re: kerberized NFS

2012-02-17 Thread Rick Macklem
Giulio Ferro wrote: Thanks everybody again for your help with setting up a working kerberized nfsv4 system. I was able to user-mount a nfsv4 share with krb5 security, and I was trying to do the same as root. Unfortunately the patch I found here:

Re: ZFS + nullfs + Linuxulator = panic?

2012-02-17 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:07:46PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:09:27AM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:38:18AM -0500, Paul

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? (from JAN 10)

2012-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On Friday 17 February 2012 06:28 am, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 16:06, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/16/12 11:41 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: adding jkim as he seems to be the last person working with TSC. On 2/16/12 6:42 PM, David Xu wrote: On 2012/2/17 10:19, Julian Elischer wrote: On

Re: kerberized NFS

2012-02-17 Thread Rick Macklem
Giulio Ferro wrote: Thanks everybody again for your help with setting up a working kerberized nfsv4 system. I was able to user-mount a nfsv4 share with krb5 security, and I was trying to do the same as root. Unfortunately the patch I found here:

Re: pthread_cond_timedwait() broken in 9-stable? (from JAN 10)

2012-02-17 Thread David Xu
On 2012/2/18 9:30, Julian Elischer wrote: mine is too, yet it still has problems.. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (2500.14-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x10676 Family = 6 Model = 17 Stepping = 6