Missing ZFS info in 11.2 and 11.1 release notes

2018-08-12 Thread Stephen McKay
Hi everyone, Major changes to ZFS weren't documented in the 11.1 and 11.2 release notes. Can they be added retrospectively? Is there an easier way to find out what has changed than reading the SVN commits? Examples include significant changes to ZIL write behaviour in both 11.1 and 11.2 and

Re: Data corruption in cd9660 on FreeBSD 4.11?

2005-06-28 Thread Stephen McKay
I haven't finished all the suggested tests, but since I'm taking so long to do so, I thought I should send what I have so far. On Saturday, 25th June 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Fri, 2005-Jun-24 22:31:06 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: I'm experiencing data corruption when reading CDs and DVDs

VFS_BIO_DEBUG and 4.11

2005-06-24 Thread Stephen McKay
Hi-diddly-ho! Is VFS_BIO_DEBUG still supposed to work in 4.11? I'm trying to debug a data corruption problem that could be a bug in the cd9660 file system and thought that enabling VFS_BIO_DEBUG might help. Instead it complains a lot about directories and character devices being VMIO'd

Data corruption in cd9660 on FreeBSD 4.11?

2005-06-24 Thread Stephen McKay
Hi! I'm experiencing data corruption when reading CDs and DVDs on FreeBSD 4.11. My best theory so far is that cd9660 or perhaps the VFS layer is mishandling 2048 byte buffers (since they are smaller than one virtual memory page), occasionally writing them to the wrong location in RAM. Read on

Re: nvi dying with Resource temporarily unavailable [SOLVED]

2005-04-27 Thread Stephen McKay
This is resurrecting an old thread, but I'd like the answer to be found in searches, so here goes: On Monday, 25th August 2003, Stephen McKay wrote: On Saturday, 9th August 2003, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Stephen McKay wrote: Stephen McKay wrote: Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8

Re: Should I merge fix for PR#64091 (NFS data corruption)?

2004-04-19 Thread Stephen McKay
On Monday, 19th April 2004, Stephen McKay wrote: On Sunday, 18th April 2004, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Should one patch (and reboot in case of NFS compiled in a kernel) both of a client and a server? It is a client-side patch. The server could be anything, though I've only tested with FreeBSD

Re: nvi dying with Resource temporarily unavailable

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen McKay
On Thursday, 7th August 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote: Stephen McKay wrote: Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (from 4.5) I've noticed occasional failures of nvi. It will suddenly die as a key is pressed, emitting: Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable and you are staring at your

Re: nvi dying with Resource temporarily unavailable

2003-08-09 Thread Stephen McKay
On Thursday, 7th August 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:30:22PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (from 4.5) I've noticed occasional failures of nvi. It will suddenly die as a key is pressed, emitting: Error: input: Resource temporarily

Re: Strangeness with 4.0-S

2000-07-03 Thread Stephen McKay
Alan Edmonds wrote: Bill Paul wrote: (I'm starting to regret putting them in there in the first place. Here I was thinking I was being nice to people by letting them know what the driver is doing, and everybody panics the moment they see them.) Maybe prefix the warning with "info" or

Re: installworld : problem 1 (softupdates)

1999-08-22 Thread Stephen McKay
On Monday, 23rd August 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:54:41 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: Softupdates doesn't buy you anything on reads -- just writes. So unless you have it turned on for / because /tmp is on /, you aren't getting anything out of softupdates than