Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

2007-08-15 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:30:19AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > --- Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except they do, and without directories the > > performance of your average filesystem is going to suck. > > Actually you would get a speed improvement. You hash > the full name and get

Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

2007-08-15 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:30:19AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: --- Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except they do, and without directories the performance of your average filesystem is going to suck. Actually you would get a speed improvement. You hash the full name and get the file

Re: fork and pthreads

2001-03-16 Thread Craig Ruff
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:52:26PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > Well, using pthreads and forking in them seems to trigger libc > bugs (read: SIGSEGvs) here under certain conditions (happens, > after I introduced signal handlers and using pthread_sigmask, > I think), so hangs should be

Re: fork and pthreads

2001-03-16 Thread Craig Ruff
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:52:26PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: Well, using pthreads and forking in them seems to trigger libc bugs (read: SIGSEGvs) here under certain conditions (happens, after I introduced signal handlers and using pthread_sigmask, I think), so hangs should be definitely

Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:35:56PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > So basically you are pointing out that there is now a sequencer reject in > linux? Because this used to effect and wipe drives, but you are showing > that Linux now does scsi commands check for execution on the /dev/sdxx? Nope,

Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:15:46PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Then run this and see if you live. Well, I ran it, the disk lives. The typescript is appended below. Interestingly, scsikiller didn't cream the partition table like I expected. However the dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc certainly

Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:32:08PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > The SCSI low-level format glue performed by the HOST gets destroyed > If you write to LBA Zero. This is simply not true. I write to SCSI disk's block 0 all of the time and never loose data. Obviously, you can lose the partition

Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:32:08PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: The SCSI low-level format glue performed by the HOST gets destroyed If you write to LBA Zero. This is simply not true. I write to SCSI disk's block 0 all of the time and never loose data. Obviously, you can lose the partition

Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:15:46PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: Then run this and see if you live. Well, I ran it, the disk lives. The typescript is appended below. Interestingly, scsikiller didn't cream the partition table like I expected. However the dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc certainly

Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:35:56PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: So basically you are pointing out that there is now a sequencer reject in linux? Because this used to effect and wipe drives, but you are showing that Linux now does scsi commands check for execution on the /dev/sdxx? Nope, there

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Craig Ruff
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:16:58AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > One of the ways this could be solved would be to impose bus ordering on the > detection sequence. > ... On Solaris and Irix, there is an auxillary file in /etc that maps the hardware path to a controller to a controller