Re: [PROBLEM]: Strange network problems with 2.4.0 and 3c59x.o

2001-01-12 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. Here's something strange that i've been noticing with 2.4.0. Some websites I am unable to access now. For example: snip about sites This is a FAQ. Check if you compiled with ECN enabled (CONFIG_INET_ECN). Some sites have broken firewalls that drop packets of that type. Either don't surf

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.3 is available

2001-02-26 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. modutils-2.4.3.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file modutils-2.4.3-1.src.rpmAs above, in SRPM format modutils-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2 modutils-2.4.3-1.sparc64.rpmCombined sparc 32/64. modutils-2.4.3-1.ia64.rpm

Re: driver compilations errors

2001-02-16 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. iam getting compilation errors for driver code. struct file_operations my_ops ={NULL,my_read,my_write,NULL,NULL,NULL NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL NULL };

Re: too long mac address for --mac-source netfilter option

2001-02-17 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi! I am trying to use the --mac-source option in the netfilter code to better refine access to my linux box. However, I have run up against something. The router through which my private subnet work box passes sends a 14-group "invalid" mac address, presumably as an attempt to conceal the

[OT] Re: Running Bind 9 on Redhat 7

2001-02-19 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. I am configuring Bind 9 on Redhat 7 but unable to start the named. Here is my /var/log message log: snip named start log Read the documentation and you shall notice that you must set a ttl for each zone, which also your logs state that you have not done ... // Stefan - To unsubscribe

Re: bkbits.net is down

2005-04-13 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Geert. I mean: who makes a spelling error in his own first name? ;-) I don't think so: both `c' and `t' are (different) ASCII-transcripts of the actual non-ASCII character that should have been there. Yes, UTF-8 to US-ASCII is lossy and

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-21 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:16 +0200, Bastiaan Naber wrote: [...] I have a 15 GB file which I want to place in memory via tmpfs. I want to do this because I need to have this data accessible with a very low seek time.

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-22 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: The machine we plan to buy is a HP Proliant Xeon machine and I want to run a 32 bit linux kernel on it (the xeon we want doesn't have the 64-bit stuff yet) You cant have 16GB of

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-22 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Eckenfels wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:00:18PM +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: You cant have 16GB of Memory with 32bit CPUs. PAE CONFIG_HIGMEM64G Supports a 36bit address space, which Xeons do support. Yes right, I was just

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-23 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Unfortunately, if you only get printk() working after you ran userspace app... well it makes debugging things like SATA interesting. So I quite like this patch. Most interesting laptop vendors have at least one model in

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-10 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hubert Chan wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:52:25 -0400, Horst von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This doesn't even invalidate the userland VFSs of the other guys, they're still needed for systems whose kernels don't have a metadata facility. So

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-10 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, still haven't heard much discussion of metafs vs file-as-directory, but it seems like it'd be easier in metafs. Why not implement it inside the directory containg the file ? Ie the metadata for /home/stesmi/foo is in /home/stesmi/.meta/foo

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-11 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Why not implement it inside the directory containg the file ? Ie the metadata for /home/stesmi/foo is in /home/stesmi/.meta/foo This should be suit both camps I'd think? You still need to figure out the parent of foo, which isn't

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I have agreed to drop V1.0 support, and yes (as explained in another emauil), breaking the 4GB limit does involve on-disk format change. I've only also been reading this thread with half an eye but : Would it be possible (in some logical

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what do you need e.g. reiserfs 4 for? or jfs? or xfs? does not ext2/3 the journalling job also? Ext2 does not do journaling. Ext3 does. Perhaps squashfs is good enough improvement over cramfs... But I'd like those 4Gb limits to go away. we all

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 02:39 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: 4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the problems it initially caused are now sorted out. Does anyone knows about any currently unsolved problems?

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Davis wrote: Please don't tell me to care for closed-source drivers. ndiswrapper is NOT closed source. And I'm not asking you to care. While ndiswrapper might not be closed source, I would not call the windows driver it loads open source ...

Re: [PATCH] 8250.c: Fix to make 16C950 UARTs work

2005-09-08 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Adam wrote: Currently serial8250_set_termios() refuses to program a baud rate larger than uartclk/16. However the 16C950 supports baud rates up to uartclk/4. This worked already with Linux 2.4 so the biggest part of this patch was simply

Re: [PROBLEM]: Strange network problems with 2.4.0 and 3c59x.o

2001-01-12 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. > Here's something strange that i've been noticing with 2.4.0. Some websites I am > unable to access now. For example: This is a FAQ. Check if you compiled with ECN enabled (CONFIG_INET_ECN). Some sites have broken firewalls that drop packets of that type. Either don't surf to those sites

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.3 is available

2001-02-26 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. > modutils-2.4.3.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file > modutils-2.4.3-1.src.rpmAs above, in SRPM format > modutils-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2 > modutils-2.4.3-1.sparc64.rpmCombined sparc 32/64. > modutils-2.4.3-1.ia64.rpm

Re: driver compilations errors

2001-02-16 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. > iam getting compilation errors for driver code. > > struct file_operations my_ops ={NULL,my_read,my_write,NULL,NULL,NULL > NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL >NULL };

Re: too long mac address for --mac-source netfilter option

2001-02-17 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi! > I am trying to use the --mac-source option in the netfilter code to better refine >access to my linux box. However, I > have run up against something. The router >through which my private subnet work box passes sends a 14-group "invalid" > mac >address, presumably as an attempt to

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-18 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. Thought I'd toss my 0.02sek into the discussion. > > > objective, arent we? > >Nope. Are you claiming to be? > > > > > For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet > > > drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps > >... Rant

[OT] Re: Running Bind 9 on Redhat 7

2001-02-19 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. > I am configuring Bind 9 on Redhat 7 but unable to start the named. > Here is my /var/log message log: Read the documentation and you shall notice that you must set a ttl for each zone, which also your logs state that you have not done ... // Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: bkbits.net is down

2005-04-13 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Geert. >>I mean: who makes a spelling error in his own first name? ;-) > > I don't think so: both `c' and `t' are (different) ASCII-transcripts of the > actual non-ASCII character that should have been there. Yes, UTF-8 to US-ASCII > is lossy

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-10 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hubert Chan wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:52:25 -0400, Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>>This doesn't even invalidate the userland VFSs of the other guys, >>>they're still needed for systems whose kernels don't have a metadata

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-10 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Ok, still haven't heard much discussion of metafs vs file-as-directory, > but it seems like it'd be easier in metafs. Why not implement it inside the directory containg the file ? Ie the metadata for /home/stesmi/foo is in /home/stesmi/.meta/foo

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-11 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. >> Why not implement it inside the directory containg the file ? >> >> Ie the metadata for /home/stesmi/foo is in /home/stesmi/.meta/foo >> >> This should be suit both camps I'd think? > > You still need to figure out the parent of "foo", which

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. > I have agreed to drop V1.0 support, and yes (as explained in another > emauil), breaking the 4GB limit does involve on-disk format change. I've only also been reading this thread with half an eye but : Would it be possible (in some logical

Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS

2005-03-21 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > what do you need e.g. reiserfs 4 for? or jfs? or xfs? does not ext2/3 > the journalling job also? Ext2 does not do journaling. Ext3 does. >> Perhaps squashfs is good enough improvement over cramfs... But I'd >> like those 4Gb limits to go away. >>

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-21 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:16 +0200, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > [...] > >>I have a 15 GB file which I want to place in memory via tmpfs. I want to do >>this because I need to have this data accessible with a very low seek time.

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-22 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >>The machine we plan to buy is a HP Proliant Xeon machine and I want to run a >>32 bit linux kernel on it (the xeon we want doesn't have the 64-bit stuff >>yet) > > > You cant

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-22 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:00:18PM +0200, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > >>>You cant have 16GB of Memory with 32bit CPUs. >> >>PAE >>CONFIG_HIGMEM64G >>Supports a 36bit address space, wh

Re: [PATCH] reset VGA adapters via BIOS on resume... (non-fbdev/con)

2005-07-23 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > >>>Unfortunately, if you only get printk() working after you ran >>>userspace app... well it makes debugging things like SATA >>>"interesting". So I quite like this patch. >> >>Most interesting laptop vendors have at

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 02:39 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the problems it >>initially caused are now sorted out. >> >>Does anyone knows about any currently unsolved problems?

Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

2005-09-04 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Davis wrote: >>Please don't tell me to "care for closed-source drivers". > > ndiswrapper is NOT closed source. And I'm not asking you to "care". While ndiswrapper might not be closed source, I would not call the windows driver it loads open

Re: [PATCH] 8250.c: Fix to make 16C950 UARTs work

2005-09-08 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Adam wrote: > Currently serial8250_set_termios() refuses to program a baud rate larger > than uartclk/16. However the 16C950 supports baud rates up to uartclk/4. > This worked already with Linux 2.4 so the biggest part of this patch was >