Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Jason Mitchell: > > How do you set up to boot NetBSD using UEFI? > > I am trying to set up UEFI to boot FreeBSD, NetBSD, and future installation > > of Linux, even Haiku if I can cross-compile that. > > I succeeded booting FreeBSD by UEFI, but NetBSD attempt hung early (8.99.46 >

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I am using grub2 to manage the boot. The way the system installer works > on the laptop I had to install windows first because the installer would > error if the partitioning was not exactly what it wanted, then shrink > the windows partition, installed fedora which brought along grunb 2 then >

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 07:47:12AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > -- > Sent from my NetBSD device. OT. Like that signature. Have been thinking of making this one myself. Always wondered why people have a signature that says sent from my xphone or ypad etc. Some claimed it was to indicate use of a

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Brett Lymn
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 05:58:09AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > I multi-boot my laptop NetBSD/Linux/Windows 10 using uefi & grub2. > > How do you set up to boot NetBSD using UEFI? > I am using grub2 to manage the boot. The way the system installer works on the laptop I had to install

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:58:58PM +0100, U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > > > On 24 June 2019 09:38:17 BST, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > >RAID1 puts an equal burden on both disks > > Is it really equal? It doesn't depend on implementation? > > >you will spend your time replacing disks

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 24 June 2019 09:38:17 BST, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: >RAID1 puts an equal burden on both disks Is it really equal? It doesn't depend on implementation? >you will spend your time replacing disks praying that they >not both die at the same moment. This is one argument for not mirroring

Re: current transaction too big to flush

2019-06-24 Thread Jaromír Doleček
When I was last working on WAPBL, I was specifically testing this scenario (deleting big files), and never had problems. Fragmentation shouldn't really be the problem - FFS by default allocates block in the same cylinder group for same file. Unless of course you were close to full filesystem when

Re: current transaction too big to flush

2019-06-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 14:38, Dima Veselov wrote: > > this maybe caused by nature of the file. All these files were > created with torrents, which may made them very > defragmented. Might help to set the torrent app to preallocate space? (not a fix, but possibly a workaround and an interesting

Re: current transaction too big to flush

2019-06-24 Thread Dima Veselov
Hi, this maybe caused by nature of the file. All these files were created with torrents, which may made them very defragmented. 24.06.2019 13:05, David Brownlee wrote: the problem is still there and I even have a single file which can not be deleted via standard rm command causing kernel

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Another fairly regular and reasonably happy NetBSD laptop user here. HP Envy 17" 2016 vintage with Intel 530 graphics and NVidia GeForce 950M, latter detected, but unsuported. Intel DRM accelerated graphics now works very well, with only a few disappearing horizontal streaks with gdm and kdm (xdm

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, David Brownlee wrote: I'm another NetBSD ThinkPad user - T530 which is supported quite well. My main use is IntelliJ IDEA java development. My main gripe would be Firefox crashing on trying to load some sites (eg maps.google.com) :/ this is a little bit off-topic: does the crash happen

Re: current transaction too big to flush

2019-06-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 at 13:52, Dima Veselov wrote: > > Greetings, > > the problem is still there and I even have a single file > which can not be deleted via standard rm command > causing kernel panic. What can be done there? Current > situation make WAPBL filesystem unusable. I also can not >

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 07:45:23AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 03:13:21PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > > Is there something like that existing? the idea being to combine > > as much as possible existing facilities and just to insert a simple > > client/server

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread David Brownlee
On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 23:33, Chris Humphries wrote: > > Suggestions weren't mind-blowing or anything, but the usual suspects: > Thinkpads and people saying some random laptop mostly works for them. > > Mostly, it seems folks don't really run NetBSD on laptops, and if they > do they're silent

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Jason Mitchell
> On Jun 24, 2019, at 1:58 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > from Brett Lymn: > >> As a lot of other people, silent because my laptop is ~5 years old so >> hardly helpful. Most of my NetBSD is done on a fujitsu S904 lifebook, I >> chose is for the combination of power and light weight. It took

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Chris, Chris Humphries wrote: Suggestions weren't mind-blowing or anything, but the usual suspects: Thinkpads and people saying some random laptop mostly works for them. Mostly, it seems folks don't really run NetBSD on laptops, and if they do they're silent about it. I personally suspect

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-24 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 07:45:23AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 03:13:21PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > > Is there something like that existing? the idea being to combine > > as much as possible existing facilities and just to insert a simple > >

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Brett Lymn: > As a lot of other people, silent because my laptop is ~5 years old so > hardly helpful. Most of my NetBSD is done on a fujitsu S904 lifebook, I > chose is for the combination of power and light weight. It took quite a > while but my laptop is now well supported, built in