Re: zfs under medium load causes SMB to delay writes

2010-11-07 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
This is not the appropriate group/list for this message. Crossposting to zfs-discuss (where it perhaps primarily belongs) and to cifs-discuss, which also relates. > Hi, > > I have an I/O load issue and after days of searching > wanted to know if anyone has pointers on how to > approach this. > >

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > network overhead. The > only question being if there's some precedent in > another implementation > for what the API should look like. I'm having > trouble thinking up a > likely google/bing query for that... In attempting to find a precedent (without luck so far, and I'll probably run o

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > It seems a shame to me that the architecture for this > new feature stops > at the IP/driver connection and doesn't include the > API level. > > -- > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W > Particularly since the information is already available - the UD MTU has to be already kn

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > Disclaimer: I'm no network guru, and this is the > first time I've so much > as looked at RFCs 4391 and 4755. I have no idea what > other > implementations supporting IPoIB-CM do (it might be > worth finding > out...). Ok, I looked (minimally), and I _think_ Linux is generally allowing th

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-17 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Erik Nordmark wrote: > > > >> > Perhaps I didn't see it, but which (if either) > MTU corresponds > >> > to what may be publically seen? Or does it > matter (if IP > >> > fragmenting hides the distinction)? > > > > IP fragmentation hides the distinction. > > > > It is the unicast MTU that is r

Re: PSARC/2010/325 Different MTU for unicast and multicast

2010-08-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Perhaps I didn't see it, but which (if either) MTU corresponds to what may be publically seen? Or does it matter (if IP fragmenting hides the distinction)? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@open

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-08-04 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > Beware that if you have getprogname(), you may find > people wanting > > the entire FreeBSD err(3) family, > > Already there: > > changeset: 4891:f4f971e9574d > user:vk199839 > date:Sat Aug 18 10:07:23 2007 -

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-08-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
re getprogname(): since I don't see man pages in the public case directory, * is there also a setprogname() as in at least some FreeBSD? If so, is it implicit in the run-time startup, or does one need to call it explicitly? * since argv[0] can be anything, is this equivalent to getexecname() (w

Re: GNU/Linux/BSD compatibility functions [PSARC/2010/299 FastTrack timeout, 08/04/2010]

2010-07-29 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
What SUSv4 functions are still missing after this case? Have requests been filed for them? As an example, I didn't see wcsnlen(). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org

Re: Remove binary symlinks from /etc [PSARC/2010/289 FastTrack timeout 07/30/2010]

2010-07-26 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On 07/26/10 09:32 AM, Peter Memishian wrote: > > > > > Seeing yet another involvement of /etc/ > symlinks brought by Darren leads > > > me to question the architectural value of the > proposed changes. > > > I like cleanlyness. I also like > compatibility. This seems architecturally >

Re: logadm.conf upgrade [PSARC/2010/290 FastTrack timeout 07/27/2010]

2010-07-26 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On 7/26/10 12:10 PM, Antonello Cruz wrote: > > > Well, your second email came just when I had > finished my reply. Since it > > is not immediately clear why I am restricting > access to the files in > > /etc/logadm.d I'll send my original reply here > anyway. > > > > logadm can run arbitrary scr

Re: EOF SYSV3 SCO compatibility environment variable [PSARC 2010/233 FastTrack timeout, 06/30/2010]

2010-06-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > I'm not saying don't do it; I'm saying I'd want (a) a > _very_ careful reading > of standards to see if extensions are allowed, given > such behavior; and [...] Just looked it up at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/expr.html which says: "The use of string arguments

Re: EOF SYSV3 SCO compatibility environment variable [PSARC 2010/233 FastTrack timeout, 06/30/2010]

2010-06-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Using the older behavior of expr vs the new (as seen in /usr/gnu/bin/expr) (both of these SPARC snv_97, but that's irrelevant to my point): $ x="index" $ /usr/bin/expr "$x" = "i=" 0 $ /usr/gnu/bin/expr "$x" = "i=" 1 In other words, because commands called from the shell have no way to kno

Re: System Configuration -- nodename and defaultdomain [PSARC/2010/223 FastTrack timeout 06/25/2010]

2010-06-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > There may or may not be customer scripts reading the > files in this case, > but I don't know of anything specific and any modern > version of sendmail > should not, at least. > > Hugh. FYI, a number of Linux distros (and Mac OS X!) follow the earlier Solaris model of persistently stori

Re: Solaris Instance UUID [PSARC/2010/226 FastTrack timeout 06/25/2010]

2010-06-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On 6/18/10 9:52 PM, Cynthia McGuire wrote: > > > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 > SMI > > This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle > and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. > > Seem to be missing some content here ... did you > perhaps forget to > forward something

Re: EOF legacy processor type truth values [PSARC/2010/211 FastTrack timeout 06/15/2010]

2010-06-09 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> > Nevertheless, if there are _any_ scripts that use > it, unless you get > > rid of all 29 (or however many) links to it, I > don't see any incremental gain > > by removing some of them. > > Am taking the conservative approach here by removing > only those > commands which could not possibly ret

Re: EOF legacy processor type truth values [PSARC/2010/211 FastTrack timeout 06/15/2010]

2010-06-08 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:03 -0700, Scott Rotondo > wrote: > > Several people have pointed out that the harm from > removing these > > commands isn't that great because > > > > (a) recent scripts tend not to use this mechanism > to figure out the type > > of platform, and > > > > (b) older scr

Re: Username length [PSARC/2010/184 FastTrack timeout 5/27/2010]

2010-05-28 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > length strings like gecos etc.). NIS currently still > has a 4k buffer > max, so > a NIS passwd entry total length has that upwards > boundary. Also we do > impose > another max buffer size at 128K, such as when you do > a getpwnam_r or > similar API call and are using caching (nscd).

Re: PSARC 2009/585 EOF of graph and spline

2010-05-15 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> While this case was approved, with the idea that > these utilities would > be replaced by integrating the GNU plotutils suite, > I'd like to change > direction somewhat. > > Specifically, it seems that /contrib is a superior > delivery mechanism > for these tools. I don't believe that there

Re: lofi(7D) in non global zones [PSARC/2010/144 FastTrack timeout 04/30/2

2010-04-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > Therefore, mounts within a non-global zone are > restricted to a > given allowed list of filesystems, as described > in Section 5 and > Section 6. This applies to all mounts not just > lofi ones. > 5. New vfs flag VSW_ZMOUNT > > The default list of allowed filesystems is based > upon a

Re: lofi(7D) in non global zones [PSARC/2010/144 FastTrack timeout 04/30/2

2010-04-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Is the implementation of hsfs therefore known to be > robust > against kernel crashes due to a corrupted filesystem, > or is it simply > that the demand is so high for lofi plus hsfs? What > about udfs - if > one wants to use CD images, presumably one might want > do use DVD-ROM > images as well

Re: lofi(7D) in non global zones [PSARC/2010/144 FastTrack timeout 04/30/2

2010-04-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] > Allowing lofi devices into non-global zones > introduces a security > issue. Some filesystems (notably UFS) are not > sufficiently protected > against corrupted or maliciously constructed > filesystem images, > which lofi allows the zone root user to modify. > This could > potentially l

Re: [desktop-discuss] GDM Integration With audioctl [PSARC/2010/116]

2010-04-23 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> su - $USER -c "/usr/bin/audioctl (args)" Double quotes around $USER, please. And I hope that the contents of $USER are trustworthy at that point. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris

Re: DTrace TCP and UDP providers [PSARC/2010/106 Self Review]

2010-04-08 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> as an exercise for yourself, consider how a new > protocol > such as RDP (Reliable Datagram Protocl) or ICMP > would > be mapped into dtrace using what you're introducing > as > the basis of a design for them. I would think SCTP would be an even more interesting exercise, since it probably