Re: [osol-discuss] how to do read/write files in the kernel?

2005-11-30 Thread Frank Hofmann - Solaris Sustaining
From: nice [EMAIL PROTECTED] In kernel modules, how to do read/write files ? VOP_READ()/VOP_WRITE(). For examples, see the e.g. NFS server sourcecode: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/uts/common/fs/nfs/nfs3_srv.c#r fs3_write Do you want to write a layered filesystem ?

[osol-discuss] irefox 1.5 for solaris available on mozilla.org

2005-11-30 Thread Leon Sha
Hi, Finally firefox 1.5 released. Firefox 1.5 for solaris available on mozilla.org. You can get them here. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/contrib/ Please read the readme file before you use it. Regards, Leon Sha This message posted from opensolaris.org

RE: [osol-discuss] what kind of updates ?

2005-11-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 21:47, Albertson, Brett wrote: nl, Those updates are for Solaris, not OpenSolaris. Since OpenSolaris source code is free, updates could be obtained and compiled any time you wanted them. There will be multiple distributions based on OpenSolaris (Solaris, SchilliX,

ZFS Legacy Mounts (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care?)

2005-11-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
[I've redirected replies to this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since all of this is about ZFS, please respect the Reply-To header]. On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:37, Joerg Schilling wrote: The simplicity of administration has it's drawbacks at the points where ZFS in incompatible with the UNIX philosohy

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: 1st Israel OpenSolaris User Group meeting tomorrow, Dec 1

2005-11-30 Thread Cyril Plisko
REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER 1st IOSUG meeting When: Dec 1, 2005 at 17:00 Where: Sun Microsystems office in Herzeliya, HaManofim st, 9 (Accerstein Towers, Tower A, 8th floor) There is an underground parking lot right beneath the building. Agenda: 1. OpenSolaris overview 2. Demos 3. Group

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

2005-11-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Bart Smaalders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My reason for preferring /usr/bin unless there's a name conflict is simply this : if users cannot readily find a command, they implicitly assume it isn't available. There is basically no benefit obtained from hiding commands in strange places around

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

2005-11-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 13:41, Joerg Schilling wrote: Bart Smaalders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My reason for preferring /usr/bin unless there's a name conflict is simply this : if users cannot readily find a command, they implicitly assume it isn't available. There is basically no benefit

Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

2005-11-30 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 02:08, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Bryan Cantrill wrote: Suffice it to say that we have learned the hard way: put it in /usr/bin unless there's a conflict that prevents it. Though I still get complaints about GNOME being in /usr/bin, since it makes it harder to

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Express Basic Sys Admin Guide: Access restricted?

2005-11-30 Thread Jim Siwila
I don't believe this book should be password protected. I am checking and will get it changed if possible. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Nitz
I have a Nexenta elatte gnusolaris partition alongside my NV_27a with a GNOME 2.12 JDS build. Nexenta is based on the same kernel code and also contains a GNOME 2.12 desktop. Unfortunately the binaries for the gnusolaris versions of these applications aren't easily interchangable with the

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris Express DVD?

2005-11-30 Thread lee
http://www.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs ^ this url was posted in another topic here on this forum..give it a try and with luck we'll both be elated when it works ( im getting ready to try it myself) cheers neighborlee This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-11-30 Thread James C. McPherson
Brian Nitz wrote: ... Wouldn't it make sense to strive for binary compatibility and between desktop components of various Sun's Solaris distribution and other opensolaris distributions or should we assume that ISVs will have to either write everything to a stable ABI (Java?) or rebuild on

Re: [osol-discuss] troubles with booting Windows

2005-11-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:11:15AM -0800, Sh wrote: After Solaris installation my Windows doesn't load. Label for booting windows was created automatically by grub , but it doesn't work.This is output from format: Part TagFlag Cylinders SizeBlocks 0

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

2005-11-30 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 05:41 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: The reason why I still have objections against this idea is that you may like to create a PATH that includes less binaries and thus seems to me less dabgerous for administrators. This type of situation is an exception, for

Re: [osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Boutilier
Brian Nitz wrote: [ ...] It think we could get the most efficient sharing of opensource effort if we worked with the other distributions to make a community architecture review or at the very least an equivalent to the LSB standard to work towards. Cross platform and cross release

Re: [osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-11-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Nitz wrote: I have a Nexenta elatte gnusolaris partition alongside my NV_27a with a GNOME 2.12 JDS build. Nexenta is based on the same kernel code and also contains a GNOME 2.12 desktop. Unfortunately the binaries for the gnusolaris versions of these applications aren't easily

Re: [osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-11-30 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:24 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Brian Nitz wrote: I have a Nexenta elatte gnusolaris partition alongside my NV_27a with a GNOME 2.12 JDS build. Nexenta is based on the same kernel code and also contains a GNOME 2.12 desktop. Unfortunately the binaries for the

[osol-discuss] Re: how to do read/write files in the kernel?

2005-11-30 Thread nice
I make a kernel module. In the module, I redirect write system call. Before the data write to the file, I need to handle the data. In my write system call's function, what I do like this: 1. allocate the memory 2. copy the data from userspace 3. handle the data 4. call the original write system

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS Quaestions

2005-11-30 Thread Stephen Lau
nawir wrote: Dear expert, Just want to know some zfs features after trying with express b27. 1. seems the root disk still , so still have to use svm for mirroring root disk correct, ZFS isn't bootable yet. 4. whether zfs created in sparc can be imported in sol10 x86 zfs created in sparc

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: how to do read/write files in the kernel?

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Schrock
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:57:53PM -0800, nice wrote: I make a kernel module. In the module, I redirect write system call. Before the data write to the file, I need to handle the data. In my write system call's function, what I do like this: 1. allocate the memory 2. copy the data from