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

2005-11-29 Thread nice
In kernel modules, how to do read/write files ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] questions about moving to ZFS

2005-11-29 Thread Thomas Nau
Thanks for the quick reply Robert. >TN> - assuming a zpool in 2 disk mirror configuration on which one or more ZFS >TN> reside would it be possible to do the same trick? I understand that we >TN> could export the pool and import on two different machines and fix the >TN> 'missing mirror part' a

Re: [osol-discuss] questions about moving to ZFS

2005-11-29 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Thomas, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 9:15:19 PM, you wrote: TN> Hi all. TN> I do have some questions concerning the move away from UFS/SVM to ZFS. TN> Using SVM mirror quite intensivly in the past we many times broke up TN> mirrors and mounted each submirrors UFS on seperate mountpoint or

[osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source

2005-11-29 Thread Gary Gendel
> Nikhil wrote: > > I believe all of them putting under > /usr/gnu/{lib,bin,include} whatever > > specific to gnu under /usr/gnu as prefix directory > would be better. > > > > Do you have a reason? > > My reason for preferring /usr/bin unless there's a > name conflict is > simply this : if u

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris on 915gm

2005-11-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
len wrote: does opensolaris latest build supports intel 915gm? thanks OpenSolaris (which is just a source release) contains no graphics support at this time. The Solaris Express release (built from the OpenSolaris sources, plus additional software from other sources) from Sun does include a v

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris on 915gm

2005-11-29 Thread John Weekley
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:26, len wrote: > does opensolaris latest build supports intel 915gm? thanks Sort of, err not very well. Maybe. Got one in this Dell D610, I use the XSun Intel VESA driver. > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > open

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

2005-11-29 Thread Ian Collins
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 install another version and without

[osol-discuss] opensolaris on 915gm

2005-11-29 Thread len
does opensolaris latest build supports intel 915gm? thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2005-11-29 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:08 -0800, 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 har

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

2005-11-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
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 install another version and without breaking all the existing bit

[osol-discuss] SVOSUG ZFS video online at genunix (from 11/22/05)

2005-11-29 Thread Alan DuBoff
The video from our last Silicon Valley Open Solaris User Group is online, in case anyone didn't know, and can be got from genunix.org at this link: http://www.genunix.org/osug/video/OSUG-Nov.avi Much thanks to the folks that make genunix.org possible for all of us! -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More

2005-11-29 Thread Tri pivceta
On 11/28/05, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A classic one I just *adore* is allowing the use of "//" for comments inside of C source code... actually, that's C99. SunStudio allows it as well. no flamewar points for you!! You think? Sun Studio compilers used to complain violently u

Re: [osol-discuss] lchmod

2005-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >What do you like to achieve with this call? > > > > > > There's one potential use: a chmod() call which doesn't follow > > > symlinks. No race conditions, etc... > > >

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

2005-11-29 Thread Albertson, Brett
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, Nexenta, etc. You can choose to run any of them, and they w

[osol-discuss] what kind of updates ?

2005-11-29 Thread lee
hi.. I read at solaris site that free updates are in place for security and hardware drivers..if cost of ownership for system ( non security or hardware related) udpates means at least $120/yr then thats not a road I feel comfortable going down ( when clear linux alteratives exist ) but I o

[osol-discuss] questions about moving to ZFS

2005-11-29 Thread Thomas Nau
Hi all. I do have some questions concerning the move away from UFS/SVM to ZFS. Using SVM mirror quite intensivly in the past we many times broke up mirrors and mounted each submirrors UFS on seperate mountpoint or just kept one as a kind of snapshot. Has always been a nice quick and cheap backu

Re: [osol-discuss] lchmod

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Ricker
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >What do you like to achieve with this call? > > > > There's one potential use: a chmod() call which doesn't follow > > symlinks. No race conditions, etc... > > OK, this makes sense. BTW, it's not just a Linux thing -

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

2005-11-29 Thread Bryan Cantrill
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:22:52AM -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote: > Nikhil wrote: > > I believe all of them putting under /usr/gnu/{lib,bin,include} whatever > >specific to gnu under /usr/gnu as prefix directory would be better. > > > > Do you have a reason? > > My reason for preferring /usr/bin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Ricker
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Solaris automounter actually works correctly in that respect; > it determines if a mountpoint is remote or local and will use an > NFS or loopback depending on the outcome. And Linux autofs uses bind mounts for local mounts, which is conceptu

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

2005-11-29 Thread Bart Smaalders
Nikhil wrote: I believe all of them putting under /usr/gnu/{lib,bin,include} whatever specific to gnu under /usr/gnu as prefix directory would be better. Do you have a reason? My reason for preferring /usr/bin unless there's a name conflict is simply this : if users cannot readily find a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care?

2005-11-29 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:02 pm, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jake Maciejewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But you already claimed OpenBSD has unacceptable limitations for the > > > desktop that Solaris doesn''t have. BTW Solaris has roots in a 30 year > > > old technology not 10. Having said this So

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Systems Inc.

2005-11-29 Thread Mac
Joerg Schilling wrote: yesterday, I ran across something I could like to know but have not been able to elaborate: On www.gnusolaris.org, I read This work is initiated and sponsored by Nexenta Systems, Inc. Technical support is available from a variety of sources, including Community and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care?

2005-11-29 Thread Eric Schrock
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:37:56PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe I did not yet grok them, could you help me please? > > I tried 'zfs set mountpoint=legacy', but while mount -F zfs pool /mnt > works, mount -F zfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt does not wor

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Containers for Linux Applications

2005-11-29 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
> is there a solaris containers for linux apps (SCLA?) thread/forum/whatever > here somewhere? Not yet, but the timeout on the naming proposal expired over the weekend, so hopefully there will be a community within a few days. You can find the naming discussion archived on opensolaris.org:

[osol-discuss] Re: New forum proposal/wish

2005-11-29 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
> Hi There. What about a new forum regardig the "Redhat linux binary execution > in solaris zone" feature, which are realeased very soon according to Sun ? The community will be coming very soon. The timeout on the naming proposal expired over the weekend, so hopefully we'll have a 'brandz' commu

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care?

2005-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 13:34, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The simplicity of administering ZFS is far over everything else. All > > > other > > > systems seem to have usability problems, even the window

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Systems Inc.

2005-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hi, yesterday, I ran across something I could like to know but have not been able to elaborate: On www.gnusolaris.org, I read This work is initiated and sponsored by Nexenta Systems, Inc. Technical support is available from a variety of sources, including Community and

[osol-discuss] SOSUG#4 videos available

2005-11-29 Thread Alan Hargreaves
James McPherson on ZFS and Bryan Cantrill on new stuff in DTrace. Currently only have WMV version 9 video, I'm working on DivX. See the blog for details, I need to get to bed. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tpenta?entry=sosug_4_videos_available alan. -- Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] lchmod

2005-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >What do you like to achieve with this call? > > There's one potential use: a chmod() call which doesn't follow > symlinks. No race conditions, etc... OK, this makes sense. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris and Virtual PC

2005-11-29 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Bill Rushmore wrote: I got it working with VMware and it work quite nicely. I haven't tried Solaris in a while but I think the issue is that only Xorg will work with VPC. Try a text based install and configure for Xorg. From the feedback that I have received about BeleniX this is indeed

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

2005-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Durrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Initial Proposal > > > >   * GNU commands that don't collide with current /usr/bin namespace - > > place these in /usr/bin. > > > >   * GNU commands that do collide with commands already in /usr/bin - > > place these in /usr/gnu/bin, following th

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

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Durrant
Initial Proposal   * GNU commands that don't collide with current /usr/bin namespace - place these in /usr/bin.   * GNU commands that do collide with commands already in /usr/bin - place these in /usr/gnu/bin, following the convention we started with /usr/xpg*/bin. I'd definitely g

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care?

2005-11-29 Thread UNIX admin
> I still have my doubts when it comes to desktops > (mostly because I'm too demanding), but Solaris is > sounding more appealing for servers and routers. These things take time; Solaris has made some great strides in this area, most notably JDS. It can only get better as time passes, because peo