Sun keyboard on i386?

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Re: Sun keyboard on i386?

on whether the comments are accurate). The major difference I see between what I think you're suggesting and the sparc64 way is the use of a userland utility versus autoconf machinery. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: Multiple device attachments

with wdc_ofisa attach wdc at pcmcia with wdc_pcmcia com is another example. So is le. I'm sure there are plenty of others. In some cases they don't even need the with stuff, I think. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: Multiple device attachments

). But a single node, a single instance of a driver (eg, ne0), always has at most one parent (exactly one, I think, except for the autoconf root most ports call mainbus). To put it another way, the autoconf tree is a tree, not a dag. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign

Re: rsync very slow with current kernel (select issue?)

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Re: Adding linux_link(2) system call (Was: Re: link(2) on a symlink to a directory fails)

potentially vary with the filesystem; this is no different. What am I missing? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Adding linux_link(2) system call (Was: Re: link(2) on a symlink to a directory fails)

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Re: autoclean mode for tmpfs

removal in the filesystem makes sense. I'm not sure whether I'd prefer to do it with a new and idiosyncratic syscall, a vfs.something sysctl, some sort of filesystem-level analog to ioctl, or what. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: autoclean mode for tmpfs

about it being possible to make it safe against hostile users), and (c) get directories right. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: autoclean mode for tmpfs

misinformation. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: what to do on memory or cache errors?

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Re: Where are the specific WARNS=n defined?

it off entirely. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Where are the specific WARNS=n defined?

maintenance) of pervasive manual uglification of code to fix non-errors. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Where are the specific WARNS=n defined?

anyway) or uglify the code to work around the warning [ok, my phrasing]. I believe the former is better, because in my experience the mistake the warning warns about is anything but common. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: Adding pulse support to gpio(4), gpioctl(8)

that, but even without threading, there are at least two ways I can think of offhand that a file descriptor, once opened, can end up in multiple processes' open file tables: fork() and SCM_RIGHTS. (There are probably others, too.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X

Re: KASSERTMSG fix

the implementation of foo(). (If you expect to use vprintf or relatives to consume the first ... list, this involves unwarranted chumminess with the stdarg implementation. But if you walk the first ... list yourself, it's no problem at all.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon

Re: KASSERTMSG fix

used it very much and never rolled it forward (it was 1.4T I added it to). Never even got around to adding it to -Wformat. As for using nonstandard formats, don't we already do that with %b? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: Perform mmap and poll on PUD character devices

of changing if you want to run something else instead strike me as the biggest ones. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: MAXNAMLEN vs NAME_MAX

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Re: MAXNAMLEN vs NAME_MAX

sure other people have their own uses for long pathname components, too, though I don't know of any offhand. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3

Re: A simple cpufreq(9)

a size that doesn't exist on that port. Is uint32_t 32 bits or at least 32 bits? THe former may well not exist on a pdp10 port. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39

Re: A simple cpufreq(9)

. Not that I've put all _that_ much effort into looking; finding needles in haystacks is not exactly my forte - unless the needles are bugs and the haystacks are code.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email

Re: UNIX kernel notification system

the damage for purposes of this email. What about embedded? [...] What about machines with multiple keyboard/screen heads [...] I'd argue that embedded is a degenerate case of lights-out, [...] Certainly defensible. The multi-bottle+keyboard ( possibly mouse, though last we met

Mail.app idiocy [was Re: UNIX kernel notification system]

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Re: fs-independent quotas

properly called FFS, and I think using the ufs name as part of something that is filesystem-independent is a mistake. If nothing else, it will confuse humans. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email

Re: fs-independent quotas

cost is..substantially lower. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Patch: rework kernel random number subsystem

-in-1 test trips, long-lived systems _will_ lose their RNGs. I think this is suboptimal. Indeed, a hardware RNG that _didn't_ fail that test once in a while would be suspect. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

4.x - 5.x locking?

for a load to reach global visibility? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: 4.x - 5.x locking?

implicitly push writes to main RAM, or whatever else is necessary to make them visible to other CPUs? (A reordering barrier does not necessarily imply a global visibility barrier.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: 4.x - 5.x locking?

on others) or not - you may have seen my note to the list asking - but those are needed too; if they are part of the mutex routines, then your skeleton code is correct, though your explanation omits part of the reason why. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against

Re: 4.x - 5.x locking?

(at least optionally, and if it's optional then NetBSD runs the hardware in that mode). Correct? If so, that completely annuls the hairiest of my worries. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email

Re: fs-independent quotas

filesystem interfaces that represent such things as strings, I think they are far enough off that it is much too early to try to design them in here. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61

Re: bumping ARG_MAX

depth even if there aren't any more Makefiles for it to find. I think the point still stands. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Patch: new random pseudodevice

broken. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Patch: new random pseudodevice

[I'm pulling together multiple mails from tls here. The second-level quotes are from varying people; I've marked their authors according to the info I have.] [Mouse] Revealed to userland, of course. Combined with the conservative approach to estimating how much entropy was put into the pool

Re: Patch: new random pseudodevice

bit. (The latter is one reason for whitening input bits as they are gathered.) These random number generators are things like the turbulence inside disk drives and the noise in sound input. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: Patch: new random pseudodevice

whichever NetBSD this ends up in. I've pointed out the problems; if NetBSD is determined to carry on regardless, that's its lookout. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7

Re: Use consistent errno for read(2) failure on directories

returns EOPNOTSUPP. This is not to say that it shouldn't be cleaned up. Just that I don't think it's actually nonconformant. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39

Re: Debian OpenSSL desaster (was: Patch: new random pseudodevice)

-governance. So I'll confine myself to saying my respnse is at {ftp,http}://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/ccTLD-thoughts.txt for anyone interested. (Actually, will be at; as I send this mail, I'm still writing it - the draft is available at .../ccTLD-thoughts-draft.txt and I'll move it when I'm done

Re: Debian OpenSSL desaster (was: Patch: new random pseudodevice)

[...] The short answer is that Mouse likes tilting at windmills. :-) Eh. I think that is at least a little of a misstatement. I don't do such things because I enjoy doing them. Quite the opposite. I do them because I must. I'm not entirely sure what I mean by that. It's difficult

Re: Lost file-system story

a filesystem. I'll take a filesystem with a nonzero probability of recovering something useful from over one that guarantees to trash everything any day (other things being equal, of course). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: ccTLD filtering (was: Debian OpenSSL desaster)

You can make [your] point, but you won't win against Mouse as he just doesn't care outside of his wall [...] Yeah. I used to. Then I realized that it was sucking away a huge amount of time, energy, and stress tolerance, for, as far as I could tell, zero benefit to anyone, including me

Re: Lost file-system story

will be irreparable. Memory, CPUs, disks, and the transports between them do fail, occasionally transiently. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results

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Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results

, back in the '80s when I used it - start a new process to run something. You ran it in the same process you ran everything else in. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7

Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results

. :-) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: NetBSD/usermode (Was: CVS commit: src)

. (Not a great way, but it certainly can work.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

raidframe rebuild question

. I can't reconstruct raid11, because it has no operational members. I can't unconfigure it (preparatory to reconfiguring it), because it's held open by raid0. What's the right way to do this? Am I stuck needing a reboot? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X

Re: fifo and [acm]time

A problem, already, and that's with no more than a minute or so of thought.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: raidframe rebuild question

. (The machine in question is a production machine and I'm not in the right city to deal with it personally.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8

Re: fifo and [acm]time

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Re: raidframe rebuild question

--; return(0); #endif } So, yeah, I don't see any way out of this but a reboot. :( /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: DADHI drivers for Asterisk?

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Re: buffer cache ufs changes (preliminary ffsv2 extattr support)

way. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: buffer cache ufs changes (preliminary ffsv2 extattr support)

for a (supposedly-)production OS is not the place to be carrying out research experiments, not even if another such OS is already doing it. But my opinions seem to correlate negatively with NetBSD's these days. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: NetBSD on current AMD motherboards

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Re: RFC: New bus_space routine: bus_space_sync

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Re: RFC: New bus_space routine: bus_space_sync

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Re: extattr namespaces

through pipes and sockets - pretty much all places where octet strings of any sort cross the user/kernel boundary. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8

Re: O_NOACCESS?

Why not use O_DIRECTORY (which is part of -current) and add that to flags? Backporting that might be a better alternative. What are its semantics? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email

Re: O_NOACCESS?

and make O_NOACCESS work only when combined with it. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: O_NOACCESS?

of those two checks, because I can't see any reason wby O_DIRECTORY shouldn't be specifiable with, eg, O_RDONLY. Am I missing something important there? After how I missed something pretty blatantly obvious before, I don't trust myself tonight. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Re: O_NOACCESS?

at the three commits ending with 5215f8f6551df407d7c87c8e6a80c7b04e9ee844 in the git repo git://git.rodents-montreal.org/Mouse/netbsd-fork/4.0.1/src.) The fact that the O_ flags were not intelligently specified aeons ago so that a conversion is required is regrettable, but at this point unfixable

Re: O_NOACCESS?

access permissions at all. And, indeed, without calling device-level open() routines and such. This would also support what Mouse is trying to do, Actually, I don't think it would, not without creating other problems. If it addresses my desire, then it must keep a reference to the underlying

Re: Respawn crashed PUFFS filesystems?

the information in the wrong place. Is there any way it could be set as an option at mount time? (That's a serious question; I don't know puffs enough to answer it.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email

Re: Respawn crashed PUFFS filesystems?

filesystems. Perhaps it's appropriate to add vfsctl(2), with an option which can set a run this on unmount command? Or maybe a wait for unmount operation? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email

Re: vnode_to_path()

need read access to the executable; whether you get that access via a path or not is irrelevant. /proc/curproc/file can address this; so could some kind of get_RO_fd_on_my_executable(). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: vnode_to_path()

, it may not be determinable by the user doing the exec. $ORIGIN is a poorly conceived interface, unfortunately. Not as if _that_'s anything new. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D

Re: raidframe questions

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Re: NetBSD-based file servers

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sin_zero, redux

tree with sin_zero and will be adding prominent comments to it explaining why sin_zero is necessary. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: Adding SMBus block transfers to iic(4)

, at the very least, be confusing. Might I suggest BLKMODE instead of BLOCK? At least to my eye, that's a lot less ambiguous. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39

Re: GSOC 2012 project clarification

more the exception than the rule. Mouse

Re: add disk size to struct disk?

things. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: How to get a struct mount

in the NetBSD version you're using? (I don't see any indication what version you're doing this under.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27

Re: ENOATTR vs ENODATA

EWOULDBLOCK: #endif produces a compile-time error. So, my opinion would be to prefer one of the other alternatives. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3

Re: Thinking about branes for netbsd...

, and, while my Web-fu is admittedly weak, I didn't find anything the least bit helpful. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

watching dynamic device attachment?

is currently at 4.0.1. If this is possible with a more recent version but not with 4.0.1, I might be able to talk its admins into switching, but I suspect they'd rather not; it _is_ a production machine. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: watching dynamic device attachment?

that will let me get the info I want I'd prefer that. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: watching dynamic device attachment?

there, though the list of options it shows is longer, so presumably what you describe won't work before 6.x). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27

Re: choosing the file system block size

, and 1/1073741824 for 8k.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: choosing the file system block size

the source to newfs and/or fsck; they know a good deal about that stuff, and are much smaller and more comprehensible than the filesystem kernel code. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61

Re: choosing the file system block size

don't know. I don't know of any such book, but I've never looked; my own knowledge of such things comes from experimentation and code reading. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61

Re: accessing another process' resource limits

Is there an interface for reading (or even writing) another process' ulimits? Yes. Command-line: sysctl proc.$PID.rlimit.$RESOURCE.{soft,hard} (use -w to change them, of course). API: sysctl(3) with the analogous MIB. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X

Re: raw/block device disc troughput

syscall per 256K will be four times as costly in syscall overhead as doing one syscall per 1M, even if it is four times as costly in disk transfers. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8

Re: raw/block device disc troughput

. Unless the host is unusually slow, writing to the disk will be the limiting factor here, meaning the buffer cache will have a large number of writes pending, so coalescing writes is plausible, even likely. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: Should kqueue descriptors work outsid of the creating process?

enough to prohibit something. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: per-mount maxvnodes

mounted-on string. But that's definitely an unusual case, and I see nothing wrong with accessing the topmost mount in that case; that's what normal filesystem accesses will do, after all. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents

Re: selectively disabling atime updates?

at snapshots, only at the block device level instead of the filesystem level. (Actually, looking at the existing snapshot support, it's not clear to me that's not exactly what it already is.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo

Re: RAID 1 with 3 disks

Iis RAIDframe smarter when it has 3 disaks in a RAID 1? Does RF even support 3-disk RAID 1? It didn't last time I looked, but that was long enough ago it could very well have changed since then. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: software interrupts scheduling oddities

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Re: Quota on tmpfs

be exempted from quotas without harm (eg, root). Do you have experience or studies indicating that this is another respect in which I am an outlier? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61

Re: Quota on tmpfs

not distinguish between a sparse file and a file with long runs of 0x00s, so that's not evidence for whether it was dumped sparse. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D

Re: Syscall kill(2) called for a zombie process should return 0

is disabled or limited, the version quoted above will probably be marginally larger and, assuming larger code doesn't mean more cache line fills, marginally faster. Which is `more costly' depends on what costs you care about and to what extent. /~\ The ASCII Mouse

Re: disklabel problems on 3TB disc

hello. You can put a wedge on the disk or put the raid on the raw disk itself. Can you RAID the raw disk? I thought you had to use partitions of type RAID for that, which RAW_PART isn't. Am I just confused? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

Re: RAID on raw partitions (was: disklabel problems on 3TB disc)

(or a suitable porting of it if you're not using the version the patch is for). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B

Re: full-disc partition (was: RAID on raw partitions)

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Re: disklabel problems on 3TB disc

, unless for your purposes custom bugfixes aren't acceptable, or finding them isn't going to happen, or some such. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTMLmo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E

Re: disklabel problems on 3TB disc

issue. (Actually, it's a RAID 15 - a RAID 5 whose members are RAID 1s.) I can supply full diffs if desired, or anyone with git installed is welcome to clone the repo and look at the aforementioned changesets. (For those interested, it's at git://git.rodents-montreal.org/Mouse/netbsd-fork/4.0.1/src

Re: pinning down dk? assignment

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