Re: Kerneltrap interview available

2007-08-09 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Robert Clark wrote: I like retcon, timelord, or tardis. [RC] cut Yes and if we refetch a older file we can say that process is called retardis ;-) -- mph

Re: Kerneltrap interview available

2007-08-09 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Sascha Wildner wrote: Chris Turner wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: Jeremy did another interview of me in Kernel Trap, here's the URL: http://kerneltrap.org/node/14116 -Matt hey so what happened to the Hammer FS name ? JA: Does your new filesystem have a name?

Re: any distributed computing examples?

2007-08-03 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Are any parts of the distributed computing (taking advantage of more than :one DragonFly computer) available for testing? : : Jeremy C. Reed Nuh uh. How far do you reckon (percentage) is the project progressed if we take distributed as end goal and the

Re: Open Mosix

2007-07-18 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Matthew Dillon wrote: : :I think it is not irrelevant to mention here the announcement: :http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=715406 : :Moshe Bar, openMosix founder and project leader, has announced plans to end :the openMosix Project effective March 1, 2008. : :The increasing

Re: birthday??

2007-07-18 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Jason Watson wrote: On 7/17/07, Steve O'Hara-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy Birthday to us! Hip! Hip! Hooray!! -- Signed, Jason Watson Time DragonFlies when you're having fun -- mph

Re: dragonflybsd.org domain back up

2007-03-19 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Matthew Dillon wrote: Heh heh. I feel a little bad... the DNS failure occured over a week ago, when I upgraded apollo. Nobody (including me) noticed that the master was down it until now because secondary DNS server kept serving out the old zone file until it finally timed out.

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-09 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Helge Rohde wrote: cut coercive detention Yes that's true but look on the bright side as long as you don't cooperate you're still not convicted, though you may still be rotting in a cell. The legal hook in this case is that they argue that they have strong suspicion on evidence present in the

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-08 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Helge Rohde wrote: cut Which is precisly why i always envyid that windoze partition encryption thingy, cant remember the name now, but it provides 2 keys, one will open the (actual) container and another one will open another encrypted container with all legal and perfectly harmless files.

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-07 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
cut And always remember it's easier to create fake evidence that hold up in any court then it's to brute force a cipher text. I think the key is that you just don't do the things that makes government officials creative, they hate to be creative ;-) -- mph

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
cut As mentioned in the kernel thread: HACFS High-Availability Clustered FS some other's: NCFSNetwork Clusterable FS IDFSIP Distributed FS DANAD Distributed Array of Network Accessible Disks GUDSGood use of disk space Though HACFS (hack fs) is still my favorite. -- mph

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-22 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
steve wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:31:59PM +, B. Estrade wrote: On 2/22/07, Ernesto Bascon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nymfs is a great name! On 22/02/07, Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut As mentioned in the kernel thread: HACFS High-Availability Clustered FS

clustered (file) system on multiple host

2007-02-01 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Reading the list about vkernel, clustering and file system I've began to wonder. How on earth can you make a cluster without paying for the extreme overhead for locking everything? Is it a question of locking more specific or is there some 'magical' technology that helps you out of that.

Re: bmake not killing childrens (going way off-topic)

2006-10-02 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: There are these times when things just go horribly wrong, yesterday my new boss (who barely touches a computer) saw me rebooting a old FBSD4 server and asked me what that devil was, ok after some explaining he more or less believed me. Now he came into my office

Re: bmake not killing childrens (going way off-topic)

2006-09-30 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
There are these times when things just go horribly wrong, yesterday my new boss (who barely touches a computer) saw me rebooting a old FBSD4 server and asked me what that devil was, ok after some explaining he more or less believed me. Now he came into my office and looked at my laptop which

Re: The future of NetBSD by Charles M. Hannum

2006-09-01 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my : project goals but instead are directly associated with work being done : by our relatively small community. I truely

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD Kernel Feature Requests, interesting info for dfly?

2006-07-12 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Dimitri Kovalov wrote: cut You have it backwards. The reason BSD is all 'black boxes' is that it is not competitive or good in the video area. Apple can make it work because they sell the whole box and can control the hardware. But the open-source OSes don't have the resources to support video.

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

2006-06-14 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Oliver Fromme wrote: cut HOWEVER: If someone wants to remove the MTA entirely from the base system (i.e. not replacing it with another one), then I support that. It should be possible to move sendmail to pkgsrc (I think it's already there), and only leave a simple local delivery agent in the

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

2006-06-14 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Matthew Dillon wrote: cut (2) Provide an RC option to select postfix instead of sendmail as the MTA. cut And if the options could be like: [ ] Sendmail (Default) [ ] Postfix (Preferred) [ ] mail.local (None) With the last one including Oliver's suggestion. Everybody would be

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-30 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Danial Thom wrote: cut As of NOW, the price differential between a single core 2.6ghz Opteron and a dual-core one is about 120%. I can't think of many applications that are going to push a 2.6Ghz opteron that justify spending more than twice as much. Of course that's all going to change in a

Re: Serious question: Is DragonFly's smp ISP-production-ready?

2006-04-19 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
walt wrote: Tomaž Borštnar wrote: [...] Or should I go with FreeBSD? It all depends on which one do you know how to administer. Both will work. Heh. I'm an amateur so I'm incompetent on both systems ;o) Seriously, is there much difference from a professional sysadmin's perspective? Can

Re: Serious question: Is DragonFly's smp ISP-production-ready?

2006-04-19 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Tomaž Borštnar wrote: cut a jail host server) and test network (3 FreeBBSD's, 1 DragonFlyBSD all on VMWare Debian no problems with timekeeping in DF? I still need to have rdate in cron in order to fix time slips with 1.4.3 under Vmware Server. cut Yes I do but that are test servers so I

Re: Wiki spam

2006-03-09 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Sascha Wildner wrote: cut wiki spam How about requiring a valid e-mail address for users and when content is changed by that user a mail is generated and send to the users mail address with a link that activates the changes? -- mph

Re: UNIX

2006-02-26 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Chris Rawnsley wrote: Well I've managed to dig up something. Coined in 1969 to describe a specific computer operating system, the term Unix now covers a whole host of variations, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. The name was intended as a pun on an earlier system called Multics

Re: Fwd: How do I instal Dragonfly BSD from a hard drive - rather than CD?

2005-12-18 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Bill Hacker wrote: cut Hiten, you are onto something here: - Thinking back to when a 'reboot' was not a complete system re-init, i.e. preserving JRAM under DOS 'reboot'... How about a downloadable dumb-but-universal script that would run under anything from CP/M or DOS onward, collect the

Re: Fwd: How do I instal Dragonfly BSD from a hard drive - rather than CD?

2005-12-16 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Emiel Kollof wrote: Hi guys, Forwarded to the users list (The forwarded post is below) and also a reply to this guy. I know it's a troll, but I thought it was way too funny for you guys to miss. It nearly made me choke on my morning coffee. This guy owes me a new keyboard because coffee |

Re: DP performance

2005-12-11 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Danial Thom wrote: cut Are you related to Edgar Allan Poe by some chance? I'm not sure I know which topic you're referring to, since all you do is make vague references to things that don't seem related to anything. First you cited switch specs without an example or what part of the spec made

Re: DP performance

2005-12-10 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
cut What do you think the switch is going to do with the traffic? Its going to dump it. The only argument you gave is false, read the full specs of any modern switch (ie all 1Gb switches) -- mph

Re: DP performance

2005-12-02 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Danial Thom wrote: cut I, on the other hand, have made millions of $$ designing and selling network equipment based on unix-like OSes, so I'm not only qualified to cut What company? Your name doesn't ring a bell to me. -- mph

Re: [off-topic] Re: recommend kvm switch

2005-12-01 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Emiel Kollof wrote: Op donderdag 1 december 2005 15:07, schreef Bob Bagwill: In _My Perfect Computer World_, every computer would be required to have a Universal Console Port, which only spoke the Universal Console Port Protocol. There would be only one physical connector design, the port

Re: RELEASE officially updated to 1.2.6.

2005-10-10 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Oliver Fromme wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: The 1.2 release has been officially bumped to 1.2.6. This might be a dumb question, but ... Is it possible to download an ISO image of 1.2.6 anywhere? Yes, corecode has an image availible:

Re: pebkac routing problem

2005-10-07 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: cut problem Thanks to hints from Matt I solved my routing problem concerning multiple gateways on non routing uplinks using IPFW, I scribbled my progress down and like to share that with you guys. Here you go: Description: The limitation of a single default gateway

Re: pebkac routing problem

2005-10-06 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Matthew Dillon wrote: cut : :Trying to add a route for 213.126.48.0/24 (FAILS): :# route add 213.126.48.0/24 213.126.48.1 :route: writing to routing socket: File exists :add net 213.126.48.0: gateway 213.126.48.1: File exists The outgoing packet is routed based only on the destination

Re: More on vinum woes

2005-09-14 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Matthew Dillon wrote: cut price/performance SCSI vs SATA Exactly my conclusion when I searched for a new server a while ago. I wanted to go for the sun fire v20z (as some may have noticed I tested Df on it) but I needed 300GB+ storage in a hotswap raid configuration. The SAN/NAS solution where

Re: FYI: df on virtual server 2005 (again) newfs error

2005-09-06 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Tomaž Borštnar wrote: cut ACPI stuff perhaps? I was trying to run preview under VMWare ESX and it failed when dealing with SCSI devices. FreeBSD 5.x also failed in the same way. Yesterday I was told that turning off ACPI is the way to go with ESX for FreeBSD 5.x and thus probably also for

pam_echo pam_exec included?

2005-08-29 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Hi all, While browsing for handy pam stuff, I got my eye on pam_echo pam_exec, it seems that these are not available in DF or am I looking not hard enough? I really could use these for my authtoken syncer I'm planning to build in python. -- mph

Re: user/group admin tools

2005-08-29 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Liam J. Foy wrote: cut Agreed. /me hates pw. I would just like these tools in, they're nicely documentated and easy to use in my opinion. Yeah great, now I finally got a bit comfortable with pw they implement something easier ;-) -- mph

Re: dirent ABI and propolice bug fixes in HEAD, DragonFly_Preview tag updated

2005-08-28 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Matthew Dillon wrote: The last of the major userland ABI changes are now in HEAD, along with some propolice bug fixes related to -O2 compiles. cut Not that I want one but when can we expect the next ABI/API change requiring a rebuild of the ports in preview? -- mph