Re: HAMMER and RAID 5

2009-03-03 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Mag Gam wrote: I was wondering if HAMMER will ever have network based RAID 5. After researching several file systems it seems HAMMER is probably the closest to achieve this problem and will make HAMMER a pioneer. Any thoughts or ideas? There is a SoC project dealing with local redundancy. I

HEADS UP: iwi(4) firmware upgraded.

2009-03-03 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
Hi all, Thanks to Johannes Hofmann's work, iwi(4)'s firmware is upgraded to 3.0. You will have to download the new firmware image from: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=7 And then untar it to /etc/firmware/iwi/2200/3.0/ iwicontrol(8) will be dropped soon. Best Regards, sephe

Re: 1 week until Summer of Code application time

2009-03-03 Thread Sdävtaker
It will be amazing if someone can get FreeBSD-UFS mountable (at least for read). On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 01:27, Justin C. Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: Here's a heads-up: Application time for organizations (not students) to get into the 2009 Summer of Code program is 1 week away.

Re: 1 week until Summer of Code application time

2009-03-03 Thread Bill Hacker
Sdävtaker wrote: It will be amazing if someone can get FreeBSD-UFS mountable (at least for read). I didn't realize that it wasn't Should I cease doing it? OpenBSD is problematic among slices on on same-disk, but even that is apparently resolvable via disklabel editing. Haven't felt

Re: HEADS UP: iwi(4) firmware upgraded.

2009-03-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:58:37PM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: Thanks to Johannes Hofmann's work, iwi(4)'s firmware is upgraded to 3.0. sysutils/iwi-firmware3? Joerg

glx module

2009-03-03 Thread Jim Chapman
I installed release 2.2.0 and added the xorg packages including modular-xorg-server. When I start X I get a message Failed to load module glx (module does not exist, 0) This prevents the xorg.conf which uses the intel driver from starting. If I change the xorg.conf file to use the vesa driver

Re: glx module

2009-03-03 Thread Bill Hacker
Jim Chapman wrote: I installed release 2.2.0 and added the xorg packages including modular-xorg-server. When I start X I get a message Failed to load module glx (module does not exist, 0) This prevents the xorg.conf which uses the intel driver from starting. If I change the xorg.conf file to

Re: HEADS UP: iwi(4) firmware upgraded.

2009-03-03 Thread Johannes Hofmann
Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:58:37PM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: Thanks to Johannes Hofmann's work, iwi(4)'s firmware is upgraded to 3.0. sysutils/iwi-firmware3? Yes, would be nice if we could integrate firmware loading better with the

Re: HEADS UP: iwi(4) firmware upgraded.

2009-03-03 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Tue, March 3, 2009 1:30 pm, Johannes Hofmann wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.de wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:58:37PM +0800, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: Thanks to Johannes Hofmann's work, iwi(4)'s firmware is upgraded to 3.0. sysutils/iwi-firmware3? Yes, would be nice if

Re: 1 week until Summer of Code application time

2009-03-03 Thread Mag Gam
Cool projects. I am rooting for Add redundant data storage to the HAMMER file system. Go Simon :-) On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org wrote: Sdävtaker wrote: It will be amazing if someone can get FreeBSD-UFS mountable (at least for read). I didn't realize

Re: HAMMER and RAID 5

2009-03-03 Thread Mag Gam
Thanks everyone for the replies. Simon good luck with your project, we are all wishing you well! On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert corec...@fs.ei.tum.de wrote: Mag Gam wrote: I was wondering if HAMMER will ever have network based RAID 5. After researching several

HAMMR fs limits

2009-03-03 Thread Bill Hacker
Matt, Is HAMMER ready for this? http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=383tag=rbxccnbzd1 35 bits stored. .. per each *electron* . Stackable to 70-bits per electron. So far. Somebody must have anticipated signed integers and parity.. ;-) Bill