Re: Fwd: Porting Hammerfs (was: iSCSI, lvm, storage and the future)

2007-12-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Qemu running on DragonFly

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
t #include without testing on other platforms. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Announcing pkg_search

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
on't think we need to create a contrib infrastructure for it. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: moused + modular xorg 'sticking' ?

2007-11-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
re the FP state from the ucontext. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Adding ad[4-6]s* to default devices

2007-10-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Tickless system?

2007-10-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Filesystem encryption

2007-10-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
hokey. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Filesystem encryption

2007-10-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
ot planning on it for 2.0, just getting HAMMER's base functionality implemented is already pretty challenging. But there's nothing particularly difficult about the concept. -Matt

Re: Licenses again...

2007-09-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
years, it can wind up being a completely different entity than the original was. Now what do you do? -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Licenses again...

2007-09-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
hands and say 'I don't know'. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Licenses again...

2007-09-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
The issue between OpenBSD and Linux revolves around Sam Leffler's code (as in the Sam Leffler of FreeBSDland). Basically Sam's code is dual-licensed and he has explicitly said that people can use one license to the exclusion of the other. OpenBSD then took Sam's code and, per

Re: /etc/rc.d/localdaemons

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
tead of the scripts under 'localdaemons'. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: NFS scalability

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
he easiest solution at the moment. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: NFS question

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Great, thanks a lot! :Btw, Which man page contains doco for all the options? : :Petr man mount_nfs -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: NFS question

2007-09-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Error message: md: si_iosize_max not set

2007-09-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
? : :Regards. :Vincent It's a bug. Try this patch. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: md.c

1.10.1 rolled!

2007-08-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
1.10.1 has been rolled! A serious mbuf leak and issues with hardware packet checksum support have been fixed in this sub-release. -Matt

Podcast Interview - DragonFly 1.10 and 5 years

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
ks again. : :-- Will -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: libgtop2 and xorg break

2007-08-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
ysctl with sysctl. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: libgtop2 and xorg break

2007-08-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Damn, I should have caught that. The pkgsrc bootstrap installs a good mk.conf, so we should remove the mk.conf from the skel. Doing so as we speak. : :cheers : simon : :-- :Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ASCII Ribbon /"\ I'm thinking we will want something in the

Re: libgtop2 and xorg break

2007-08-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
conf stuff. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RealTek 8168B/8111B, new revision (ISO-request)

2007-08-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
portable you can just avoid using fdisk entirely and disklabel the unit directly (disklabel -r -w da0s0 auto). -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RealTek 8168B/8111B, new revision (ISO-request)

2007-08-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Thanks for the hint, but actually I was trying to fdisk a USB stick. :Kernel says the following when I plug it in: : :umass1: ChipsBnk Flash Disk, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3 :da0 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 :da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device :da0: 1.000MB/s transfers :da0: 1010MB (5173

Re: DragonFly installation experience / suggestions

2007-08-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
* Also run the size command on the module: size /modules/if_ipw.ko That early in the boot there's probably no way to get a kernel core dump. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RealTek 8168B/8111B, new revision (ISO-request)

2007-08-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
): b_bcount 1024 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 2048) You are trying to fdisk a CD ? You can't fdisk a CD. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :when inv

Re: dfly mail archive not working

2007-08-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
See, this is why I just stuck a line in /etc/rc.local. Much easier then muffing about with a broken RC . -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dfly mail archive not working

2007-08-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
orks. oops. Ok, fixed. I keep meaning to fix the rc script. I'll just add a manual start in rc.local. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Domain concept?

2007-08-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
h dragonflybsd.org You would have a line like this: search mydomain.com What this line does is allow you to shortcut the name you use to access your machine. That is, you can just go 'ping mymachine' instead of having to say 'ping mymachine.m

Re: RealTek 8168B/8111B, new revision

2007-08-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
ess up your hard drive, though. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: if_re.c === RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/ne

Re: RealTek 8168B/8111B, new revision

2007-08-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
the driver. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

mbuf leak found - (was mbuf leak in kernel)

2007-08-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

mbuf leak in kernel

2007-08-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
It looks like there is a mbuf leak somewhere in -RELEASE and in -HEAD. I do not know where it is yet but if anyone has done any recent networking work (general work, not the wireless stuff), please check over your commits. -Matt

Re: Kerneltrap interview available

2007-08-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
ng issues. We probably need to implement the various posix scheduling methodologies, too. SMP isn't on my priority list but that shouldn't stop anyone who wants to work on it. -Matt

Re: DRAGONFLY 1.10 RELEASED!

2007-08-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
ject these days. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Kerneltrap interview available

2007-08-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
Jeremy did another interview of me in Kernel Trap, here's the URL: http://kerneltrap.org/node/14116 -Matt

Re: DRAGONFLY 1.10 RELEASED!

2007-08-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
instructions, so you'd better :put something at that URL -- or duck! I'm moving on to post-release work, but if someone wants to create a Wiki page, please be my guest! -Matt Matt

DRAGONFLY 1.10 RELEASED!

2007-08-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 1.10 release ISO on crater - official announcement will be Monday

2007-08-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
2d24a36720b37a7e -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

1.10 release ISO on crater - official announcement will be Monday

2007-08-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
The 1.10 release ISO is now on crater! The official announcement will be made tomorrow (Monday) after our mirrors have had a chance to get a copy. There will be some minor release errata. The pkgsrc issue with the bootstrap has not been fixed. Also, the installer defaults to

Re: SMP vkernel speed on UP host

2007-08-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
better solution for I/O, for sure. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Warning, objcache(cluster mbuf): Exhausted!

2007-08-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Now look how stupid I am. I accidentally exposed my 3128 port to the :World Wide Web and all creatures from the dark wilderness were trying to :abuse it. I have restricted it properly now and pflog reports about 100 :connection attempts to port 3128. : :Matt, your hints led me to the final soluti

Re: Warning, objcache(cluster mbuf): Exhausted!

2007-08-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
o what the machine is doing, using netstat -tn, netstat -m, ps, etc. Is squid simply trying to maintain more open TCP sockets then the system can handle? -Matt Matthew

Re: any distributed computing examples?

2007-08-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :How far do you reckon (percentage) is the project progressed if we take :distributed as end goal and the source-split as begin? : :-- :mph I'd say we're well over half way there. -Matt Matt

Re: any distributed computing examples?

2007-08-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Are any parts of the distributed computing (taking advantage of more than :one DragonFly computer) available for testing? : : Jeremy C. Reed Nuh uh. -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
d src. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
o use pkgsrc infrastructure as much as we can because it provides a very easy method to customize our ISO. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07

2007-08-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
ow us to do something like 'make installer dvd release' or 'make installer dvd quickrel' without having to create a multiplication of make targets. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
everything, uncompressed and ready to use. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: New Mirror

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
soon. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Release 1.10 update - 31-Jul-07

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
synchronized with the release. Both the HEAD preview tag and the release slip tag have also been updated. No release date has been set yet but this coming weekend is looking real good now. -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: Help with confusing C code in loader?

2007-07-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
o elf32_loadfile() is loaded into the file_format structure). The code you are referencing is what calls through to that function. The l_load declration you found is not specifically related. -Matt

Release Update - still delayed

2007-07-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Warning, objcache(cluster mbuf): Exhausted!

2007-07-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
a mbuf leak somewhere. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Warning, objcache(cluster mbuf): Exhausted!

2007-07-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
l the mbufs. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: FF & varsym

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
creates a problem when you tar or cpdup a directory tree because you wind up breaking the varsym. So for now I think the only real solution is to modify firefox to understand varsyms. -Matt Matt

Re: vnode_pager_putpages flood

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
rapper for this anyway so I went ahead and wrote one. The pps rate check code is kinda hokey. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: ker

Release update

2007-07-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
There are two outstanding issues which I think have to be fixed before we can release. The first is that loading EHCI (usb) at boot time causes USB hard drives to fail to detect. The second is that 'vinum start' often winds up corrupting the whole kernel in a fairly scary

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: samba speedup

2007-07-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
ave no idea. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
and amd64_elf_obj into our boot loader and seeing if that fixes the problem. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Update on release schedule

2007-07-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
We're going to have to delay the 1.10 release for another week due to the NATA fix that just went in and a few other hangers-on. It needs more testing. I will be branching the source tree for the release today or tomorrow though.

Re: Kernel modules: DF versus FBSD?

2007-07-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
you get, if any, when you load them with the boot loader. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [close to OT but...] Re: ath(4) at boot time

2007-07-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
e device and attaches the driver. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: birthday??

2007-07-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-July/006889.html : :Annoucning DragonFly BSD! :Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com :Wed Jul 16 12:41:34 PDT 2003 Happy Birthday to us! -Matt

Re: Open Mosix

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
ally solves the same problem that SSI does, but I also firmly believe that doing SSI properly requires complete integration into the kernel to really be effective. -Matt

Re: Dragonfly wall's

2007-07-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
Very nice. Justin, you gonna throw it into cvs so we don't lose it? -Matt

Re: 1.10 release will be mid-July tentatively.

2007-07-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
www. Nah, I'll make it 195000. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 1.10 release will be mid-July tentatively.

2007-07-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:i know what 1.10 is mean. but just not compatible with the fact that :the numerical value of the new version number 1.10 is less than those :old version number, 1.8, 1.6, 2.0 is not what we want. Yup. But I'm afraid it is the best choice out of a host of bad choices.

Re: 1.10 release will be mid-July tentatively.

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
;ll use 195000 for DragonFly_version. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

1.10 release will be mid-July tentatively.

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] The pkgsrc-2007Q2 Branch

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Binary packages are available from :http://www.pkgsrc-box.org/packages/2007Q2/DragonFly-1.8/All :and the stable link been adjusted accordingly. : :Joerg Good timing! -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: odd vfsync_bp messages

2007-07-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: file handles in checkpt and sys_checkpoint

2007-06-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
ly associate the descriptor used to restore the checkpoint instead of trying to lookup the original checkpoint file. I also got rid of the debugging kprintfs to the console on checkpoint restore. -Matt

Re: file handles in checkpt and sys_checkpoint

2007-06-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
ting a program to force it to be written out in full (thus removing the dependancy on earlier checkpoints). -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Watching a file system

2007-06-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
bly but the one in HEAD will compile under RELEASE. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Watching a file system

2007-06-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: :> You can monitor system calls made by programs with ktrace. : :Ok, but what if I want to watch access to a particular file system :(e.g. a mounted cdrom) by *all* system processes? :) :-- :Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA

Re: Watching a file system

2007-06-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Watching a file system

2007-06-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
race. you can monitor *MODIFYING* operations to filesystems with the journaling support, e.g.: mountctl -a -o fd=1 /tmp:monitor | jscan -d Hmm. mountctl -l doesn't work. I'll go fix that. -Matt

Re: Apache in pkgsrc has largefile support on?

2007-06-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
use a 64 bit off_t at the beginning, even though at that time the BSDs already *HAD* 64 bit off_t's. Actually, I think Microsoft is to blame too, but at least they had an excuse 20 years ago. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: umodem? driver

2007-06-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
talk to it via ucom0. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

HEADS UP! More disklabel work on HEAD, be careful

2007-06-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
el32.h and sys/disklabel.h will become a generic abstraction layer. The original struct disklabel will become struct disklabel32, etc. All of the disentangling of the disklabel is almost done! -Matt Matt

Re: Remote Install

2007-06-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
a again until you have it right. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #!/bin/csh # # A file like this is typically copied to /usr/local/etc/rconfig/auto.sh on # the rconfig server and the rconfig demon is

Re: umodem? driver

2007-06-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
luck. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: leaf /home is full

2007-06-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:/home on leaf seems to be full. : :Best Regards, :sephe Time to clean up, everyone! -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Weird issues with fdisk/dd

2007-06-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
do a make ugprade ? If not, do it. Maybe you don't have the new MAKEDEV. ls -la the devices you are trying to use, before and after. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Weird issues with fdisk/dd

2007-06-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
advance, :Joe Holden Yes, what you did will work, once you fix the devices in /dev. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tty/pty/console wish

2007-06-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
I will note one thing on remote sessions... if you are running through NAT (network address translation), which is a very typical function of today's cable modems, the NAT translation will often timeout if the link stays idle too long. This will cause the link to die when you c

Re: tty/pty/console wish

2007-06-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
I think the last time I used screen was 20 years ago. I just leave all my xterms open. Sometimes I have upwards of 30 windows open across four virtual screens in X. When people were describing the NATA bugs I had an xterm open in an unsaved vi for over a week with all my notes

Re: weired behavior

2007-06-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
. Timer 1 basically either works, or the machine hardlocks when the kernel tries to configure it at boot. Since your machine seems to be working, I'd say everything is good now. -Matt

Re: weired behavior

2007-06-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
disable certain features. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: weired behavior

2007-06-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
with the timer. Is your clock running at normal speed or is it sped up too? (e.g. run 'date' a few times from a shell). -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: weired behavior

2007-05-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: weired behavior

2007-05-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
he explantion of the cause and effect would be highly appreciated. : :Cheers :kmb That is ultra odd. What did you upgrade from? An earlier release or a less recent HEAD? -Matt M

Re: Referencing DragonFly

2007-05-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: init dies with SIGABRT

2007-05-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
ically linked. I really doubt init is gonna be happy with that. Get rid of the special make variables. Just compile up a normal world. /bin is only 6MB and /sbin is only 16MB anyway. That's nothing in today's world. -Matt

Re: SMP performance on drgonfly

2007-05-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
interrupts still need it, too. We're looking for volunteers to help lock up subsystems. The main one that is just about ready is the network stack. -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: WiKi page messed up

2007-05-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SMP performance on drgonfly

2007-05-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
t the same. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SMP performance on drgonfly

2007-05-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
A large chunk of the kernel still runs under the big giant lock, including the light weight processes that libthread_xu uses, so something like mysql is going to hit a lot of BGL contention. You may be able to get DragonFly to run on the machines you were having problems wi

HEADS UP - development tree may be unstable for a few days

2007-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
As people may have noticed from the commits I'm working on separating out the all the hardcoded references to struct disklabel. I'm separating out all the disk management layering code into distinct pieces (slice code, disklabel, partition management). I might make a mistake,

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