Re: Is chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de down? can't git pull src

2009-10-20 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
]: errno=No route to host fatal: unable to connect a socket (No route to host) Maybe fs.ei.tum.de finally received Doxycycline :) -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: how to add v2.4.1 tag to .git/ dir

2009-10-19 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
then just do    a 'git fetch' to bring it up-to-date from the internet.  So    instead of having to download the entire repo over the net    you only have to download an incremental update. Isn't git pull preferable if the user does not need to review or merge changes? -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre

Re: HAMMER and RAID 5

2009-03-02 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
round trips for N redundant copies. What is an acceptable penalty on local disks is pretty heavy for network storage. If you really want, you can use vinum over iSCSI to get networked RAID5, but it will not perform well. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria

tree.h RB_AUGMENT empty body warning

2009-02-18 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
only if it's not already defined in a prior header, so maybe it's declared differently in different parts of the kernel. If it must be kept, is the re-definition I gave acceptable as a permanent commit? It will certainly avoid a lot of warnings with GCC 4.2 and 4.3. Thanks in advance! -- Dmitri

Re: RAID 1 or Hammer

2009-01-12 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
. It seems it's good for really long term storage, since it'll heal over bad blocks if scrubbed regularly. But how often do silent bad blocks even occur? -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: PKGSRCGFE=PKGSRC GRAPHICAL FRONT END

2008-12-08 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
! -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: problem in gtk programming

2008-10-18 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
/include/gtk-2.0, among others. The best way to do this for a single source file: gcc `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --libs --cflags` -o prova prova.c -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: Hammer: Transactional file updates

2008-08-23 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
level details would enjoy those posts. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: Hammer: Transactional file updates

2008-08-19 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 08:40:20PM +1000, Dmitri Nikulin wrote: I personally believe that Unix should have had a transactional file IO API from the start, so that all modern file systems would implement

Re: Hammer: Transactional file updates

2008-08-19 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Dmitri Nikulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 08:40:20PM +1000, Dmitri Nikulin wrote: I personally believe that Unix should have had a transactional file IO API from

Re: Determining Running Applications on Specific CPU

2008-08-19 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
does that with the right options. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: Hammer: Transactional file updates

2008-08-17 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
a custom transactional format anyway, which becomes redundant when running on HAMMER. You'd have to wait until an API becomes standard on at least the platforms you intend to support. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: Portable vkernel (emulator)

2008-07-11 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
the same up-hill battle have been completely derailed or ignored. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: Portable vkernel (emulator)

2008-07-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
serves as fileserver for windoze ;-) (or FreeBSD - vkernel - hammer - nfs - FreeBSD :) Yeah, you can do that with KVM. I'm not convinced that'd perform any better, or be any more reliable, than using native FreeBSD 7 with ZFS. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University

Re: Portable vkernel (emulator)

2008-07-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
that they're finally stepping up to the task of virtualising modern games, the biggest virtualisation holdout to date. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: Portable vkernel (emulator)

2008-07-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
. The network effect of Linux as a whole is what makes it so much more powerful than any individual product it eventually replaces. VMware will probably end up rebasing on Linux to some degree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESX_Server#Architecture Oh. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre

Re: Wake on LAN

2008-07-08 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
of a sandwich. Does it work if you Suspend instead of Halting the machine? I don't know if WOL is supposed to work from Suspend but if it did, it'd work around your problem nicely. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
to point to when arguing that free operating systems outperform proprietary ones. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-03-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitri Nikulin wrote: Hi Kris, Do you think you'd have a chance to load up Windows Server on the same machine and compare its MySQL and PostgreSQL to modern Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris? I dont think there's

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-02-28 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Justin C. Sherrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 27, 2008 11:29 pm, Dmitri Nikulin wrote: The benchmark at http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/os-mysql.png (for the full presentation, see http://www.freedomtc.com/pdf/7.0_Preview.pdf

Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-02-28 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
on the application level, often much more optimally than a general approach could ever be. SSI doesn't help there either, unfortunately. -Matt -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-02-27 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
in the face of increasing pressure from projects with much larger developer communities and software ecosystems. I look forward to being told I'm completely wrong and everything is much better than it seems :) Cheers -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800

Re: Install JRE

2007-10-12 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On 10/11/07, Joerg Sonnenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for volunteering to do it. Just checked, and even building the OpenJDK still requires so-called binary plugs which are only available for a few platforms. So true native will have to wait on Sun anyway. Rats. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: Install JRE

2007-10-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
be good enough for what people want from a JDK and JRE. -- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: benchmark results

2007-04-30 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
there. It's obvious that if even synthetic benchmarks can't agree, then real world uses are even more difficult to correlate. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
the privileges of rsync. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: mounting UFS from Linux

2007-03-23 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
it was in FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_umapfssektion=8apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-09 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
investigation squads. The unmarked vans are probably outside right this moment. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-07 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
that I wasn't clear enough, at least for you. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-05 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
-step the cryptography anyway - e.g. tempest emissions or a surprise seizure of belongings. I'd like to be able to pretend that's only used for the Bad guys. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-05 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
you will soon love Python and be unable to keep from writing more of it. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-04 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
it, this is the code: http://www.labthug.com/~adrian/LabBot/LabBot.py It's not beautiful but it's also not much work to clean up. I recommend the next iteration get Twisted Python treatment. It's an extra dependency, true, but it also gives you a lot more for free and lends itself to much better reuse. --- Dmitri

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-04 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
, the server, and any gateways involved. Yes, the same machines can be exploited to change or ignore the messages anyway, but this is more complicated than spoofing an IRC message and, notably, would have a very different effect on the appearance of the conversation. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre

Re: distributed filesystem name

2007-02-21 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
ext2/ext3 are often named extNfs, especially in BSD implementations. I guess you could give a nod to decades of BSD culture by including UFS in the name somehow, like NUFS (say NewFS) for Networked Unix File System. Not quite NFS or UFS, but still feels Unixy. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre

Re: Why not FUSE ZFS?

2007-02-20 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
that it also seems to take less effort. Just out of curiosity I'll investigate the work necessary to support puffs within DragonFly's VFS sometime soon. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-19 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
are dynamically sizable and can be configured over multiple volumes. And with very little limitation all around. It's entirely possible to use the same foundations without using the same file system itself, and this would be good for DragonFly even before it supports the full ZFS. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre

Why not FUSE ZFS?

2007-02-19 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: lsdvd won't work on DF 1.8

2007-02-17 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
, since that's where it's seeking to. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: DragonFly's tools (and technologies)?

2007-02-10 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
you add to or correct this first? Checkpointing - serialize process state to be resumed later on a compatible system. ECC detection - detects memory faults on supported systems. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: UFS disklabel recovery/restore?

2007-02-06 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
with DragonFly too. That was a long time ago so you may as well do a checkout from the netbsd-4 branch now. Maybe this could be trivially ported to DragonFly, or pulled out into pkgsrc for other platforms to use. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800

Re: UFS disklabel recovery/restore?

2007-02-06 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
earlier is its successor, scan_ufs (in NetBSD). That's probably what should get imported, at least out into pkgsrc so that more systems can use it. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-01 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
not convinced there's a need to make a new filesystem just for clustering, not just yet anyway. How about 9P? It's not like clustering is a brand new problem, it's had decades of research applied and there is no shortage of work to reference until it's practical to attempt to do better. --- Dmitri

Re: vkernel migration

2007-01-31 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
full responsibility for protecting their computer and associated software and systems from any such viruses and materials and absolves Rural Press Ltd. What? Opening this e-mail is acceptance of the terms specified in this e-mail? --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University

Re: DRAGONFLY-1.8.0 RELEASED!

2007-01-30 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
* forwarded by the real kernel to the virtual kernel Many, *M*any --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia

Re: write news article about virtual kernel

2007-01-28 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
the virtual kernel, or (more likely) fail entirely and get a segfault. It has practical uses if the use-case of sandboxing processes is kept well separate from sandboxing drivers, but yes, it does have to be implemented well to be useful at all even for debugging. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron

Re: write news article about virtual kernel

2007-01-27 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
, even if it's not nearly as simple or efficient as what the final result should be. Thanks in advance for any responses. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA to CF -- great for embedded DFly firewalls

2006-07-31 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
in building a few embedded devices sometime soon. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DragonFly 1.6 Released!

2006-07-24 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/community/release1_6.cgi 1.6.0 is the fourth bug-fix sub-release in the 1.6 release branch. Oops :) --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Just why exactly doesnt cdparanoia work?

2006-07-17 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
, if that doesn't work, go for /dev/acd0c, /dev/acd0 or pass0. FreeBSD 5 removed the c for 'entire slice' but I think DragonFly kept it. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NTFS-3G: Full Read-Write Open Source Linux NTFS Driver using FUSE

2006-07-16 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
Ports, along with some existing file systems, and it's reasonable to expect this kit to appear in Ports soon, provided it's actually portable. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-07-16 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
a magnificient job of creating free drivers for the hardware that matters, and the 3D accelerated video drivers hardly matter because the few things we need 3D acceleration for are better run on other systems anyway. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash University Victoria 3800

Re: Inside the Linux scheduler

2006-07-05 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
to great lengths to educate his mailing list and documentation readers why it's worth saving every cycle and avoiding every cache miss, so deliberately scheduling in the opposite way is probably not a scheduler DragonFly wants to end up with. --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre for Synchrotron Science Monash

Re: pkg_add -r ? pkgsrc ? Howto install packages ??

2006-07-04 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
updating, is documented elsewhere. Meanwhile this will get you the software you want with no more effort than the FreeBSD style, except that you do have to know the base URL of the package tree you're using. Save it in your ~/.cshrc as an alias, if you like... --- Dmitri Nikulin Centre

Re: Merging DragonFly make and NetBSD make

2006-06-19 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
... -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: Mplayer and Xine-ui depend on aRts?

2006-06-18 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
in Portage (Gentoo) where package-specific USE flags have to be put in a separate file with a different format, and the flags mean completely different things for different packages. I Heart pkgsrc. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: A mobile user's wishlist

2006-06-16 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
and practical to take what NetBSD already has, it'd be a great boost, and be easier to merge in differences later. Of course then it would all diverge again once the MP lock is removed... /dreaming -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: openvpn packgea

2006-06-12 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
/if_tun.h - include this (this becomes necessary if you use FreeBSD's entry) -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: SMBFS questions

2006-06-07 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
support. But I deeply respect Free/DFly's strategy of a minimal GENERIC so I wouldn't think to replace that. Heck I'll do it myself if it's desired... by merely 'include'ing GENERIC the maintenance required would be pretty small. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: 3D Acceleration and DragonFly

2006-06-07 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
, and something about which I know nothing :) -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: Thread will be terminated on monday 'Argh, Stray interrupts 2006'

2006-06-05 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
stop? Everyone's asked nicely. You have nothing to gain from doing what you're doing. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: What is DF aimed at?

2006-06-04 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
developers. That'll be a good deed and you may realise just how great this community is when you're not perceived as an ass bandit. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: Argh, Stray interrupts 2006

2006-06-03 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
in everything they run these days, they must turn to Linux distributions to suit their expectations. Put someone like that in front of a truly stable, logical and secure operating system and they think it's smoke and mirrors. Bah. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-30 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
in the rule set. Once the rest of the network stack is properly MPSAFE it'll be difficult to recommend anything *but* DragonFly for a high-load firewall or server. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: [OT] Bonehead question about coredumps

2006-05-01 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
this helps. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: New to DragonFly...

2006-04-27 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On 4/27/06, Jonas Sundström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitri Nikulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Worthy archs are Alpha, Sparc (32 and 64), AMD64, i386, PowerPC, POWER5, IA64. The rest is not very useful. Am I missing one? Can you SMP ARM or MIPS? I believe these duals (and the quads

Re: New to DragonFly...

2006-04-26 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
had any Sparc, PowerPC, etc. hardware I'd sure want to DragonFly it at some point. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: pkgsrc php extension mysql version

2006-04-24 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
if that's all it takes. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: pkgsrc php extension mysql version

2006-04-24 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
MYSQL_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED?= 50 41 I would just set MYSQL_VERSION_DEFAULT=41 in /etc/mk.conf. I haven't *tested* this, since I abhor both PHP and MySQL, but pkgsrc is so disturbingly flexible I wouldn't be surprised if that's all it takes. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: Thinking about switching, some queries.

2006-04-22 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
(I've seen really weird things in aterm, though I don't know if it's actually an aterm issue... SSH via PuTTY et al work fine) but nothing to panic about. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: GNU make not installed

2006-04-21 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
. At the very least, my 1.4 installs never needed bootstrapping afterwards. But if this is an update, that's a different story... -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: problem with pendrive

2006-04-21 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
not such a big issue. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: GNU make not installed

2006-04-18 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
the environment variable is set only for that process, and so won't affect pkgsrc or indeed anything else. pkg_chk cheats by using a different environment variable (can also be set in mk.conf) called PACKAGES. pkg_add does not do this. -- Dmitri Nikulin

Re: 80211 patch1

2006-04-17 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
read the documentation), install those too. -- Dmitri Nikulin