http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras Just another FreeBSD Developer's weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:48:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Todays wow, this really works! moment brought to you by: NFS, sshfs (from FUSE) and Samba. There's a NFS file server in my office, from which I mount stuff into my home directory on my workstation. There's a small FreeBSD server in my living room which, among other things, serves Samba ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/07/04/nfssshfssamba-dance/ The answer, of course, is "two or more". And it's not nice when it happens. Two of the drives on a nice shiny FC array failed at approximately the same time (possibly within about two minutes of each other), and both were in the same RAID5 array. Definitely not good. On ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/13/how-many-drives-can-take-down-raid5/ I created a small program to help me synchronize files in sort-of real-time between two directories (the idea is that one of them is on a NFS server). There are no replicated file systems for FreeBSD and the canonical way to do this is usually to use rsync or something ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/08/weekend-hack-adfsd-a-kqueue-assisted-rsync-tool/ I'm writing a small project in C (will talk about it later) and I really miss the expressiveness that dynamic languages like Python offer. There's one more thing in addition to elusive "elegance" and similar nontangible properties: the ability to easily use and implement better algorithms. Yes, since Turing it ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/08/the-real-power-of-scripting-interpreted-languages/ The day has finally come - FreeBSD is using Subversion instead of CVS for the base source tree! Congratulations to everyone involved, especially Peter Wemm :) FreeBSD's source CVS is one of the oldest and biggest in existence; it's approximately 12 years old and has apparently had something like 180,000 commits ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/01/freebsd-on-subversion/ It was a really great conference! I have so many good impressions it's just hard to sort them all out and write them down. Instead of that, here's a treat for the geeky-minded :) In accordance with the specification expressed here: ... I've created a device driver that implements the functionality in ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/05/18/bsdcan-final-day/ It was a nice day in Ottawa, Canada today, though judging by the clouds tomorrow might not be. Not that we noticed, spending all the time within the conference room. Various talks kept developers interested, and the lack of Internet connectivity (web is not the Internet...) kept them focused on ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/05/14/devsummit-day-1/ Here's another build of finstall, alpha4. The most important change this time is native support for remote / headless installs via systoold network daemon. This enables headless installs of FreeBSD in the following fashion: Insert the CD with the finstall in the server (obviously, the server needs to have a CD/DVD reader; ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/05/11/finstall-alpha4/ Background: I'm developing something that should eventually become a high performance network server, with high transactions/s rate (basically a database cache). Currently I'm experimenting with various modes of using SMP facilities for the server (thread usage, binding, etc.). A big problem is that, while I temporarily have a server on ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/04/15/just-how-fast-freebsd-4x-was/ If you're wondering how long it takes to propagate a commit made on ports to portsnap servers, the answer is: about two hours :) http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/03/09/portsnap-propagation/