This article discusses how to get your FreeBSD system to act as a NetFlow probe exporting records to a collector. Elsewhere, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team’s Scott Long says that at the September DevSummit, Peter Wemm proposed changing the device driver API so that interrupt routines return an INT instead of a VOID, while FreeBSD’s Greg Lehey discusses the future of Vinum and GEOM on FreeBSD. Greg says that with the advent of GEOM, there may be some overlap with the features and functionality offered by Vinum. On the other hand, GEOM and Vinum do some things not only differently but in an incompatible manner.
FreeBSD: NetFlow Records, Interrupt API change, Vinum & GEOM
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I think Vinum definitely still has its uses, and if someone would stand up to help Greg to GEOM-ify the code as he proposes, that would be a good thing. Software RAID is still an easy and very cheap option – you know, not everyone has a RAID controller.
Can you just ban that block of IP addresses that the BSD troll keeps posting from?
Adam
Click the link and wait for Eugenia to axe them with her giant troll-axe.
LVM is modeled after the much hearalded Sun Volume Manager, and is a well proven solution with almost a decade of maturity.
Well, vinum is modelled after the Veritas LVM which is widely acclaimed and which most sun sysadmins I’ve talked to actually prefer. The problem is vinum seems to be lacking developers probably because it is underused since you can’t install your system on a vinum partition in a regular install.
Just finished downloading FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE iso, the latest New Technology Release from that lively little daemon with the power to serve.
Please, ignore all trolling, I would like read and learn about the post and comments. If *BSD users play the same game, flames never finish.
Best to do, ignore. I know *BSD are great, I know linux is great, all intelligent people know both systems are great… so please who like bsd use bsd and who like linux use linux. It’s stupid all *bsd post become a flame, I repeat… please ignore trolls.
Do not feed the trolls.
Thanks for the good news. You are right 5.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso is available for downloading. I’m downloading it right now. Thanks.
There is no such beast as FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE. It does not exist. Until you see an official announcement on the FreeBSD website and on the mailing lists, it does not exist.
Give the mirror sites time to download all the release bits before you run off to grab the ISO. Then, grab the ISO off the nearest FTP mirror. Do your part to spread the load around … that’s why they have mirrors.
Besides, why do you need the ISO right away? Just cvsup and buildworld. Later you can download the ISO if you really need it.
Yes, you’re right. Let it spread first before downloading. I just saw it at the main ftp site and I did not download it yet until they finish uploading to my nearest mirror.
Just finished rebuilding world (+ nvidia drivers)
) Everything looks fine. I have a question though. I choose this time to build the base system (make.conf):
NO_SENDMAIL=true – I use postfix, and didn’t want to overwrite binaries everytime I rebuild world
NO_OPENSSH=true
NO_OPENSSL=true
NO_KERBEROS=true
I had to set path to have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin so sshd installed from ports would start. And that leads to my question: is there an option that would instruct the buildworld process to delete those stuff that I set it not to build? (like in ports the *default delete line). I read the instructions for ssh in pkg-message, but couldn’t find anything about openssl. Would my already installed progs know about the new openssl install? Thanks in advance.