FreeBSD

I, liukang and hengdm has went to see Murray Stokeley and we had a nice talk. It’s late here so I go to sleep now :-)

The first day of my FreeBSD committer’s life. Freefall told me:

Shut up and code!!!

Yes, less arguments, and more quality!

The base has been assigned as docs/71553. Marc has assigned this to himself and I am waiting him to commit this.

Finally I am thinking about porting ReiserFS4 to FreeBSD. The current ReiserFS is GPL’ed so it should not get into FreeBSD kernel, but I think it might be OK to leave it as a ports of kernel module (like pf).

To quote his “I would recommend against per-thread caches. Instead, make the per-cpu caches actually *be* per-cpu (that is, not require a mutex).”

Then, he has pointed out that there is potential problems in FreeBSD’s SLAB allocator which is different from DragonFly’s. (Not too surprisingly, he is again advertising his IPI message approach).

Currently, I am concentrating on language nits in the translated documentation, and mainly on the effort of translation of upcoming 5.3-R Release Notes.

太牛了……折腾了将近1个钟头。

起因：Gavin说中文文档无法编译。

经过：
尝试make，发现少了一个–>，加上。还不行。
急了。
遂将中文版本改名，然后把英文版改成中文的名字，我靠，还不行……

About 9 Years ago, FreeBSD has introduced a functionality in sysinstall(8)’s partition editor, which is to mark a partition “active”.

However, unfortunatelly, the implementation contained a flow from the day 0 it was introduced. Sysinstall(8) depends on user’s sanity not to mark only one partition as active on one disk.

This turned out to a potential damage of disk partition table. With two partitions marked “ACTIVE”, you will get the following message:

“Invalid partition table.”

Then system will halt.

It’s here:

ftp://cnftp.bjut.edu.cn/pub/iso/delphijfork-5.3/

This is mostly equal to 5.3-BETA3.

Finally done my task! So glad to announce this ;-)