Re: Multiple devfs mounts

2000-05-01 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Al. You've previously stated that you consider the multiple mount feature of devfs broken. I agree that there are some races in there. However, I'm not clear on whether you're saying that the entire concept is broken, or that it can be fixed with

Re: [Fwd: [linux-audio-dev] info point on linux hdr]

2000-04-14 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andrew Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Any comments?From: Paul Barton-Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux-audio-dev] info point on linux hdr To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Apr 14 07:10:10 2000 -0500 i mentioned in some remarks to benno how important i thought it was to

Re: Ext2 block size

2000-03-05 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Brian Pomerantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Unfortunately, the smallest stripe size I could get on the Mylex card is 8KB. When I tried that size, I was getting half the write throughput compared to a 64KB stripe size. Also, to really have optimal performance I need to use at least

Re: COW snapshotting

1999-11-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this could involve an extra copy of the page for writing, but it fits in really well with the transactioning scheme and could, with the proper API, give us a way to implement a high-performance transactioning interface for userspace. The user

Re: Location of shmfs?

1999-10-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know where I can find code for shmfs? Try: http://www.users.uswest.net/~ebiederm/files/ Sorry. I'm in the middle of switching ISP. . . Eric

Re: Location of shmfs?

1999-10-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know where I can find code for shmfs? Try: http://www.users.uswest.net/~ebiederm/files/ Make that: http://www.users.uswest.net/~ebiederman/files/ They had to put in my full last name grr

Re: (reiserfs) Re: RE: journal requirements for buffer.c (was: Roma progress report)

1999-10-11 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I feel we should encourage Linus to allow the following: * unions in struct buffer_head and struct page containing filesystem specific fields comparable to the union in struct inode. No. In struct buffer_head I don't have problems. In struct page

Re: [patch] [possible race in ext2] Re: how to write get_block?

1999-10-11 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Stephen C. Tweedie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 16:57:18 +0200 (CEST), Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My point was that even being forced to do a lookup before creating each empty buffer, will be still faster than 2.2.x as in 2.3.x the hash will