Re: bio too big device dm-XX (256 > 255) on 2.6.17

2006-11-13 Thread Neil Brown
failures. > > It works as expected on reiserfs-dm-sda and on ext3-dm-md-hd[bd]. > > Debian Etch, 2.6.17-2. > Please try this patch (I can give more detailed instructions if needed). NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > > > > > >Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I > >don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open > >"/foo" and get fi

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I > > don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open > > "/foo" and get filedescriptor N, then > >/proc/self/fds/N-meta > > How am I supposed to get there

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday July 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > >>Ok, still haven't heard much discussion of metafs vs file-as-directory, > >>but it seems like it'd be easier in metafs. > > > > > > Why not implement it ins

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got it slightly wrong. > > One can have hardlinks to a directory without cycles provided that one > does not have hardlinks from the children of that directory to any file > not a child of that directory. (Mountpoints currently implement that > rest

[reiserfs-list] PATCH - handle kmalloc failures properly in knfsd

2001-09-13 Thread Neil Brown
Linus, The NFS protocol doesn't allow the server to say "I couldn't do tha due to a transient condition like out of memory". The server's only choice is to drop the request and let the client resend. Currently, when it gets ENOMEM, due to a failure allocating a "struct inode" or "struct de