Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for your needs. There's a whole community out there that can pick up the slack. That's the point. Not whether anybody should be hastily changing the format of enterprise file systems. Most certainly. But just the

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Perry
Rob van der Heij wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and I believe that is one of the reasons Red Hat is less eager to take s390 patches from IBM under the counter). What are you inferring here?, IBM patches are now all part of the mainline kernel.

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and I believe that is one of the reasons Red Hat is less eager to take s390 patches from IBM under the counter). What are

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Perry
Rob van der Heij wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and I believe that is one of the reasons Red Hat is less eager to take s390 patches from IBM under

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just think it is unfair to imply that IBM is doing anything under the counter. If you watch the LKML you will frequently see contributions from IBM developers. I did not mean that unfair and should have searched for

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Michael MacIsaac
But just the fact that the community *can* pick up the source code does not mean it will happen. ReiserFS has migrated its development from the NameSys servers to kernel.org where work is continuing. Edward Shinkin and others continue to develop the filesystem in spite of Hans Reiser's murder

Re: line end characters (was SFTP versus FTP)

2008-07-14 Thread Douglas Wooster
On 07/14/2008 12:35:26 AM Alan Altmark wrote: On Thursday, 07/10/2008 at 01:02 EDT, Douglas Wooster/Raleigh/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this after I sent my last post. Being a z/OS Unix user, I sure *wish* conversions would consistently do EBCDIC NL (x'15') to/from ASCII LF (x'0A')

Re: line end characters (was SFTP versus FTP)

2008-07-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/14/2008 at 10:58 EDT, Douglas Wooster/Raleigh/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/14/2008 12:35:26 AM Alan Altmark wrote: OPENVM GETBFS and PUTBFS, as well as XEDIT, allow you to specify the end-of-line sequence. The default is NL (0x15). You can also specify CRLF (0x0D25), CRNL

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Fargusson.Alan
There are two different problems that you allude to. There were some problems with Reiser3 that were fixed. I am not convinced that all these were found and fixed. There is also a problem with the structure of Reiser3 that is not a problem with Reiser4. This is why Hans and the other

Re: line end characters (was SFTP versus FTP)

2008-07-14 Thread Douglas Wooster
On 07/14/2008 11:07:41 AM Alan Altmark wrote: On Monday, 07/14/2008 at 10:58 EDT, Douglas Wooster/Raleigh/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/14/2008 12:35:26 AM Alan Altmark wrote: OPENVM GETBFS and PUTBFS, as well as XEDIT, allow you to specify the end-of-line sequence. The default is NL

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:39 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Reiser [snip] Long before Linux, many large installations ended up in a similar situation because their

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Erik N Johnson
Building a kernel is not a herculean task by any measure. It is completely automated and the configuration can easily be done graphically if you have an X11 server. You probably need to go looking for some literature before you try to boot up a machine as expensive as a z10 on a homebrew kernel,

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/14/2008 at 05:55 EDT, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Building a kernel is not a herculean task by any measure. It is completely automated and the configuration can easily be done graphically if you have an X11 server. You probably need to go looking for some literature

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Post
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:12 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Perhaps the distributors are more tolerant of custom kernels on other platforms - I don't know. No way. You use a non-official kernel, your whole system becomes unsupported, no

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Post
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:53 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Building a kernel is not a herculean task by any measure. It is completely automated and the configuration can easily be done graphically if you have an X11 server. You probably need to

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Yes, we have a whole department dedicated to vendor flogging and no one doing any kernel building. We call that function vendor management (VM)(not to be confused with voice mail or virtual machine - VF would have been a better acronym IMHO ;). Marcy This message may contain confidential

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread John Summerfield
Erik N Johnson wrote: There are absolutely lots of problems with ReiserFS. It's best deployed on a home user's PC. The journaling is great if you lose power abruptly, but it's faster than some of the more mature journaling file systems. It doesn't really pose a serious threat to data integrity

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread John Summerfield
Michael MacIsaac wrote: But just the fact that the community *can* pick up the source code does not mean it will happen. ReiserFS has migrated its development from the NameSys servers to kernel.org where work is continuing. Edward Shinkin and others continue to develop the filesystem in spite

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread John Summerfield
Erik N Johnson wrote: Building a kernel is not a herculean task by any measure. It is completely automated and the configuration can easily be done graphically if you have an X11 server. You probably need to go looking for some literature before you try to boot up a machine as expensive as a

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread John Summerfield
Alan Altmark wrote: On Monday, 07/14/2008 at 05:55 EDT, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Building a kernel is not a herculean task by any measure. It is completely automated and the configuration can easily be done graphically if you have an X11 server. You probably need to go looking

Adding a CPU in SLES10

2008-07-14 Thread Jim Fujimoto
Hello List, I want to dynamically add a cpu to a single cpu SLES10 SP1 server. If this were a SLES9 server I would echo a 1 into /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online, but only the ../cpu0 directory exists on the SLES10 server. Has the method to do this changed? Thanks. -- Jim Fujimoto County of

Re: Adding a CPU in SLES10

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Post
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Fujimoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I want to dynamically add a cpu to a single cpu SLES10 SP1 server. If this were a SLES9 server I would echo a 1 into /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online, but only the ../cpu0

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Erik N Johnson
Sometimes, I see people on RHEL lists talking about building their own kernel. My advice generally goes something like 1. Check your support contract (think it says unsupported, it would if I were the vendor). 2. Use CentOS (or Scientific Linux) on that system. Sometimes I might also

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/14/2008 at 11:19 EDT, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or roll your own completely from scratch. If you don't have a reason to build a kernel, don't. But if you have a computer capable of amazing feats of virtualization and there's something to be gained by making a

Re: Adding a CPU in SLES10

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Perry
Mark Post wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Fujimoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I want to dynamically add a cpu to a single cpu SLES10 SP1 server. If this were a SLES9 server I would echo a 1 into /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online, but only