Re: performance loss with lots of snapshots

2013-07-09 Thread Chris Samuel
/git/mason/linux-btrfs.git/ which is 3.10 plus the latest btrfs code that was merged by Linus into his master for 3.11 today. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body

Re: error count

2013-08-10 Thread Chris Samuel
(July 5th), aka: btrfs-progs$ git describe --tags v0.20-rc1-358-g194aa4a cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc

Re: btrfs device stats /dev/mapper/ext4 SEGV

2013-08-10 Thread Chris Samuel
reproduce the crash here too with ext3 and XFS filesystems. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: feature request: read/write priorities on multiple devices/raid1

2008-10-19 Thread Chris Samuel
describing what they did and the improvements they saw. And yes, they checksum the data on the SSD too, in case you share Val's worries [2]. :-) [1] - http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/date/20080722 [2] - http://valhenson.livejournal.com/25228.html cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http

Re: Compressed Filesystem

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Samuel
not tried this since I sent it to Russell Coker in January '07. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP diff -ur bonnie++-1.03a/bonnie++.cpp

Re: compile error on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-30 Thread Chris Samuel
/git/mason/btrfs-unstable- standalone.git;a=summary See Chris's email of the 20th: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-btrfs/2008/11/20/4179304 cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic

Re: Data De-duplication

2008-12-14 Thread Chris Samuel
for ZFS yet! Might NetApp have patented the technique ? Would be a similar situation to the issues [1] that the KSM work [2] fell into with trying to prevent duplication of pages. cheers, Chris [1] - http://lwn.net/Articles/309155/ [2] - http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ -- Chris Samuel : http

Re: multiple device usage

2008-12-26 Thread Chris Samuel
of the data, a la ZFS ? cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: multiple device usage

2008-12-29 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 5:45:42 pm Chris Samuel wrote: I'll add two questions that're not answered by the Wiki too.. :-) Looking at the source implies to me: 1) If you add a second disk to an existing btrfs filesystem, can you get it to set it up as a RAID-1 arrangement rather than just

Re: multiple device usage

2008-12-29 Thread Chris Samuel
Hello Yan, On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:33:18 pm Yan Zheng wrote: 2008/12/29 Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org: The rebalancing code does appear (from a naive read of the code) to be able to rebalance over stripes, but I have no idea if the disk format currently supports changing that on the fly

Re: A bug with multiple devices?

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 9:45:22 pm Chris Samuel wrote: mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 /dev/sda10 /dev/sda11 Even doing what appears to be the correct method of: mkfs.btrfs -d raid1 -m raid1 /dev/sda10 /dev/sda11 doesn't give any love, mkfs.btrfs still tells me the filesystem will be 60GB (and the kernel

Re: A bug with multiple devices?

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Samuel
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Re: A bug with multiple devices?

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Samuel
in some situations. But my guess is that for most (50%) people once they set a default RAID level then most will have everything in that state. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more

Re: multiple device usage

2008-12-31 Thread Chris Samuel
mirrored (unless something like btrfsck was extended to fix those things up). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc

Re: Definitive btrfs git tree ?

2009-01-12 Thread Chris Samuel
-unstable-standalone ? For the progs, the btrfs-progs-unstable tree is up to date and safe. I'll make something with a less scary name later this week, and save the unstable tree for development. Cool, not scary is good (though I'm happy to stay with the scary one). cheers, Chris -- Chris

Bonnie++ run with RAID-1 on a single SSD (2.6.29-rc4-224-g4b6136c)

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Samuel
, but btrfs hammers it for metadata operations, an order of magnitude faster! cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc

Re: Bonnie++ run with RAID-1 on a single SSD (2.6.29-rc4-224-g4b6136c)

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Samuel
On Saturday 14 February 2009, Chris Mason wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 23:31 +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: [Bonnie++] This is on a Dell E4200 with Core 2 Duo U9300 (1.2GHz), 2GB RAM and a Samsung SSD (128GB Thin uSATA SSD). Thanks for posting these, it is especially good to see the metadata

Re: Btrfs development plans

2009-05-24 Thread Chris Samuel
unmaintained now. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[PATCH] Add supported kernel version check to mkfs.btrfs

2009-07-22 Thread Chris Samuel
the definition of MINIMUM_KERNEL outside of mkfs.c but I can't think where else it might be useful. Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org --- mkfs.c | 76 +++- 1 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mkfs.c b

Re: announcement of deduplication in Sun ZFS

2009-11-02 Thread Chris Samuel
prides itself on detecting errors it would be strange if they hadn't considered this in the implementation but I couldn't see any mention of it. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more

Re: [TRIVIAL][PATCH] Improve error handling in the btrfs command

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Samuel
On 21/12/10 07:06, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: below is enclosed a trivial patch, which has the aim to improve the error reporting of the btrfs command. Any reason to not just use perror() ? -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [TRIVIAL][PATCH] Improve error handling in the btrfs command

2010-12-20 Thread Chris Samuel
wrong internally. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: version

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Samuel
. It is strange to the user. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

2.6.38-rc2 oops's when rebalancing on different size drives (was Re: version)

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Samuel
can't quite follow what the code above that BUG_ON() is doing to verify that.. Chris M. ? cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: BUG while writing to USB btrfs filesystem

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Samuel
at the very start: path = btrfs_alloc_path(); if (!path) return -ENOMEM; Is there anything in the log from before that oops ? NB: I just did a quick scan of btrfs_drop_extents() so it's possible I missed something.. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http

Re: BUG while writing to USB btrfs filesystem

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Samuel
On 31/01/11 14:11, cwillu wrote: There's a bunch of places it could be (any ret = foo followed by a break will exit with that ret rather than oops). Ahh, thanks for that, I plead being a sysadmin rather than a programmer.. ;-) -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: Intermittent ENOSPC in 2.6.38rc2 (BUG linux/fs/btrfs/inode.c:1759)

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Samuel
On 02/02/11 16:41, cwillu wrote: Building btrfs from josef's tree seems to clear this up, I was able to build dozens of times without errors. Interesting, I wonder what fixes it ? -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: btrfs fi df returns nothing

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Samuel
me enough to not go past 10.04 on it. However, the impression I'm getting now is that 2.6.38 is looking a lot more solid for btrfs than recent kernels and so I'm looking forward to testing that out when 11.04 comes out! cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne

cppcheck and btrfs

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Samuel
/btrfs/volumes.c:3636]: (error) Memory leak: device Now I'm not really a programmer (much less a kernel one) but I do see people using it discover issues in kernel code. Are these issues real or bugs in cppcheck ? cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Samuel
is 1.98+20100804-14. Best of luck, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: strange filefrag output on btrfs

2011-06-14 Thread Chris Samuel
can see that there is a match ? cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: Understanding btrfs and backups

2014-03-08 Thread Chris Samuel
backups too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/94482242@N00/7746409996/ cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info

Re: btrfs send kernel error btrfs_compare_tree

2014-03-08 Thread Chris Samuel
-btrfs.git/log/?h=for-stable-3.13 Best of luck! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Understanding btrfs and backups

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Samuel
altogether, it was really just an illustration of why people should think about it - and then come to a decision about whether or not it makes sense for them. In your case maybe not, but for me (and my wife) it certainly does. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org

Re: discard synchronous on most SSDs?

2014-03-14 Thread Chris Samuel
believe it's the controller that has to issue it to the drive, and the drive needs to understand it. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: discard synchronous on most SSDs?

2014-03-14 Thread Chris Samuel
that says it's just rev. 3.0 so TRIM for this is synchronous. Good luck! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: discard synchronous on most SSDs?

2014-03-14 Thread Chris Samuel
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:33:24 PM Chris Samuel wrote: I *think* you want smartctl -i instead, and look for the field that says something like: ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS, ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3 Late night, cut and pasted the wrong line of output, mine says: SATA Version is: SATA 3.0

Re: discard synchronous on most SSDs?

2014-03-15 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 04:25:05 PM Chris Samuel wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to use that knowledge to extend the smartctl's --identify functionality to report this? After reading the SATA 3.1 spec I believe that smartctl *can* indicate if a drive claims to support SATA 3.1 NCQ TRIM

Re: BTRFS setup advice for laptop performance ?

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Samuel
. That would mean adding COW to ext4 and XFS, # Chinner said. https://lwn.net/Articles/592091/ There's some background to SMR drives (available to all) from the LSFMM here: https://lwn.net/Articles/591782/ All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: BTRFS setup advice for laptop performance ?

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Samuel
and haven't hit this yet.I'm a KDE user too (though not using Kmail/Akonadi on the machines in question). Sorry I can't do much more than say works for me, but that happens to be the case.. :-( cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC signature.asc

Re: How to debug very very slow file delete? (btrfs on md-raid5)

2014-04-11 Thread Chris Samuel
, usecs per call (average) and number of calls. Best of luck! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs part two

2014-04-11 Thread Chris Samuel
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Re: btrfs cleaner failure - fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:5748 (3.14.0)

2014-05-09 Thread Chris Samuel
to: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt # tainted: # # Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, # which can be ORed together: # [...] # 512 - A kernel warning has occurred. Best of luck! Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: Sending incremental backup causes deadlock (3.14.3)

2014-05-10 Thread Chris Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Josef, On Fri, 9 May 2014 01:22:27 PM Josef Bacik wrote: Known problem, fixed in 3.15-rc1. Thanks, Is the fix suitable for -stable too? All the best, Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -BEGIN PGP

Re: URGENT: my laptop's boot ssd btrfs crashed, what do you need off it?

2014-05-10 Thread Chris Samuel
to blame, but it'd be interesting to correlate with Marc's report. cheers, Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBU24QvI1yjaOTJg85AQK09ggAlpnRyRvsI+Nah37vjUPohjdoPWl0pgux

Re: BTRFS hangs - possibly NFS related?

2014-05-25 Thread Chris Samuel
at the time these happen? All the best, Chris - -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBU4HjtI1yjaOTJg85AQKPYAgAlI7elWEx0YxPqABFmS3cUVIgTskxFL6/ ha7G1wxIxeqxhx1x1cLE3oKsCAhJlrwXd6cB8e0Kmu2280fCa

Re: TRIM support

2011-07-10 Thread Chris Samuel
explains why it can be problematic (especially on SATA drives where TRIM is a non-queued command): https://lwn.net/Articles/347511/ cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http

Re: TRIM support

2011-07-10 Thread Chris Samuel
the redundancy of btrfs's duplication of metadata for safety). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description

Re: btrfs hung tasks

2011-07-28 Thread Chris Samuel
] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [175681.180416] [810844e0] ? kthread_bind+0x80/0x80 [175681.180419] [815e94a0] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-18 Thread Chris Samuel
that the btrfs processes are hitting it quite hard, IIRC. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: Applications using fsync cause hangs for several seconds every few minutes

2011-08-19 Thread Chris Samuel
on my local SATA mirror too, so whatever is going on doesn't appear to be related to btrfs. So ignore my comment.. ;-) cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message

Re: btrfs vs data deduplication

2011-09-18 Thread Chris Samuel
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Re: Honest timeline for btrfsck

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Samuel
should be paying Oracle to do so, or else attempt to employ him yourself. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo

Re: btrfs root + mount subvolid=0 problem

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Samuel
experimental and under development). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: Honest timeline for btrfsck

2011-10-13 Thread Chris Samuel
doesn't really want to go through all that again.. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description

Re: Honest timeline for btrfsck

2011-10-17 Thread Chris Samuel
to merge the best of both together. Even if all your tool has is a friendlier interface or better help then that'll still be a useful contribution to the effort, and if it's got more than that then you'll have made even more of a contribution. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http

Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: Don't error on resizing FS to same size

2011-11-17 Thread Chris Samuel
); - } else { + } else if (new_size old_size) { shouldn't that be: + } else if (new_size old_size) { otherwise you'll never try and shrink if new_size is old_size.. ret = btrfs_shrink_device(device, new_size); } -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org

Re: btrfs and load (sys)

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Samuel
On 24/11/11 12:00, Chris Samuel wrote: You're running quite an old kernel btrfs wise - it would be very interesting to see if you have the same issue with Linus's current git version (which has the latest btrfs code) or wait for 3.2-rc3. 3.2-rc3 is now out, Linus is after testers around

Re: Blcoked for more than 120 seconds

2011-11-28 Thread Chris Samuel
user) whether it still occurs with 3.2-rc3. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel - http://www.csamuel.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[PATCH] Canonicalise BTRFS: and Btrfs: to btrfs:

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Samuel
Currently there are 3 different capitalisations of btrfs: used in printk()'s, BTRFS: (3 occurences), Btrfs: (1 occurence) and btrfs: (77 occurences). It's best to have them all the same for consistency, so we canonicalise the two minority cases to btrfs:. Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel ch

[PATCH] Prefix mount messages with btrfs: for clarity

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Samuel
filesystems generally provide), so this change prefixes that message with btrfs: to make it appear as: [ 5775.216078] btrfs: device label DR devid 1 transid 15757 /dev/sdh1 Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org --- fs/btrfs/volumes.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions

Re: [PATCH] Canonicalise BTRFS: and Btrfs: to btrfs:

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:05:21 PM Chris Samuel wrote: Currently there are 3 different capitalisations of btrfs: used in printk()'s, BTRFS: (3 occurences), Btrfs: (1 occurence) and btrfs: (77 occurences). Unfortunately both this and the [PATCH] Prefix mount messages with btrfs: for clarity

[RESEND] [PATCH] Canonicalise BTRFS: and Btrfs: to btrfs:

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Samuel
Currently there are 3 different capitalisations of btrfs: used in printk()'s, BTRFS: (3 occurences), Btrfs: (1 occurence) and btrfs: (77 occurences). It's best to have them all the same for consistency, so we canonicalise the two minority cases to btrfs:. Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel ch

[RESEND] [PATCH] Prefix mount messages with btrfs: for clarity

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Samuel
filesystems generally provide), so this change prefixes that message with btrfs: to make it appear as: [ 5775.216078] btrfs: device label DR devid 1 transid 15757 /dev/sdh1 Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org --- fs/btrfs/volumes.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions

Re: btrfs and load (sys)

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Samuel
to backport them to the older code in the last stable release. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

Re: speeding up slow btrfs filesystem

2011-12-17 Thread Chris Samuel
well worth testing with 3.2-rc6 to see whether that helps. All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description

[For review] [PATCH] Check all kmalloc(), etc, functions for success

2010-04-26 Thread Chris Samuel
; log_type = btrfs_dir_type(eb, di); read_extent_buffer(eb, name, (unsigned long)(di + 1), name_len); -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC diff --git a/fs/btrfs/compression.c b/fs/btrfs/compression.c index 396039b..eb6e785 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs

Re: [For review] [PATCH] Check all kmalloc(), etc, functions for success

2010-04-28 Thread Chris Samuel
On 26/04/10 19:07, Chris Samuel wrote: Please review the patch and let me know whether I'm on the right track or not! Just be gentle with me, I'm jetlagged. :-) Did this patch make it out OK ? If so, any thoughts if my thinking is OK on how to address this ? cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel

[PATCH] [Coccinelle] Convert various if() BUG(); to BUG_ON();

2010-04-28 Thread Chris Samuel
This patch converts the remaining manual tests which call BUG() directly after a test to just use BUG_ON() instead. It is a simple inplace change using Coccinelle's BUG_ON.cocci test. Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org --- fs/btrfs/ctree.c |7 ++- fs/btrfs/print-tree.c

Re: bcp command not installed by Makefile

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Samuel
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Balancing leaves when walking from top to down (was Btrfs:...)

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Samuel
in btrfs but were concerned about all the noise about balancing; I thought this might have hit git for 2.6.35, but I can't see it there.. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body

Re: Status of BTRFS

2010-07-17 Thread Chris Samuel
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:14:49 pm Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Is it included in any distributions yet? You can use it after installation in Ubuntu 10.04. In fact I'm pretty sure it was enabled in the kernel of 9.10 too. It's not (yet) an option for installation though. -- Chris Samuel : http

Re: why does btrfs pronounce butter-eff-ess?

2010-08-02 Thread Chris Samuel
On 03/08/10 13:27, Wang Shaoyan wrote: As far as I know, btrfs comes from btree file system, but why does btrfs pronounce butter-eff-ess? My guess is that it is a pun on better-fs, btr being a possible contraction of better. English is a funny old language.. -- Chris Samuel : http

Re: 2.6.36-rc1 btrfs still unstable

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Samuel
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Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib: introduce some memory copy macros and functions

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Samuel
Hiya, On 02/09/10 15:44, Miao Xie wrote: Ok, I will change it. Did you just change the 2.1 to 2 in your patch, or did you find a specifically version 2 licensed version of that code ? If so, where was that ? cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib: introduce some memory copy macros and functions

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Samuel
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Re: [PATCH V2 0/3] improve the performance of some memory copy functions

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Samuel
On 02/09/10 16:53, Ingo Molnar wrote: and if glibc is under the GPL v2.1 It's LGPL v2.1 which can be converted to GPL v2 under section 3 of its license. See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib: introduce some memory copy macros and functions

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Samuel
. cheers, Chris (not a lawyer either, thankfully!) -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: [Btrfs-devel] [patch] O_DIRECT: fix the splitting up of contiguous I/O

2010-09-05 Thread Chris Samuel
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Re: [Btrfs-devel] [patch] O_DIRECT: fix the splitting up of contiguous I/O

2010-09-06 Thread Chris Samuel
On 06/09/10 02:36, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 22:56:08 +1000 Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote: Did this patch get dropped ? Nope. I have it queued for 2.6.36 and -stable, will send it in soon. Everything is a bit lagged at present due to conferences, summer

Re: Question of stability

2010-09-19 Thread Chris Samuel
of those issues being fixed in 2.6.36 either. Also, what about the RAID-[56] parts, they were announced more than a year ago, but still I can't see anything in the open. Those are still out of tree I'm afraid. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: btrfs filesystem df not working

2010-10-16 Thread Chris Samuel
Mitch's original message here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/7102 cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP

Re: FS consistency while snapshoting

2010-10-17 Thread Chris Samuel
On 18/10/10 13:47, Fabrício dos Anjos Silva wrote: If there is any difference betweens kernel 2.6.21 and 2.6.35, please point it out. btrfs wasn't merged into the mainline kernel until 2.6.29. http://lwn.net/Articles/314325/ -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Blog: BTRFS is effectively stable

2010-10-29 Thread Chris Samuel
we’ve run it), and does so without # fail, we call it safe. He has concerns about performance, but he's more interested in reliability in these tests. cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic

[PATCH] Use ERR_CAST inlined function instead of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(...)) - generated by Coccinelle

2010-10-30 Thread Chris Samuel
patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c index 454ca52..23cb8da 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ struct extent_map

Re: btrfs benchmark with 2.6.37-rc1

2010-11-01 Thread Chris Samuel
On 02/11/10 02:12, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb mount -t btrfs /dev/sdb /mnt/btrfs It would be interesting to see if the space_cache mount option makes any difference to your numbers. It's commit 0af3d00bad38d3bb9912a60928ad0669f17bdb76. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel

Re: Questions regarding COW-related behaviors

2010-11-08 Thread Chris Samuel
checkpointing (and expiry thereof) based on a user configurable policy. These can be converted to persistent snapshots from the command line. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Cancel filesystem balance.

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Samuel
the cancel option might be a better plan. Thoughts ? -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: Btrfs-progs: Update man page for mixed data+metadata option.

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Samuel
recommended for use with filesystems of 1 GiB or smaller. Is it worth having a check and a warning printed if a user does try and make a filesystem larger than 1GiB with this option ? Just in case they don't RTFM... cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

[PATCH] kmem_cache_alloc doesn't return ERR_PTR so no need to check for it.

2010-11-12 Thread Chris Samuel
According to scripts/coccinelle/null/eno.cocci The various basic memory allocation functions don't return ERR_PTR so there's no point in calling IS_ERR() on the return value from them, the existing test is good enough. Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org --- fs/btrfs/extent_map.c

Re: How can btrfs take 23sec to stat 23K files from an SSD?

2012-08-01 Thread Chris Samuel
On 01/08/12 16:01, Marc MERLIN wrote: Third, A freshly made ntfs filesystem through fuse is actually FASTER! Could it be that Samsungs FTL has optimisations in it for NTFS ? A horrible thought, but not impossible.. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: no space left on device

2012-08-04 Thread Chris Samuel
Hi Mark, On 08/03/2012 08:05 PM, Mark Marshall wrote: I am new to btrfs, and just installed a new system with SLED 11 SP2 a few days ago. Looking at the release notes for SLED11 SP2 it appears to ship with an ancient kernel (in btrfs terms), 3.0.10. You will want to upgrade to *at least*

Re: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:5038 (linux 3.4.7)

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Samuel
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Re: severe hardlink bug

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Samuel
rather well I'm afraid.. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: BUG on 3.5.0

2012-08-10 Thread Chris Samuel
). That said, there was one btrfs fix merged into 3.5.1: Chris Mason (1): Btrfs: call the ordered free operation without any locks held But I suspect that is not the fix you are looking for.. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from

Re: btrfs and mdadm raid 6

2012-08-20 Thread Chris Samuel
On 21/08/12 08:24, Curtis Jones wrote: You mentioned that btrfs was going to set aside a ton of space for metadata. Is that entirely due to going ext4 - btrfs? No, I believe that's a regression in btrfs in recent kernels.. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

Re: [GIT PULL 1/2] Btrfs fixes

2012-08-20 Thread Chris Samuel
request with a whole heap of btrfs fixes (46 commits) appears not to have been merged yet, does anyone know if it was rejected or just missed ? cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs

Re: [GIT PULL 1/2] Btrfs fixes

2012-08-20 Thread Chris Samuel
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Re: Crashes in extent_io.c after btrfs bad mapping eb notice

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Samuel
is looking for people to help him with the stable series... http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/minion-wanted.html cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in the body of a message to majord

Re: [RFC PATCH] Btrfs-progs: disable qgroupid 0 for quota_tree

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Samuel
not meant to be possible to create such a thing shouldn't this be fixed in the kernel (as well as here) to reject attempts from user space to create it? Otherwise it's possible for a non-aware program (or a user who is playing) to still create it. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org

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