Re: [RFC] Log-structured File System for Linux that Supports Snapshots

2005-08-29 Thread amagai
Hello Pradeep, > For past two months, I have been working on developing a > log-structured file system (LFS) that supports snapshots as a part o We are also developing an LFS for Linux 2.6, named Nilfs (a new implementation of a log-structured file system). We implemented Nilfs using modern tech

Re: Fw: [PATCH] Full NLS support for HFS (classic) filesystem

2005-08-29 Thread Pavel Fedin
Andrew Morton wrote: So I have this very old patch sitting in my todo folder. Has it moved forward at all? Roman Zippel didn't agree with such an implementation and created another version which is the only proper one as he says (despite it's less functional). Well, i am waiting for it to

Re: [PATCH] Make journal_commit_transaction() more understandable

2005-08-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Aug 29, 2005 18:40 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > journal_commit_transaction() is still 650+ lines long and contains 16 > local variables. By moving phase 3 into its own function, we reduce > its length by 150+ lines and reduce it to 5 local variables. > > @@ -251,6 +424,7 @@ void journal_comm

Re: Odd llseek semantics on directories

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Reiser
vs will respond at the end of the week, he is out at the moment. Thanks for patch Charles, Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [PATCH 1/3] dlm: use configfs]

2005-08-29 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> Fair enough, where in /sys should such things go? /proc/fs is a > well-known place, but there is no /sys/fs :-) It's pretty easy to create. I had a patch: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=110099238515110&w=2 to which Greg had a comment: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/

Re: IS_NOCMTIME and setting of ctime and mtime on remote servers

2005-08-29 Thread Trond Myklebust
må den 29.08.2005 Klokka 12:16 (-0500) skreiv Steve French: > NFS is the only place that sets NOCMTIME on inodes in its fhget routine > IIRC. > > What is the exact intent of this? Does it stay set (so mtime and ctime > updates are never sent to the server) or does it get reset somewhere (I > d

Re: IS_NOCMTIME and setting of ctime and mtime on remote servers

2005-08-29 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> NFS is the only place that sets NOCMTIME on inodes in its fhget routine > IIRC. FUSE too. > What is the exact intent of this? Does it stay set (so mtime and ctime > updates are never sent to the server) or does it get reset somewhere (I > did not see where nfs turned it off so presumably ev

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [PATCH 1/3] dlm: use configfs]

2005-08-29 Thread Joel Becker
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 03:48:26PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > No new subsystems or code shall add /proc files that do not explicitly > pertain to process information. Fair enough, where in /sys should such things go? /proc/fs is a well-known place, but there is no /sys/fs :-) Joel -- "So

[PATCH] Make journal_commit_transaction() more understandable

2005-08-29 Thread Matthew Wilcox
journal_commit_transaction() is still 650+ lines long and contains 16 local variables. By moving phase 3 into its own function, we reduce its length by 150+ lines and reduce it to 5 local variables. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> commit.c | 367 +

IS_NOCMTIME and setting of ctime and mtime on remote servers

2005-08-29 Thread Steve French
NFS is the only place that sets NOCMTIME on inodes in its fhget routine IIRC. What is the exact intent of this? Does it stay set (so mtime and ctime updates are never sent to the server) or does it get reset somewhere (I did not see where nfs turned it off so presumably even explicit sets of

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [PATCH 1/3] dlm: use configfs]

2005-08-29 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:45:42AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:58:19AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > - there's still some procfs abuse > > > > > > Specifics of what is abuse vs OK would be interesting. > > > > You're using procfs for non-process data. > >

Re: IPR driver performance issue

2005-08-29 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:43:05AM -0500, Brian King wrote: > Sonny Rao wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:11:03PM +0100, Brian King wrote: > > > >>I think this is a libsysfs/iprutils issue due to a sysfs change in > >>recent kernels. Install sysfsutils 1.3.0, then grab the latest iprutils >