From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:21:39 -0800 (PST)
Filesystems like ext2 put their superblock 1 block into the partition
in order to avoid overwriting disk labels and other uglies. UFS does
this too, as do several others. One of the few exceptions I've been
From: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:04:52 +0100 (CET)
I still don't like the idea of btrfs trying to be smarter than a user
who can partition up his system according to
(a) his likes
(b) system or hardware requirements or recommendations
to align the
From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:35:20 -0500
From my point of view, 0 is a bad idea because it is very likely to
conflict with other things.
Starting at 0 is a bad idea because otherwise you'll waste
significant chunks of your disk on Sparc because of reasons
I've
From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:08:59 -0500
I've had requests to move the super down to 64k to make room for
bootloaders, which may not matter for sparc, but I don't really plan
on different locations for different arches.
The Sun disk label sits in the first 512
From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:49:34 -0500
So, if Btrfs starts zeroing at 1k, will that be acceptable for you?
Sure.
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From: Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:32:00 +0200
Focus on the slab allocator usage, instrument it, record a trace,
generate a statistical model that matches, and write a small
programm/kernel module that has the same allocation pattern. Then verify
this statistical
From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:50:46 -0700
Ok every time something says anything not 100% positive about SLUB you
come back with but it's fixed in the next patch set... *every time*.
I think this is partly Christoph subconsciously venting his
frustration that
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Wilcox)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:28:25 -0700
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:49:52AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Finally: Is there some way that I can reproduce the tests on my machines?
As usual for these kinds of setups ... take a two-CPU machine, 64GB
of
From: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:02:17 -0400
How do you simulate reading 100TB of data spread across 3000 disks,
selecting 10% of it using some criterion, then sorting and
summarizing the result?
You repeatedly read zeros from a smaller disk into the same amount
From: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:47:48 -0400
On 10/04/2007 05:11 PM, David Miller wrote:
From: Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:02:17 -0400
How do you simulate reading 100TB of data spread across 3000 disks,
selecting 10
From: Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:42:11 +0100
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:11:56AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
mount(8) doesn't include filesystem detection code anymore. You
have to compile --with-fsprobe={blkid,volume_id}, and libblkid
(e2fsprogs) or
From: Crispin Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:46:57 -0700
But we do not want to prevent other people from using SELinux if it
suits them. Linux is about choice, and that is especially vital in
security. As Linus himself observed when LSM was started, there are a
lot of
From: Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:27:17 -0700 (PDT)
--- David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neither of those are reasons why something should go into the tree.
They reflect the corporate reality of the open source community.
If you're going to go down
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 14:51:47 +0100
Reduce debugging noise generated by AF_RXRPC.
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied, thanks David.
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From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 15:56:47 +0100
Sort out the MTU determination and handling in AF_RXRPC:
(1) If it's present, parse the additional information supplied by the peer at
the end of the ACK packet (struct ackinfo) to determine the MTU sizes
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 19:17:06 +0100
Fix use of __exit functions from __init path.
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied.
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From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 10:53:15 +0100
When the user passes in MSG_TRUNC the skb is used after getting freed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ugh, good catch, applied :-)
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From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 10:53:20 +0100
The interface array is not freed on exit.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applied, thanks.
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From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 10:53:31 +0100
Replace the large and complicated rtnetlink client by two simple
functions for getting the MAC address for the first ethernet device
and building a list of IPv4 addresses.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 10:53:36 +0100
Adjust the new netdevice scanning code provided by Patrick McHardy:
(1) Restore the function banner comments that were dropped.
(2) Rather than using an array size of 6 in some places and an array size of
From: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 14:27:16 +0200
Hi Dave,
When the user passes in MSG_TRUNC the skb is used after getting freed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ugh, good catch,
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:38:32 +0100
I think the idea is for them (or at least some of them) to go
through one of DaveM's net git trees anyway.
Then please generate your patches against my net-2.6.21 GIT
tree. Most of your initial patches in the series
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:56:47 +0100
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then please generate your patches against my net-2.6.21 GIT
tree. Most of your initial patches in the series (the SKB
routine one for example) are already in my tree.
Do
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:45:03 +0100
Move generic skbuff stuff from XFRM code to generic code so that AF_RXRPC can
use it too.
The kdoc comments I've attached to the functions needs to be checked by
whoever
wrote them as I had to make some guesses
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