Re: [PATCH] fix problems related to journaling in Reiserfs

2005-08-31 Thread Hans Reiser
3.6 will always be supported for bug fixes, but will not receive new features if I can help it. It is stable supported code, and should be kept that way. Regarding the journaling implementation, let's see what Chris says before I comment. Hans michael chang wrote: On 8/31/05, Hifumi Hisashi

Re: [PATCH] fix problems related to journaling in Reiserfs

2005-08-31 Thread Hans Reiser
Thanks much Hifumi! Chris, please comment on the patch. Hans Hifumi Hisashi wrote: Hello. I noticed that the Reiserfs has some problems related to meta-data journaling. I suppose that transactions regarding meta-data should be written to a disk every meta-data change (for example,

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: [reiserfs-list] Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)

2001-05-31 Thread Hans Reiser
Daniel Phillips wrote: Graciously accepted. Coming up with something sensible in a mere 6 months would be a minor miracle. ;-) - what happens if the user forgets to close the transaction? then the user has branched into his own version, or at least that would be my take on it. Another

Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

2000-10-27 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: --On 10/27/00 14:33:33 -0700 Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The atomic restriction can be enforced in a component separate. I mean, ACLs have all sorts of restrictions on them, and atomicity is one of a great many of them, so you have to have a separate

Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix securityextensions

2000-10-27 Thread Hans Reiser
Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Hans, At 18:30 28/10/2000, Hans Reiser wrote: Anton Altaparmakov wrote: You can't possibly have both using the same API since you would then get name collision on filesystems where both named streams and EAs are supported. (And I haven't even mentioned

Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

2000-10-26 Thread Hans Reiser
Curtis Anderson wrote: The problem with streams-style attributes comes from stepping onto the slippery slope of trying to put too much generality into it. I chose the block-access style of API so that there would be no temptation to start down that slope. I understand you right up until

Re: [Openxdsm-devel] Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

2000-10-24 Thread Hans Reiser
"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:20:05AM +0200, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote: I don't know how much need there is for inheritence here, but if a lot of attributes will need it I think it should be supported in the interface instead. (though hardlinks really make

Re: [PROPOSAL] Extended attributes for Posix security extensions

2000-10-24 Thread Hans Reiser
"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:09:57AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: Why do you force the user to copy the data into the attrib structure, rather than letting him leave the data where it lies and simply specify the location to the kernel? In the f