Re: Virtual files

2000-07-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I've been looking at the possibility of cleanly implementing virtual files (podfuk/avfs style) with the multiple mount thing in 2.4 kernels. Here is how it would work: 1) There needs to be a global lookup hook in VFS. If a real lookup fails, the global lookup is invoked. The cached

Re: (reiserfs) Re: any chance we could dump the 64k subdirectory limit before 2.4 ships?

2000-06-01 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! +- | Well, find might get pretty confused, too. +---8 So run with -noleaf, or compile it with -noleaf as the default. Those of us who use AFS are used to that anyway. Notice: they want that to go into 2.4.X. Recompiling all distros all there is *not* option. But returning

Re: Object Based Storage and File System Snapshots: alpha release

1999-12-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! expect to release more modules in the future, but at this time an experimental driver is included that can make snapshots (read only clones) of Ext2 file systems. There is a utility that can delete Take a look at swsusp patches. With your snapshotting-filesystem-possibility, it should

Re: Oops with ext3 journaling

1999-12-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! No, and I'm pretty much convinced now that I'll move to having a private, hidden inode for the journal in the future. Please don't do that. Current way of switching ext2/ext3 is very nice. If someone wants to shoot in their foot...