VM Report was:Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-07 Thread Shane Nay
lest it would ever make the cache was 16M, it would prefer to kill processes rather than make the cache smaller than that. Contrived stressor program: (pseudo code) fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); //16 total processes for (i=0;i Just do what I described above. Done :). Thanks, Shane Nay. - To

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-07 Thread Shane Nay
er thing..., oh yes, and its SOLDERED ON THE BOARD. Damn..., guess I just lost a grand or so. Seriously folks, Linux isn't just for big webservers... Thanks, Shane Nay. (Oh, BTW, I really appreciate the work that people have done on the VM, but folks that are just talking..., well, thin

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-07 Thread Shane Nay
On Thursday 07 June 2001 13:00, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Shane Nay wrote: > > (Oh, BTW, I really appreciate the work that people have done on the VM, > > but folks that are just talking..., well, think clearly before you impact > > other people that are

Re: [PATCH] cramfs is ro only, so honour this in inode->mode

2001-01-08 Thread Shane Nay
ut of a directory sub-structure expecting a 1-1 relationship of the data in the original directory sub-strucure, and the interpretation of your cramfs filesystem. But then you pull out the write bits, and that 1-1 relationship is gone. (I can only see my particular case, but there are probably others th

Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix

2001-01-08 Thread Shane Nay
om , and within cramfs never accesses that block device anymore..., it's sort of silly, and _not_ the right way to do it.) Thanks, Shane Nay. (Patches referenced here can be found at: ftp://ftp.agendacomputing.com/pub/agenda/testing/CES/patches/ , contributed by various authors: Rob Les

Re: [PATCH] cramfs is ro only, so honour this in inode->mode

2001-01-08 Thread Shane Nay
can create a writable cramfs, but oh well) Lord knows I could use a few extra bits in the cramfs inode (Using sticky bit to denote XIP mode binaries right now..., such a hack) Thanks, Shane Nay. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Booting from a non block device

2000-12-28 Thread Shane Nay
nstead. Should I just cheat and put in a fake block device? Or am I going about this in an imbecilic fashion? Any ideas, criticisms are welcome... Thanks, Shane Nay. (BTW: XIP implementation is by another fellow..., I'm just trying to put together the linear addressing and his pieces int

Re: cramfs filesystem patch

2000-12-14 Thread Shane Nay
g/fs/cramfs/inode.cFri Oct 27 04:22:36 2000 +++ linux/fs/cramfs/inode.c Fri Oct 27 04:30:18 2000 @@ -11,6 +11,20 @@ * The actual compression is based on zlib, see the other files. */ +/* Linear Addressing code + * + * Copyright (C) 2000 Shane Nay. + * + * Allows you to have a line

Re: cramfs filesystem patch

2000-12-13 Thread Shane Nay
Daniel, > Have you done a comparison of LZO against zlib (decompression > speed/size vs. compression ratio)? It uses less RAM/CPU to decompress > at the cost of wasting storage space, but it's hard to make a decision > without real numbers. I can't do a test on speed because I haven't had time

Re: cramfs filesystem patch

2000-12-08 Thread Shane Nay
On Friday 08 December 2000 05:11, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > Here's a patch for the cramfs filesystem. Lots of improvements and a > new cramfsck program, see below for the full list of changes. > > It only modifies cramfs code (aside from adding cramfs to struct > super_block) and aims to be complet