Re: [reiserfs-list] reieserfs in mandrake 8.1

2001-10-01 Thread Brent Hasty
I have been an avid mandrake fan since i chanced upon a copy back around the 5.2 era, at the time i was using red hat, since then i have tried others but none seem quite as slickly put together as mandrake, of course i am a gui baby I have been running rieser fs since it was first made

Re: [reiserfs-list] Boot up halts

2001-10-01 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hi James Troup wrote: I installed reiserfs on all my partitions except /boot When it boots it comes to Reiserfs checking / and just sits there with will put log info to stderr forever until you hit ENTER key. Anyone seen this? Probably, reiserfsck awaits for confirmation from you. It is

Re: [reiserfs-list] corrupted reiserfs

2001-10-01 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hi Jonas Jensen (by way of Jonas Jensen ) (by way of Jonas Jensen ) wrote: One of my reiserfs disks became corrupted last week, and it's still causing me problems. I'll try to describe it in full detail, hoping that this problem can be fixed for good. The disk in question is a Linux

Re: [reiserfs-list] corrupted reiserfs

2001-10-01 Thread Jonas Jensen
On Monday 01 October 2001 12:01, you wrote: IMHO, when hardware starts to fail - it is time to think about changing it. Reiserfs has not way to know when it should give up. It sends correct data to disk, broken hardware writes it wrong. Who did corrupt the data then? The worst thing in your

[reiserfs-list] help for a beginner

2001-10-01 Thread anup deshmukh
hello everyone, i am jsut a starter to the this file system as matter of fact i am starter to systems area. please can you suggest me some sites where i learn from ground up and also some books if available... thank regards anup if there are FAQ's of this list please can have the link

Re: [reiserfs-list] corrupted reiserfs

2001-10-01 Thread Jonas Jensen
On Monday 01 October 2001 19:26, you wrote: Yes, please find realiable harddrive, backup broken fielsystem there via dd if=/dev/filesystem-with-problem of=/dev/reliable-device bs=4096 conv=notrunc Then we will be able to recover your data. Please let us know when you have done with that

[reiserfs-list] please test 2.4.11pre1

2001-10-01 Thread Chris Mason
Hello everyone, 2.4.11pre1 has some significant changes which affect almost everything that touches a disk in linux. The buffer cache is now backed by an address space per device (made possible by Andrea's blkdev changes in 2.4.10), and many cleanups were done by Linus and Al Viro. In every

Re: [reiserfs-list] mkreiserfs /dev/hdb

2001-10-01 Thread Hans Reiser
There are two possible reasons you had trouble with mkreiserfs: * it writes to different blocks on the drive than mke2fs (and presumably hit the bad blocks you later remapped). * random chance. Maybe we should put it on our feature wish list to have mkreiserfs do some light testing of the

Re: [reiserfs-list] please test 2.4.11pre1

2001-10-01 Thread Eric Whiting
Chris, It 'feels' faster on my NFS bonnie benchmarks. I still see some degradataion in speed on larger files -- but I think that is a different 'feature' of the filesystem. 512M RAM 2.4.11pre1 NFSV3 server lightly loaded ReiserFS version 3.6.25 (v2 format filesys) 100M network -- solaris 8