pseudo files (Re: V4 status)

2003-12-03 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cool, thanks. That's unfortunately very hard to do if you are using usual system calls (like readdir(2), or open(2)), because they are tunneled through VFS that enforces some semantics. Enforces as in, if I enter the name of a directory, it adds a /

grub (Re: V4 status)

2003-12-03 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >reiserfs 3.6 works perfect in grub here It may have worked for me, with notail, but I have heard too many stories. Anyway, /boot is 5-10 megs, usually not mounted, so I see no performance loss using ext3 there. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: FW: reiser4 plugin for maildir

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Mason
[reiser4 plugins to make mail delivery faster] There are a few basic things that slow down mail servers when they talk to filesystems: 1) multiple threads delivering to the same directory contend for the directory semaphore for creating new files 2) atomic creation of an entire file 3) high loa

FW: reiser4 plugin for maildir

2003-12-03 Thread Burnes, James
-Original Message- From: Burnes, James Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:38 PM To: 'Hans Reiser' Subject: RE: reiser4 plugin for maildir > >I was considering installing qmail recently and upon analyzing the > >architecture of their queue structure it looked like Dan Bernstein > exp

Re: V4 status

2003-12-03 Thread Nikita Danilov
Hans Reiser writes: > David Masover wrote: > > > > > > > The only thing I might complain about is that, although it was listed > > as a possibility to display file permissions as files within a file > > (for example, I should be able to do 'touch file; ls file'), I have > > had two prob

Re: V4 status

2003-12-03 Thread Hans Reiser
David Masover wrote: The only thing I might complain about is that, although it was listed as a possibility to display file permissions as files within a file (for example, I should be able to do 'touch file; ls file'), I have had two problems there. First, ls seems to know it's a file, and

Re: V4 status

2003-12-03 Thread Hans Reiser
We are still able to crash reiser4. It has been 1 month from being debugged for a very long time now Sigh. Vs is working on nfs file handle encoding and decoding. We need to release a snapshot again sometime reasonably soon Hans David Masover wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE--

Re: Carrying Attributes too Far

2003-12-03 Thread Hans Reiser
Oops, found this in my drafts box after a long time had passed. Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the delay in replying. Quoting Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Leo" == lrc1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Why? Not at all, I would say. Leo> Shor

Re: Strange errors with 2.4.22 patches (from Chris) and bonnie++

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Mason
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 03:35, Jens Benecke wrote: > Chris Mason wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 16:38, Jens Benecke wrote: > > > >> b) bonnie++ on a (previously created) reiserfs partition (with > >>mkreiserfs 3.6.6) exited with random "disk full" errors, although > >>the disk was never

Specification for ReiserFS4

2003-12-03 Thread Cyril Plisko
Hello, I am interesting in numbers similar to posted in http://www.namesys.com/faq.html There are various characteristic figures for max values for ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6. I cannot find such spec for ReiserFS4. Can someone help ? Regards, Cyril

Re: V4 status

2003-12-03 Thread Redeeman
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 03:17, David Masover wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > >May I ask what the current stability status is for V4? Is there mayhap > >a HTTP resource for it that I have not found? > > > >Fredrik Tolf > > > > > > > > I believe

Status data loggin patches?

2003-12-03 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! Can someone please explain the status of the data logging patch? It should be included in 2.4.23, but it is not there. Was it not sent or was it rejected? Are there versions for 2.6 to test? I would like to test the new kernel, but not without data logging patch. Thanks for your great wor