Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26

2004-03-29 Thread Narcoleptic Electron
Hans Reiser wrote: > Network appliance (.snapshot) and clearcase have > demonstrated that > having a few keywords reserved in the namespace is > not a problem. Sure, and having a separate attribute namespace is not a problem, and treating files and directories as separate entities is not a prob

Re: reiserfs logging patches udpated

2004-03-29 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hans Reiser wrote: Chris Mason wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:41, Mike Fedyk wrote: Chris Mason wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 22:56, Mike Fedyk wrote: And after having the difference of a block level journal (ext3), instead of a "virtual" journal(reiserfs, jfs, xfs) explained to me

Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released.

2004-03-29 Thread Hans Reiser
Cyrille Chepelov wrote: Le Fri, Mar 26, 2004, Ã 09:11:00AM -0800, Hans Reiser a écrit: Nikita, would you confirm that the default fibration is to sort all files with '.' as the penultimate character by their last character first and then by the rest of the name in the usual lexicographic or

Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26

2004-03-29 Thread Hans Reiser
Network appliance (.snapshot) and clearcase have demonstrated that having a few keywords reserved in the namespace is not a problem. -- Hans

Re: security issue with metas/readdir in reiser4

2004-03-29 Thread Hans Reiser
Filipe Almeida wrote: Hi, There is a security problem with the implementation of dir/metas/readdir. This file is readable even if the directory isn't readable by the current user. Well, this is silly and will be fixed. This is against traditional unix behavior and is a security issue in many

Re: NFS issues

2004-03-29 Thread Hans Reiser
Ramy M. Hassan wrote: I am currently using xfs on a very busy NFS server where stability, and performance are the main concerns. I started to benchmark reiser3 and found it outperforming xfs when I tune the file size to the average file size in my system ( my system deals with too many writes of r

Re: OT: Advice on SATA sought

2004-03-29 Thread Hans Reiser
Rudy L. Zijlstra wrote: Greetings, I am considering buying some 250G SATA drives (3 in a RAID5 config) for multimedia backend storage. disks will likely be WD SATA WD2500JD unless somebody points out good reasons not to. Can get those for about 200 Euro excluding VAT each. This is going to be u

Re: Reiser4 needs more testers

2004-03-29 Thread markw
I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison. Reiser4 still seems to be lagging behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in the metric): metric url to test results -- -

FYI: reiserfs fails sb rebuild

2004-03-29 Thread nbrosnan
Hdw: IBM netfinity 5500 PII (2 X 300MHZ) with servraid2 rev 6.10.2.4. Kernel 2.2.22-1.2174ntplsmp Reiserfs 3.6 SB in block16 Checking tree, error, cannot find /dev/vg01/lv01 (/root) Neil Brosnan, Unix Systems Administrator, Mid-Range Systems, Symcor Inc (RSP), (905) 273-1057

Re: reiserfs logging patches udpated

2004-03-29 Thread Hans Reiser
Chris Mason wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:41, Mike Fedyk wrote: Chris Mason wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 22:56, Mike Fedyk wrote: And after having the difference of a block level journal (ext3), instead of a "virtual" journal(reiserfs, jfs, xfs) explained to me (check the ext3-

Re: Reiser4 panic at fs/reiser4/lock.c:434

2004-03-29 Thread Hans Reiser
Jonathan Briggs wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 04:32, Nikita Danilov wrote: Jonathan Briggs writes: > The system is running Linux kernel 2.6.5-rc2. It's tainted by Nvidia > drivers. > > The system was compiling the kernel, and Reiser4 panicked. Was compilation multi-threaded (make -j)? No

Re: secure delete?

2004-03-29 Thread Hans Reiser
Jason Holt wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Hans Reiser wrote: I liked Jason's script. Maybe we should consider putting it in reiserfsprogs. Haven't yet looked at Tom's tool. You might have misunderstood the script. It doesn't do secure delete. It just demonstrates how shred is ineffe

Re: [PATH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapsot 2004.03.26

2004-03-29 Thread Claudio Martins
On Monday 29 March 2004 14:36, Markus Törnqvist wrote: > > My personal take on this still is that ..metas/ makes more sense, > like the extra dot signifying "I am really hidden" ;) I also suggest "..meta" as best choice. This way one can avoid the (remote but possible) case of having an appli