Re: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

2005-10-25 Thread Sander
Hans Reiser wrote (ao): This would not be (at least in theory) useful for RAID devices, but for a user with a single disk drive, it might be useful to have a plugin that creates two (or N) copies, and tries to allocate the two copies at opposite ends of the disk. Anyone out there still looking

reiser4, 2.6.14-rc5-mm1, 4k stacks Lots of badness on umount

2005-10-25 Thread Avuton Olrich
When unmounting my reiser4 partition today on my 2.6.14-rc5-mm1 kernel I got the following: Any ideas? Any way I can help track down this issue? I'm fscking now, I will report results if desired. Badness in __writeback_single_inode at fs/fs-writeback.c:251 [c017f433]

Re: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
Sander wrote: Hans Reiser wrote (ao): This would not be (at least in theory) useful for RAID devices, but for a user with a single disk drive, it might be useful to have a plugin that creates two (or N) copies, and tries to allocate the two copies at opposite ends of the disk. Anyone out

Re: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

2005-10-25 Thread Sander
Hans Reiser wrote (ao): It is only for very important files for computers which have only one hard drive. Some of the work is with changing fsck. Well, if the files are important, then you should have backups anyway, whatever raid or similar you have. I still don't see an advantage in

kernel dumps error messages after heavy use and repeated mount unmount sequences

2005-10-25 Thread Abhijeet Anant Sane
ReiserFS 4.0 dumping a error message. [ cut here ] kernel BUG at fs/reiser4/debug.c:141! invalid operand: [#5] Modules linked in: reiser4 CPU:0 EIP:0060:[f8b972f7]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.12) EIP is at reiser4_do_panic+0x2f7/0x320

Re: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

2005-10-25 Thread Konstantin Münning
Sander wrote: Hans Reiser wrote (ao): It is only for very important files for computers which have only one hard drive. Some of the work is with changing fsck. Well, if the files are important, then you should have backups anyway, whatever raid or similar you have. I still don't see

Re: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

2005-10-25 Thread Ingo Bormuth
On 2005-10-25 02:28, Hans Reiser wrote: And what is the advantage? You are not protected against a lot of disk failures (only against bad blocks, right?). It is only for very important files for computers which have only one hard drive. Some of the work is with changing fsck. I

late delete improving undeleting files on reiser4

2005-10-25 Thread Konstantin Münning
Hi! The discussion abot loosing important files made me think about a fetaure I met and liked on DR-DOS (later Novell DOS but I'm not sure if they kept this feature) which may be nice in Reiser4 and would probably need an additional plugin. I'll call it late delete as I can't remember how they

Re: reiser4, 2.6.14-rc5-mm1, 4k stacks Lots of badness on umount

2005-10-25 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello This does not look like reiser4 related problem. Please try with the attached patch. Avuton Olrich wrote: When unmounting my reiser4 partition today on my 2.6.14-rc5-mm1 kernel I got the following: Any ideas? Any way I can help track down this issue? I'm fscking now, I will report

Re: kernel dumps error messages after heavy use and repeated mount unmount sequences

2005-10-25 Thread Łukasz Mierzwa
Dnia Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:40:51 +0200, Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał: Hello Abhijeet Anant Sane wrote: ReiserFS 4.0 dumping a error message. [ cut here ] kernel BUG at fs/reiser4/debug.c:141! invalid operand: [#6] Modules linked in: reiser4

Re: late delete improving undeleting files on reiser4

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
I'll take a patch. Especially since I have proposed much the same in the past. I'll discuss it more if someone starts writing one.;-) Hans Konstantin Münning wrote: Hi! The discussion abot loosing important files made me think about a fetaure I met and liked on DR-DOS (later Novell DOS but

has anyone installed SuSE 10.0 on reiser4?

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
If yes, what steps did you take to do it?

Re: Reiser4 documentation specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-25 Thread Edward Shishkin
Hans Reiser wrote: John Gilmore wrote: On Monday 24 October 2005 19:08, Edward Shishkin wrote: John Gilmore wrote: How are plugin/file relationships handled without it? For the first time there will be an option in mkfs to assign a file plugin for

Re: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

2005-10-25 Thread David Masover
Konstantin Münning wrote: Sander wrote: Yes, having backups is better but that wouldn't help if it's your laptop, the backups are 2000 miles away in your office and you have only some Linux Boot CD?! ;-) Many see Internet access as an essential utility, like running water. If I have

Re: has anyone installed SuSE 10.0 on reiser4?

2005-10-25 Thread Ron Joffe
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:13, Hans Reiser wrote: If yes, what steps did you take to do it? Not quite there yet, but would like to test it out. Hans, could you give a status of Reiser4. I have seen allot of different issues on the maillist, but not a status of where the overall project

Re: has anyone installed SuSE 10.0 on reiser4?

2005-10-25 Thread David Masover
Ron Joffe wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:13, Hans Reiser wrote: If yes, what steps did you take to do it? Not quite there yet, but would like to test it out. Hans, could you give a status of Reiser4. I have seen allot of different issues on the maillist, but not a status of where

Re: Reiser4 documentation specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
Edward Shishkin wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: John Gilmore wrote: So the first beta of compression will only have the option to control it at mkfs time? It should be explained that on the first flush to disk of a new file the default compress plugin will test to see if the first 64k is

status of reiser4

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
Ron Joffe wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:13, Hans Reiser wrote: If yes, what steps did you take to do it? Not quite there yet, but would like to test it out. Hans, could you give a status of Reiser4. I have seen allot of different issues on the maillist, but not a status of

Re: has anyone installed SuSE 10.0 on reiser4?

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
David Masover wrote: Ron Joffe wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:13, Hans Reiser wrote: If yes, what steps did you take to do it? Not quite there yet, but would like to test it out. Hans, could you give a status of Reiser4. I have seen allot of different issues on the maillist, but

Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-25 Thread Peter van Hardenberg
Hello all, I'm a student at the University of Victoria. Between myself and a few fellow students we have embarked on a quest to do some experiments with the Reiser4 metadata system to show it off and provide some real world use cases. We'll be spending lots of time on this project between now

Usable metadata

2005-10-25 Thread Peter van Hardenberg
Is there a means by which I can actually use files as directories? I have enabled the directories, but, well, the log speaks for itself: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/reiser $ cp ../artist A2.mp3/ Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/reiser $ cp ../artist A2.mp3/TAB freeze terminal

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
Peter van Hardenberg wrote: Hello all, I'm a student at the University of Victoria. Between myself and a few fellow students we have embarked on a quest to do some experiments with the Reiser4 metadata system to show it off and provide some real world use cases. We'll be spending lots of time

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-25 Thread Peter van Hardenberg
On October 25, 2005 04:08 pm, you wrote: Peter van Hardenberg wrote: Hello all, I'm a student at the University of Victoria. Between myself and a few fellow students we have embarked on a quest to do some experiments with the Reiser4 metadata system to show it off and provide some real

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-25 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:04:55 -0700, Peter van Hardenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] I envision creating a simple shell in a scripting language which will operate on an XML representation of the filesystem which maps, in the simple case, directories and files such that simple xpath queries

Slackware Reiser4 Installer

2005-10-25 Thread Valentine Sinitsyn
Hi all, I've prepared a modified installer disk for Slackware Linux 10.2 which allows to install this distro on Reiser4 partitions almost the same way you do with other FSes (ext2/3, reiserfs etc), i.e. with no kernel recompilation by yourself etc. It is now under internal testing (i.e. installed

Re: Slackware Reiser4 Installer

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
Valentine Sinitsyn wrote: Hi all, I've prepared a modified installer disk for Slackware Linux 10.2 which allows to install this distro on Reiser4 partitions almost the same way you do with other FSes (ext2/3, reiserfs etc), i.e. with no kernel recompilation by yourself etc. It is now under