Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-27 Thread Jonathan Briggs
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 12:20 -0700, Peter van Hardenberg wrote: > On October 27, 2005 04:17 am, David Masover wrote: > > Peter van Hardenberg wrote: > > > On October 26, 2005 10:02 am, John Gilmore wrote: > > > > > > And I thought the whole idea was to unify the namespace and make things > > > like

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-27 Thread Peter van Hardenberg
On October 27, 2005 04:17 am, David Masover wrote: > Peter van Hardenberg wrote: > > On October 26, 2005 10:02 am, John Gilmore wrote: > > > > And I thought the whole idea was to unify the namespace and make things > > like ID3 tags obsolete... > > The two are not mutually exclusive. You unify the

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-27 Thread John Gilmore
On Thursday 27 October 2005 12:05, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: > John Gilmore wrote on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:02:06 +: > > I had understood that a big part of the issue with file-as-directory was > > the same as the issue with hard links to directories. Which I thought is > > that if you move one

Re: reiserfs using too much space on my HD

2005-10-27 Thread Bedros Hanounik
"du -shx" reports 9.5GB I'm running latest from gentoo, so I assume it's 3.6.19. I ran fsck.reiserfs from gentoo liveCD 2005.1 and at the end I got zero errors. The problem could be fixed, I could tar the whole root directory to an external drive, format the partition and then tar it back. but

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-27 Thread Hans Reiser
Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: >John Gilmore wrote on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:02:06 +: > > >>I had understood that a big part of the issue with file-as-directory was the >>same as the issue with hard links to directories. Which I thought is that if >>you move one directory into another, you can

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

2005-10-27 Thread Edward Shishkin
Edward Shishkin wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: Particularly, define whether large files that cannot be compressed get stored using extents and everything else that regular files use. Currently files powered by cryptcompress file plugin have its data stored only in the items of CTAIL_ID A

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-27 Thread Alexander G. M. Smith
John Gilmore wrote on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:02:06 +: > I had understood that a big part of the issue with file-as-directory was the > same as the issue with hard links to directories. Which I thought is that if > you move one directory into another, you can lose the connection to the root > of

Re: ReiserFS Funding

2005-10-27 Thread David Masover
LiFe wrote: > Got 1390 msgs in this group waiting to get read, and I'll go through > some eventually. > > Hans, I was wondering if you had approached or been approached by Google > re funding, as they may be interested in Reiser for some of their > massive storage requirements. Watch for another

Re: Fwd: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

2005-10-27 Thread David Masover
Sander wrote: > Gregory Maxwell wrote (ao): > >>On 10/25/05, Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Cheaper how? Two disks are cheaper than one? > > > If you opt for a copy of everything, yes. Because of a 500GB drive only > half of it is effectively usable. Two 250GB disks raid1 are much cheaper

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-27 Thread David Masover
Peter van Hardenberg wrote: > On October 26, 2005 10:02 am, John Gilmore wrote: > >>Actually, when I had first read about file-as-directory, I had assumed that >>the content was either dynamically generated from the on-disk metadata >>(like uid, gid, etc) or stored as a "sideband" type stream in t

Re: reiserfs using too much space on my HD

2005-10-27 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello Bedros Hanounik wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using reiserfs for several years now and it's been choice > number one for me; I'll probably switch to reiser4 once it's in the main > kernel. > > on my home file server machine, one hard drive (120GB) reports 80 GB > used, but I have no idea how

Re: Our introduction to Reiser-list

2005-10-27 Thread Hans Reiser
John Gilmore wrote: >On Wednesday 26 October 2005 22:40, Nate Diller wrote: > > >>File-as-Directory >> The issue with file-as-directory (FaD) is that it removes the Acyclic >>property of the namespace graph. This is because anything which contains >>file data can be hard-linked, even if that i

ReiserFS Funding

2005-10-27 Thread LiFe
Got 1390 msgs in this group waiting to get read, and I'll go through some eventually. Hans, I was wondering if you had approached or been approached by Google re funding, as they may be interested in Reiser for some of their massive storage requirements.

Re: recovering deleted files from a dd image

2005-10-27 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello Michael James wrote: > What tools or options are there for recovering files, > deleted and current from a dd partition image? > Please describe the problem in more details. Am I correct that you mistakenly rm-ed something from a filesystem and then umounted it and dd-ed it into dd-file-im

recovering deleted files from a dd image

2005-10-27 Thread Michael James
What tools or options are there for recovering files, deleted and current from a dd partition image? ls -l dd-file-image -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11745699840 2005-10-27 16:46 dd-file-image It was a SuSE 9.0 system running on reiser 3.6 /mnt/sbin/mkfs.reiserfs -V mkfs.reiserfs

Re: Fwd: My Dad suggests a redundant copies plugin

2005-10-27 Thread Sander
Gregory Maxwell wrote (ao): > On 10/25/05, Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That will kill performance badly. First of all the two read/writes > > needed, and second because you have to seek from one end to the disk > > to the other every time you read/write something. > > Kill it worse for w