Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

2006-08-07 Thread David Masover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that finding all the bits and pieces to do ext3 on-line expansion has been a study in obfuscation. Somewhat surprising since this feature is a must for enterprise class storage management. Not really. Having people who can dig through the obfuscation is also

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-07 Thread David Masover
Maciej Sołtysiak wrote: Hello David, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 1:23:01 AM, you wrote: Sounds good. I don't have an ubuntu to test with at the moment, though. Well, both MS Virtual PC and VMWare are free of charge, so installing is a real snap. Under what, though? I don't want MS crap on my

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-07 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 1:23:01 AM, you wrote: > Sounds good. I don't have an ubuntu to test with at the moment, though. Well, both MS Virtual PC and VMWare are free of charge, so installing is a real snap. > Not to nitpick, but isn't that emulation? Or have they actually done > r

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-07 Thread David Masover
Maciej Sołtysiak wrote: Hello David, hi I have built today an r4-patched ubuntu kernel package (yes, debs!) Sounds good. I don't have an ubuntu to test with at the moment, though. Please note, that this is done all under virtualization (Microsoft Virtual PC). Not to nitpick, but isn't

ext3 vs reiserfs speed (was Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion))

2006-08-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Using guilt as an argument in a technical discussion is a flashing red > > sign that says "I have no technical rebuttal" > > Wow, that is really nervy. Let's recap this all: > > * reiser4 has a 2x performance advantage over the next fastest FS > (ext3), and when compression ships in a m

Re: Experimental Reiser4-enabled Ubuntu kernels ready for testing

2006-08-07 Thread Sander Sweers
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 21:29 +0200, Maciej Sołtysiak wrote: > > There is a readme.txt file that says: > Keyboard shortcuts made me send prematurely :-| > > Please note that these are my first images done with not much > of experience in the area. > > The host: ubuntu.ae.poznan.pl is a virtualized

reiser4 needs fsck after crash

2006-08-07 Thread Laurent Riffard
Hello, I'm using a reiser4 FS for compiling my linux kernel. Today, the kernel panics while compiling. I guess it was a reiser4 panic. I can't be sure as I was using an X console, but I'm often hit by such reiser4 panics (see my others posts on this list). So I reboot using the reset button a

Re: Experimental Reiser4-enabled Ubuntu kernels ready for testing

2006-08-07 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
> There is a readme.txt file that says: Keyboard shortcuts made me send prematurely :-| Please note that these are my first images done with not much of experience in the area. The host: ubuntu.ae.poznan.pl is a virtualized machine, so don't go crazy if it's slow or dead, just notify me :-) Plea

Experimental Reiser4-enabled Ubuntu kernels ready for testing

2006-08-07 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello, as I said, I'd be doing this, so... ftp://ubuntu.ae.poznan.pl/ There is a readme.txt file that says: == Description == This directory contains Ubuntu Linux kernel image packages with support for Reiser4 (http://wiki.namesys.com) == Usage == 1. download a desired kernel image 2. install t

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-07 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Monday, August 7, 2006, 7:09:42 PM, you wrote: > I mean, having Grub support everything would be nice, but if you're > reformatting anyway, I don't think it's that imperative. I have come up to that conclusion too. If someone would be getting an r4-enabled kernel on an already install

Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

2006-08-07 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> With the latest e2fsprogs and 2.6 kernels, the online resizing >> support has been merged in, and as long as the filesystem was >> created with space reserved for growing the filesystem (which is now >> the default, or if the filesystem has the off-line prepration step >> ext2prepare run on it),

Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

2006-08-07 Thread greg
On Jul 31, 3:41pm, Theodore Tso wrote: } Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.or > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:54:06PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > > This looks rather like an education issue rather than a technical limit. > > > > > > We aren't talking ab

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-07 Thread David Masover
Christian Trefzer wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:23:16PM +0200, Maciej Sołtysiak wrote: There also is an issue with grub. The kernel alone is fine for creating partitions (or loop devices) but with grub not patched we can't install boot partitions. No biggy, I guess, but still a problem.

Re: The Infamous Reiser4-randomly-blocks-for-ages-and-writes-the-hd-continously-in-the-mean-while now with a btrace log! (hope it helps)

2006-08-07 Thread Nate Diller
On 8/6/06, rvalles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The bug is as I've explained a thousand times. (and it does only affect kernels newer than 2.6.12, all of them, that's one thing I'm sure) Newer kernels have a nice feature called "blktrace" to trace the block layer activity. I include with this mail

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-07 Thread Christian Trefzer
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:23:16PM +0200, Maciej Sołtysiak wrote: > I tried to create a kernel package with reiser4 for ubuntu-server (dapper) > They ship a 2.6.15 (heavily modified) kernel upon which the current > reiser4-for-2.6.17-3.patch applies fine but unfortunately miscompiles, eg. > fs/reis

Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

2006-08-07 Thread Matthias Andree
[stripping Cc: list] On Thu, 03 Aug 2006, Edward Shishkin wrote: > >What kind of forward error correction would that be, > > Actually we use checksums, not ECC. If checksum is wrong, then run > fsck - it will remove the whole disk cluster, that represent 64K of > data. Well, that's quite a diff