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

2006-08-08 Thread Sander Sweers
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 20:05 -0400, David Masover wrote: > 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 in

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

2006-08-08 Thread Christian Trefzer
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:09:42PM -0400, David Masover wrote: > Christian Trefzer wrote: > > Few people keep a 32MB ext2 for /boot purposes these days, so it > > really is imperative that grub can read kernel images off a reiser4 > > /. > > I think there are patches, but I do keep a 32 meg ext3 f

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

2006-08-08 Thread Sarath Menon
On 8/8/06, Christian Trefzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grub is a bootloader and as such should (as an optimum) be able to grab kernels off of any fs. I guess patches are accepted by upstream developers? Grub v1 (The one we all know) is alpha status according to their devs. Its no longer under

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

2006-08-08 Thread Edward Shishkin
Matthias Andree wrote: [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,

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

2006-08-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >> Most users not only cannot patch a kernel, they don't know what a patch > >> is. It most certainly does. > > > > > > obviously you can provide complete kernels, including precompiled ones. > > Most distros have a yum or apt or similar tool to suck down packages, > > it's trivial for u

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

2006-08-08 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 2:05:23 AM, you wrote: > Under what, though? I don't want MS crap on my OS X (need that for work > ATM), and I can't imagine they've ported it to Linux. I have no reason > to boot Windows except for games, and if I was going to do that, I may > as well shrin

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

2006-08-08 Thread David Masover
Christian Trefzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:09:42PM -0400, David Masover wrote: Christian Trefzer wrote: Few people keep a 32MB ext2 for /boot purposes these days, so it really is imperative that grub can read kernel images off a reiser4 /. I think there are patches, but I do keep a 32