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

2006-08-09 Thread Christian Trefzer
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:01:42AM -0400, David Masover wrote: A warning isn't good? Would you rather it be an error? Of course not. It merely appears inconsistent to offer a root fs choice that may cause severe problems at bootup time. When I went to install my first SuSE (brand-new 6.1 at

Re: Another article abour Reiser4 on linux.com

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Bernd Schubert wrote: An alternative might be a reiser4 fuse port. Fuse is not performance effective.

Re: article abour Reiser4 on linux.com

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Bruce, I read your article on Linus and GPL V3, and I understand that you are frustrated by his not going for V3. I suspect the main thing that sparked your concern in writing the article about reiser4 is that I am somehow doing something different that affects licensing, and not conforming on

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

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Pavel Machek wrote: Yes, I'm afraid redundancy/checksums kill write speed, they kill write speed to cache, but not to disk our compression plugin is faster than the uncompressed plugin.

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

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Edward Shishkin wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: Edward Shishkin wrote: How about we switch to ecc, which would help with bit rot not sector loss? Interesting aspect. Yes, we can implement ECC as a special crypto transform that inflates data. As I mentioned earlier, it is possible via

Re: article abour Reiser4 on linux.com

2006-08-09 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 02:28 Wed 09 Aug , Hans Reiser wrote: Unfortunately, it's not one of which editors approve. It too easily looks as though the writer is being influenced by the source. If I were to do so, I'd risk being banned from publication. Uhm... interesting. It's not that I have so much

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

2006-08-09 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2006-08-09 02:37:45, Hans Reiser wrote: Pavel Machek wrote: Yes, I'm afraid redundancy/checksums kill write speed, they kill write speed to cache, but not to disk our compression plugin is faster than the uncompressed plugin. Yes, you can get clever. But your

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

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Pavel Machek wrote: On Wed 2006-08-09 02:37:45, Hans Reiser wrote: Pavel Machek wrote: Yes, I'm afraid redundancy/checksums kill write speed, they kill write speed to cache, but not to disk our compression plugin is faster than the uncompressed plugin. Yes, you

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

2006-08-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you objected against such checks: Did I really? Well, I think that allowing users to choose whether to checksum or not is a reasonable thing to allow them. I personally would skip the checksum on my computer, but others It could be

fsck.reiser4 segfaults

2006-08-09 Thread Jussi Suutari-Jaasko
Hi, I'm have a little problem with my reiser4 partition... I can't mount it anymore and I'm unable to repair it. I have a AMD64 platform with 64-bit Gentoo installed. Here's the short story: 1. I was using kernel 2.6.16 with reiser4-2.6.16-4 patch and I installed new 2.6.17 kernel with

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

2006-08-09 Thread David Masover
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Yes, it looks like a business of node plugin, but AFAIK, you objected against such checks: Did I really? Well, I think that allowing users to choose whether to checksum or not is a reasonable thing to allow them. I personally would skip the checksum on my computer, but

Re: article abour Reiser4 on linux.com

2006-08-09 Thread David Masover
Andreas Schäfer wrote: On 02:28 Wed 09 Aug , Hans Reiser wrote: Unfortunately, it's not one of which editors approve. It too easily looks as though the writer is being influenced by the source. If I were to do so, I'd risk being banned from publication. Uhm... interesting. It's not

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

2006-08-09 Thread David Masover
Hans Reiser wrote: Pavel Machek wrote: Yes, I'm afraid redundancy/checksums kill write speed, they kill write speed to cache, but not to disk our compression plugin is faster than the uncompressed plugin. Regarding cache, do we do any sort of consistency checking for RAM, or do

Re: article abour Reiser4 on linux.com

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 02:28 -0600, Hans Reiser wrote: Bruce, I read your article on Linus and GPL V3, and I understand that you are frustrated by his not going for V3. To be honest, it was more the fact that he made an obviously false statement, and I happened to be in a position to know it

Re: article abour Reiser4 on linux.com

2006-08-09 Thread Hans Reiser
Bruce Byfield wrote: Wow. I thought only the judiciary insulated itself from ever learning of its mistakes that well.:-/ Oh, we have ways of learning. As witness this email exchange :) You are right, it is only the judiciary.;-)