Re: Relocating files for faster boot/start-up on reiser(fs/4)

2006-09-14 Thread Toby Thain
On 14-Sep-06, at 6:23 PM, David Masover wrote: Quinn Harris wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:55, David Masover wrote: ... That is a good point. Recording the disk layout before and after to compare relative fragmentation would be a good idea. As well as randomizing the sequence a

Re: [PATCH] reiser4: fix readv

2006-09-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:12:54 +0400 "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Andrew > > reiser4 in 2.6.18-rc6-mm2 has a bug. It can not do readv. > > The attached patch fixes it by implementing reiser4' aio_read file operation. > Unfortunately, it appeared to get a loop which is

Re: Relocating files for faster boot/start-up on reiser(fs/4)

2006-09-14 Thread David Masover
Quinn Harris wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:55, David Masover wrote: Quinn Harris wrote: The boot optimization was over 3885 files. Ideally those files would be ordered head to tail in a sequence that perfectly matches the order they will be read. I bring this up here because I expec

Re: Relocating files for faster boot/start-up on reiser(fs/4)

2006-09-14 Thread Quinn Harris
On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:55, David Masover wrote: > Quinn Harris wrote: > > The boot optimization was over 3885 files. Ideally those files would be > > ordered head to tail in a sequence that perfectly matches the order they > > will be read. > > > > I bring this up here because I expect w

Re: argh! it's reiserfs deadlocking! [was: Re: JFS - real deadlock and lockdep warning (2.6.18-rc5-mm1)]

2006-09-14 Thread Mattia Dongili
n Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:42:48AM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > Mattia Dongili wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:00:28PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > >> I meant to reply to this earlier. I've had a lot of distractions. > >> > >> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 22:33 +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > >>> He

Re: Relocating files for faster boot/start-up on reiser(fs/4)

2006-09-14 Thread David Masover
Quinn Harris wrote: The boot optimization was over 3885 files. Ideally those files would be ordered head to tail in a sequence that perfectly matches the order they will be read. I bring this up here because I expect with reiser4, a repacker, and this Now that you mention it, do you have

Re: a bit OT: traditional Unix filesystems

2006-09-14 Thread Quinn Harris
Payal All file operations pass through the linux VFS (virtual file system). When a process requests a file operation, the kernel VFS code will traverse the tree of dentries starting at the root or current working directory dentry. If it hits a point where there is no dentry, VFS will ask the

Re: a bit OT: traditional Unix filesystems

2006-09-14 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:05:44 -0400, Payal Rathod wrote: > Hi, > I have a small OT query on working of traditional filesystem of Unix. > Can someone comment/correct me on the query below? > > If i type $ cat /tmp/payal.txt (according to my knowledge) [...] [unverified by me, and unrelated] >

a bit OT: traditional Unix filesystems

2006-09-14 Thread Payal Rathod
Hi, I have a small OT query on working of traditional filesystem of Unix. Can someone comment/correct me on the query below? If i type $ cat /tmp/payal.txt (according to my knowledge) inode of / is found out (2) from super-block. From there physical location of "/" is read (i.e. the directory en

Re: Relocating files for faster boot/start-up on reiser(fs/4)

2006-09-14 Thread cmaurand
SCO has done this solution, thats why its such a dog. Peter wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:51:39 -0600, Quinn Harris wrote: >> Thoughts? >> > > Yes. Why on earth would you do this? By copying the files and renaming and > hardlinking them is nothing a sysadmin would ever do. Just by copying you

Re: argh! it's reiserfs deadlocking! [was: Re: JFS - real deadlock and lockdep warning (2.6.18-rc5-mm1)]

2006-09-14 Thread Jeff Mahoney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:00:28PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: >> I meant to reply to this earlier. I've had a lot of distractions. >> >> On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 22:33 +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> as the subjec

Re: [PATCH] reiser4: fix readv

2006-09-14 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Thursday 14 September 2006 14:35, Peter wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:28:29 +0200, Christian Trefzer wrote: > > > Hi Vladimir, > > > > this fixes a bunch of random user space oddities for me. Just patched > > 2.6.18-rc6-mm2 with this, and some annoyances I could not trace back to > >

Re: reiser4: mount -o remount,ro / causes error on reboot

2006-09-14 Thread Peter
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:01:18 +, Peter wrote: this bug was also reported on gentoo wrt the newer baselayout. Indications are it may be a r4 issue, although no one seems to know why! http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144093 -- Peter + Do not reply to this email, it is a spam trap and

Re: [PATCH] reiser4: fix readv

2006-09-14 Thread Christian Trefzer
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:35:02AM +, Peter wrote: > This does not patch against 2.6.17-3 patchset however. Any possibility > this may be related to some startup issues as noted on other threads here? I have seen the issues at bootup you noticed some time ago, but only once after the root fs h

Re: [PATCH] reiser4: fix readv

2006-09-14 Thread Peter
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:28:29 +0200, Christian Trefzer wrote: > Hi Vladimir, > > this fixes a bunch of random user space oddities for me. Just patched > 2.6.18-rc6-mm2 with this, and some annoyances I could not trace back to > a change in user space just went bye-bye. > > Thanks a lot! > Chris T

Re: [PATCH] reiser4: fix readv

2006-09-14 Thread Christian Trefzer
Hi Vladimir, this fixes a bunch of random user space oddities for me. Just patched 2.6.18-rc6-mm2 with this, and some annoyances I could not trace back to a change in user space just went bye-bye. Thanks a lot! Chris pgpJBZDdCOUrz.pgp Description: PGP signature