Re: Which version will be merged into mainline kernel?

2006-11-14 Thread Christopher Chan
David Masover wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Anyway I guess you are smarter than Hans then since you obviously feel that his use of fsync is a bit of unneeded integrity. I'm not going to respond to this until you phrase it in a way which doesn't gossip about Hans. Unless something has changed,

Re: kernel oops with 10T filesystem

2006-11-14 Thread Enrico Cavalli
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:53 +0100, Enrico Cavalli wrote: > > > Ok, so maybe a solution would be using 8k as block size? Or this would > not be a solution? It seems that using 8k makes the filesystem not mountable (but reiserfsck works) > -- Enrico Cavalli CILEA - via R. Sanzio 4, 20090

Re: Which version will be merged into mainline kernel?

2006-11-14 Thread Christopher Chan
So, you have to have a way to insure data integrity beyond flushing it to disk. Flushing it to disk is just a bit of unneeded integrity, that costs a little bit of performance, and would probably save your ass in one or two edge cases, but those cases shouldn't normally happen, and if you're

Re: Which version will be merged into mainline kernel?

2006-11-14 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi there, First of all this discussion is about ... well isn't it of topic here at all? journaling support has been late on Linux. Everything seems to be late on Linux. Real-time support, preemptive support... Yes Linux is late on everything because things are done when there is _real_ demand