Re: State of the Reiser4 FS

2006-03-15 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 23:14 Tue 14 Mar , Hans Reiser wrote: > I generally believe that the per 4k > approach used throughout the linux kernel is not as CPU efficient as > sending larger groups of pages through the layers all at once. In other > words, there is a reason we have bios, and we need to learn the less

Re: State of the Reiser4 FS

2006-03-15 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 10:29 Wed 15 Mar , Hans Reiser wrote: > Tell the mosix guys we would be willing to cooperate with them regarding > their problem. If it was that easy... The problem for openMosix is that most devices fetch data in 4k blocks via copy_from_user(). For migrated processes, openMosix intercepts

Re: State of the Reiser4 FS

2006-03-15 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 12:43 Wed 15 Mar , Hans Reiser wrote: > I am the reiserfs/reiser4 sub-maintainer. So, if reiser4 works well, > and is faster than any other Linux FS, and it is, maintaining it over > time is for me to worry about, not them. I feel this thread is about to trail off to shores we all know t

Re: lost partition table

2006-03-24 Thread Andreas Schäfer
Hi On 13:55 Fri 24 Mar , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > now the question is how to recover that file ? I had a similar problem. For me TestDisk saved the day. It can recover most, if not all, partitions even without the partition table: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Last update was

Re: Backup solution

2006-06-19 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 14:49 Mon 19 Jun , Tom Vier wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 10:12:14PM +0200, Gert wrote: > > Dunno if this is the right place to ask but does anyone know of any Open > > Source solutions that can back up Reiser/Ext3 on OES Linux and NSS on OES > > NW? > > I use the standard gnu tar -g (in

Re: somewhat OT query on journalling

2006-07-21 Thread Andreas Schäfer
> Don't get too excited -- the transactions probably aren't done yet. Without > those, no filesystem that claims to journal data is really any better than a > filesystem which only journals metadata. Even once > they are implemented (or even if they are already), applications have to > support

Re: reiser4 status (correction)

2006-07-21 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 14:37 Fri 21 Jul , Mike Benoit wrote: > No Linux file system that I'm aware of has a defragmentor, but they DO > become fragmented, just not near as bad as FAT32 used to when MS created > their defragmentor. Forgotten ext2? ;-) Funny thing: If your ext3 got too fragmented: convert it back t

Re: reiser4 status (correction)

2006-07-21 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 17:45 Fri 21 Jul , David Masover wrote: > Question, then: Can the ext2 defrag work on a raw ext3 partition, without > having to convert it first? Dunno, but I don't think so pgp3cS9WVSQCi.pgp Description: PGP signature

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 hav