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

2006-07-25 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Monday 24 July 2006 23:51, Horst H. von Brand wrote: Once the inodes ran out the entire system pretty much came to a screeching halt. Get a clue by for, apply to the vendor (for the design, or at the very least for not warning unsuspecting users)? We basically had

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 18 September 2005 03:34, Chris White wrote: CC-List trimmed On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:15, Denis Vlasenko wrote: At least reiser4 is smaller. IIRC xfs is older than reiser4 and had more time to optimize code size, but: reiser42557872 bytes xfs

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 18 September 2005 15:06, Christian Iversen wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:21:23PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is it. I do not say accept reiser4 NOW, I am saying give Hans good code review. After he did his

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 18 September 2005 21:25, David Masover wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: If you want reiser4 included into mainline, do something. Like download a patch and try to use it. Alright... Last time I tried, it didn't work. Kernel locked up. Namesys was quick with fix for the lockup

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-17 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 16 September 2005 22:52, Kyle Moffett wrote: [CC list trimmed to relevant people, no need to spam Linus' and Andrew's mailboxes, they have enough to do as it is] On Sep 16, 2005, at 15:39:48, Hans Reiser wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: additinoal comment is that the code is

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-17 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 17 September 2005 12:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: additinoal comment is that the code is very messy, very different from normal kernel style, full of indirections and thus hard to read.

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-17 Thread Denis Vlasenko
At least reiser4 is smaller. IIRC xfs is older than reiser4 and had more time to optimize code size, but: reiser42557872 bytes xfs3306782 bytes And modules sizes: reiser4.ko442012 bytes xfs.ko494337 bytes -- vda

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-17 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 16 September 2005 20:05, Hans Reiser wrote: All objections have now been addressed so far as I can discern. Random observation: You can declare functions even if you never use them. Thus here you can avoid using #if/#endif: #if defined(REISER4_DEBUG) || defined(REISER4_DEBUG_MODIFY)

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

2004-08-26 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Thursday 26 August 2004 17:12, Rik van Riel wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote: I think Hans is not planning turning old file is a stream of bytes into eight-stream octopus. One stream will remain as a 'main' one, which contains actual data. Others will keep metadata, etc

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

2004-08-26 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Thursday 26 August 2004 22:32, John Stoffel wrote: Jamie Rik van Riel wrote: And if an unaware application reads the compound file and then writes it out again, does the filesystem interpret the contents and create the other streams ? Jamie Yes, exactly that. The streams are created