Re: metas Permission Denied

2004-04-29 Thread Grant Miner
I don't understand the sentence above. Is the bit only used by the nondefault policies? Sort of. The bit always applies for execute. The bit never applies for traverse directory, unless the default policy is changed.

Re: Reiser4 can't compile glibc

2004-04-13 Thread Grant Miner
Thanks. I put on that patch and it fixes my make problem. Vladimir Saveliev wrote: Hello On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 20:53, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: What timestamp resolution Reiser4 has? Ext[23] can't compile gcc because [kernel bugs] and it doesn't have on-disk high resolution timestamps thus t

Re: Do xml-like namespaces make sense for Reiser4? (re: metas thread)

2004-04-13 Thread Grant Miner
John D. Heintz wrote: Hi Grant, No, I'm not familiar with this. I was trying to frame my questions strictly in terms of Reiser4 naming constructs (the '/' operator only). I only bring it up because extended attributes seem to have dealt with your mentioned problem, potential name conflicts, wit

testing/questions about latest Reiser4

2004-04-04 Thread Grant Miner
Does Reiser4 store stat data in real files, or some special way? Are pseudo files just representation of stat data stored a special way? Is it possible to do streams/forks with a plugin easily? I mounted latest Reiser4 snapshot + linux 2.6.4 with acl and xattr options but when I tried "getfat

Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26

2004-04-03 Thread Grant Miner
Hubert Chan wrote: "Narcoleptic" == Narcoleptic Electron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Narcoleptic> True; as long as everyone refers to the "metas" directory Narcoleptic> properly (using an environment variable, for example, as Narcoleptic> opposed to hard-coding the string "meta

Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26

2004-04-03 Thread Grant Miner
I do not disagree that it is unlikely. However, it is still possible, so my question remains: what happens in the scenario I describe? Hi What happens now is open() returns EEXIST (file exists) error; reiser4 can't make the file. Is this what you mean?

Re: [PATCH] "metas" in reiserfs v4 snapshot 2004.03.26

2004-03-31 Thread Grant Miner
Also I feel it should be on the file itself. ie for the file /tmp/fooblah you should be able to access the file's metadata by open()ing/using readdir() on /tmp/fooblah/metas or (/tmp/fooblah/..metas or whatever). That's how it works now I believe. Bad choice. Note the "lost+found" directory found

Re: OT: package scripts (was Re: software packaging and ReiserFS v4)

2003-09-05 Thread Grant Miner
I'm excited about your packaging system. I hope you make something very useful. Here are some ideas I have had about packaging and operating system design; they might be interesting to you. Comments, suggestion, other ideas are wanted. Ideally, each user's home dir would mirror the system di

Re: software packaging and ReiserFS v4

2003-09-05 Thread Grant Miner
If you are making a packaging system, I recommend you do not allow scipts, since they open up a whole can of worms. (They're impossible to invert, introduce security problems, make additional work for GUI package managers, and cause too many problems.)

Filesystem Tests

2003-08-11 Thread Grant Miner
I tested the performace of various filesystems with a mozilla build tree of 295MB, with primarily writing and copying operations. The test system is Linux 2.6.0-test2, 512MB memory, 11531.85MB partition for tests. Sync is run a few times throughout the test (for full script see bottom of this

Re: r4 v. ext3, quick speed vs. cpu experiments

2003-08-05 Thread Grant Miner
Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: How much memory you have? How big is mozilla-1.5a.tar? Did you include 'sync' in the tests? It seems reiser4 numbers are mostly in-memory operations and not all data flushed to disk while this is apparently not true for ext3. BTW, XFS numbers would be also/more interestin

r4 v. ext3, quick speed vs. cpu experiments

2003-08-05 Thread Grant Miner
"mozilla-1.5a.tar" is mozilla 1.5alpha source tar, uncompressed. Partition mkfs.ext3 or mkfs.reiser4 --keys=SHORT is run before each run. Linux is 2.6.0-test2. untar mozilla-1.5a.tar (file is on a reiser3 partition): ext3: 17.64s 28% cpu reiser4: 10.79s 67% cpu sum: reiser4 0.61x time, 2.39x cpu

Autoconf error

2003-07-28 Thread Grant Miner
Hi! I am trying to compile reiser4progs from bk; I run 'prepare' and get this output $ ./prepare Running aclocal... Running autoheader... Running autoconf... configure.in:44: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See t