Re: bio too big device dm-XX (256 255) on 2.6.17

2006-11-13 Thread Neil Brown
and on ext3-dm-md-hd[bd]. Debian Etch, 2.6.17-2. Please try this patch (I can give more detailed instructions if needed). NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/dm-table.c |3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff .prev/drivers/md/dm

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday July 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Smietanowski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, still haven't heard much discussion of metafs vs file-as-directory, but it seems like it'd be easier in metafs. Why not implement it inside the directory

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open /foo and get filedescriptor N, then /proc/self/fds/N-meta How am I supposed to get there with a shell

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open /foo and get filedescriptor N, then /proc/self/fds/N-meta is a directory which

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got it slightly wrong. One can have hardlinks to a directory without cycles provided that one does not have hardlinks from the children of that directory to any file not a child of that directory. (Mountpoints currently implement that

[reiserfs-list] PATCH - handle kmalloc failures properly in knfsd

2001-09-13 Thread Neil Brown
Linus, The NFS protocol doesn't allow the server to say I couldn't do tha due to a transient condition like out of memory. The server's only choice is to drop the request and let the client resend. Currently, when it gets ENOMEM, due to a failure allocating a struct inode or struct