Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread M.
Hi, Is it not simpler to ask the reiserfs guys for a detailed explanation of why and where this plugins' layer differs from using VFS for plugins and let others comment on that ? If something cant be done using VFS this layer is needed by reiser4 and has to be merged. Michele

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:46:50PM +0200, M. wrote: Is it not simpler to ask the reiserfs guys for a detailed explanation of why and where this plugins' layer differs from using VFS for plugins and let others comment on that ? I hope this is not FUD or something like that, but it seems to me the

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread Nikita Danilov
Vladimir Saveliev writes: Hello On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:28, Nikita Danilov wrote: David Masover writes: [...] Maintainability is like optimization. The maintainability of a non-working program is irrelevant. You'd be right if we already had

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread Horst von Brand
Artem B. Bityuckiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus TЖrnqvist wrote: So merge it as it is Fix it first. The merge as it stands just gives rise to stuff that is /never/ fixed properly. and move the stuff to the VFS as needed or deemed necessary. And enable the pseudo

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Horst von Brand wrote: Artem B. Bityuckiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Markus TЖrnqvist wrote: [...] and move the stuff to the VFS as needed or deemed necessary. And enable the pseudo interface, or at least set it in menuconfig

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread Nikita Danilov
David Masover writes: [...] What we want is to have programs that can write small changes to one file or to many files, lump all those changes into a transaction, and have the transaction either succeed or fail. No existing file system guarantees such behavior. Even atomicity of single

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread Roland Dreier
David Spotlight on the Mac. Users love it. We can do it. But David not without changing something in the filesystem. David Actually, I think we came up with several ways to do this, David all of which required Reiser4 interfaces. It seems the existing Beagle project is a

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Reiser
Correct me if I am wrong: What exists currently in VFS are vector instances, not classes. Plugins, selected by pluginids, are vector classes, with each pluginid selecting a vector class. You propose to have the vector class layer (aka plugin layer) in reiser4 export the vector instance to VFS for

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Reiser
Christoph Hellwig wrote: What is wrong with having one file in the FS use a write only plugin, in which the encrypion key is changed with every append in a forward but not backward computable manner, and in order to read a file you must either have a key that is stored on another computer

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Hans Reiser wrote: Christoph, Reiser4 users love the plugin concept, and all audiences which have listened to a presentation on plugins have been quite positive about it. Many users think it is the best thing about reiser4. Can you articulate why you are opposed to plugins in more detail?

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-21 Thread Andrew Morton
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is wrong with having an encryption plugin implemented in this manner? What is wrong with being able to have some files implemented using a compression plugin, and others in the same filesystem not. What is wrong with having one file in the FS

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Andi Kleen wrote: Christoph does a lot of reviewing and he is notorious for making needed linux contributors go away and not come back, and I won't say which famous person on this mailing list told me that and your child definitely is in serious need of that to be mergeable. I'm sure

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-21 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Garzik wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: Christoph, Reiser4 users love the plugin concept, and all audiences which have listened to a presentation on plugins have been quite positive about it. Many users think it is the best thing about reiser4.

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-21 Thread Bedros Hanounik
First of all, I'm HW engineer, and don't know much about implementation details of FS. I know some coding, I've coded for different levels from linux device drivers to GUI's, but I know a lot about integration between levels of hierarchy. I generally agree with the idea that high level

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Masover wrote: There's been sloppy code in the kernel before. I remember one bit in particular which was commented Fuck me gently with a chainsaw. If I remember correctly, this had all of the PCI ids and the names and manufacturers of the corresponding devices -- in a data structure --

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 06:07:58PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: Christoph, Reiser4 users love the plugin concept, and all audiences which have listened to a presentation on plugins have been quite positive about it. Many users think it is the best thing about reiser4. Can you articulate why

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:25:24PM -0500, David Masover wrote: You're basically implementing another VFS layer inside of reiser4, which is a big layering violation. There's been sloppy code in the kernel before. I remember one bit in particular which was commented Fuck me gently with a

Re: reiser4 corruption

2005-06-20 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 21:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What patch set did you apply? If this is the last one (reiser4-for-2.6.11-5) there is some inconsistency due to format changes that will be fixed in the next release. Yes, it was reiser4-for-2.6.11-5. Would this

Re: reiser4 patches for 2.6.12

2005-06-20 Thread E.Gryaznova
Hello. reiser4 patch for 2.6.12 is not ready yet. All available reiser4 patches are in ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6 Thanks, Lena. David Arendt wrote: Hi, I just wanted to know if there are currently patches for 2.6.12 available and if not when they will be approximately be

Re: reiser4 corruption

2005-06-17 Thread mross
What patch set did you apply? If this is the last one (reiser4-for-2.6.11-5) there is some inconsistency due to format changes that will be fixed in the next release. Yes, it was reiser4-for-2.6.11-5. Would this inconsistency cause fsck to find problems that just didn't exist? Would fsck's

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-07 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Monday 06 June 2005 22:39, Adrian Ulrich wrote: I upgraded to Linux 2.6.11.11 using the -5 reiser4 patch. It fixed it.. somewhat.. it's still funky: * mkisofs doesn't crash with the new kernel, yeah! * after running mkisofs, grub can't read the filesystem anymore.. The

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-07 Thread Adrian Ulrich
Hi Vitaly, there was a format change to work with encryption plugin in -5 reiser4 patch. progs do not have its support yet. grub works through the progs code so its the same problem, mkisofs is not relevant here. I don't think thats the problem: It looks like a remount bug: See [EMAIL

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-07 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 15:01, Adrian Ulrich wrote: Hi Vitaly, there was a format change to work with encryption plugin in -5 reiser4 patch. progs do not have its support yet. grub works through the progs code so its the same problem, mkisofs is not relevant here. I don't think

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-07 Thread Adrian Ulrich
I am about the particular fsck message that appeares when you use -5 reiser4 patch: Ok, but i think it's still strange: This message only re-appears if i do a: mount -o ro /dev/md1 /somewhere mount -o remount,rw /dev/md1 /somewhere --- !!! umount /dev/md1 fsck.reiser4 /dev/md1 --

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-07 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Tuesday 7 June 2005 15:10, Adrian Ulrich wrote: Ok, but i think it's still strange: This message only re-appears if i do a: mount -o ro /dev/md1 /somewhere mount -o remount,rw /dev/md1 /somewhere --- !!! umount /dev/md1 fsck.reiser4 /dev/md1 -- fsck will complain.. What happens

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-06 Thread E.Gryaznova
Hello. Do you have more than one mounted reiser4 partition? Thanks, Lena Adrian Ulrich wrote: Hi, Well, i managed to crash reiser4 ;-) I created an iso-image on my reiser4 filesystem (it's my rootfs) using mkisofs. mkisofs aborted because the filesystem was full. After freeing up some

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-06 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Sunday 05 June 2005 18:50, Adrian Ulrich wrote: Hi, Well, i managed to crash reiser4 ;-) I created an iso-image on my reiser4 filesystem (it's my rootfs) using mkisofs. mkisofs aborted because the filesystem was full. After freeing up some space, i ran mkisofs again and: *bam*

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-06 Thread E.Gryaznova
Adrian Ulrich wrote: Hi, Well, i managed to crash reiser4 ;-) I created an iso-image on my reiser4 filesystem (it's my rootfs) using mkisofs. mkisofs aborted because the filesystem was full. After freeing up some space, i ran mkisofs again and: *bam* fsck.reiser4 told me to run

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-06 Thread Adrian Ulrich
what reiser4 patch do you use for this kernel? That should be ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.11/reiser4-for-2.6.11-4.patch.gz I'll give -5 a try this evening

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-06 Thread Adrian Ulrich
I upgraded to Linux 2.6.11.11 using the -5 reiser4 patch. It fixed it.. somewhat.. it's still funky: * mkisofs doesn't crash with the new kernel, yeah! * after running mkisofs, grub can't read the filesystem anymore.. The filesystem got corrupted. (It was ok before i booted into

Re: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: hint-blk reiser4_block_count(super)

2005-06-06 Thread Adrian Ulrich
Now the same thing happens again :-/ Ok, i know why it only got corrupted after using the partition as rootfs : My Reiser4 partition doesn't like to get remounted rw: Running 1) mount /dev/md1 /somewhere 2) umount /dev/md1 3) mount -o ro /dev/md1 /somewhere 4) umount /dev/md1 works

Re: reiser4 on large block devices

2005-06-01 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 22:42, Aaron Porter wrote: I'm trying to create a reiser4 filesystem on a ~4tb block device, but I'm getting the error Fatal: The partition size is too big. The FAQ seems to list a max filesystem size of 16tb. Am I missing something? diablo:~# mkreiser4

Re: reiser4 on large block devices

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Porter
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0400, Vitaly Fertman wrote: would you try this patch for libaal-1.0.4? mkreiser4 completes without errors now, but attempting to mount the filesystem gives: ReiserFS: sda3: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda3

Re: reiser4 on large block devices

2005-06-01 Thread Adrian Ulrich
ReiserFS: sda3: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda3 Ehrm, This sounds like Reiser3, does your kernel support Reiser4? Maybe you should use modprobe? -- We're working on it, slowly but surely...or not-so-surely in the spots we're not so sure...

Re: reiser4 on large block devices

2005-06-01 Thread Aaron Porter
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:56:05PM +0200, Adrian Ulrich wrote: ReiserFS: sda3: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda3 Ehrm, This sounds like Reiser3, does your kernel support Reiser4? Maybe you should use modprobe? You would be correct. I had

Re: Reiser4/Encryption plugin stability?

2005-05-31 Thread Edward Shishkin
ADT wrote: Hi everyone, I'm looking into using reiser4 and it's encryption plugin on a number of new CentOS4 servers I will be building. I've been doing various searches via google and the list archives, and I've seen a few emails from last year which indicated that the encryption plugin

Re: Reiser4/Encryption plugin stability?

2005-05-31 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward Shishkin wrote: ADT wrote: Hi everyone, I'm looking into using reiser4 and it's encryption plugin on a number of new CentOS4 servers I will be building. I've been doing various searches via google and the list archives, and I've seen a

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-26 Thread evilninja
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions for performance/latency benchmark suites, preferrably automated, are welcome, of course ;) fwiw, i did some benchmarks, and will do with new hardware soon:

Re: Reiser4+Flash: first considerations

2005-05-26 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: Hello, Here I list several issues which are relevant to Flash but may be not envisioned by Reiser4. 1. Bad Blocks. NAND flashes are shipped with bad blocks randomly scattered over flash. Also new bad blocks may

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-24 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans Reiser wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005 12:52:12 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said: On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:22:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Of course, I've worked on sufficiently few big

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 24 May 2005 16:35:51 CDT, David Masover said: My feeling is that you create the standard as you create the test, not the other way around. If the test works, then there are by definition few bugs if any in the system itself -- any other bugs are actually in the application, not the

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-24 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2005 16:35:51 CDT, David Masover said: My feeling is that you create the standard as you create the test, not the other way around. If the test works, then there are by definition few bugs if any in the

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-23 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:22:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote: This is exactly why it should be in the kernel once the developers can't find any more bugs. Marked as experimental, mainly, but in the kernel where real users can throw cobol/Java/sql bastardizations at it and break it. Sure.

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 23 May 2005 12:52:12 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said: On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:22:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Of course, I've worked on sufficiently few big projects that I'm still naive enough to believe that unit tests _can_ catch everything, if they're done

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-23 Thread Hans Reiser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005 12:52:12 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said: On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:22:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Of course, I've worked on sufficiently few big projects that I'm still naive enough to believe that unit tests _can_ catch

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-22 Thread Hans Reiser
What Vladimir failed to say was that it is our recent changes to accomodate the kernel maintainers that are unstable, we had previously reached the point where none of our internal tests could make it crash. I hope that he did not put these unstable changes on our website for users to see them

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-22 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:43:52AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: What Vladimir failed to say was that it is our recent changes to accomodate the kernel maintainers that are unstable, we had previously reached the point where none of our internal tests could make it crash. I hope that he did not put

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-22 Thread Hans Reiser
Markus Törnqvist wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:43:52AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: What Vladimir failed to say was that it is our recent changes to accomodate the kernel maintainers that are unstable, we had previously reached the point where none of our internal tests could make it crash.

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-22 Thread Martin Piayda
On So, 2005-05-22 at 20:12 +0300, Markus TXrnqvist wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:43:52AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: What Vladimir failed to say was that it is our recent changes to accomodate the kernel maintainers that are unstable, we had previously reached the point where none of our

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-22 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2005 23:49:00 +0200, Pysiak Satriani said: I remember Hans saying that r4 is so stable that the developers themselves can not find any more bugs. Which in reality probably means It *probably* won't eat

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 22 May 2005 19:22:51 CDT, David Masover said: This is exactly why it should be in the kernel once the developers can't find any more bugs. Marked as experimental, mainly, but in the kernel where real users can throw cobol/Java/sql bastardizations at it and break it. Oh, I agree

Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT

2005-05-20 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 21:53, Martin Piayda wrote: Hi, I'm missing O_DIRECT support in the current Reiser4 implementation (up to Kernel 2.6.12-rc4-mm). Calling sys_open(myfile, O_RDWR | O_DIRECT, 0) fails with -22. Is this support planned, did I miss something, should I get my own

Re: reiser4 patches for 2.6.12-rc kernels

2005-05-09 Thread gimpel
On Sat, 07 May 2005 16:11:19 +0200 __ukasz Mierzwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a possibility that You will release reiser4 patches for 2.6.12-rc kernels? I wan't to give it a shot but namesys.com/pub got only patches for 2.6.11 and 2.6.12-mm kernels. Thanks in advance. __ukasz

Re: Reiser4 repackers

2005-05-08 Thread Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
Andrew Clausen wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 08:10:18PM -0500, David Masover wrote: The blocklist is only needed to find the blocks in the nested file, which is huge. (I don't know anything about reiser packing, but things like tail-merging aren't a serious problem.) Yet, it's still a

Re: Reiser4 repackers

2005-05-07 Thread Andrew Clausen
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:41:16PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Are you familiar with convertfs? http://members.optusnet.com.au/clausen/ideas/convertfs.txt How easy is it to get the blocklist needed? It seems like Reiser4's packing doesn't help here... The blocklist is only needed

Re: Reiser4 repackers

2005-05-07 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Clausen wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:41:16PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Are you familiar with convertfs? http://members.optusnet.com.au/clausen/ideas/convertfs.txt How easy is it to get the blocklist needed? It seems like

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-06 Thread Alex Zarochentsev
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:05:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Clausen wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:10:08PM -0500, David Masover wrote: To support doing what to Reiser4? parted is a disk management project -- specifically, a

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-06 Thread Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
Hans Reiser wrote: I think someone is going to pay us to write the online repacker in the very near future, though I can't say their name. Giovanni, if by parted support you mean that you are going to write a resizer (and now that I take a moment to remember what parted does it seems certain you

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-06 Thread Hans Reiser
Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: I think someone is going to pay us to write the online repacker in the very near future, though I can't say their name. Giovanni, if by parted support you mean that you are going to write a resizer (and now that I take a moment to remember

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-06 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Friday 06 May 2005 13:31, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: I think someone is going to pay us to write the online repacker in the very near future, though I can't say their name. Giovanni, if by parted support you mean that you are going to write a resizer (and now

Re: Reiser4 repackers

2005-05-06 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Clausen wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:47:00PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea to release at least an offline repacker. To be able to resize. That is the crucial feature. Performance isn't quite so huge,

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-05 Thread Hans Reiser
Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking to know if someone have time to share with me to add the necessary code inside 'parted' to support Reiser4. May be 1 or 2 hours per day. The reference page is: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/#maillist I

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-05 Thread Jander
Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking to know if someone have time to share with me to add the necessary code inside 'parted' to support Reiser4. May be 1 or 2 hours per day. The reference page is: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/#maillist I

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-05 Thread Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
Jander wrote: Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking to know if someone have time to share with me to add the necessary code inside 'parted' to support Reiser4. May be 1 or 2 hours per day. The reference page is: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/#maillist I

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-05 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking to know if someone have time to share with me to add the necessary code inside 'parted' to support Reiser4. To support doing what to Reiser4? parted is a disk management project --

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Clausen
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:10:08PM -0500, David Masover wrote: To support doing what to Reiser4? parted is a disk management project -- specifically, a way to create, delete, and resize partitions. Think of it as fdisk with nicer units and built-in resizefs tools. This would, I think,

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-05 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Clausen wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:10:08PM -0500, David Masover wrote: To support doing what to Reiser4? parted is a disk management project -- specifically, a way to create, delete, and resize partitions. Think of it as fdisk with

Re: Reiser4 repackers

2005-05-05 Thread Jonathan Briggs
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 17:10 -0500, David Masover wrote: This would, I think, involve creating a fully functional resizefs.reiser4 -- something I distinctly remember Hans telling me not to do, because my approach also created (most of) an online repacker, which is something Hans wants to do for

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Clausen
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:05:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Couldn't this just be a wrapper to mkfs.reiser4 and fsck.reiser4? Almost. As it stands, libparted can't delegate out I/O to external programs, because its filesystem API address in terms of disk sectors rather than partitions.

Re: Reiser4 support on parted ...

2005-05-05 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Clausen wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:05:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Couldn't this just be a wrapper to mkfs.reiser4 and fsck.reiser4? Almost. As it stands, libparted can't delegate out I/O to external programs, because its

Re: Reiser4 repackers

2005-05-05 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Briggs wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 17:10 -0500, David Masover wrote: This would, I think, involve creating a fully functional resizefs.reiser4 -- something I distinctly remember Hans telling me not to do, because my approach also

Re: Reiser4 repackers

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Clausen
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:47:00PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea to release at least an offline repacker. To be able to resize. That is the crucial feature. Performance isn't quite so huge, although Hans may start squirming when someone benchmarks performance

Re: Reiser4 repackers

2005-05-05 Thread Hans Reiser
I think someone is going to pay us to write the online repacker in the very near future, though I can't say their name. Giovanni, if by parted support you mean that you are going to write a resizer (and now that I take a moment to remember what parted does it seems certain you do mean that), I

Re: reiser4 on PPC

2005-05-03 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:14:26PM -0600, Boyd Waters wrote: A test machine could be a $499 Mac Mini. I would be willing to chip in for one if we can identify a tester. Would anyone else be willing to help me fund this? IIRC a fund drive was talked about earlier and for some reason

Re: reiser4 on PPC

2005-05-03 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:31:02PM +0200, Adrian Ulrich wrote: And i'd still buy them a Mac.. No problem.. But then again, maybe we should organize this by each posting to the list the amount they donated, and what's left (of what one costs in Moscow) and have the Namesys guys handle it through

Re: reiser4 on PPC

2005-05-03 Thread Hans Reiser
Adrian Ulrich wrote: Hi, IIRC a fund drive was talked about earlier and for some reason discarded. Can't even remember who the guy behind it was, I'm afraid. It was me.. And i'd still buy them a Mac.. No problem.. -- Adrian We won't turn down hardware, but it might be a few months

Re: reiser4 on PPC

2005-05-02 Thread Alex Zarochentsev
Hi, On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:03:13PM -0500, Jake Maciejewski wrote: Now that reiser4 seems to be working on AMD64, I'm trying to test it on PPC. Unfortunately, I haven't even been able to mount a reiser4 FS. Unfortunately we could not test reiser4 on PPC because of lack of test machine.

Re: reiser4 on PPC

2005-05-02 Thread Jake Maciejewski
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:10 +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:03:13PM -0500, Jake Maciejewski wrote: Now that reiser4 seems to be working on AMD64, I'm trying to test it on PPC. Unfortunately, I haven't even been able to mount a reiser4 FS. Unfortunately we

Re: reiser4 on PPC

2005-05-02 Thread Jake Maciejewski
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:10 +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:03:13PM -0500, Jake Maciejewski wrote: Now that reiser4 seems to be working on AMD64, I'm trying to test it on PPC. Unfortunately, I haven't even been able to mount a reiser4 FS. Unfortunately we

Re: reiser4 on PPC

2005-05-02 Thread Boyd Waters
I get this error as well on a newly-created reiser4 filesystem. I'm using 2.6.12_rc3 with patches from 2.6.11-mm3 (which seemed to apply cleanly) on a Macintosh Mini. What other debugging information is needed? ~ boyd Boyd Waters Socorro, New Mexico Well, now that I've actually checked it,

Re: reiser4 on PPC

2005-05-02 Thread Boyd Waters
On May 2, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:03:13PM -0500, Jake Maciejewski wrote: Now that reiser4 seems to be working on AMD64, I'm trying to test it on PPC. Unfortunately, I haven't even been able to mount a reiser4 FS. Unfortunately we could not test

Re: Reiser4 pokes into R3

2005-04-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
[please Cc, i'm not subscribed atm] Hello list, after I started using a loop-mounted reiser4 fs, I was getting ReiserFS: hda1: warning: clm-2100: nesting info a different FS would you try to see whether the attached patch helps? The patch reduces the statistical probability for

Re: reiser4: mv changes mtime ?

2005-04-11 Thread Mickael Marchand
Hi, for the notice, it seems the soft lockup bug is fixed in 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 which has been running for 8 hours now without a glitch. Cheers, Mik Vladimir Saveliev a écrit : Hello On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:36, Mickael Marchand wrote: Hi, I am giving a shot at reiser4 to make rsync

Re: Reiser4 pokes into R3

2005-04-08 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 21:47, Jan Engelhardt wrote: [please Cc, i'm not subscribed atm] Hello list, after I started using a loop-mounted reiser4 fs, I was getting ReiserFS: hda1: warning: clm-2100: nesting info a different FS would you try to see whether the attached patch

Re: reiser4: mv changes mtime ?

2005-04-08 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:36, Mickael Marchand wrote: Hi, I am giving a shot at reiser4 to make rsync snapshots backups (using hard links and incremental rsync). this works definitely great apart from 2 minor bugs :) 1 : it seems that mv directory/ directory2/ changes the mtime of

Re: reiser4: mv changes mtime ?

2005-04-08 Thread Mickael Marchand
Hi, Vladimir Saveliev wrote: Hello On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:36, Mickael Marchand wrote: Hi, I am giving a shot at reiser4 to make rsync snapshots backups (using hard links and incremental rsync). this works definitely great apart from 2 minor bugs :) 1 : it seems that mv directory/

Re: reiser4: mv changes mtime ?

2005-04-08 Thread Mickael Marchand
hmm just got 3 more soft lookups in a few hours (2/3 hours I think) ;) my script (attached in case you want to try it) for backups basically do: rm -rf hourly.11 mv hourly.10 hourly.11 ... mv hourly.1 hourly.2 mv hourly.0 hourly.1 cp -al hourly.1 hourly.0 rsync [various options] /home/ hourly.0/

Re: reiser4: mv changes mtime ?

2005-04-08 Thread Kathy KN (HK)
For your first problem, see fs/reiser4/plugin/dir/hashed_dir.c, line 540, comment from_dir-i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME; away, and recompile your kernel. mtime shouldn't update when you try to mv, and thus will not break your backup scripts. Kathy On Apr 8, 2005 4:51 PM, Mickael Marchand [EMAIL

Re: reiser4: mv changes mtime ?

2005-04-08 Thread Mickael Marchand
Kathy KN (HK) wrote: For your first problem, see fs/reiser4/plugin/dir/hashed_dir.c, line 540, comment from_dir-i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME; away, and recompile your kernel. mtime shouldn't update when you try to mv, and thus will not break your backup scripts. ho, thanks, looks like a

Re: Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

2005-04-07 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
David Masover schrieb: sergey ivanov wrote: So how about this deadlock? Is there any expectation about fix for it? Wbr, Sergey. Christian Mayrhuber wrote: Vladimir Saveliev schrieb: This problem is fixed, but running your test during several hours caused reiser4 crash. It just

Re: Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

2005-04-06 Thread sergey ivanov
So how about this deadlock? Is there any expectation about fix for it? Wbr, Sergey. Christian Mayrhuber wrote: Vladimir Saveliev schrieb: This problem is fixed, but running your test during several hours caused reiser4 crash. It just happened, so, tomorrow I will take a look at it. I

Re: Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

2005-04-06 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sergey ivanov wrote: So how about this deadlock? Is there any expectation about fix for it? Wbr, Sergey. Christian Mayrhuber wrote: Vladimir Saveliev schrieb: This problem is fixed, but running your test during several hours

Re: reiser4 not supporting quota

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Kara
Sorry for this ``not so smart'' question, is there quota support in reiser4? Or quota is not in the main idea of reiser4? There is not quota support for Reiser4. I'm looking into it but first I have to come up with a reasonable semantics + idea of efficient implementation :) The framework of

Re: reiser4 not supporting quota

2005-04-05 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:37, Jan Kara wrote: Sorry for this ``not so smart'' question, is there quota support in reiser4? Or quota is not in the main idea of reiser4? There is not quota support for Reiser4. I'm looking into it but first I have to come up with a reasonable semantics

Re: reiser4 not supporting quota

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Kara
Hello, On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:37, Jan Kara wrote: Sorry for this ``not so smart'' question, is there quota support in reiser4? Or quota is not in the main idea of reiser4? There is not quota support for Reiser4. I'm looking into it but first I have to come up with a reasonable

Re: Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

2005-04-01 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
Vladimir Saveliev schrieb: This problem is fixed, but running your test during several hours caused reiser4 crash. It just happened, so, tomorrow I will take a look at it. I was able to deadlock kernel 2.6.11 + reiser4-for-2.6.11-3.patch.gz + elevator=cfq. This time it happend during the first

Re: Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

2005-03-30 Thread E.Gryaznova
Hello. We use dbench-2.0 in our testing. Well, dbench-3.02 is added to stressing suit too. Thanks, Lena. Hans Reiser wrote: Christian Mayrhuber wrote: I guess dbench-3.x stress testing is missing from your grand archive ;-) Yes, actually, I suspect it is. Elena, please comment.

Re: Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

2005-03-30 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 02:23, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: Hi, If I'm running plain 2.6.11(.0) patched with reiser4-for-2.6.11-broken-out.2.gz I can hang reiser4 when running When you say hang reiser4 do you mean that system freezes completely (does not respord to key pressing, etc)?

Re: Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

2005-03-30 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
Hi! Thanks. I noticed there is already dbench-3.03 available: ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/dbench-3.03.tar.gz E.Gryaznova wrote: Hello. We use dbench-2.0 in our testing. Well, dbench-3.02 is added to stressing suit too. Thanks, Lena. -- lg, Chris

Re: Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

2005-03-30 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
Vladimir Saveliev schrieb: Hello On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 02:23, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: Hi, If I'm running plain 2.6.11(.0) patched with reiser4-for-2.6.11-broken-out.2.gz I can hang reiser4 when running When you say hang reiser4 do you mean that system freezes completely (does not respord to

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