Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-27 Thread Edward Shishkin
Edward Shishkin wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: Particularly, define whether large files that cannot be compressed get stored using extents and everything else that regular files use. Currently files powered by cryptcompress file plugin have its data stored only in the items of CTAIL_ID A

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-26 Thread Edward Shishkin
Hans Reiser wrote: Edward Shishkin wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: John Gilmore wrote: So the first beta of compression will only have the option to control it at mkfs time? It should be explained that on the first flush to disk of a new file the default compress plug

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-25 Thread Hans Reiser
Edward Shishkin wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > >> John Gilmore wrote: >> >>> So the first beta of compression will only have the option to >>> control it at mkfs time? >>> >>> >> >> It should be explained that on the first flush to disk of a new file the >> default compress plugin will test to s

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-25 Thread Edward Shishkin
Hans Reiser wrote: John Gilmore wrote: On Monday 24 October 2005 19:08, Edward Shishkin wrote: John Gilmore wrote: How are plugin/file relationships handled without it? For the first time there will be an option in mkfs to assign a file plugin for regular

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Reiser
John Gilmore wrote: >On Monday 24 October 2005 19:08, Edward Shishkin wrote: > > >>John Gilmore wrote: >> >> >>>How are plugin/file >>>relationships handled without it? >>> >>> >>For the first time there will be an option in mkfs to assign a file >>plugin for regular files per superblo

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-24 Thread John Gilmore
On Monday 24 October 2005 19:08, Edward Shishkin wrote: > John Gilmore wrote: > > How are plugin/file > >relationships handled without it? > > For the first time there will be an option in mkfs to assign a file > plugin for regular files per superblock. > Then (if everything will be okay) we will g

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-24 Thread Edward Shishkin
John Gilmore wrote: On Monday 24 October 2005 14:44, Edward Shishkin wrote: John Gilmore wrote: There is a 'compress' directory in in my reiser4 source tree. So is the compression plugin done? Is my disk/files compressed? not yet, this is under construction.. And if it w

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Reiser
John Gilmore wrote: >There is a 'compress' directory in in my reiser4 source tree. So is the >compression plugin done? > No, it is in an "any couple of weeks now"state. > Is my disk/files compressed? And if it was/wasn't >how would I know the difference, and change it? > > > >

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-24 Thread John Gilmore
On Monday 24 October 2005 14:44, Edward Shishkin wrote: > John Gilmore wrote: > >There is a 'compress' directory in in my reiser4 source tree. So is the > >compression plugin done? Is my disk/files compressed? > > not yet, > this is under construction.. > > > And if it was/wasn't > >how would I kno

Re: Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-24 Thread Edward Shishkin
John Gilmore wrote: There is a 'compress' directory in in my reiser4 source tree. So is the compression plugin done? Is my disk/files compressed? not yet, this is under construction.. And if it was/wasn't how would I know the difference, and change it? I guess reiser4progs will be abl

Reiser4 documentation & specifically current status of repacker, compression, and semantics

2005-10-23 Thread John Gilmore
There is a 'compress' directory in in my reiser4 source tree. So is the compression plugin done? Is my disk/files compressed? And if it was/wasn't how would I know the difference, and change it?