Re: reiserfs on removable media

2003-07-02 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:23:13PM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > - If the device is detached while a filesystem is mounted, reiserfs gets a > whole lot of I/O errors (or worse) and immediately oopses. It would be > nice if reiserfs would handle this a bit more gracefully--it should at > le

Recipe for reiserfs oops on "removable" disks (was: Re: reiserfs on removable media)

2003-07-02 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:45:44 -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jul 02, 2003 14:23 -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > This is called ordered data mode, and exists on ext3 and also reiserfs > with Chris Mason's patches. Ah, thank you, I had forgotten that the feature had a name, and that ext3 can be con

Re: reiserfs on removable media

2003-07-02 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:53:39 -0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > Remind me about removable media around January, and we'll write some > code for reiser4 to make it more graceful for it (somehow prompt the > user to insert disk, etc.) Ow! Ow! Ow! Kernel prompting the user... Ow! ;-) Now, "kernel noti

Re: reiserfs on removable media

2003-07-02 Thread Chris Mason
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 15:08, Dieter Nützel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2003 20:59 schrieb Chris Mason: > > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:53, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > >This is called ordered data mode, and exists on ext3 and also reiserfs > > > > with Chris Mason's patches. Under normal usage it shoul

Re: reiserfs on removable media

2003-07-02 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2003 20:59 schrieb Chris Mason: > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:53, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >This is called ordered data mode, and exists on ext3 and also reiserfs > > > with Chris Mason's patches. Under normal usage it shouldn't change > > > performance compared to writeback data m

Re: reiserfs on removable media

2003-07-02 Thread Chris Mason
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:53, Hans Reiser wrote: > >This is called ordered data mode, and exists on ext3 and also reiserfs with > >Chris Mason's patches. Under normal usage it shouldn't change performance > >compared to writeback data mode (which is what reiserfs does by default). > > > It had som

Re: reiserfs on removable media

2003-07-02 Thread Hans Reiser
Andreas Dilger wrote: On Jul 02, 2003 14:23 -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote: Two reiserfs improvements come to mind: - There is a tendency for files that were being grown at crash time to contain invalid data. It seems that the inodes are being updated before the data blocks they refer to are writ

Re: reiserfs on removable media

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 02, 2003 14:23 -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > Two reiserfs improvements come to mind: > > - There is a tendency for files that were being grown at crash time to > contain invalid data. It seems that the inodes are being updated before > the data blocks they refer to are written. It would b

reiserfs on removable media

2003-07-02 Thread Zygo Blaxell
I have a 120GB reiserfs in a portable disk enclosure with USB2.0 and IEEE1394 interfaces. Unfortunately the current Linux USB and firewire drivers in 2.4.21 still have nasty issues, with the result that I've had too many crashes to count while working out how to get the device drivers to talk to t

Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs on removable media?

2001-05-22 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:14:56PM +0100, Chris Dukes wrote: > > I have a Magneto Optical disk. Are there any advantages or gotchers in > > creating a reiserfs on removable media, please? > > I suspect that this would cause performance problems under reiserfs > for heavy

Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs on removable media?

2001-05-22 Thread Chris Dukes
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 06:22:53PM +0100, Jim Ford wrote: > I have a Magneto Optical disk. Are there any advantages or gotchers in > creating a reiserfs on removable media, please? As memory serves MO media tends to 1) Have large sectors 2) require that a sector be erased before it

Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs on removable media?

2001-05-22 Thread Ben Ford
Hans Reiser wrote: >Jim Ford wrote: > >>I have a Magneto Optical disk. Are there any advantages or gotchers in >>creating a reiserfs on removable media, please? >> >>Regards: Jim Ford >> >I think that mount time is faster for reiserfs than other FS&

Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs on removable media?

2001-05-22 Thread Hans Reiser
Jim Ford wrote: > > I have a Magneto Optical disk. Are there any advantages or gotchers in > creating a reiserfs on removable media, please? > > Regards: Jim Ford I think that mount time is faster for reiserfs than other FS's, other than that I don't know of any interesting considerations.

[reiserfs-list] Reiserfs on removable media?

2001-05-22 Thread Jim Ford
I have a Magneto Optical disk. Are there any advantages or gotchers in creating a reiserfs on removable media, please? Regards: Jim Ford