Re: Copy/move btrfs volume

2010-07-21 Thread Hubert Kario
vice (sshfs) ? You could also go the totally cool option (albeit a bit creazy) and use network block devices and have no downtime... The overall process will take more time though. -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software ul. Ksawerów 30/85 02-656 Warszawa POLAND tel. +48 (22) 646-6

Re: [BUG] btrfs hangup when we run the "sync" command

2010-07-21 Thread Hubert Kario
ntly, but I haven't > received any reply. Could you review them for me? though I have tested > them and everything works well. > > [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: restructure try_release_extent_buffer() > [PATCH 2/2] btrfs: fix oops when leafsize is greator than nodesize > [PATCH] b

Re: Is there a more aggressive fixer than btrfsck?

2010-06-29 Thread Hubert Kario
functionality > described in that article is more concerned with a bad transaction > rather then something like a hardware failure where a block written > more then 128 transactions ago is now corrupted and consiquently the > entire partition is now unmountable( that is what I think i a

Re: default subvolume abilities/restrictions

2010-06-29 Thread Hubert Kario
i need the ability to "move" the default subvolume into a new, empty > subvolume. the empty subvolume then becomes the new default. > > the end result is moving the users installation into a dedicated > subvolume, cleanly and efficiently, so the system can do other things > with th

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Complex filesystem operations: split and join

2010-06-17 Thread Hubert Kario
sing COW and referencing blocks in the original file (in effect using only a little more space after splitting) 3. copy fragments to flash disks the amount of I/O in the second case is limited only to metadata operations, in the first case, all data must be duplicated -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quali

Re: bcp command not installed by Makefile

2010-06-11 Thread Hubert Kario
that the 'cp --reflink=always'? -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software 02-656 Warszawa, ul. Ksawerów 30/85 tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 www.qbs.com.pl System Zarządzania Jakością zgodny z normą ISO 9001:2000 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: [Fwd: Re: Linking two files together][RFC]

2010-06-09 Thread Hubert Kario
ng of SSD) > > Considering that sparse files have been a reality for decades and that > the implementation of operation with inside-file byte-grained extents > is not more difficult than truncate, I wonder if we will see something > of this kind in some advanced filesystem

Re: A couple of questions

2010-06-02 Thread Hubert Kario
On Monday 31 May 2010 19:59:46 Paul Millar wrote: > Hi Hubert, > > On Thursday 27 May 2010 16:56:00 Hubert Kario wrote: > > > Would [obtaining file checksum] be possible (without an awful lot > > > of work)? > > > > [Calculating checksum in-memory] won&#

Re: A couple of questions

2010-05-27 Thread Hubert Kario
should be looking at ECC RAM as subsequent checks can be affected by it to. Second, you shouldn't tie application or network protocol to a CRC scheme used by filesystem on server! Especially when there can be other CRC algorithms used, not only CRC-32C. If the checksum algorithm used by

Re: [PATCH] btrfs-convert: add reiserfs support

2010-05-17 Thread Hubert Kario
Alpha), it's a bug it even tries to mount it on x86. Regards, -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software 02-656 Warszawa, ul. Ksawerów 30/85 tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 www.qbs.com.pl System Zarządzania Jakością zgodny z normą ISO 9001:2000 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: list subvolumes with new btrfs command

2010-04-26 Thread Hubert Kario
Inappropriate ioctl for device > > i'm not really familiar with C, or anything this low level, does this > help you diagnose my problem? Have you tried to run it on the device with the btrfs, not the mount point? It looks like the ioctl was made too restrictive about its a

Re: Content based storage

2010-03-17 Thread Hubert Kario
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 16:33:41 Leszek Ciesielski wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Hubert Kario wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:48:18 Heinz-Josef Claes wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> just want to add one correction to your thoughts: > &g

Re: Content based storage

2010-03-17 Thread Hubert Kario
-line data deduplication, but I think, that in-line dedup will see much less use. > > Naturally, you would not use this feature for all kind of use cases (eg. > heavily used database), but I think there is enough need. > > my 2 cents, > Heinz-Josef Claes -- Hubert Kario QBS

Re: Content based storage

2010-03-16 Thread Hubert Kario
deduplication, there are already plans to do (probably) a userland daemon traversing the FS and merging indentical extents -- giving you post-process deduplication. For a rather heavy used host (such as a VM host) you'd probably want to use post-process dedup -- as the daemon can be easly s

Creation time

2010-03-13 Thread Hubert Kario
to coordinate efforts and solidify the interface. -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software ul. Ksawerów 30/85 02-656 Warszawa POLAND tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 fax +48 (22) 646-61-50 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a mess

Re: SSD Optimizations

2010-03-13 Thread Hubert Kario
n non-tech language. No, it's not this. When a SSD is fresh, the undeling write leveling has many blocks to choose from, so it's blaizing fast. The same holds true when the test uses small amount of data (relative to SSD size). "very hard to benchmark" means just that -- the be

Re: SSD Optimizations

2010-03-13 Thread Hubert Kario
On Saturday 13 March 2010 18:02:10 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:00:08 +0100 > Hubert Kario wrote: > > > Even on true > > > spinning disks your assumption is wrong for relocated sectors. > > > > Which we don't have to worry a

Re: SSD Optimizations

2010-03-12 Thread Hubert Kario
On Friday 12 March 2010 10:15:28 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:07:40 +0100 > > Hubert Kario wrote: > > > [...] > > > If the FS were to be smart and know about the 256kb requirement, it > > > would do a read/modify/write cy

Re: SSD Optimizations

2010-03-11 Thread Hubert Kario
device do do rmw cycles, only write cycle or erase cycle, provided there's free space and the free space doesn't have considerably more write cycles than the already allocated data. > > It's a great place for research and people are definitely looking at it. > > But with al

Re: SSD Optimizations

2010-03-11 Thread Hubert Kario
cking your head in the sand > >> because you cannot be bothered to think. > > > > And your guess is that intel engineers had no glue when designing the XE > > including its controller? You think they did not know what you and me > > know > > > and > > t

Re: SSD Optimizations

2010-03-11 Thread Hubert Kario
s the SSD making sure all blocks are more or less equally > written to avoid continuous load on the same blocks. Isn't this all about wear leveling? TRIM has no meaning for magnetic media. It's used to tell the drive which parts of medium contain only junk data and can be used in

Re: Raid1 with 3 drives

2010-03-05 Thread Hubert Kario
sig for the users to talk about double, triple replication or [single|double]-parity. It's a bit silly to talk about "Arrays of Disks" when we mean groups of blocks. -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software ul. Ksawerów 30/85 02-656 Warszawa POLAND tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51,

Re: BackupPC, per-dir hard link limit, Debian packaging

2010-03-02 Thread Hubert Kario
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 00:22:31 jim owens wrote: > Hubert Kario wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 03:29:05 Robert Collins wrote: > >> As I say, I realise this is queued to get addressed anyway, but it seems > >> like a realistic thing for people to do (use Backup

Re: BackupPC, per-dir hard link limit, Debian packaging

2010-03-02 Thread Hubert Kario
don't know whatever it could be possible to optimise btrfs cow system for files that are exactly the same. > > Cheers, > Rob > -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software 02-656 Warszawa, ul. Ksawerów 30/85 tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 www.qbs.com.pl System Zarzą

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