Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-17 Thread Valerie Henson
On Jan 17, 2008 5:15 PM, David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:30:43PM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote: > > Hi y'all, > > > > This is a request for comments on the rewrite of the e2fsck IO > > parallelization patches I sent out

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-17 Thread Valerie Henson
On Jan 17, 2008 5:15 PM, David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:30:43PM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote: Hi y'all, This is a request for comments on the rewrite of the e2fsck IO parallelization patches I sent out a few months ago. The mechanism is totally

Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck)

2008-01-16 Thread Valerie Henson
On Jan 16, 2008 3:49 AM, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ext3's "lets fsck on every 20 mounts" is good idea, but it can be > annoying when developing. Having option to fsck while filesystem is > online takes that annoyance away. I'm sure everyone on cc: knows this, but for the record

Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck)

2008-01-16 Thread Valerie Henson
On Jan 16, 2008 3:49 AM, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext3's lets fsck on every 20 mounts is good idea, but it can be annoying when developing. Having option to fsck while filesystem is online takes that annoyance away. I'm sure everyone on cc: knows this, but for the record you can

Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck

2008-01-08 Thread Valerie Henson
On Jan 8, 2008 8:40 PM, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has there been some thought about an incremental fsck? > > > > > > You know, somehow fencing a sub-dir to do an online fsck? > > > > Search for "chunkfs" > > Sure, and

Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck

2008-01-08 Thread Valerie Henson
On Jan 8, 2008 8:40 PM, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rik van Riel wrote: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has there been some thought about an incremental fsck? You know, somehow fencing a sub-dir to do an online fsck? Search for chunkfs Sure, and there is TileFS too. But

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ebizzy 0.2 released

2007-10-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:27:03PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:06:26 -0600 > > > ebizzy is designed to generate a workload resembling common web > > application server workloads. > > I dow

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ebizzy 0.2 released

2007-10-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:27:03PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:06:26 -0600 ebizzy is designed to generate a workload resembling common web application server workloads. I downloaded this only to be basically disappointed

[ANNOUNCE] ebizzy 0.2 released

2007-08-22 Thread Valerie Henson
. -VAL 2008-08-15 Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Release 0.2. * Started reporting a rate of transactions per second rather than just measuring the time. * Solaris compatibility, thanks to Rodrigo Rubira Branco <[EMAIL

[ANNOUNCE] ebizzy 0.2 released

2007-08-22 Thread Valerie Henson
. -VAL 2008-08-15 Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Release 0.2. * Started reporting a rate of transactions per second rather than just measuring the time. * Solaris compatibility, thanks to Rodrigo Rubira Branco [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-11 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:54:57PM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:15 -0700 > >"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Why isn't this easily fixable by just adding an additional dirty > >>flag that says atime has changed? Then we only

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-11 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:54:57PM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:15 -0700 Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't this easily fixable by just adding an additional dirty flag that says atime has changed? Then we only cause a write when

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote: > > The Tulip network driver needs a new maintainer! I no longer have > > time to maintain the Tulip network driver and I'm stepping down. Jeff &

[PATCH] tulip: Remove tulip maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Valerie Henson
Remove Val Henson as tulip maintainer and let her roam free, FREE! Signed-off-by: Val Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.orig/MAINTAINERS +++ linux-2.6/MAINTAINERS @@ -3569,11 +3569,9 @@ W: http://www.auk.cx/tms380tr/ S: Maintained TULIP NETWORK DRIVER -P: Valerie

[TULIP] Need new maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Valerie Henson
The Tulip network driver needs a new maintainer! I no longer have time to maintain the Tulip network driver and I'm stepping down. Jeff Garzik would be happy to get volunteers. The only current major outstanding patch I know of is Grant's shutdown race patch, which was incorrectly dropped as

[TULIP] Need new maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Valerie Henson
The Tulip network driver needs a new maintainer! I no longer have time to maintain the Tulip network driver and I'm stepping down. Jeff Garzik would be happy to get volunteers. The only current major outstanding patch I know of is Grant's shutdown race patch, which was incorrectly dropped as

[PATCH] tulip: Remove tulip maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Valerie Henson
Remove Val Henson as tulip maintainer and let her roam free, FREE! Signed-off-by: Val Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.orig/MAINTAINERS +++ linux-2.6/MAINTAINERS @@ -3569,11 +3569,9 @@ W: http://www.auk.cx/tms380tr/ S: Maintained TULIP NETWORK DRIVER -P: Valerie Henson -M

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

2007-07-30 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote: The Tulip network driver needs a new maintainer! I no longer have time to maintain the Tulip network driver and I'm stepping down. Jeff Garzik would be happy

Cross-chunk reference checking time estimates

2007-05-31 Thread Valerie Henson
Hey all, I altered Karuna's cref tool to print the number of seconds it would take to check the cross-references for a chunk. The results look good for chunkfs: on my laptop /home file system and a 1 GB chunk size, the per-chunk cross-reference check time would be an average of 5 seconds and a

Cross-chunk reference checking time estimates

2007-05-31 Thread Valerie Henson
Hey all, I altered Karuna's cref tool to print the number of seconds it would take to check the cross-references for a chunk. The results look good for chunkfs: on my laptop /home file system and a 1 GB chunk size, the per-chunk cross-reference check time would be an average of 5 seconds and a

[PATCH] Update tulip maintainer email address

2007-05-30 Thread Valerie Henson
I've quit Intel and gone into business as a Linux consultant. Update my email address in MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- laptop-2.6.orig/MAINTAINERS +++ laptop-2.6/MAINTAINERS @@ -3497,7 +3497,7 @@ S:Maintained TULIP NETWORK DRIVER P: V

[PATCH] Update tulip maintainer email address

2007-05-30 Thread Valerie Henson
I've quit Intel and gone into business as a Linux consultant. Update my email address in MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- laptop-2.6.orig/MAINTAINERS +++ laptop-2.6/MAINTAINERS @@ -3497,7 +3497,7 @@ S:Maintained TULIP NETWORK DRIVER P: Valerie

Re: ChunkFS - measuring cross-chunk references

2007-05-06 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:05:47AM +0530, Karuna sagar K wrote: > Hi, > > The attached code contains program to estimate the cross-chunk > references for ChunkFS file system (idea from Valh). Below are the > results: Nice work! Thank you very much for doing this! -VAL - To unsubscribe from

Re: ChunkFS - measuring cross-chunk references

2007-05-06 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:53:33PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Also, is it considered a cross-chunk reference if a directory entry is > referencing an inode in another group? Should there be a continuation > inode in the local group, or is the directory entry itself enough? (Sorry for the

Re: ChunkFS - measuring cross-chunk references

2007-05-06 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:53:33PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: Also, is it considered a cross-chunk reference if a directory entry is referencing an inode in another group? Should there be a continuation inode in the local group, or is the directory entry itself enough? (Sorry for the

Re: ChunkFS - measuring cross-chunk references

2007-05-06 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:05:47AM +0530, Karuna sagar K wrote: Hi, The attached code contains program to estimate the cross-chunk references for ChunkFS file system (idea from Valh). Below are the results: Nice work! Thank you very much for doing this! -VAL - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:23:08AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:14:52PM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote: > > > I'd really like to see a generic VFS-level detection of > > read()/write()/creat()/mkdir()/etc. patterns which could detect things >

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:23:08AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:14:52PM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote: I'd really like to see a generic VFS-level detection of read()/write()/creat()/mkdir()/etc. patterns which could detect things like Oh, this file is likely

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-03 Thread Valerie Henson
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:44:14AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:43:18PM -0700, Cabot, Mason B wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against > > NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for >

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-03 Thread Valerie Henson
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:44:14AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:43:18PM -0700, Cabot, Mason B wrote: Hello all, I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for video

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-05-01 Thread Valerie Henson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:06:47AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:58:25PM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote: > > Here's an example, spelled out: > > > > Allocate file 1 in chunk A. > > Grow file 1. > > Chunk A fills up. > > Allocate c

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-05-01 Thread Valerie Henson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:06:47AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:58:25PM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote: Here's an example, spelled out: Allocate file 1 in chunk A. Grow file 1. Chunk A fills up. Allocate continuation inode for file 1 in chunk B. Chunk A gets some

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-28 Thread Valerie Henson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:53:34PM +0200, J??rn Engel wrote: > > All this would get easier if continuation inodes were known to be rare. > You can ditch the doubly-linked list in favor of a pointer to the main > inode then - traversing the list again is cheap, after all. And you can > just try

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-28 Thread Valerie Henson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:53:34PM +0200, J??rn Engel wrote: All this would get easier if continuation inodes were known to be rare. You can ditch the doubly-linked list in favor of a pointer to the main inode then - traversing the list again is cheap, after all. And you can just try to

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-26 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:25:19PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Does it matter that google's recent report on disk failures indicated > that SMART never predicted anything useful as far as they could tell? > Certainly none of my drive failures ever had SMART make any kind of > indication

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-26 Thread Valerie Henson
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:47:38AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Do I get it right that you just have in each cnode a pointer to the > previous & next cnode? But then if two consecutive cnodes get corrupted, > you have no way to connect the chain, do you? If each cnode contained > some unique

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-26 Thread Valerie Henson
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:05:04PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > No, I'm referring to a different file. The scenario is that you have > a growing file in a nearly full disk with files being deleted (and > thus space being freed) such that allocations for the growing file > bounce back and forth

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-26 Thread Valerie Henson
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:05:04PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: No, I'm referring to a different file. The scenario is that you have a growing file in a nearly full disk with files being deleted (and thus space being freed) such that allocations for the growing file bounce back and forth between

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-26 Thread Valerie Henson
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:47:38AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: Do I get it right that you just have in each cnode a pointer to the previous next cnode? But then if two consecutive cnodes get corrupted, you have no way to connect the chain, do you? If each cnode contained some unique identifier

Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-26 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:25:19PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Does it matter that google's recent report on disk failures indicated that SMART never predicted anything useful as far as they could tell? Certainly none of my drive failures ever had SMART make any kind of indication that

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-25 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:38:34AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > The case where only a fsck of the corrupt chunk is done would not find the > cnode references. Maybe there needs to be per-chunk info which contains > a list/bitmap of other chunks that have cnodes shared with each chunk? Yes,

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-25 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:54:34PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:53:11PM -0500, Amit Gud wrote: > > > > The structure looks like this: > > > > -- -- > > | cnode 0 |-->| cnode 0 |--> to another cnode or NULL > > --

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-25 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:34:03PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > What is more important, design puts (as far as I can see) no upper limit > on the number of continuation inodes, and hence, even if _average_ fsck > time is greatly reduced, occasionally it can take more time than ext2 of > the

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-25 Thread Valerie Henson
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > Maybe I failed to describe the problem presicely. > > Suppose that all chunks have been checked. After that, for every inode > I0 having continuations I1, I2, ... In, one has to check that every > logical block is presented in

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-25 Thread Valerie Henson
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: Maybe I failed to describe the problem presicely. Suppose that all chunks have been checked. After that, for every inode I0 having continuations I1, I2, ... In, one has to check that every logical block is presented in at most

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-25 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:34:03PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: What is more important, design puts (as far as I can see) no upper limit on the number of continuation inodes, and hence, even if _average_ fsck time is greatly reduced, occasionally it can take more time than ext2 of the same

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-25 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:54:34PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:53:11PM -0500, Amit Gud wrote: The structure looks like this: -- -- | cnode 0 |--| cnode 0 |-- to another cnode or NULL -- --

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-25 Thread Valerie Henson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:38:34AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: The case where only a fsck of the corrupt chunk is done would not find the cnode references. Maybe there needs to be per-chunk info which contains a list/bitmap of other chunks that have cnodes shared with each chunk? Yes,

Repair-driven file system design (was Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea)

2007-04-16 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:07:05PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:50:25PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > IMHO chunkfs could provide a much more promising approach. > > Agreed, that's one method of compartmentalising the problem. Agreed, the chunkfs design is only

Repair-driven file system design (was Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea)

2007-04-16 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:07:05PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:50:25PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: IMHO chunkfs could provide a much more promising approach. Agreed, that's one method of compartmentalising the problem. Agreed, the chunkfs design is only one

[patch 1/4] [TULIP] fix for Lite-On 82c168 PNIC

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
From: Guido Classen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This small patch fixes two issues with the Lite-On 82c168 PNIC adapters. I've tested it with two cards in different machines both chip rev 17 The first is the wrong register address CSR6 for writing the MII register which instead is 0xB8 (this may get a

[patch 4/4] [TULIP] Rev tulip version

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
Rev tulip version... things have changed since 2002! Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- tulip-2.6-mm-linux.orig/drive

[patch 0/4] [TULIP] Tulip updates

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
This patch set includes a fix for Lite-on from Guido Classen, some minor debugging/typo fixes, and a long-need rev to the version (the last time this was done was 2002!). -VAL -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[patch 2/4] [TULIP] Quiet down tulip_stop_rxtx

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
Only print out debugging info for tulip_stop_rxtx if debug is on. Many cards (including at least two of my own) fail to stop properly during initialization according to this test with no apparent ill effects. Worse, it tends to spam logs when the driver doesn't work. Signed-off-by: Val Henson

[patch 3/4] [TULIP] Fix SytemError typo

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
Fix an annoying typo - SytemError -> SystemError Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c |4 ++-- drivers/net/tulip/tulip.h |2 +- drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c |2 +- 3 f

[patch 0/4] [TULIP] Tulip updates

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
This patch set includes a fix for Lite-on from Guido Classen, some minor debugging/typo fixes, and a long-need rev to the version (the last time this was done was 2002!). -VAL -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[patch 2/4] [TULIP] Quiet down tulip_stop_rxtx

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
Only print out debugging info for tulip_stop_rxtx if debug is on. Many cards (including at least two of my own) fail to stop properly during initialization according to this test with no apparent ill effects. Worse, it tends to spam logs when the driver doesn't work. Signed-off-by: Val Henson

[patch 3/4] [TULIP] Fix SytemError typo

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
Fix an annoying typo - SytemError - SystemError Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c |4 ++-- drivers/net/tulip/tulip.h |2 +- drivers/net/tulip/winbond-840.c |2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions

[patch 4/4] [TULIP] Rev tulip version

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
Rev tulip version... things have changed since 2002! Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- tulip-2.6-mm-linux.orig/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c

[patch 1/4] [TULIP] fix for Lite-On 82c168 PNIC

2007-03-12 Thread Valerie Henson
From: Guido Classen [EMAIL PROTECTED] This small patch fixes two issues with the Lite-On 82c168 PNIC adapters. I've tested it with two cards in different machines both chip rev 17 The first is the wrong register address CSR6 for writing the MII register which instead is 0xB8 (this may get a

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-12 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:53:18PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:39PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks > > > > Just why does not it use mtime then to check for New Mail Arrived, like > > I

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-12 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:40:10AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks > as you mentioned in the relatime changelog, so I'm surprised that > they turned it on by default. With relatime fixing that however, > I'm also unaware of

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-12 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:40:10AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks as you mentioned in the relatime changelog, so I'm surprised that they turned it on by default. With relatime fixing that however, I'm also unaware of anything

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-12 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:53:18PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:39PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks Just why does not it use mtime then to check for New Mail Arrived, like I have always

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-11 Thread Valerie Henson
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:54:00PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > Whilst on the subject of RELATIME, is there any good reason why > not to make this a default mount option ? Ubuntu has been shipping with noatime as the default for some time now, with no obvious problems (I'm running Ubuntu). I

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-11 Thread Valerie Henson
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:56:07AM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Val, > > I'm just updating the mount(2) man page for MS_RELATIME, and this is the > text I've come up with: > >MS_RELATIME(Since Linux 2.6.20) > When a file on this file system is accessed, only >

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-11 Thread Valerie Henson
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:56:07AM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: Val, I'm just updating the mount(2) man page for MS_RELATIME, and this is the text I've come up with: MS_RELATIME(Since Linux 2.6.20) When a file on this file system is accessed, only

Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME

2007-02-11 Thread Valerie Henson
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:54:00PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: Whilst on the subject of RELATIME, is there any good reason why not to make this a default mount option ? Ubuntu has been shipping with noatime as the default for some time now, with no obvious problems (I'm running Ubuntu). I see

Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-08 Thread Valerie Henson
PROTECTED]> Cc: Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mount/mount.8 |7 +++ mount/mount.c |6 ++ mount/mount_constants.h |4 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+) --- util-linux-2.13-pre7.orig/m

Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-08 Thread Valerie Henson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mount/mount.8 |7 +++ mount/mount.c |6 ++ mount/mount_constants.h |4 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+) --- util-linux-2.13-pre7.orig/mount/mount.8 +++ util-linux-2.13-pre7/mount/mount

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/tulip/: fix for Lite-On 82c168 PNIC (2.6.11)

2006-12-07 Thread Valerie Henson
Hi there, Guido, Jeff resurrected this patch from the misty depths of the past. I double-checked the docs and the first bug fix is definitely correct. The second part isn't in the docs, but seems reasonable. Is this still the patch you are using? Any comments you want to add? -VAL > From:

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/tulip/: fix for Lite-On 82c168 PNIC (2.6.11)

2006-12-07 Thread Valerie Henson
Hi there, Guido, Jeff resurrected this patch from the misty depths of the past. I double-checked the docs and the first bug fix is definitely correct. The second part isn't in the docs, but seems reasonable. Is this still the patch you are using? Any comments you want to add? -VAL From:

Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-06 Thread Valerie Henson
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:58:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:36:20 -0800 Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Add "relatime" (relative atime) support. Relative atime only updates > > the atime if the previous atime is older

Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-06 Thread Valerie Henson
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:58:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:36:20 -0800 Valerie Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add relatime (relative atime) support. Relative atime only updates the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime. Like noatime

Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:36:20PM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > > > In the future, I'd like to see a "

Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > > In the future, I'd like to see a "relative atime" mode, which functions > > > in the manner described by

Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: Hi Steve, On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: In the future, I'd like to see a relative atime mode, which functions in the manner described by Valerie Henson at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8

Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:36:20PM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: Hi Steve, On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: In the future, I'd like to see a relative atime mode, which functions