Hi Alexander :)
* Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I have a do-it-yourself Linux box, and I'm planning to move to UTF8
(currently I'm using es_ES locale, with latin1 encoding). One of my main
concerns (apart from programs with little or no utf8 support, which I
will
Hi Alexander :)
* Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
The switch is possible. You could try the latest development LFS LiveCD
(http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/test/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-pre2-r1897.iso) and
see if it works for you (be sure to CC: me if you post any feedback).
I was
Hi Ken :)
* Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:20:58PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
Will the console work as it works now if I can live with latin1
accented characters only? Is there any terminal emulator *for the
console*, not for X, that handles utf8
Hi Jan :)
* Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Jun 1 2007 16:20, DervishD wrote:
This said, I know that the console will give me no problems
regarding character representantion (heck, I'm pretty sure that I will
be able to use even the same font I'm using right now
Hi H. Peter :)
* H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
(1) I can do Compose~n just fine on vt
(2) I can do ö just fine on vt too
(3) And copy+paste them both using GPM too, again w/o probs
Both of those are in the 0-255 range, though. I thought the issue
Hi Jan :)
* Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Jun 2 2007 09:58, DervishD wrote:
* H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
(1) I can do Compose~n just fine on vt
(2) I can do ö just fine on vt too
(3) And copy+paste them both using GPM too, again
Hi Matthieu :)
* Matthieu CASTET [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:43:03 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
OTOH, you also didn't supply a patch. If you do this, I'll be glad to
consider it. If I can read it, that is.
s|/bin/sh|/bin/bash is so hard to do ?
Given that
Hi Jan :)
* Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Tue, 2007-06-26 12:16:39 +0200, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given that it happens too with ldd, it really *is* that hard. I
don't know why still people think that /bin/sh is always /bin/bash. If
they want/need bash
Hi Arne :)
* Arne Georg Gleditsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OTOH, you also didn't supply a patch. If you do this, I'll be
glad to consider it. If I can read it, that is.
I like bash as much as the next guy, but (to my surprise) /bin/sh on
my
Hi Randy :)
* Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:33:59 +0200 DervishD wrote:
* Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Tue, 2007-06-26 12:16:39 +0200, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given that it happens too with ldd, it really *is* that hard
Hi J.A. :)
* J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap vga=0x31A ro root=/dev/sdc1
(tried both with hex and decimal).
Try vga=0x031A. I vaguely remember I had a similar problem and
IIRC that's how I solved it. Anyway, you can always try
Hi all :)
I have a new card reader (internal) but I've tested with my old one
too: the same happens. I have a do-it-yourself linux box, self compiled
kernel 2.6.19.5 (by now).
When I insert a card in the reader, it is not detected, no udev
event is generated and I have to do things
Hi Kay :)
* Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On 6/28/07, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I insert a card in the reader, it is not detected, no udev
event is generated and I have to do things like hdparm -z /dev/sda to
probe the card. Moreover, I have to do the same when
Hi Karel :)
* Karel Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
The package build system is now based on autotools. The build system
supports separate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for suid programs (SUID_CFLAGS,
SUID_LDFLAGS). For more details see the README file
If you want to have configurable
Hi Bodo :)
* Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Nix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4 Jul 2007, DervishD stated:
Anyway, if you don't like mobs or you just don't want to try it,
that's fine, but please don't use autotools, it doesn't make much sense
for a linux only project, since
Hi all :)
I'm using kernel 2.6.19.5.
I'm having problems when reading/writing to external USB harddisks:
my *internal* harddisk stalls from time to time, so watching a movie
while copying data is a PITA (well, if the movie is bad, the leaps help
a bit...).
I thought about
Hi Alan :)
* Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
My system is a bit modest: a 7 years old motheboard with VIA686B, a
1900+ Athlon XP, but with plenty of RAM (1280MB + 1GB swap). I know, if
I want more hard disk performance I should buy a new box with SATA or
whatever, but the fact
Hi Stefan :)
* Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
DervishD wrote:
I'm having problems when reading/writing to external USB harddisks:
my *internal* harddisk stalls from time to time, so watching a movie
while copying data is a PITA (well, if the movie is bad, the leaps help
Hi Jan :)
* Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Try ionice.
I didn't know about it, probably I didn't install it the last time I
built util-linux. Anyway, I've seen an ionice in
Documentation/block/ioprio.txt (which, BTW, I missed when searching for
information about my problem).
Hi Heikki :)
* Heikki Orsila [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:03:08PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
I'm having problems when reading/writing to external USB
harddisks: my *internal* harddisk stalls from time to time, so
watching a movie while copying data
Hi Jan :)
* Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On May 18 2007 10:21, DervishD wrote:
Or try echo 10 /proc/sys/kernel/dirty_ratio
Not in my proc :?? Perhaps /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio? Mine is 40,
which I think is too high.
Linus also thinks it is too high; I do
Hi all :)
I'm going to build a new glibc for my system, and I've installed
'linux-libc-headers', but I've noticed that it provides headers for
'scsi/' subdir, and glibc *does that too*. Should I use the scsi
headers from llh? Should I instead compiled my new glibc without that
headers and
Hi all and sorry for self-answering:
* DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> 'linux-libc-headers', but I've noticed that it provides headers for
> 'scsi/' subdir, and glibc *does that too*. Should I use the scsi
> headers from llh? Should I instead compiled my ne
Hi Mariusz :)
* Mariusz Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On ?roda 30 marzec 2005 20:10, DervishD wrote:
> > Yes, I know, this is in the llh FAQ, but the answer starts with
> > 'Not too sure on this one', that's the reason I'm asking here...
> Use whatever w
Hi Mariusz :)
* Mariusz Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > I don't know which set of headers will work, and in fact I don't
> > know if I must follow 'Linux From Scratch' advice and use raw kernel
> > headers for building glibc and LLH headers for any other thing. I
> > think I
Hi Pavan :)
* pavan kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> i'm doing project on TFTP n need the practical scenario
> of implimentation.assist me in bringing out the best design.
In the kernel? Why? There are a couple tftp implementations out
there quite good. IIRC, H.Peter Anvin has one.
Hi Jesper :)
* Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > > And I don't see any point in LFS suggesting using raw kernel
> > > headers to compile glibc
> > I don't know their reasons because I haven't read any rationale
> > (if any exists at all). Anyway, I've used LLH (including the
Hi Martin :)
* Martin MOKREJ? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> again I've hit some wird problem doing "make dep" for 2.4 kernel:
Not a kernel problem but a findutils problem. Fixed in 4.2.19,
but 4.2.20 was released recently. Upgrade.
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
--
Linux
Hi Srinivas :)
* Srinivas G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> How to get maximum output from dmesg command?
> I am unable to see all my debug messages after loading my driver.
> I think there is a restriction in displaying the dmesg output.
> I saw in printk.c file under source directory.
Hi Rogério :)
* Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Srinivas G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I saw in printk.c file under source directory. There I found LOG_BUF_LEN
> > is 16384.
> Sorry if this is obvious, but have you considered using the -s option of
> dmesg?
Of course,
Hi Grzegorz :)
* Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Apr 19 14:03:49 thinkpaddie kernel: Vendor: USB Read Model: CF Card
> CF Rev: 1.8D
> Apr 19 14:03:49 thinkpaddie kernel: Type: Direct-Access
> ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[...]
> But no SD card is
Hi Nico :)
* Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> What's the 'correct behaviour' of an init system, if someone wants
> to shutdown the system?
What I do in my vcinit, the last steps I mean, is:
reboot(RB_POWER_OFF); /* If halting*/
or
reboot(RB_AUTOBOOT); /* If
Hi Konstantin :)
* Konstantin Kudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Can anyone enlighten me what the pluses mean?
It is commented in the README.fdisk file in util-linux
distribution: the '+' flag means that the partition has an odd number
of sectors. That means that you can waste a sector
Hi Horst :)
* Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's a good idea to have a copy of the partition table around, if
> > it is not simple (the one you had is NOT simple).
> Be careful. What you'll get out of
Hi Konstantin :)
* Konstantin Kudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Actually, it seems like one can backup information on ALL partitions
> by using the command "sfdisk -dx /dev/hdX". Supposedly, it reads not
> only primary but also extended partitions. "sfdisk -x /dev/hdX" should
> be then
Hi kernel.
* kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> First 446 bytes are boot code and all
> Next 64 bytes are for 4 partition records, 16 bytes each
> Last 2 bytes are signature
And that's right, but only for the MBR. If you set up an extended
partition in the MBR, the partition table for
Hi :))
I want to upgrade my iproute2 package, in my do-it-yourself linux
box. I'm currently using iproute2-ss010824.
I've gone to the distribution sites and I find a lot of iproute2
flavors... Namely:
- 2.2.4 'ss' version
- 2.4.7 'now-ss' version
- 2.6.10 version
-
Hi all :)
I don't know if I've had this error previously, I noticed it this
morning when recompiling the kernel *I already use*. When doing 'make
dep' I had this:
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/kernel'
scripts/mkdep -- `find /usr/kernel/include/asm /usr/kernel/include/linux
Hi everybody :)
I've been solving a USB problem related to a digital photo
camera, and I've noticed that 'libusb' uses a ioctl interface to the
USB kernel system. In fact it implements 'usb_control_msg()' using
ioctl's. On the other hand, the kernel itself (I'm talking about
2.4.29)
Hi Oliver :)
* Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Am Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2005 13:20 schrieb DervishD:
> > My question is: which interface should be used by user space
> > applications, or ioctl's? Is the ioctl interface
> > deprecated in any way
Hi Alan :)
* Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > BTW, and judging from the program I've read, there are lots of
> > operations that must be done using 'usb_control_msg', and libusb
> > implements that function with exactly the same interface as the
> > kernel. The only difference is
Hi Johannes :)
* Johannes Erdfelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005, DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > > You are supposed to use libusb.
> > That's irrelevant, the progr
Hi Johannes :)
* Johannes Erdfelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005, DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Didn't knew about that... Thanks a lot for the info!. Is there
> > any documentation available for the ioctl USB interface to th
Hi Bill :)
* Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> >Swap is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. Why put things there if you
> >still have RAM left? The kernel only puts things in swap when it has no
> >more RAM _and_ has already deleted big chunks of its disk cache.
> Unless he just
Hi Jerome :)
* jerome lacoste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> [Sorry for the sensational title]
It catched my attention ;)))
> I halted the machine correctly yesterday night. I never dropped the
> box in 3 years. Am I just being unlucky? Or could the fact that I am
> using Linux on the
Hi all :)
Linux Kernel 2.4.29, in a do-it-yourself linux box, equipped with
an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 card, tdfx framebuffer support. I boot in vga
mode 0x0f05, with parameter 'video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and I get
(correctly) 100x37 character grid. All of that is correct. What is
not
Hi David :)
* David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Mar 22 at 08:51:16, DervishD wrote:
> > Linux Kernel 2.4.29, in a do-it-yourself linux box, equipped with
> > an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 card, tdfx framebuffer support. I boot in vga
> > mode 0x0f05, with p
Hi Bodo :)
* Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > Linux Kernel 2.4.29, in a do-it-yourself linux box, equipped with
> > an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 card, tdfx framebuffer support. I boot in vga
> > mode 0x0f05, with parameter 'video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and I get
> > (correctly) 100x37
Hi Tomasz :)
* Tomasz Torcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:22:43PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
> > The problem is that if I plug my USB memory, unplug it and plug
> > my MP3 player, it gets /dev/sdb this time, not /dev/sda. The mess is
> >
Hi Pete :)
* Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:22:43 +0200, DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not using hotplug currently so... how can I make the USB
> > subsystem to assign always the same /dev/sd? entry to my U
Hi Greg :)
* Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:06:16AM +0200, DervishD wrote:
> > * Tomasz Torcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > > That's what udev is for.
> > I know, but I use a 2.4.x kernel (which I didn't mention
Hi Pete :)
* Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > Which label will a random USB stick have?
> GUID, I presume. Ask Andries Brouwer, he hacked on that, IIRC.
> Actually msdos has on-disk format for user-settable labels in
> the way analoguous to tune2fs -L label. I just do not know if
Hi Pete :)
* Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > A global unique ID won't work out to make all USB mass storage devices
> > appear under a common mountpoint, especially if it is recreated while
> > "formating" it.
> That is correct, but not what Dervish wanted. He wanted to mount
Hi Willy :)
* Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > That's not possible. sd_mod will assign different devices for
> > different USB gadgets, and that's my problem in the first case!. If I
> > plug my USB-whatever, it gets assigned /dev/sda1 (for the first
> > partition, I mean).
Hi Pete :)
* Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:24:25 +0200, DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a new MP3 player, and when I disconnect it from the USB
> > port, my logs says:
> >
> > <30>
Hi all :)
I don't know if this is a known issue, but usb-storage speed for
'Full speed' devices dropped from 2.6.11.12 (more than 800Kb/s) to
2.6.12 (less than 250Kb/s). The problem still exists in 2.6.13.
The lack of speed seems to affect only the OHCI driver. My test
was done over
Salut Brice :)
* Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Le 01.09.2005 13:36, DervishD a écrit :
> > The lack of speed seems to affect only the OHCI driver. My test
> > was done over a PCI USB 2.0 card, ALi chipset, OHCI driver (well
> > EHCI+OHCI) and using
Hi Brice, again :)
* Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Are you mounting this storage with vfat and 'sync' option ?
> IIRC, sync support for vfat was added around 2.6.12, making
> write way slower since it's now really synchron.
That seems to be the problem. Mounting without
Hi Mark :)
* Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> >the new implementation seems to rewrite the fat on every single
> >write (that's the reason of the slowdown, probably), and since I'm
> >not sure about the quality of the flash memory present in the
> >device, it is very probable that it
Hi all :)
I've noticed that, even if I say NO to initramfs (and even ramdisk
support), the make process wants to GEN usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz by
running the scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh script.
Why is that script run no matter the initramfs support? Looks like
it only depends on
Hi Matthias :)
* Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> My averate file size is about 1GB with files from about 400MB to
> 5000MB I estimate the average error-rate at about one damaged file in
> about 10GB of data.
>
> I'm not sure and haven't checked if the files are wrongly
Hi Matthias :)
* Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > * Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> >
> >>Today i copied a few files back and checked them against the stored
> >>MD5 sums and 5 files of 86 (each about 700 MB) had errors. So i
> >>copied the 5
Hi Antonino :)
NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROBLEM
* Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:25 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > > > With the patch, the scroll slows to a crawl and the system is
> > > > unusable. The
Hi all :)
From time to time, the tdfxfb driver from 2.6.19.5 (sorry, I cannot
test in 2.6.20.x because it doesn't compile, the infamous BDF negative
offset problem) garbles the display, leaving only a lot of thin lines,
just like sync was lost. The display can be repaired by switching to
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 15:47 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > From time to time, the tdfxfb driver from 2.6.19.5 (sorry, I cannot
> > test in 2.6.20.x because it doesn't compile, the infamous BDF negati
Hi James :)
* James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > From time to time, the tdfxfb driver from 2.6.19.5 (sorry, I cannot
> > test in 2.6.20.x because it doesn't compile, the infamous BDF negative
> > offset problem) garbles the display, leaving only a lot of thin lines,
> > just
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:13 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > > Try fbset -a -vyres 600 first and let us know of the result.
> >
> > After doing this, I no longer can garble the display (before, just a
&
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 21:32 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > Probably setting it back to 4096 will make the problem reappear.
> > Right now I cannot test, but I'll make some experiments.
>
> Can yo
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Can you try this patch? It might help with the screen corruption.
With the patch, the scroll slows to a crawl and the system is
unusable. The time to scroll 30 lines is about a minute or so (probably
more, I just measured
Hi all :))
I'm CC'ing this message to LKML because I don't know if this is some
weird (and known) interaction between modules.
I'm using vanilla 2.6.19.5.
I was having a problem using this rule:
ACTION=="add", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}"
and I
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:01 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > * Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > > Can you try this patch? It might help with the screen
> > > corruption.
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:25 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > * Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:01 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > > > * An
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:25 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > > > If you want me to test other patches, just tell :)
> > >
> > > Can you change the mdelay to udelay and use higher/lower d
Hi Robert :)
* Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
>
> i brought this up a while back but nothing was finalized -- is there
> sufficient value in being able to select or deselect entire submenus
> of features without having to descend into that submenu first?
Not that my
Hi Kevin :)
> >I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
> >pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
> >device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device
> >has a
> >good quality flash memory with wear leveling and the
Hi Bernd :)
* Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > All of the posts fail to address the question here: what is the
> > correct file system, or does one exist yet, for wear leveling flash
> > storage. JFFS2 and logfs are nice for MTD, but
* Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Monday 11 June 2007 19:42, DervishD wrote:
> > I know about cheap pendrives that you cannot format even with FAT32, only
> > with FAT16.
>
> I'm not sure if the price was the reason that they failed with differen
Hi Philipp :))
* Ph. Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > I was just wondering if, apart from the excessive wear, there were
> > other reasons. One of the reasons I would like to use a good filesystem
> > for a pendrive is to be able to store file metadata (UID, GID, mode,
> > etc.)
Hi Jan :)
* Jan Knutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:48, DervishD wrote:
> > But anyway the memory should last long. Even cheap flash memories
> > with poor wear leveling (if any at all) usually long last. Given
> > that I won't be
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> So let us look at the problems and how they interact with filesystems.
>
> 1. Write overhead
>
> If a filesystem only writes a small amount of data, typically 512 or
> 4096 bytes, smartmedia has to erase and write a full block. Most
>
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Any method I can imagine to offer good wear leveling will result in
> either a filesystem or at least a simplified one-file-system with the
> only file being the "block device" exported outward. So naturally my
> answer to the problem is
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Thu, 14 June 2007 19:19:53 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > Cool, does it mean we have the first Linux filesystem supporting
> > compression, which can be used on USB-sticks (I don't count old
> > ext2+compression patches)? :)
>
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Thu, 14 June 2007 22:17:14 +0200, DervishD wrote:
> > * Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > > 2. Wear leveling
> > >
> > > Wear leveling happens implicitly by picking a differ
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Thu, 14 June 2007 22:20:47 +0200, DervishD wrote:
> > I'm with you in that. So stop emailing and go working on it XD
>
> :)
No. Seriously. Go! XDD
> > Now seriously, I will take a look
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Fri, 15 June 2007 00:46:46 +0200, DervishD wrote:
> > When do you think it will be included mainstream?
>
> I am horrible at predictions, doubly so when concerning the future.
>
> Several people believ
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Fri, 15 June 2007 18:22:53 +0200, DervishD wrote:
> > A pity that my digital camera won't want to use LogFS :((
>
> That's quite ok, actually. FAT is perfect for digital cameras. All the
> unix file permi
Hi Ogawa :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > A mount option to force walking the FAT and getting the real
> > info could be interesting. That way, it will be only done for
> > certain devices (small disks,
Hi Ogawa (and Andrew) :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Is there some way in which we can work out what's happened and fix
> > it up?
>
> It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's
> undocumented. Windows
Hi Ogawa :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The problem is that if a program writes a file onto the filesystem
> > without using statfs first to check for free space, the free_clusters
> > entry won't h
Hi Bodo :)
* Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> * Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
>
> >>> So the last free sector count is also stored. When mounting this
> >>> filesystem you don't need to walk through the whole FAT to
Hi Ogawa :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> It would add the limitation to following simple usage,
> >>
> >># mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
> >> # cp -a * /mnt
> >
Hi Carlo :)
* Carlo Florendo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > (in short, if i, the builder, explicitly choose *not* to add a
> >certain feature to my build, i think i have every right to expect that
> >some other part of my configuration isn't quietly going to put
Hi all :)
I have a portable device with a FAT32 formatted hard disk in it, and
everytime I delete a file in the device *using the device itself to do
it* the device increases its count of free space and if I plug the
device in a Windows system, Windows agrees on the free space. Linux
Hi Juergen :)
* Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Thursday 19 April 2007 10:57, DervishD wrote:
> > I have a portable device with a FAT32 formatted hard disk in it, and
> > everytime I delete a file in the device *using the device itself to
> > do i
Hi Boaz :)
* Boaz Harrosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > Apart from not using the device itself to delete files (and probably
> > not using Windows for that, either) and to run fsck.vfat now and
> > then, is anything I can do to avoid this problem?
> >
> Not that I know how to fix it. But
Hi all :))
If I enable CONFIG_FB + CONFIG_FB_RADEON + CONFIG_DRM +
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON, my system hangs badly as soon as I start X Window
System (namely X.Org 7.2, although it happens in older versions too).
I'm not completely sure about the hanging: the system may not be
hung, but I
Hi all :)
I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has a
good quality flash memory with wear leveling and the like...
Thanks a
Hi Eduard :)
* Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> >I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
> >pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
> >device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has
> >a good
Hi Alan :)
* alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, DervishD wrote:
> > I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
> >pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
> >device whose storage i
Hi Stefan :)
* Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> DervishD wrote:
> > I'm having problems when reading/writing to external USB harddisks:
> > my *internal* harddisk stalls from time to time, so watching a movie
> > while copying data is a PITA
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