Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Clemens Eisserer
The longer I read discussions about the inclusion of reiser4 into the kernel the more I think the whole discussion has to do with personal oppinions, not with technical problems or limitations that should be adressed. Anybody who is a ext3 fan seems to find his own reasons why reaiser4 should stay

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Clemens Eisserer schrieb: The longer I read discussions about the inclusion of reiser4 into the kernel the more I think the whole discussion has to do with personal oppinions, not with technical problems or limitations that should be adressed. Anybody who is a ext3 fan seems to find his own

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Artem B. Bityutskiy
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: and the only other Linux fs with write mode that has compression is patched ext2 (which is also not included in the kernel, and has some problems) - well, there is also jffs2 with limits of 4 GB partition, so not really useful for storing bigger amounts of data. Well,

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Artem B. Bityutskiy schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: and the only other Linux fs with write mode that has compression is patched ext2 (which is also not included in the kernel, and has some problems) - well, there is also jffs2 with limits of 4 GB partition, so not really useful for

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 18 September 2005 03:34, Chris White wrote: CC-List trimmed On Saturday 17 September 2005 20:15, Denis Vlasenko wrote: At least reiser4 is smaller. IIRC xfs is older than reiser4 and had more time to optimize code size, but: reiser42557872 bytes xfs

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:56:14PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: At least reiser4 is smaller. IIRC xfs is older than reiser4 and had more time to optimize code size, but: reiser42557872 bytes xfs3306782 bytes and romfs is smaller than ext2, damn. Should we remove all

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:21:23PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is it. I do not say accept reiser4 NOW, I am saying give Hans good code review. After he did his basic homework. Note that reviewing hans code is probably at the very end of everyones todo list because every critizm of his

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
I threw in your new codedrop into a compilation and the byte-order mess is _still_ now sorted out. Please kill the d* as struct type crap and just use __le types directly. Also lots of memset with byte count of 0 warnings from sparse.

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Christian Iversen
On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:21:23PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is it. I do not say accept reiser4 NOW, I am saying give Hans good code review. After he did his basic homework. Note that reviewing hans code is probably at

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 18 September 2005 15:06, Christian Iversen wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:21:23PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is it. I do not say accept reiser4 NOW, I am saying give Hans good code review. After he did his

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Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread David Masover
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:56:14PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: At least reiser4 is smaller. IIRC xfs is older than reiser4 and had more time to optimize code size, but: reiser42557872 bytes xfs3306782 bytes and romfs is smaller than ext2, damn.

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread David Masover
Denis Vlasenko wrote: If you want reiser4 included into mainline, do something. Like download a patch and try to use it. Alright... Last time I tried, it didn't work. Kernel locked up. Namesys was quick with fix for the lockup, but then ls . failed to work. I sent all the data (kernel

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Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:22:27 EDT, michael chang said: Give Hans a chance; and please try to understand, even if he's hard to work with. Discriminate him because he's not a developer you can talk with, and I believe that's like discriminating a guy in a wheelchair because he can't run with

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Horst von Brand
michael chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/05, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:21:23PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is it. I do not say accept reiser4 NOW, I am saying give Hans good code review. After he did his basic homework. Note that

ent:sdXnn going to D state with latest reiser4 patch

2005-09-18 Thread Damien Wyart
Hello, Doing some tests with latest reiser4 patches from 2.6.14-mm1, I noticed that the load of the machine never goes under 2. It comes from two processes related to reiser4 and going to D state immediately after the filesystems are mounted. As there are two reiser4 partitions, I get two such

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread David Masover
Horst von Brand wrote: There are lots of reports of ReiserFS 3 filesystems completely destroyed by minor hardware flakiness. Honestly, this is one of the things I like about Linux. If I have memory errors, Windows will just keep running, occasionally something will crash, you restart it,

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Marc Perkel
For what it's worth sometimes people get emotional and frustrated and sometimes people can be difficult at thimes to work with. But - for what it's worth - I think people should ignore some of that as human nature and look at the big picture. And the big picture is Hans has make a huge

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-09-18 at 13:22 -0400, michael chang wrote: This is exciting to... whom? The only thing that appears remotely interesting about it is that it's made by Oracle and apparently is supposed to be geared toward parallel server whatsits. Which no current included fs supports. And

Re: ent:sdXnn going to D state with latest reiser4 patch

2005-09-18 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 18.09.2005 22:29, Damien Wyart a écrit : Hello, Doing some tests with latest reiser4 patches from 2.6.14-mm1, I noticed that the load of the machine never goes under 2. It comes from two processes related to reiser4 and going to D state immediately after the filesystems are mounted. As

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Dan Oglesby
David Masover wrote: Horst von Brand wrote: There are lots of reports of ReiserFS 3 filesystems completely destroyed by minor hardware flakiness. Honestly, this is one of the things I like about Linux. If I have memory errors, Windows will just keep running, occasionally something will

reiser4()

2005-09-18 Thread ivan vadovic
Hi, Is the reiser4() system call already implemented? Is there any sample code to see its usage? I'd really like to try it and perhaps help with debugging. Ivan

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Reiser
Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 20:05, Hans Reiser wrote: All objections have now been addressed so far as I can discern. Random observation: You can declare functions even if you never use them. Thus here you can avoid using #if/#endif: #if defined(REISER4_DEBUG)

reiser4 mount options

2005-09-18 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello People, Despite the fact said that reiser4 is not stable so isn't included in mainline kernel, I trusted Hans Reiser's statement that they've not been able to crash the fs in the labs. I just migrated my laptop from plain partitions with ext3

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread PFC
I'm of the same opinion. If I have hardware that has a problem, and causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired. I don't switch to a different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware. With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had problems. Hardware was

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Dr.Dre
I have a bug report for the first time about reiser4 in 2.6.14-rc1-mm1 with 4k stacks, preempt and smp. It is the first time I face a bug after using reiser4 for about a year. Well I had to with 4k stacks right ? firefox has triggerred the bug twice and I had to fsck the filesystem with --fix

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Marc Perkel
PFC wrote: I'm of the same opinion. If I have hardware that has a problem, and causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired. I don't switch to a different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware. With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had problems.

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Marc Perkel
PFC wrote: I'm of the same opinion. If I have hardware that has a problem, and causes downtime, it gets replaced or repaired. I don't switch to a different piece of software to compensate for broken hardware. With that said, I have seen ReiserFS expose hardware that had problems.

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Reiser
Denis Vlasenko wrote: And yet thousands and thousands of people, businesses, etc, say that the Linux kernel code is miles above all the commercial software out there. Not the commercial software I have worked with. IBM code, government procured code, both are much more readable code than

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Reiser
Alan Cox wrote: It doesn't matter if reiser4 causes crashes. It matters that people can fix them, that they are actively fixed and the code is maintainable. It will have bugs, all complex code has bugs. Hans team have demonstrated the ability to fix some of those bugs fast, but we also all

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Reiser
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Neither was ready for use when they were included in the kernel and should probably have had big warning signs in the kernel config for them. They did have warning signs: they were labeled experimental as is reiser4. At some point developers and their limited

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Reiser
Christian Iversen wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:21:23PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: This is it. I do not say accept reiser4 NOW, I am saying give Hans good code review. After he did his basic homework. Note that

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 18 September 2005 21:25, David Masover wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: If you want reiser4 included into mainline, do something. Like download a patch and try to use it. Alright... Last time I tried, it didn't work. Kernel locked up. Namesys was quick with fix for the

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Reiser
Horst von Brand wrote: that and there's much more exciting filesystems like ocfs2 around that This is exciting to... whom? To Cristoph, obviously. You should thank him for doing the (hard, boring, thankless) work of reviewing code for free. Even if it isn't yours. As he is

Namesys web page, possible update?

2005-09-18 Thread Dan Oglesby
The following line of text appears on the main page at http://www.namesys.com: V3 of reiserfs is used as the default filesystem for SuSE, Lindows, FTOSX, Libranet, Gentoo, Xandros and Yoper. I believe Slackware has defaulted to V3 for some time now. EXT3 and 2 are still options as well,

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Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:16:11 PDT, Hans Reiser said: Hellwig, people who write slow file systems should not lecture their measurably superiors on how to code. Oh, and I should mention that other people besides me have measured reiser4, and concluded it is twice the speed of the other Linux