Re: Reiser4 + seekdir()

2005-06-29 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
... May be I don't understand the difference, but the two plugins are *both* seekable. Furthermore, AFAICS, it is implemented the same way in both cases. So, why user may prefer SEEKABLE_HASHED_DIR_PLUGIN_ID? -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Re: reiser4 merging action list

2005-06-28 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
that this makes Reiser4 very difficult to investigate. Ctags doesn't work with that too.. -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-27 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
/changed. Problems with quota and accounting is not the reason to forbid the on-flight compression. And they don't have to co-exist well. -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Reiser4 + seekdir()

2005-06-27 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
not support telldir()/seekdir() ... 2. Why you store {entry_no, position, key} in readdir_pos instead of just storing the full name string ? In that case you would not need adjust_dir_pos() at all ... Please, comment on this. Thanks. -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Re: Reiser4 + seekdir()

2005-06-27 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
and LAST_DIR_ID plugins. Both seems to support seeks. Both seems to call adjust_dir_pos(). Only key assignment is simpler in case of SEEKABLE_HASHED_DIR_PLUGIN_ID. This confused me very much. Thanks. -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Re: Reiser4 + seekdir()

2005-06-27 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
are seekable. In both cases the mechanism is the same. Whh one is SEEKABLE, another is not ? -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Re: Reiser4 + seekdir()

2005-06-27 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
. -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-26 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
implement/ignore them? Why are you shure they will fit VFS well? etc. Thanks. -- Best regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy Oktet Labs (St. Petersburg), Software Engineer. +78124286709 (office) +79112449030 (mobile) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://www.oktetlabs.ru

Minor note FYI

2005-06-24 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
it cuter to use the classical way: result = blah(); if (result) { warning(); goto error; } ... error: DQUOT_FREE_INODE(object); object-i_flags |= S_NOQUOTA; return result; ? -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-22 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
in future. -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Re: Master file/metadata table? dualistic trees?

2005-06-20 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
. In that case, it won't maintain stat-data objects in the tree for that files (it will generate it on-flight), i.e. you'll increase the performance greatly. Not sure this is relevant for you, though. -- Best Regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Reiser4+Flash: first considerations

2005-05-26 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
specifics and common flash file system issues, let me know, I'll provide some docs. P.P.S. If there is a paper about Reiser4 exist except the one accessible from namesys.com, let me know please. Thanks. -- Best regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy Oktet Labs (St. Petersburg), Software Engineer

ReiserFS on large-scale flash

2005-05-25 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
? Is it worth starting exploring Reiser4 or better just start new FS? Thanks. -- Best regards, Artem B. Bityuckiy Oktet Labs (St. Petersburg), Software Engineer. +78124286709 (office) +79112449030 (mobile) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://www.oktetlabs.ru

Re: ReiserFS on large-scale flash

2005-05-25 Thread Artem B. Bityuckiy
JFFS2, but JFFS2 doesn't scale (not usable starting from about 256MiB flash). Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: Hello, I'm designing new flash file system. And I'm thinking about the possibility to write plugins for ReiserFS to implement it (I know, it sounds crazy). I didn't thoroughly explore