Re: reiser4 plugins

Am Dienstag, den 21.06.2005, 18:18 -0700 schrieb Andrew Morton: What is wrong with having an encryption plugin implemented in this manner? What is wrong with being able to have some files implemented using a compression plugin, and others in the same filesystem not. What is wrong

Re: reproducable deadlock condition (reiser4)

Hello, I'm still offering the possibility to debug this deadlock on my machine, is really no one interested? :( Not even a comment? signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: reproducable deadlock condition (reiser4)

Am Samstag, den 25.09.2004, 14:52 +0200 schrieb Christophe Saout: it seems I've found a deadlock in reiser4. I don't know how it happens, but every time i want to run emerge php the command compiles php and wants to install it but just before the end it hangs (when running some

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 16:04 +0100 schrieb Jamie Lokier: Christophe Saout wrote: What reiser4 can do, but the VFS can't is to insert or remove data in the middle of a file. Adding this above the page cache would probably be almost impossible (truncate seems already complicated

Re: reiser4 plugins (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 17:37 +0200 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: compression or encryption must sit below the pagecache to work nicely, and this hint things that usually sit at the pagecache level. But let's assume you have a valid use for different file_operations, why don't you

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 11:54 -0400 schrieb Rik van Riel: And if you read test.compound (the main stream) you get a special format that contains all the components. You can copy that single stream of bytes to another (reiser4) fs and then access test.compound/test.txt again.

Re: reiser4 plugins (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 18:06 +0200 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: Again, your confusing upper and lower plugins. For things happening below the pagecache you could register different address_space operations which sometimes makes sense. But you want e.g. different inode_operations for

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 14:59 -0400 schrieb Rik van Riel: open(/tmp/bash, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0100755) = 4 What do we do with O_CREAT ? Do we always allow both a directory and a file to be created with the same name ? I would say that the directory under a file is

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 15:26 -0400 schrieb Lee Revell: Well, in V4, you can easily compose a plugin from plugin methods of other plugins, write a little piece of code with the one thing you want different, and add it in. Disk format changes, no big deal, add a new disk format

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 20:29 +0100 schrieb Jamie Lokier: (1) O_CREAT creates something with file-like attributes, meaning stat() says it's a regular file. (2) File-like means it can be unlinked, linked and renamed, even if someone has something inside it open. Nothing that

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 15:44 -0400 schrieb Rik van Riel: Hey, think of it as a wave-particle duality. Both modes exist at the same time, and cannot be separated from each other. Which one you see depends entirely on your experiment, ie how you open the file. Guess I'm scared

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Am Freitag, den 27.08.2004, 02:21 +0400 schrieb Nikita Danilov: BTW, I can do a cd metas/metas/metas/metas/plugin/metas... I don't think this makes sense. :) Why? foo/metas is a file system object just like foo. It has owner, permission bits, so access to its meta-data should be

Re: Quicker alternative to find /?

Am Sonntag, den 15.08.2004, 23:16 +0200 schrieb Felix E. Klee: I'd like to store the directory structure of a partition formatted as ReiserFS into a file. Currently, I use find / file This process takes approximately 5 minutes (the result is 26MB of data). Are there any alternative

Re: implementing reiserfs in C++ for a new OS

Am Mittwoch, den 11.08.2004, 13:54 +0300 schrieb Markus Trnqvist: It's like a*x=a*y = x=y Or a=0 :-) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: [PATCH] updated data=ordered patch for 2.6.3

Hi, Also, the code has some extra performance tweaks to smooth out performance both with and without data=ordered. There are new mechanisms to trigger metadata/commit block writeback and to help throttle writers. The goal is to reduce the huge bursts of io during a commit and during

kdev_t usage fix for reiser4

size for the printf format. -- Christophe Saout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html diff -Nur linux.orig/fs/reiser4/inode.c linux/fs/reiser4/inode.c --- linux.orig/fs/reiser4/inode.c 2003-08-27 19:28

Re: New reiser4 snapshot (as of August 22, 2003)

to my X login, could log in, but then the system freezed hard. :( My subjective feeling was that booting time was about the same as with reiser3 even if the files weren't fragmented. -- Christophe Saout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http

Re: Recent spam

the parameter. So this *really* should be a fairly small change. BTW: Funny discussion (well, funny to read, but not so funny at all...) -- Christophe Saout [EMAIL PROTECTED]