Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.orgregarding reiser4 inclusion

2006-07-31 Thread David Lang
Gig of storage. As a result of this the idea of only running on perfect disks that never have any failures is becomeing significantly less realistic, instead you need to take measures to survive in the face of minor corruption (including robust filesystems, raid, etc) David Lang

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Lang
in the middle it's about 166/sec. David Lang

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: On 7/31/06, David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: On 7/31/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Ulrich wrote: See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of viewexpressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Lang
backed cache is readily available, either on high-end raid controllers or as seperate ram drives (and in raid array boxes), but nothing on individual drives. David Lang

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of viewexpressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Lang
. the other thing they are seeing as new people start useing them is that the newbys don't realize they need to do somthing as archaic as running a repacker periodicly, as a result they let things devolve down to where performance is really bad without understanding why. David Lang

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of viewexpressedby kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, David Masover wrote: David Lang wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, David Masover wrote: Oh, I'm curious -- do hard drives ever carry enough battery/capacitance to cover their caches? It doesn't seem like it would be that hard/expensive, and if it is done that way, then I

Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

2006-07-25 Thread David Lang
zero overhead you could fit 18 Million KiB / 0.5 KiB = 36 Million files on the drive. thus being scheptical about 40 million files on a 18G drive. this is only possible if you are abel to have multiple files per 512 byte block. David Lang Right, ok... Here's a quick check of my box. I've

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

2004-08-26 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:05, David Lang wrote: I also don't see why the VFS/Filesystem can't decide that (for example) this tar.gz is so active that instead of storing it as a tar.gz and providing a virtual directory of the contents