reiserfs --rebuild-tree rocks! :-)

2007-01-08 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hi, I have a 4GB reiserfs partition and today it found a corruption requiring --rebuild-tree. I made a backup then fsck with --rebuild-tree and ... Whhooh, now that is the best looking fsck I have ever seen. Cool words, nice looking progress, quickly changing numbers and directory names.

Re: Howto help hans?

2006-12-04 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Guesstimating $200/hour (minimum), you're looking at $20K and up. Taking a case to trial is going to take a lot more than 100 billable hours. Hefty. I guess I'll buy some loterry tickets/coupons. I don't make that much to spend :-( Regards, Maciej

hans' case

2006-10-30 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello, I don't want to sound like a nosy person, but does anybody has any information on the proceedings of hans' case? I think he was to pleed not guilty on last saturday. btw, the list is oh-so quiet... Best Regards, Maciej

Re: Which version will be merged into mainline kernel?

2006-10-17 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello Clemens, Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 11:14:33 PM, you wrote: somewhere that first 2.6.19 was the goal but now it is 20 or 21. Is it now more or less a predictable thing, only when exactly is still open or can kernel devs still change their opinion? It is largely up to Andrew Morton. I

Re: Looking for Kernel hacking or storage systems design and code consulting work

2006-08-23 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello Hans, Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 10:18:55 AM, you wrote: We have a complete team of kernel programmers available. Do you have race conditions you need found, spaghetti code from a predecessor that nobody can do anything with, a driver you want made to work, or a storage related

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-08 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 2:05:23 AM, you wrote: Under what, though? I don't want MS crap on my OS X (need that for work ATM), and I can't imagine they've ported it to Linux. I have no reason to boot Windows except for games, and if I was going to do that, I may as well shrink

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-07 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Monday, August 7, 2006, 7:09:42 PM, you wrote: I mean, having Grub support everything would be nice, but if you're reformatting anyway, I don't think it's that imperative. I have come up to that conclusion too. If someone would be getting an r4-enabled kernel on an already

Experimental Reiser4-enabled Ubuntu kernels ready for testing

2006-08-07 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
virtualized machine on Edgy Eft! Please test and report. I am open to suggestions. One more thing... If it breaks, don't sue me, my pet hamster is an excellent attourney. == Contact == My name is Maciej Sołtysiak You can reach me at maciej(at)soltysiak(dot)com

Re: Experimental Reiser4-enabled Ubuntu kernels ready for testing

2006-08-07 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
There is a readme.txt file that says: Keyboard shortcuts made me send prematurely :-| Please note that these are my first images done with not much of experience in the area. The host: ubuntu.ae.poznan.pl is a virtualized machine, so don't go crazy if it's slow or dead, just notify me :-)

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-07 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 1:23:01 AM, you wrote: Sounds good. I don't have an ubuntu to test with at the moment, though. Well, both MS Virtual PC and VMWare are free of charge, so installing is a real snap. Not to nitpick, but isn't that emulation? Or have they actually done

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-06 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
I know it is very easy to create ubuntu kernel packages (I have done a few) I might try to do one for current dapper kernel for i386. But it would have to wait due to time my personal constraints (projects, etc.) Answering myself... I tried to create a kernel package with reiser4 for

supported architectures for reiser4

2006-08-06 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hi, I was wondering on which linux supported architectures current reiser4 code is supposed to work? This is important for my kernel-image building task :-) -- Best regards, Maciej

Re: Another article abour Reiser4 on linux.com

2006-08-05 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Saturday, August 5, 2006, 4:55:16 PM, you wrote: We should really find something better to call them than plugins, or we should come up with a standard copy'n'paste statement to refute this. I agree. As Andrew Morton said: The plugins appear to be wildly misnamed - they're just an

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-03 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
It's quite late for inclusion in the next Ubuntu release, but who knows. Maybe it is not, it's a playground, Mark would not hesitate to postpone Edgy's release if it requires polishing the whole thing due to edgy features. Could you contact him for us, and ask? It is more convincing when users

Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...

2006-08-01 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Monday, July 31, 2006, 11:46:34 PM, you wrote: You must be new here... ;-) I wanted to point out that because: Options B and C are all that ever seems to happen when reiserfs-list and lkml collide. and: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant. The

Re: Ebuild/rpm/deb repo's (was Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...)

2006-08-01 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello Sander, Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 8:10:34 PM, you wrote: Yes, and in case of gentoo there are already people maintaining an ebuild which pull in r4 on the wiki. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Reiser4_With_Gentoo-Sources Debian has reiser4progs and kernel-patch-2.6-reiser4: - stable:

Re: reiser4 can now bear with filled fs, looks stable to me...

2006-07-31 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Monday, July 31, 2006, 1:30:47 AM, you wrote: Amen. I do not want to see Reiser4 not succeed because of politics, and it really looks like the only way to win the political war is not to play. The technical stuff is really the last way in, but neither side has said anything

Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion)

2006-07-29 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Saturday, July 29, 2006, 8:11:11 PM, you wrote: What's more, many distros patch their kernels extensively. They listen to their users, too. So if there are a lot of users wanting this to be in the kernel, let them complain -- loudly -- to their distro to patch for Reiser4. Hmm,

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

2006-07-27 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Thursday, July 27, 2006, 3:19:15 AM, you wrote: I'm not arguing for closed source, I'm just saying that once you open, there's no going back. Many times it's a good thing, but sometimes you A sidenote. Reiser4 is open and still we don't see people writing plugins as crazy. I

Re: future r4 maintenance question

2006-07-22 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello Hans, Saturday, July 22, 2006, 8:03:28 PM, you wrote: We are going to give changing the paradigm a try. The difference between 4.1-beta and 4.0 is that different plugins are the default, and the experimental code is in the plugins you see when mounting with the mount option 4.1-beta.

Re: future r4 maintenance question

2006-07-22 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello Mike, Saturday, July 22, 2006, 8:53:06 PM, you wrote: I don't understand the concerns here? Kernel v2.4 is essentially in bug-fix only mode right now, yet I don't see many people complaining that the kernel developers have abandoned it. I personally think its crazy to expect major

Re: reiser4 status (correction)

2006-07-22 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello Andreas, Saturday, July 22, 2006, 1:06:54 AM, you wrote: On 17:45 Fri 21 Jul , David Masover wrote: Question, then: Can the ext2 defrag work on a raw ext3 partition, without having to convert it first? Dunno, but I don't think so I tried that once, back in 2002 i think. defrag

Re: future r4 maintenance question

2006-07-22 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello David, Saturday, July 22, 2006, 10:16:48 PM, you wrote: There's another note to kernel developers -- if Reiser5, 6, and 7 are implemented as suites of plugins on top of Reiser4, then the Reiser4 code will be maintained for a very long time. Kind of like ext2 vs ext3, only moreso -- a