Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-06-29 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:50:27AM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote: I'll just note that the applications bundled as directories stuff on MacOS/NextStep is done completely in userspace--as far as the kernel is concerned, Mail.app is a regular directory. The file manager handles recognition and

AMD64 testing

2004-12-22 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi guys! Now that I moved along to AMD64 and still have my home directory as Reiser4, I have a big incentive to get this baby stable on Reiser4. What bugs can I help to reproduce? What test cases are there? Let's make this work, shall we :) -- mjt

Re: AMD64 testing

2004-12-22 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:03:49PM +0100, Sander Sweers wrote: I will get an AMD64 soon (hopefully this year) and will run 64bit Gentoo on it. How has it been running overall, is it workable and not For the record, Ubuntu Warty/Universe here with some random stuff pulled from Hoary. crashing

Re: status of reiser4

2004-12-19 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:54:08PM -0600, Jake Maciejewski wrote: Have there been any reports other than Isaac's of reiser4 working on AMD64? It still doesn't work for me, and I'd like to know if I'm the only one having problems. I recently purchased an AMD64 setup. Here's the catch; I did so

Re: 2.6.10-rc3-cko1

2004-12-19 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:43:49PM +0100, Piotr Neuman wrote: Regards to all reiser developers for great work. And to you, sikkhmeister :) (Just applied the patch, I'll let you know how it goes :) ps. At the moment software suspend 2 is not included (I'm too lazy and, swsusp2 is usually most

Re: file as a directory

2004-12-15 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:57:27AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: www.namesys.com/future_vision.html 404. http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html -- mjt

Re: Does this look right?

2004-12-01 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:48:13PM -, Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: Am I completely loosing it ? Using 2.6.10-rc2-mm3 allows me to go into a file as a directory when the file has the executable flag...that shouldn't be happening, should it? Is this a sign that files-as-dirs are seen stable

Re: Does this look right?

2004-12-01 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:40:08AM -, Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: Forgive my short-sightedness in this respect, but where's the benefit in this approach?:) This is one of those shitfests that I really don't want to touch. It's an approach that has a lot of potential but there's not much

Re: file as a directory

2004-11-27 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:19:57AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: For the case Peter cites, yes, it does add clutter to the pathname to say ..metas (actually, it is now in the current reiser4, not ..metas). This is because you aren't looking for metafile shound like something that could

Re: reiser4 crash

2004-11-25 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:19:19PM +1100, Cal wrote: This occurs with 2.6.10-rc2-mm2, 2.6.10-rc2-mm3. It's nastier than you might think. After the BUG, the system slowly sinks into fatal decline, losing screen i/o, keyboard response, eventually just locking up completely. Did you try vs's

Re: reiser4 crash

2004-11-25 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 10:42:12PM +1100, Cal wrote: While I search for the link to said patches, can you point me to them? ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.9/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfsm=110121057720746w=2 It is possible the posted patch is included in the second

Re: reiser4 crash

2004-11-25 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 01:23:43PM +0200, Markus Törnqvist wrote: I don't remember if I mentioned it, but there were two patches from Piotr Neuman's -cko that were required by Reiser4 (according to him) but seemed to patch well onto vs's patched system... Can anyone give any info on this? Mr

Re: reiser4 crash

2004-11-25 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:00:59AM +1100, Cal wrote: Both of those patches appear to be from the mm series. They're in 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 and 2.6.10-rc2-mm3 (at least), and have generous comments at their head regarding their purpose. OK, I admit I didn't read through them :) But they don't seem

Re: reiser4 crash

2004-11-25 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 08:14:44AM +1100, Cal wrote: fs/built-in.o(.text+0x9da81): In function `mask_ok_common': : undefined reference to `vfs_permission' make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-cko4a' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 Have a look

Re: reiser4 crash

2004-11-25 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 08:42:25AM +1100, Cal wrote: I also edited as said above and kicked in a new compile... Yeah, me too. Which I'm still waiting for ;) With the amount of work these guys are putting into it all, I wouldn't dare to suggest what's warranted. I'm content to fiddle about,

Re: file as a directory

2004-11-23 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:11:21AM +0100, Dirk Steinberg wrote: How about making metas a mount option? Right now disabling metas requires patching the source. Isn't there -o nopseudo already? -- mjt

Re: Another panic!

2004-11-23 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:47:19PM +0300, Vladimir Saveliev wrote: The attached should fix a problem #01. Thank you! It did, well, at least I tried it once and it did :) I'm recompiling now without as much debug in it. I also checked with patch --dry-run that it would apply on -rc2-mm2, is it

Re: Another panic!

2004-11-23 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:00:52PM +0200, Markus Törnqvist wrote: It did, well, at least I tried it once and it did :) Uhh-uh, well, there were problems; some dead dpkg processes... So there seems to be something I'm not getting. I'm afraid I didn't take up the notices about the files having

Re: Another panic!

2004-11-22 Thread Markus Törnqvist
I'm setting the Cc to the list, these questions may be relevant to other people with the same issues and I think they should probably reply as well :) I do an apt-get source --build crystalspace (but some others on the list said they used apt-get update, which I haven't tested) Anyway, zam said

Re: Another panic!

2004-11-22 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:59:02PM +0200, Markus Törnqvist wrote: Nov 21 21:45:11 shrike kernel: kernel BUG at fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:58! http://mjt.nysv.org/reiser/2004.11.22.forensics/ The first two files are from something vs sent me. As it says on the bottom, I couldn't

Another panic!

2004-11-21 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi! I got weirdass segfaults and hangs, so I thought I'd reboot the all-debug version of -cko3 I have around. However, I saw the following: (Reiser4 for 2.6.9 as merged by Piotr Neuman, afaik) Nov 21 17:55:23 shrike -- MARK -- Nov 21 18:07:13 shrike kernel: Nov 21 18:07:14 shrike kernel:

Re: Another panic!

2004-11-21 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 06:37:55PM +0200, Markus Törnqvist wrote: Nov 21 18:27:31 shrike kernel: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address cf607e50 Nov 21 18:27:31 shrike kernel: printing eip: Just for the record, seems to be totally reproducible; This time I didn't get any

Re: Another panic!

2004-11-21 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:20:31PM +0200, Markus Törnqvist wrote: Just for the record, seems to be totally reproducible; This time I didn't get any info out of it before it totally locked. I fired up 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 for shits and giggles and see what I got: Nov 21 21:45:11 shrike kernel

Re: reiser4 without problems?!

2004-11-21 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:12:02PM -0800, BLuEGoD wrote: Hi, I want to run a debian with reiser4, but since reiser4 went out, there is no one that run it without problems, anyone knows if any kernel with -mm patches runs well?.. I think nowadays all people are losing time with Apart from my

Re: A real panic

2004-11-13 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:04:55PM +0200, Markus Törnqvist wrote: Nov 13 13:38:21 shrike kernel: reiser4 panicked cowardly: assertion failed: !memcmp(inode-u.generic_ip, sd-body, (size_t) length + 1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/vlc$ sudo apt-get source --build vlc ... E: Method http has died

Re: reiser4 and reiserfs co-existence?

2004-11-09 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 02:16:46AM -0500, Jeremy West wrote: So ... it seems to me that reiser4 is having some issues handling segfault events. I'm not sure how to tell what caused the segfault. I don't think it's memory, because it happens in the same spot of the build every time. I've done

Re: reiser4 and reiserfs co-existence?

2004-11-09 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:53:41PM -0500, Jeremy West wrote: Funny thing is I did what you suggested, enabling all the debugging, but it still freezes. Not immediately, but it still hangs. First I get a segfault on any command I type into the console. After 10 secs or so of this, It will freeze

Re: reiser4 and reiserfs co-existence?

2004-11-09 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:06:21PM -0500, Jeremy West wrote: Ok. I wouldn't call myself a linux newbie by any means. However, I've never had to do console logging or network logging. Are there some good docs somewhere on how to set this up? Network logging is well-documented in the kernel

Re: when will it end?

2004-10-28 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:49:52PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Assuming I'd let it finish. I didn't, so I have absolutely no idea how far along it was. I suspect that it wasn't going to finish. AFAICT there is no way to see where the repacker is going :P -- mjt

Re: 2.6.9-mm1

2004-10-23 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hans Reiser wrote: Please make large keys the default, and hide the ability to choose small keys by taking it out of the configuration menu and burying it in a .h file. Stupid question, why have small keys at all? Someone said once that he didn't want to use large keys because they added no

Re: Disk full and writting to pre-allocated area on ReiserFS

2004-10-18 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:45:10PM +0400, Vladimir Saveliev wrote: Could someone please forward this mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for unknown reasons I can not send anything to some addresses). Forwarded. -- mjt

Re: [patch] Repacker stats

2004-10-17 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:01:05AM +0200, Piotr Neuman wrote: This patch allows reading of repacker stats while it is working. It creates two files in repacker sysfs hierarchy: formatted_nodes and unformatted_nodes, which correspond to the stats that repacker prints after it has finished.

Re: Repacker statistic tool

2004-10-17 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Piotr Neuman wrote: My stat tool is based on Markus Törnqvist code. It prints out repacker speed and total work accomplished along with average values at exit. Download: http://kem.p.lodz.pl/~peter/reiser4_repacker_stats.py I did a little something

Repacker Gauge?

2004-10-16 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi! I'm using 2.6.8.1-cko8 happily, but noticed that the repacker is slow. A bit suspiciously slow. Is it possible to get something like /proc/mdstat to describe what the repacker is doing? IMO that would be great.. Thanks! -- mjt

Re: Disk placement options

2004-10-08 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:49:50PM +0530, Ash wrote: For ReiserFS V3 ? I assumed Hans' point was Reiser4, most of his answers to 3.6 questions are along the lines see Reiser4.. -- mjt

Re: Repacker for reiser4?

2004-09-13 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:42:42AM +0800, Will Smith wrote: As far as I can tell (can anybody confirm/deny), it's up to userspace to manually toggle the 'direction' flag as required before starting the repacker - the direction seems to default to 0 ('backward') on each mount. Sure seems that

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

2004-08-30 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:05:17PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: Reiserfs list, and I don't think there was much consensus that came out It's like Gentoo users and patch sets ;) of it. Currently for Reiser4, AFAIK, the metas name is a compile-time option that you can change by changing a #define,

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

2004-08-28 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:59:29PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote: P.S. I imagine, how much flamed it would be if reiser4 made any intensive changes in linux VFS code... Surely it would be flamefest galore, but thanks to Reiser4 there may be some VFS changes to that direction, maybe completely

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

2004-08-27 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:35:32AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: Question: Is cat /foo/bar/baz.tar.gz/metas the attribute directory or a directory in the tarball named metas? This has been fought over on the reiserfs-list ad nauseaum, but it's a valid point. That's why I tend to rename

Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

2004-08-27 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:57:26PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:50, Christophe Saout wrote: are read-only and system-wide and the user-overridden changes. I don't know if all of these things would really make sense inside the kernel. True. FWIW, I never use most of those

reiserfs bug? ALSO Reiser4 bug!?

2004-08-27 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi I set up a symlink /var/log - /boot/log where /boot is a reiserfs system. That was because Reiser4 lost log data when we were chasing the last bug with VS. Now the partition grew full and it was shown by my computer completely locking up. Out of the blue. At least that's what I assume caused

Re: Reoccuring corruption problem

2004-08-21 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 07:43:41AM +0200, Dan Nilsson wrote: After running the test I fsck:ed to remove the corruptions, then proceeded by removed my /usr/portage tree (where corruptions seem to easily occur) and reinstalled all the files (with rsync). The same type of corruption occured but

Re: NFSv2 problem? initctl problem?

2004-08-19 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:56:34PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: Don't use te unfsd except for special reasons. If you want to test a userspace daemon just use unfs3 (unfs3.sf.net). I may have given the wrong impression here, I am still trying to use knfsd here, I just tried the userspace one

NFSv2 problem? initctl problem?

2004-08-18 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi! I've been trying, quite desperately, to get FAI working but there appears to be some bad karma. The server exports /usr/local/share/fai with async,rw and /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot with async,rw,no_root_squash Originally I had ro, but that did not seem to matter. I get to the point where the

Re: fsck.reiser4 wrong size error (?)

2004-08-13 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 01:16:12PM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: So, the problen cannot be fully solved. However, you can re-create all second level sub-directories and assign another fibration plugins to them. I've never gotten a real reply this question... Will it be possible in the future

Re: fsck.reiser4 wrong size error (?)

2004-08-13 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 01:43:33PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: I think only empty directory can be refibrated. Are you thinking about implementing it/is it a matter of time and money? Reiser4 provides plugin mechanism. Everyone is encouraged to write plugins. Aren't those two sentences a

Re: fsck.reiser4 wrong size error (?)

2004-08-13 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:00:04PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: simply changes id of fibration plugin associated with foo. Doing this on non-empty foo would result in corruption and hence is disabled. Vladimir, as far as I can tell, meant that if one writes And on a file it would do nothing, I

Re: fsck.reiser4 wrong size error (?)

2004-08-13 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:46:03PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: But you may remember what happened when I last tried to touch Reiser4 code and VFS ;) Sorry, i do not. What was it? Nikita gave me the theory on how to access metas/ on read-only files by hacking a new attribute into VFS.

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

2004-08-11 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:44:59AM +0200, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Meucci open the file for copyright before Bell, but seems it is necessary to renew each year. Copyrights are not filed, patents are. Are you sure you're not mistaken in words here? Therefore, he don't renew. How stupid

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

2004-08-11 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:12:50PM +0200, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Yes. is the patent, not the copyright. He don't have the money to pay the renew the patent. That sucks then. Maybe he should have had someone market and promote it better, maybe he would not have needed a patent at all,

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

2004-08-11 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:04:47PM +0200, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: People have the same ideas independently, person A and person B. Person A patents it and person B can't compete with person A. Person A makes a bad implementation and no one can do anything about it, no one can do it better.

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

2004-08-11 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:43:13AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: I may be completely wrong legally, esp. in Russia. I personally think it should belong to the original author if the original copyright is still valid. Of course it belongs to the original author. But the translation is the

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

2004-08-11 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:16:19PM +0100, Chris Dukes wrote: Otherwise harry potter can get translated and no need to pay rowling. Not entirely. Such a translation would be deemed a derivative work. The copyright on the translated version belongs to the translator (Unless the translator did it

Re: http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.08.03-internal.testing/

2004-08-04 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:47:35AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: I don't understand why Vitaly cannot do one of the things suggested on this thread: create an fsck option for people like Markus to use. If Vitaly does that, problem solved, yes? Yes. It's my opinion that if it can be done silently by

Re: REISER4 snapshot

2004-08-04 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:28:14PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Namesys has issued new reiser4 snapshot HOORAY! This is the best news in a while :) When will we see a directory listing by Apache2?-) And the somewhat gloomy question: What's the status on Faye's and Phil0u's bugs? --

Re: mongo_copy: cp: cannot stat `/mnt/testfs/testdir0-0-0/f92': Input/output error

2004-08-04 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:51:34PM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: If it is due to 4k stacks, No, I do not think it is. reiser4 now refuses to compile if 4k stack is on. WTF, Redeeman at least runs Reiser4 with 4k stacks... What's this about? -- mjt

Re: Fibration questions

2004-07-23 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:36:43PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This of course explains why IE is the premier web browser on 95% of the desktops, right? I mean, it's faster and more secure than all the alternatives, right? ;) I think desktops for all the Joe Q. Averages are pretty much a

Re: Fibration questions

2004-07-23 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:45:26PM -0500, David Masover wrote: | UPDATE formatting SET policy='never\0' WHERE policy='smart\0' RECURSE; | instead of just | UPDATE formatting SET policy='never\0' RECURSE; | which may break something else... Both should be allowed. Can that be done now? And with

Re: Fibration questions

2004-07-23 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:59:23AM +0200, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: It would be a good idea if the meta filesystem interface always auto terminates strings (add + '\0') issued by echo. procfs does it that way. Or add a small parser that allows \n so that cat output would look better... -- mjt

Re: reiser acceptance (was Re: Atomic filesystem or not)

2004-07-20 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:03:44PM -0500, David Masover wrote: You are fooling yourself if you think we won't need that -- that reiser4 is the only fs that will ever properly support transactions, or that every other fs will support the full sys_reiser4. And I think it's seriously poor design to

Re: reiser acceptance (was Re: Atomic filesystem or not)

2004-07-20 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:39:59AM -0500, David Masover wrote: Unless, that is, you've already made it so modular that people who call sys_reiser on reiser4 won't find it broken on reiser5. If you can do that without cruft, you are amazing, and the number should go. But if the syscalls get

Re: Again, some bad Reiser4 (ReiserFS) 'reviews'

2004-07-16 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:22:09PM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: zam, would you confirm that the fibration plugin is our current default plugin? dot-o fibrate is default. This always puzzles me. Would not ext-1-fibre give the same results for This always puzzles me. Would not ext-1-fibre

Re: fsck.reiser4 segfaults

2004-07-16 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:22:22PM +0400, Konstantin Sobolev wrote: Yeah. Luckily I've found LiveCD with 2.6.7 sources patched with one of autosnapshots that successfully mounted my /usr, so now I'll be able to build new kernel. Can you recommend some more or less stable autosnapshot that I can

Re: v4 resizer?

2004-07-16 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:06:16AM -0500, David Masover wrote: How long until a resizer for v4 is finished/stable? For shrinking? Isn't this almost an FAQ ;) Those guys need time, money and time==money. AFAIK vs is working on something more mission-critical than a resizer, so my somewhat

Re: Performance improvements to key comparison functions

2004-07-12 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:49:25PM -0500, David Dabbs wrote: Is bonnie++ the recommended stress tool, or is there a reiser4 stress utility? bonnie++ and slow.c are what one usually sees flying around. fs stress or somesuch is also sometimes used, but it supposedly fragments Reiser4 quite a bit

Re: Bug report with its cancellation?

2004-07-05 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:10:22AM +0200, Henning Westerholt wrote: access to a reiser4 partition produce a kernel oops, something about an assertion error. This seems highly irratic, as I seem to recall I only had a null pointer dereference and paging oops... My kernel source has also the

Re: 2.6.7 reiser4 patch ?

2004-07-05 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:17:20PM +0200, Mikael Cluseau wrote: Is there a patch the *vanilla* Linux 2.6.7 kernel ? Afaik no. Last time something like this was tried, it resulted in random freezings, and there I was not the only one affected. Although it was an old snapshot. The -mm tree is

Bug report with its cancellation?

2004-07-04 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi! How well do the auto-snapshots work for people in general? I don't know what to think, because I got my kernel working now, like an act of god, or Nikita Danilov. I asked him to review a bug report I thought about sending, but it appears mm/vmscan.c has static int kswapd instead of int

Re: Tree issues, fsck output

2004-06-30 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:19:56PM +0300, Markus Törnqvist wrote: I'll just send this post now, I'll send a follow-up when I'm re-doing fsck with some switches. This was just a basic fsck /dev/hda1, so maybe no need to panic yet... So I proceeded to --build-fs FSCK: Node (481195), item (5

Re: Tree issues, fsck output

2004-06-30 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:45:47AM +0300, Markus Törnqvist wrote: So now I'll just compile the new auto-snapshot and see what happens... It did not work. http://mjt.nysv.org/reiser/Reiser4-2004.06.29/ Pictures once again courtesy of my trusty phone, so the quality truly does suck. So, err, I'm

Re: Tree issues, fsck output

2004-06-30 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:24:34PM +0400, Vitaly Fertman wrote: it prints all found corruptions. could you send them ? The thing is, now that 2.6.7-mm4, latest auto-snapshot, failed, I didn't get any errors with fsck... So it seems my filesystem is all alright, at least for the time being. btw,

Re: Tree issues, fsck output

2004-06-30 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:42:25PM +0300, Markus Törnqvist wrote: I'm taking a debugfs.reiser4 -P /dev/hda1 now. Then I will run additional stuff, but it still seems like the FS is ok Yeah, I have the metadata dump now, and I will send it to you if you feel you need it, but the additional

Re: Some errors, tree-related?

2004-06-29 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:00:39PM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: it shows serious tree corruption. which reiser4 snapshot is on shrike? 2004.06.24, but ported to 2.6.7 by Piotr Neuman, who I added to the CC. I probably shouldn't have brought this up, using an unsupported version, but I guess I

Tree issues, fsck output

2004-06-29 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi! * Tree Traverse Pass: scanning the reiser4 internal tree. FSCK: Node (2013064): The last key [377f5f:4(FB):2e616339375f63:3a45d8:99] in 2 the node is greater then the right delimiting key [2fa6e:4(FB):6c69626d70342e:1e88ad:1f7c]. FSCK: Node (469959), item (28), unit (0): Points to the

Re: we need a slogan for our reiser4 t-shirt

2004-06-25 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:30:16PM +0100, Chris Dukes wrote: But shouldn't it be Reiser4: No fsck. or Reiser4: Fsck, no. Aren't those slogans AGAINST Reiser4? I mean, consider the pun that fsck, no! revolves around and the situations in which you exclaim it... That's why fsck'ing fast is a

Re: we need a slogan for our reiser4 t-shirt

2004-06-25 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:48:53AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: This mailing list convinced me that fs in a mount name is uninformative, though ReiserFS V4 is considered a synonym in documentation and licensing to Reiser4. Not to step on anyone's toes, which I still do all the time, please print

Re: we need a slogan for our reiser4 t-shirt

2004-06-23 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:06:43PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: The Living Filesystem I suggested the Atomic Filesystem, but Mom pointed out that it added an additional metaphor to the fastman graphic. I am still thinking about whether she is right. Those are cool, as is Plug in to Reiser4, but

Re: Reiser4's status of this week.

2004-06-19 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:15:39PM -0400, Nicholas S. Wourms wrote: I've also noticed, as has been noted in the past, that bk pulls are still broken. Someone mentioned that it is a problem with the new bk. If this is true, why not contact Larry for support? Not that it matters now, since the

Re: The situation at hand and in the future

2004-06-10 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Of course, most of the time people can just buy a new CPU. Or don't encrypt the game data. Should we take this off-list? Please don't, I'm not sure if I'm the only one who finds this discussion too interesting not to be readable by

Re: reiser4progs 0.5.4 for Debian

2004-06-07 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:33:05PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: I know this is the wrong forum perhaps, but AFAIK the reiser4progs maintainer(s) read this list.. yes, i'm here listening in the darkness... Some Debian developers are quite anal about these issues, indeed, I got a bit flamed

Processes dying?

2004-06-04 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hello I just started using the latest auto-snapshot. I noticed weird behavior, that is, processes crash, so bad even C-c doesn't kill them. For some reason running strace behind them gives me C-c support. Also pressing tab in bash seems to kill me. lstat64(/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin,

Re: Processes dying?

2004-06-04 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:50:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that some *other* process got wedged in the kernel while holding a kernel lock, causing other processes to block when they needed that lock. Hmm, aybe. I'll have to take your word for it, since you're the more

Re: The situation at hand and in the future

2004-06-02 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 05:25:03PM +0400, Edward Shushkin wrote: is builtin and can not be changed by users. The user can only assign plugins. For each kind of transform there is special none plugin which means absence of this transform. Is there any chance of this looking more like a crypto/

Re: regular reiser4 snapshots are in http://www.namesys.com/auto-snapshots/

2004-06-02 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:20:39AM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: now we have regular reiser4 snapshots (night snapshots) in http://www.namesys.com/auto-snapshots/ . Thank you! This has been so long-awaited :) There is no automated control whether a snapshot is stable or not. It might be

Re: The situation at hand and in the future

2004-05-28 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:09:17PM -0500, David Masover wrote: Could this be a plugin/pseudo? Maybe I'm being obsessive, but here's what I want: Much more detailed a use case than my initial example, very good and very much to the point. $ cd ~/.secret/..metas/crypto This step would make life

Re: snapshot, checkpoints

2004-05-27 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:03:14AM +0400, Vladimir Saveliev wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 10:52, Timothy Webster wrote: Does reiserfs4 include features to allow vxfs like checkpoints or netapps snapshots? no I am not familiar with these mechanisms, would someone care to ellaborate a bit? I

The situation at hand and in the future

2004-05-27 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi I reinstated the reiser part of my page: http://mjt.nysv.org/reiser/ The broken package is here: http://mjt.nysv.org/reiser/bk-2004-05-25/ With the screenshots (courtesy of my Siemens SX1, which decided it won't crash while taking pictures) and the config on the top level. It's uploading

Re: mount throws a nikita-3228 on me

2004-05-26 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:20:53AM +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote: There is a delay (up to 24h) in the public BK update. OK. I tried it with what was suggested on the list. It did not, however work. I added the lines to reiser4.h; should I have seen some better debug info? I just did a quick

Where Reiser4 may break?

2004-05-26 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi I was thinking about some potential problems. Actually, Nikita and I had a discussion about the issues with cross-architecture compatibility. It would apparently not be easy to do, because block size equals page size in Reiser4. Is this common with other file systems? I didn't get to ask

Re: Namesys now accepts Visa cards on our website (support questions and donations both)

2004-05-20 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:22:17PM +0200, Redeeman wrote: i dont think you will gain anything from selling the resize'er, or any other plugins. people would just warez it. however, setup paypal! i'd be ready to donate! Call me naive, but I don't think people are indecent enough to warez this.

Re: On a free repacker

2004-05-20 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:28:13AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: 2) You could sell the sources and the rights to do whatever you want, except redistribute it. Yes, I think this. Hopefully people will send in features, then. I think 5% of the cost of the storage hardware (including raid cards),

Re: Namesys now accepts Visa cards on our website (support questions and donations both)

2004-05-16 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:07:28AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: I haven't been able to get a large enough amount from distros to support us (but thanks to Lindows for being a major help), and darpa sponsors research not resizers, so I am thinking I might try selling the I have always tried to

Re: Any new patches against 2.6.6 available?

2004-05-12 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:14:21AM +0300, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: Can't we get it through ftp/http? I succumbed and downloaded the free-ish crippleware version of BK and did pulls on the URLs bk://bk.namesys.com/bk/reiser4-linux-2.5 bk://bk.namesys.com/bk/reiser4 And there's all sorts of

Re: reiser4 non-free? (I throw in the towel)

2004-05-11 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:09:47AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: You can, of course, make this available under multiple licenses. When talking about experimenting with licenses in general, this is a superb idea. Consider, double licensing for all Reiser4, kernel- and userland stuff, GPLv2 and

Re: reiser4 non-free?

2004-05-10 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:22:32AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: altough this license grants you the rights to modify the package, according to your wishes, the original copyright holder requests that you don't modify the credits printed at [[insert the occasions when

Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

2004-05-03 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:55:00PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: shareware, or freeware. Debian has freely chosen not to be involved with distributing such works for various reasons. It's really quite a shame that the best distro around is so rigid as to not allow Reiser's minor, and

Re: Reiser4 DOS

2004-05-02 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:38:47PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: #!/bin/sh mount -treiser4 /dev/hdX /mnt/reiser4 cd /mnt/reiser4 while `/bin/true`; do cd metas done Do I remember something of my own, or wasn't there some discussion about this? Should meta files have meta files I'd say

Re: I oppose Chris and Jeff's patch to add an unnecessary additional namespace to ReiserFS

2004-04-27 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:15:32AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: The ReiserFS maintainer (me, in case you forgot;-) ) decided what release acls would go into, and you disregarded it and wrote an implementation that was inconsistent with the one planned. Surely this can not be such a bad thing.

Fibration etc

2004-04-15 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi! I think this may be of some interest to other people too, so I won't just take it up on IRC. What's up with this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ echo -e 'lexicographic\0' ..metas/plugin/fibration [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cat ..metas/plugin/fibration 1 dot-o fibrate .o files [EMAIL

Re: Reiser4 can't compile glibc

2004-04-14 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Grant Miner wrote: Thanks. I put on that patch and it fixes my make problem. I could compile glibc as well. However, GCC did not apparently compile. Debian Sid's GCC 3.3 was the one I tried. It appeared to have stalled during some if its test cases, I'll post further details, if required, when

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