Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread Toby Thain
On 30-May-07, at 10:25 AM, David Masover wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007 07:36:13 Toby Thain wrote: but you can't mention using reiserfs in mixed company without someone accusing you of throwing your data away. People who repeat this rarely have any direct experience of Reiser; they repeat

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-30 Thread Toby Thain
On 30-May-07, at 2:22 PM, devsk wrote: I think people just like to spread FUD without doing any analysis of what really caused the FS corruption. I fear you're right. OTOH, filesystem developers on this list (and others including ZFS list) tend to be extremely meticulous. --Toby

Re: Filesystem corruption

2007-05-29 Thread Toby Thain
I have always found reiser3 to be rock solid My experienced too, over many server years. but you can't mention using reiserfs in mixed company without someone accusing you of throwing your data away. People who repeat this rarely have any direct experience of Reiser; they repeat what

Re: Why reiser does a disk write on every sync() call?

2007-05-12 Thread Toby Thain
On 12-May-07, at 9:03 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: sounds like useless waste of time and space You haven't stated the reason, why it has to create and commit empty transaction. Why'd you call sync()? --T -- GJ

Re: Hans Reiser arrested...

2006-10-12 Thread Toby Thain
On 12-Oct-06, at 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:32:22 EDT, Toby Thain said: He's in custody of the police; apparently even his lawyer can't see him. Even his lawyer can't see him is the sort of thing that only happens in 3rd world countries with shaky grasp

Re: Hans Reiser arrested...

2006-10-11 Thread Toby Thain
On 11-Oct-06, at 5:31 AM, Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: Hi, This morning I get this bad news. ... Again, locate Hans and offer comfort and a path to leave this situation. He's in custody of the police; apparently even his lawyer can't see him. --T Thanks, Giovanni. -- Future

Re: Relocating files for faster boot/start-up on reiser(fs/4)

2006-09-14 Thread Toby Thain
On 14-Sep-06, at 6:23 PM, David Masover wrote: Quinn Harris wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:55, David Masover wrote: ... That is a good point. Recording the disk layout before and after to compare relative fragmentation would be a good idea. As well as randomizing the sequence

Re: Reiser4 und LZO compression

2006-08-29 Thread Toby Thain
On 29-Aug-06, at 4:03 PM, David Masover wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: David Masover wrote: John Carmack is pretty much the only superstar programmer in video games, and after his first fairly massive attempt to make Quake 3 have two threads (since he'd just gotten a dual-core machine to play

Re: reiserfs and IDE write cache

2006-08-18 Thread Toby Thain
On 18-Aug-06, at 3:22 AM, Francisco Javier Cabello wrote: Hello, I have been 'googling' and I have found a lot of people warning about the problems with IDE write cache and journaling filesystems. Should I disable write cache in my systems using reiserfs3+2.4.25? I have tried to disable

Re: Checksumming blocks? [was Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-08-04 Thread Toby Thain
On 4-Aug-06, at 3:25 AM, Russell Leighton wrote: If the software (filesystem like ZFS or database like Berkeley DB) finds a mismatch for a checksum on a block read, then what? Is there a recovery mechanism, or do you just be happy you know there is a problem (and go to backup)? ZFS

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

2006-08-01 Thread Toby Thain
On 1-Aug-06, at 4:15 AM, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: ...I was and have remained loyal to Linux through it all. Except for that little fling with SCO, eh? Off topic, but no more so than your self-aggrandising. --T

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

2006-07-31 Thread Toby Thain
On 31-Jul-06, at 11:18 PM, Horst H. von Brand wrote: Adrian Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ZFS uses 'dnodes'. The dnodes are allocated on demand from your available space so running out of [di]nodes is impossible. Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with

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

2006-07-30 Thread Toby Thain
If reiser4 is delayed enough, for reasons that have nothing to do with its needs, and without it having encumbered anyone else, it won't be ahead of the other filesystems when it ships. How is that important in any way for the Linux kernel? This is not (and has not been for quite some

Re: Viewing files as directories

2006-07-25 Thread Toby Thain
On 25-Jul-06, at 8:08 PM, David Masover wrote: Timothy Webster wrote: ... Yes it would be really wonderful, if we could just see directories as file and files as directories. Which of course means a file and a directory are one in the same. Ever use OS X? It does this, to some extent, in

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

2006-07-23 Thread Toby Thain
On 23-Jul-06, at 7:48 AM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Sun, 2006-07-23 01:20:40 -0600, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing about small patches that makes them better code. There Erm, a small patch is something which should _obviously_ fix one issue. A small patch,

Re: somewhat OT query on journalling

2006-07-19 Thread Toby Thain
On 19-Jul-06, at 11:27 AM, Payal Rathod wrote: Hi, ... And lastly don't the journalling fs give a false sense of security to the user, saying that the data is written to disk when in reality only an entry is made in journal and data is still not committed to disk. This last one is easy to

Re: data corruption with 2.4.25 and datalogging patches

2006-07-17 Thread Toby Thain
On 17-Jul-06, at 2:14 PM, Brad Dameron wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 21:55 +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:53 +0200, Francisco Javier Cabello wrote: Hello Vladimir, such corruptions used to be considered as hardware bugs. Memory failure, for instance. Did

Re: ReiserFS v3 choking when free space falls below 10%?

2006-07-06 Thread Toby Thain
On 6-Jul-06, at 11:43 AM, Mike Benoit wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 12:58 +0200, Jure Pečar wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:37:34 -0700 Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Benoit wrote: Hi Jeff, I just tried the patch you suggested and it didn't make a difference. The load still

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-28 Thread Toby Thain
On 28-Mar-06, at 10:34 AM, Joachim Feise wrote: Toby Thain wrote on 03/27/06 22:34: On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think that the memory is bad

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Toby Thain
On 27-Mar-06, at 4:41 PM, Joe Feise wrote: Hi, I had an interesting crash on my 2.6.16-mm1 machine earlier today. I usually mount /usr/local readonly: /dev/sda6 on /usr/local type reiser4 (ro) However, since I wanted to update a sw package, I remounted it r/w. The installation of the sw

Re: Reiser4 crash 2.6.16-mm1

2006-03-27 Thread Toby Thain
On 27-Mar-06, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:32:14 PST, Joe Feise said: Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have had other issues if that was the case. You'd be

Re: lost partition table

2006-03-24 Thread Toby Thain
On 24-Mar-06, at 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks. i am using slackware linux(2.6.14 with reiser4 patch) on x86_64 and was trying to install free_bsd on a separate partition. well, during that instalation , accedentualy i have pressed a wrong key , so my partition table is