Re: Hans Reiser arrested...

2006-10-11 Thread Tom Vier
ans would be wise not to discuss anything about this case with anyone other than his lawyer. Especially not publicly. Divorces are messy and the media often gets things wrong. Who knows what's true. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

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

2006-07-05 Thread Tom Vier
g. I didn't watch the cpu load, which may've been high, but it seemed to be io bound. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: Backup solution

2006-06-19 Thread Tom Vier
e. Search freshmeat.net for "backup". -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Vier
ty pages, do they? Only the vm decides when to write out? ext3 and r4 do have write timeouts, tho. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Vier
level than just sector elevators). One problem with my suggestion is that apps don't always close or reopen read-only after they write a file. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-07 Thread Tom Vier
ter sync and before the writes doesn't seem to very high. I thought r4 might be cpu bound, but it doesn't seem to be. I'm not sure what's causing this pause. If i had more free time, i'd setup kernel profiling. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-06-06 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > It seems that both r4 and xfs allow a large number of pages to be dirtied, > before queuing them for writeback, and this has a negative effect on > throughput. In my test (rsync'ing ~50gigs of flacs), r4 and xfs are almos

Re: [PATCH] updated reiser4 - reduced cpu usage for writes by writing more than 4k at a time (has implications for generic write code and eventually for the IO layer)

2006-05-24 Thread Tom Vier
t this > has only a small effect on elapsed time for most hardware. Write requests in linux are restricted to one page? -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

reiser4: first impression (vs xfs and jfs)

2006-05-23 Thread Tom Vier
nt; mount and ran cksum, and sure enough, the files were good. 8) -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: quicker mount

2006-05-23 Thread Tom Vier
What about reiserfs4? I just tried a 250gig raid1 and it r4 takes even longer than 3. Is it also preloading all bitmaps? No other fs that i've tried takes so long to mount. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: 2.6.16 + reiser4 -2 patch = gcc error

2006-05-18 Thread Tom Vier
tex); Actually, it was my fault. I had forgotten to apply the 2.6.15->.16 patch. Thanks for you help, tho. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

2.6.16 + reiser4 -2 patch = gcc error

2006-05-17 Thread Tom Vier
cture has no member named _mutex' make[2]: *** [fs/reiser4/plugin/file_ops_readdir.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [fs/reiser4] Error 2 make: *** [fs] Error 2 Sorry if this has been posted already. I searched, but didn't find it. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: dump in reiserfs

2006-01-27 Thread Tom Vier
read-only filesystems, btw. It has a nice interface, but you're better off using tar. See the -g option for incremental backups. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-14 Thread Tom Vier
ht be a safer default, so that if someone's installing it from source it would clobber their distro's version by default. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: Interview with Hans on KernelTrap

2005-09-16 Thread Tom Vier
Regarding the compression plugin, it only compresses file data and not fs structures, right? -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: journal size reiserfs vs reiser4

2005-09-07 Thread Tom Vier
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:36:33PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On 9/6/05, Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My vote: put the reserve % in the superblock (if it isn't already) and > > give mkfs a sane default. > > Looking at the code it appears it wo

Re: journal size reiserfs vs reiser4

2005-09-06 Thread Tom Vier
matter how easy it is to build. My vote: put the reserve % in the superblock (if it isn't already) and give mkfs a sane default. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: Plugin for corruption resistance?

2005-02-11 Thread Tom Vier
ks. Actually, you could probably copy the raid5 md code and rewrite it to only use one device. I'd try that first. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: Congratulations! we have got hash function screwed up

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Vier
Alias rm to 'mv $@ trash/' (not sure about the $@ - my bash is rusty) and have a cronjob that reaps files older than x. Or, try pdumpfs (i've been using it for a long time). -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: Need Warm Fuzzies, ReiserFS (3)

2004-12-21 Thread Tom Vier
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:34:29PM +0100, Spam wrote: > Most people with Win2000/XP have write-cache enabled. Yet there are > rarely problems due to power failures? fwih (from netbsd tech-kern) windows issues cache flushes. I don't know how people know that, though. -- Tom V

Re: Need Warm Fuzzies, ReiserFS (3)

2004-12-20 Thread Tom Vier
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:31:10PM +0100, Spam wrote: > If you have UPS then write-cache should never be dangerous? It's not AS dangerous. You could still lose a psu or someone could trip over the power cord from the computer to the ups. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: Need Warm Fuzzies, ReiserFS (3)

2004-12-20 Thread Tom Vier
layer? There's been some interesting discussion about this subject on the netbsd tech-kern list, btw. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: Need Warm Fuzzies, ReiserFS (3)

2004-12-20 Thread Tom Vier
be enabled by default. Otherwise, that's asking for tons of users with corruption. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory item

2004-09-13 Thread Tom Vier
> nothing fancy. i forgot to mention i'm using a 64meg journal. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory item

2004-09-13 Thread Tom Vier
x it, but it already applied: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03866.html i'm running 2.6.8 UP x86 on an opteron, highmem enabled, no preempt. nothing fancy. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: v4 questions, crc's

2004-07-24 Thread Tom Vier
> > would you mind forwarding links to the IBM/Sun info you mentioned? found it. http://tinyurl.com/3a3yq -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: data=ordered patch for 2.6.5?

2004-04-04 Thread Tom Vier
is it ok to use the 2.6.5-rc2-mm2 patch on 2.6.5? -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: filenames that can be safely stolen (was Re: starting with ".." could break stuff)

2004-04-04 Thread Tom Vier
, while containing mostly a descriptive english word, doesn't trample regular filenames (eg, more than one dot). and finally, i hate the 's'. 8) for one thing, it might only contain only one file. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

data=ordered patch for 2.6.5?

2004-04-04 Thread Tom Vier
i looked through all linus's changelogs for .4->.5. i see a few fixes, but nothing about ordering. i thought it was going in soon. will it be in .6? i guess for .5 i'll have to wait for chris mason to make a patch set. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: secure delete?

2004-03-24 Thread Tom Vier
writes? i know if the fs writes to the blkdev, reading the blkdev from userspace can return stale cache. too bad you can't do something like umount; bsync; (now safely read/write the blkdev). -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: secure delete?

2004-03-24 Thread Tom Vier
s wasn't sufficient > to protect *our* secrets, they'd have a stricter standard. they do, complete destruction. that's what they do with secret stuff. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: 2.6.4 corruption

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Vier
reiserfsck shows no corruption, so the metadata is at least intact. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

2.6.4 corruption

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Vier
mal behavior, i assume. i'm currently bootstrapping an altroot, so i can run reiserfsck. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0x15741ECE

Re: $25 question - ReiserFS 3.6 data errors on 2.4.23

2004-02-19 Thread Tom Vier
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:42:08PM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: > And we don't run reiserfsck at boot time, only manually. ("0 0" in fstab) if it's done after it boots and it's been mounted rw, you could be reading stale data. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA

Re: reiser4 data journalling?

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Vier
n ibm drive. if not, it's in another thread from around the same time. i forgot i had this linked on wipe.sf.net (shameless plug ;). http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.0/0331.html -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA

Re: write barrier patches for 2.4.21

2003-08-27 Thread Tom Vier
> are free to do something when met with barrier requests or to ignore it. > The only concern is probably raid cards that show bunch of IDE drives as a SCSI > device. anyone who has more info, please post. 8) i'm very interested. too bad there aren't video streams of lks,

non-standard journal breaks autodetect

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Vier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mkreiserfs -l hosts -s 16386 /dev/sdc4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mount /dev/sdc4 /mnt/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mount -t reiserfs /dev/sdc4 /mnt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA

Re: [reiserfs-list] Behavior of tails with respect to shred, wipe, etc

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Vier
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:36:28AM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:32:17PM -0500, Tom Vier wrote: > > > > I guess we should address this issue in reiser4. This is -security- > > > > feature after all. Hans? It is not clear how to intehgrate th

Re: [reiserfs-list] Behavior of tails with respect to shred, wipe, etc

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Vier
than one "wipe") and i made a point to be clear in the docs and on wipe.sf.net that encryption is the only complete solution. my app is most useful for using on whole drives, if you're going to sell it on ebay or something, and you want non-secret personal stuff off (or at least

Re: [reiserfs-list] need attrs patch for 2.5.44-ac3

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Vier
another reiserfs, so i don't know if it's just the rootfs that's affected. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA

Re: [reiserfs-list] need attrs patch for 2.5.44-ac3

2002-10-28 Thread Tom Vier
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:33:22PM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:02:15PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > > is there a 2.5 attrs patch? i can't even list them in 2.5 on a reiserfs. i > > get "inappropriate ioctl for device". > > See attached,

[reiserfs-list] /proc/mounts doesn't show attrs

2002-09-07 Thread Tom Vier
mand,attrs 0 0 -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA

Re: [reiserfs-list] Frequent disk accesses (sync?) on laptop

2001-06-24 Thread Tom Vier
if you're using bash, it's writing to ~/.bash_history. On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:33:29AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I have my ReiserFS partitions mounted with noatime running 2.4.5. Every > time I run sync I get disk access so atime does not explain the situation. --