On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:02:15 GMT, Danny Milosavljevic said:
What does an attourney cost for, say, 100 hours over there?
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.
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:14:18 GMT, Danny Milosavljevic said:
I've never understood this kind of attitude some MTAs have. Usually the
hardware would make sure that stuff doesn't disappear (UPS, powered RAM,
harddisk condenser) and not some weird software workaround that complicates
and slows
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:59:30 -0200, Guilherme Covolo said:
the diference between my an Johannes Hirte's patch is:
*
/fs/reiser4/super_ops.c
290c290
static int reiser4_statfs(struct dentry *dentry, struct kstatfs *statfs)
---
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:23:20 -0200, Guilherme Covolo said:
hello guys,
my experimental patch need modfications on fs/reiser4/context.c
i need help ;)
You'll have to give us more info than that. What happened?
Patch reject? It didn't compile? It didn't modprobe? The resulting kernel
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:33:27 +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev said:
after unclean shutdown journal reply is necessary to return reiserfs to
consistent state. Maybe GRUB did not do that?
A case can be made that GRUB should be keeping its grubby little paws off
the filesystem journal. It's a
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:02:27 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
Create a mountpoint which knows how to resolve a/b without using a
directory.
And said mountpoint gets past the '/' interpretation in the VFS, how, exactly?
fs/namei.c, do_path_lookup() does magic on a '/' on about the 3rd line.
So you're
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:27:20 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:02:27 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
Create a mountpoint which knows how to resolve a/b without using a
directory.
For wanting to resolve it *without* using a directory...
And said mountpoint gets
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:03:12 +0200, =?iso-8859-2?B?o3VrYXN6IE1pZXJ6d2E=?= said:
I got problem with apps that are calling fsync, it makes my hard drive
flush like mad and it slows down things quite a lot.
Several have posted how to bypass it. I'll pose the opposite side:
Usually,
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:04:56 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
There are legitimate applications where the value of data is low enough
and the load is high enough, that losing the database upon crash is ok.
I have mixed feelings about making it a mount option for reiser4 because
many users will not know
On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:50:49 +0200, Lars Grobe said:
Ok, this is the first time of my life that I was really pleased by what I
read in a spam mail. As a German living in Istanbul, I will translate: The
cheapest beer available in Germany will be sold in Turkey now, too :-)
If it weren't for the
On Tue, 09 May 2006 00:18:32 +0200, PFC said:
Linux RAID has a special option for that : you can trigger a check,
which
will re-read the entire disks and, if a read error occurs, re-write the
failing sector with good data from the other drives in the RAID. The drive
with the bad
On Sun, 07 May 2006 10:35:44 +0200, PFC said:
In the event of physical HD failure, the procedure goes like this:
Get mail saying a HDD is dead. Replace harddisk, resynchronize RAID.
Use Linux software RAID. Harddrives are cheaper that the time you'll
lose
trying to recover
On Fri, 05 May 2006 10:37:40 +0200, Jonathan Carter said:
I've read about ReiserFS's built-in compression, and I've been excited
about it for a long time, but haven't figured out how to activate it
yet. I've googled and looked on the reiserfs website, but couldn't find
any information on how
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 *amazed*. Intermittently weak memory (especially if it's
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:13:52 +0300, Islam Amer said:
BTW, Previously I had amazing performance with anticipatory
IO-scheduler ( even more so with genetic anticipatory ) any comments
on this io-scheduler business, as it stirred up some commotion before.
Is the performance boost an illusion or
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:13:23 EDT, Gregory Maxwell said:
It would normally seem silly to use RSA for disk encryption... but
there might be applications, although you'd still never use RSA
directly on user controlled data. For example, RSA could be used on a
multi user server to append mail to
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:03:32 +0400, Edward Shishkin said:
Checksuming means a low
performance: in order to read some bytes of such file you will need
first to read the whole file
to check a checksum (isnt it?).
No. Almost all modern networking gear is *perfectly* able to do incremental
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:11:59 CDT, David Masover said:
Because sometimes it is useful to compress data before encryption since
compression
destroys vulnerable regular structure of some special files (like *.html)
Although I'd imagine some algorithms are fairly resistant against that
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:54:12 EDT, michael chang said:
On 9/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) Even though most modern block ciphers are designed to be fast, it's still
faster to apply a reasonably quick compression scheme to whomp 16K of data
down to 5-6K and
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:28:12 +0400, Roman I Khimov said:
--nextPart1692600.LIfSYN1P7A
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but ext2 have failed on second check
of first pass with
Second check...
e2fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:17:13 EDT, Theodore Ts'o said:
An exit code of 1 means that filesystem errors were corrected
(successfully).
Right. The problem is that this was a *second* check, after the first one
terminated with exit code 0, 1, or 2. Thus, it *should* have exited with 0.
The
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:22:27 EDT, michael chang said:
Give Hans a chance; and please try to understand, even if he's hard to
work with. Discriminate him because he's not a developer you can talk
with, and I believe that's like discriminating a guy in a wheelchair
because he can't run with
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:16:11 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
Hellwig, people who write slow file systems should not lecture their
measurably superiors on how to code. Oh, and I should mention that
other people besides me have measured reiser4, and concluded it is twice
the speed of the other Linux
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:49:54 +0200, evilninja said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Yes, I know there's needs to support borked legacy filesystems that were
mkfs'ed
before the problem was recognized. That means fsck.reiserfs needs to know
about
it - but mkfs.reiserfs?? Seen in the Fedora
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:36:49 +0200, evilninja said:
Gabor HALASZ schrieb:
Sep 5 12:30:24 sk8n kernel: ReiserFS: dm-10: checking transaction log
(dm-10)
Sep 5 12:30:24 sk8n kernel: ReiserFS: dm-10: Using rupasov hash to sort
names
why did you choose the rupasov hash?
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 05:38:40 PDT, Marc Perkel said:
btw - is Reiser4 still going to get merged into 2.6.13?
It's not in 2.6.13-rc6, and I doubt Linus is going to blop *that* big
a chunk of code in this late - it's already well into the is this 3-liner
too drastic phase.
What happens when the
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:09:03 +0200, gimpel said:
reiser4 again. Maybe the is to wait for stable 2.6.13 before doing
tests with realtime-preempt as it gets updated twice a day.
And i so much hope the kernel guys decide to merge reiser4.
Well, reiser4 can't possibly make it into 2.6.13, as
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:52:49 EDT, michael chang said:
Striped RAID only works if you have multiple disks and a decent bus.
I'm stuck on the lowest-end Dell Dimension 3000, with one of the
slowest hard drives in history. And I haven't gotten around to
opening the case... yet.
Newbie. ;)
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:22:05 +0400, Vladimir Saveliev said:
Existence of various plugins assumes that user is able to choose
whatever is suitable for him. Or create his own plugin if none of
existing ones satisfies him.
If user cares a lot about using telldir/seekdir he is supposed to choose
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:58:20 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said:
What pisses me off is the fact that Gnome and friends implement
their own incompatible-with-others VFS's and automounters and
stuff.
The fact that things like Gnome, which are basically consumers of their own
dogfood,
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:25:14 CDT, David Masover said:
I was just trying to avoid the people will never adopt a new archive
format argument by pointing out that a similar archive format was
recently created and adopted.
Out of curiosity, adopted by popular acclaim, or because an 800 pound
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:57:54 CDT, David Masover said:
In one of three possible settings for the imaginary zipfile plugin, yes.
But if we're talking about a kernel source tree, how many of us
actually build zipfiles/tarballs of their kernel source trees, rather
than unpack existing ones?
I
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:54:17 CDT, David Masover said:
There has been some mention of inheritance, but I've forgotten how
that's supposed to work. If there's some sort of inheritance where
children inherit properties of their parent directory, and also inherit
changes to those properties,
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:27:25 CDT, David Masover said:
I back up with rsync, actually.
Doesn't matter what it is. You still need to define sane semantics for
it.. ;)
Speaking of backup, that's another nice place for a plugin. Imagine a
dump that didn't have to be of the entire FS, but
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:00:49 CDT, David Masover said:
Speaking of backup, that's another nice place for a plugin. Imagine a
dump that didn't have to be of the entire FS, but rather an arbitrary
tree... That might be a nice new archive format. I know Apple already
uses something like this
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:07:46 CDT, David Masover said:
Exactly the same sort of thing - traditionally it's been more or less
ignored
in the system accounting, because A would usually average out to causing as
many I/Os as B did, and they were roughly equal in cost so it was a wash.
Even
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 02:48:06 CDT, David Masover said:
Lincoln Dale wrote:
this is the WHOLE point of standardization .. i don't think its that
Reiser4's EAs offer any more or less capabilities than standard EAs -
They do. Reiser4's EAs can look like any other object -- files,
folders,
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:58:07 CDT, David Masover said:
Plugins is a bad word. This user's combination of plugins is most
likely identical to other users', it's just which ones are enabled, and
which aren't? If they are all included, I assume they play nice.
Which ones are enabled. Exactly.
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:16:48 CDT, David Masover said:
But, to avoid confusion, the inclusion of a crytocompress plugin in a
given kernel doesn't mean that all files accessed from that kernel are
encrypted and compressed. It just means that you can pick an individual
file and set it to be
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:35:48 CDT, David Masover said:
Right. So please explain what crypto/raw/foo and crypto/inflated/foo.gz
give you.
In that example (shouldn't have used the name crypto, but oh well), it
should be crypto/raw/foo.gz and crypto/inflated/foo -- where foo.gz is
the
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:54:25 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Hint - work out how long a kernel 'make' would take
if you were doing it inside a .tar.bz2).
After the first time, not very long, if you had enough ram the
plugin would keep the data uncompressed until
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:37:48 CDT, David Masover said:
Assume we can do on-disk caching, similar to fscache/cachefs for nfs.
Now, benchmark:
$ unzip linux-2.6.12.zip make -C linux-2.6.12
versus the hypothetical
$ make -C linux-2.6.12.zip/.../contents
This is an automatic performance
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:37:48 CDT, David Masover said:
Go read http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s7-7 and ponder until enlightenment
arrives.
So what? I don't intend to convince anyone based on how much
slower/faster their kernel compiles. It's meant to illustrate the
principle of the thing.
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:10:43 EDT, Hubert Chan said:
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:40:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Oh, I'm waiting for the fun the first time somebody deploys a plugin
that has similar semantics to 'chmod g+s dirname/' ;)
(You *did* notice it was set-GID of a *directory* not an
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:31:46 CDT, David Masover said:
*If* we decide that this must go both ways, *then* we either turn off
write support inside the zipfile
Oh, *that* will do wonders for command symmetry. And you just shot down
the whole 'mv foo bar' being equivalent to 'zip bar foo'
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:10:35 CDT, David Masover said:
But Linux is better. DOS ain't broke, but Linux is better. So maybe
VFS ain't broke, but plugins would be better. I guess we'll only know
if we let Reiser4 merge...
No, we'll only know if we merge something that does plugins at the VFS
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:13:45 MDT, Perry Kundert said:
In general, isn't it better to first include modules providing
divergent but possibly interesting functionality (such as Reiser4) as
an optional or experimental component, and then slowly re-factor
desirable functionality into higher
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:20:45 MDT, Perry Kundert said:
OK, fair enough. The file-as-directory stuff, which introduces
VFS-incompatible issues, was turned off. It requires VFS changes.
Mind you, I still think that sounds *interesting*, but it *has* to happen
at the VFS level. (And if
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:28:50 CDT, Dan Oglesby said:
latest versions. Took two days to run, but it completed, and I ended up
only losing 2 files out of over 1.1 million files on a 1TB RAID-5
array. That's not too bad, considering how many times the machine went
up and down due to bad
On Tue, 31 May 2005 08:04:42 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
Cycle may consists of more graph nodes than fits into memory.
There are pathname length restrictions already in the kernel that should
prevent that, yes?
The problem is that although a *single* pathname can't be longer than some
length,
On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:17:00 +0200, Matthias Barremaecker said:
I did a bad block check and I have 10 bad blocks of 4096bytes on 1300Gig
and ... that is the reason reiserfs will not work anymore.
I guess this sux. I rather have that the data on the bad blocks is just
corupted but the rest
On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:14:28 +0200, Webservice said:
When accessing a particulary directory, the systems hangs with a kernel
panic (mapping memory).
This will be a lot easier to diagnose with:
The exact version of your kernel (uname -a), the version of reiserfsck,
and the actual panic
On Sun, 29 May 2005 18:44:02 +0200, Kurt Ghekiere said:
May 29 17:28:51 mail3 kernel: Process hax0r (pid: 3738,
stackpage=f121b000)
May 29 17:28:51 mail3 kernel: Stack: bfe5 1000 f63b6000
bfffe7f0 f63b6000 b8e4
May 29 17:28:51 mail3 kernel:f78aaf22
On Sun, 29 May 2005 21:25:54 +0200, Matthias Barremaecker said:
but that sais it is a fysical drive error
Physical drive errors. Your hardware is broken. Isn't much that Reiserfs
can do about it.
What can I do.
1) Call whoever you get hardware support from.
2) Be ready to restore from
On Fri, 27 May 2005 19:26:26 +1000, robby cunningham said:
I've been using your product for 4 months now. I've increased my length from
2 inches
to nearly 6 inches. Your product has saved my sex life.-Matt, FL
I'm glad Reiserfs worked for him, but somehow I don't see Hans listing this
one on
On Fri, 27 May 2005 23:56:35 CDT, David Masover said:
Hans, comment please? Is this approaching v5 / v6 / Future Vision? It
does seem more than a little clunky when applied to v4...
I'm not Hans, but I *will* ask How much of this is *rationally* doable
without some help from the VFS?. At
On Tue, 24 May 2005 16:35:51 CDT, David Masover said:
My feeling is that you create the standard as you create the test, not
the other way around. If the test works, then there are by definition
few bugs if any in the system itself -- any other bugs are actually in
the application, not the
On Mon, 23 May 2005 12:52:12 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said:
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:22:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
Of course, I've worked on sufficiently few big projects that I'm still
naive enough to believe that unit tests _can_ catch everything, if
they're done
On Sat, 21 May 2005 23:49:00 +0200, Pysiak Satriani said:
I remember Hans saying that r4 is so stable that the developers themselves
can not find any more bugs.
Which in reality probably means It *probably* won't eat your data.
Remember that the developers have a limited number of different
On Sun, 22 May 2005 19:22:51 CDT, David Masover said:
This is exactly why it should be in the kernel once the developers can't
find any more bugs. Marked as experimental, mainly, but in the kernel
where real users can throw cobol/Java/sql bastardizations at it and
break it.
Oh, I agree
On Thu, 12 May 2005 13:50:31 +0200, Alexander Gruber said:
I checked it with du -sh * on the root partition and the result was much
smaller than the used space reported by df.
Note that temporary files are often creat()ed and then unlink()ed, leaving
the open file descriptor as the last
On Tue, 10 May 2005 10:39:23 BST, Peter Foldiak said:
Back in November 2004, I suggested on the linux-kernel and reiserfs
lists that the Reiser4 architecture could allow us to abolish the
unnatural naming distinction between directories/files/parts-of-file
(i.e. to unify naming
On Thu, 05 May 2005 00:38:54 +0200, Pysiak Satriani said:
This is OK, however, what I am looking for is to download the Kernel
from kernel.org, and found Reiser4 code inside. This means officially
for me.
FYI, kernel.org does have patches with r4, eg.
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:55:20 +0100, Pysiak Satriani said:
I remember Hans saying that nowadays CPUs are so fast, they compress
faster than HDDs move the heads around and do the writes. So compression,
if done properly, can be with no negative impact to speed.
Can you say what level of
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:41:52 PST, Hans Reiser said:
I am frankly skeptical that one should attempt to clone windows.
That explains why WINE exists, I guess.. ;)
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:41:25 PST, Hans Reiser said:
That violates the license.
Umm.. from fs/reiser4/README:
Reiser4 is hereby licensed under the GNU General
Public License version 2.
Where in the GPL does it say he can't port to another OS?
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:36:51 EST, Gregory Maxwell said:
Tree hashes.
Divide the file into blocks of N bytes. Compute size/N hashes.
Group hashes into pairs. Compute N/2 N' hashes, this is fast because
hashes are small. Group N' hashes into pairs compute N'/2 N'' hashes
etc.. Reduce to a
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:43:08 CST, David Masover said:
This way is easier, though. But I was thinking about accessing the
file. I don't know of any hashes that can be easily updated from part
of the file, unless you're hashing only pieces of the file in the first
place, but it'd be nice to
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:28:26 EST, Rick Spillane said:
Is reiserfs *completely* ACID compliant? Acid meaning Atomicity,
Consistancy, Isolation, and Durability? If not (which I would expect
is true) then how far away are the offending parts from making
reiserfs ACID compliant, and where are they
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:28:15 +0100, Sander said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (ao):
For many shops, it's quite likely that a ZFS with more scalability
and administration is The Right Choice, especially if it does *NOT*
include lots of odd new features and quirks that might break
production
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:38:12 MST, Dark Shadow said:
I have three hard drives so I took a file from one and copied it to
the others and timed it
source drive /dev/hda Reiser3 Western Digital 40gb 7200rpm
target1 drive /dev/hdb Reiser4 Western Digital 80gb 7200rpm
target2 drive /dev/sda
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:58:28 PST, BLuEGoD said:
Hi, i want to know how to install reiser4 on root with only 1 HD.. I use
mkfs.reiser4 from the reiser4 utils after compile and install kernel patches
on a debian woody 2.2.. with a scsi HD, but it crashes (errors found doing
mkfs.reiser4 on
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:24:36 +0530, Amit Gud said:
A straight forward question. Wouldn't adding a file as a directory
mechanism more logical in VFS itself,
There was quite the flame-fest on the lkml a while back regarding
how the semantics of file as a directory should operate. There's
a
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:07:45 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?q?Lars_Tobias_B=F8rsting?= said:
And why does reiser4 need changes in the kernel code? Is it really a
smart approach to require kernel changes for reiser4 to work?
Why isn't it possible to build reiser4 as kernel modules?
It still requires
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:26:18 CDT, David Masover said:
If this is about locking not working well with NFS, why not ensure that
the directory itself is owned by root and read-only before attempting?
Wait -- don't answer that...
No, this is a different problem.
Imagine a directory with 10K
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:52:14 EDT, John Richard Moser said:
I thought the DOD algorithm was 7 pass?
Citation please? If you have a better reference than DOD 5220-22.M,
feel free to share it.
If this is going on rapidly, there's no point in trying to completely
destroy the disk for *every*
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:45:55 +0200, =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= said:
I know gcc 4.0 is still in it's alphas.
Obvious solution is to move function declared in other function
up-wards. Since it's static anyway, it won't make any diffrence.
Please consider applying to repo.
I'm not
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:03:45 +0200, =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= said:
This code uses stuppid gcc extension, that is not present in gcc 4.0.
OK, if it's using a GCC extension that's already officially deprecated in 3.X and will
be
removed in 4.0, then that *is* a good reason to fix the
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 19:43:34 CDT, David Masover said:
And on apps. Should I teach OpenOffice.org to do version control?
Seems a lot easier to just do it in the kernel, and teach everything to
do version control in one fell swoop.
Including files you didn't really want to keep version control
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:11:13 CDT, David Masover said:
It'd be like writing OpenGL entirely in software, before hardware
accelerators work, and at the last minute have to change the library to
use triangles instead of splines.
I expect that SGI did a software-only version of IrisGL first, so
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:31:17 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
Thanks for explaining
sync;sync;sync;halt
I always felt I was failing to grok something.
As was the author who recommended it. It started out as:
# sync ( this one schedules the I/O)
# sync ( just a time waster typing)
# sync (
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 00:49:43 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
I think I have discovered the problem - unless there was a reason mongo was
issuing mount/unmount commands at the start/end of a mongo 'run' as well as
before/after _each phase_.
Probably someone wanted to separate the measurement of the
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:28:49 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said:
I think desktops for all the Joe Q. Averages are pretty much a different
scene from servers..
It's not as different as you might think. Remember in most corporations that use
Active Directory, all the infrastructure
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:00:35 CDT, David Masover said:
Do backups. Now. You are an idiot and/or a cheapskate if you don't
have backups, because one day something will happen -- probably
something ridiculously stupid -- and you will need them. I mean, go
build a backup server and, if you can
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:10:05 +0200, Paul Wagland said:
Can't the same functionality be created with device mapper though? At least
under linux anyway?
You'd need 2 things:
1) *very* recent patched device mapper (I think patches for snapshot support
went by on LKML just day before yesterday or
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 23:39:25 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus
=?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?=) said:
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
On Fri, 28 May 2004 09:33:24 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said:
Persistent over boots? I'd like the passphrase and key to survive
a boot...
No you don't.
If the passphrase and key are persistent, then an attacker can get your data.
Think about it - the only reason an attacker
On Sat, 15 May 2004 14:10:10 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said:
This has been discussed. There is the mailer that uses an @-named
symlink to the current message. Can't remember which one.
That would be MH, nhm, and exmh...
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:03:11 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I pondered the whole credits question for a bit last night, and I realized
that (a) I could account for at least the last 75 'mkfs' commands I had caused
to run, and (b) of those 75, exactly *one* did *not* have all
On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:57:01 PDT, Hans Reiser said:
Random credits are the elegant answer. Displaying only the distro name
at boot time is morally wrong.
Would be nice - the RedHat/Fedora GUI installer already supports showing the
current install status in one pane, and scrolling through a
On Mon, 10 May 2004 21:49:15 EDT, Walter Landry said:
The question is rarely what Debian needs to do, but rather what Debian
promises that the users will be able to do. Suppose that someone
wanted to use Reiser4 on a miniature burnable CD for elections. The
mini-CD holds the person's vote,
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:09:26 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said:
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 11:38:05PM -0500, David Masover wrote:
scripts, it'd be different, but we're talking about something that I
know I'd find a _manual_ use for. Even if you say that I can set it to
You check
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:47:12 CDT, John D. Heintz said:
foo/nsa:permissions - foo/nsa.gov/secure-linux/permissions
This assumes a mapping from nsa - nsa.gov/security/.
The characters up to the ':' would be looked up in a namespaces map, and
if found the substituion would occur before
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 23:05:45 +0400, Nikita Danilov said:
Meath \Meath\, Meathe \Meathe\, n. [See {Mead}.]
A sweet liquor; mead. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Milton.
On the other hand, both those Chaucer and Milton blokes have
been dust for quite some time, and the language has moved on.
Does
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:22:58 +0300, Hans Reiser said:
Secure delete doesn't work against people who have the necessary
equipment to scan the media and find remnants due to track misalignment.
Notice that the people who have the necessary equipment and assume that the
adversaries are equally
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:10:04 EST, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
And document files too. I'm looking forward to being able to being able
to scrap this strange hierarchy system that I'm currently using for all
my documents. Email, too, would do well with this system. Just toss
all the
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 21:14:36 EDT, Pierre Abbat [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The tape monkey might could overwrite an encrypted file on disk with random
gibberish.
The problem we started discussing was that a backup system needs *read*
access to something isomorphic(*) to your data in order to
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 09:30:29 EST, Pierre Abbat [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But I'd also like to be able to have several encrypted directories on one
partition, with different keys, such that when I give the key any process
with the right UID can access them. I might have a cron job that needs
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 20:36:49 +0400, Edward Shushkin said:
Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Friday 04 April 2003 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If a process that has no key tokens attempts to read an encrypted file with
the ordinary syscalls, does it get an error or the ciphertext?
Error.
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:37:10 +0300, Hans Reiser said:
Heinz-Josef Claes wrote:
btw: The only handycap of the used method is that all the links to a
file can have only *one* set of permissions (chmod, chown). Will it be
possible to change this with a loadable module in reiser4?
I am not sure
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