Re: Compression Plugin

2005-09-21 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
michael chang schrieb: On 9/20/05, Gregory Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting idea: select the algo and a range of compression levels per file, but select the actual compression level at flush time based on some estimate of how loaded the system is.. :) Probably not worth it even

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Sep 20, 2005, Stephen Pollei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it takes gcc -Wall test_proto.c --std=c99 -pedantic-errors to cause it not to create the a.out . So gcc should have caused an error as I didn't set --std=gnu99 .. bad compiler. So I don't know howto get gcc to follow the standards in

Re: Compression Plugin

2005-09-21 Thread PFC
An interesting idea: select the algo and a range of compression levels per file, A simple check on wether it's an already compressed file (using file extension and magic number) should be quite easy to do and cheap. Now, intrigued by this lzo thingie, I ran a little benchmark on my

Re: Which compresion algorithms are planned?

2005-09-21 Thread Edward Shishkin
Pysiak Satriani wrote: Hi, recent threads on compression made me think about the algorithms. Will there be just one compression algorithm for everything, or many and ways to choose from them? Will it be possible to, say, write plugins of your own to do the compression? Hello. Reiser4

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Roman I Khimov
Hello. Среда 21 сентября 2005 02:10 | Pavel Machek: At tytso's request... could you put some reiser3 and reiser4 filesystem images inside test data? I've not tested Reiser3, but Reiser4 images (fsck.okay and repaired fsck.damaged is here (sorry, I have no log of 125 passes test run, only one

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 01:11, Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:18:46PM -0600, Jonathan Briggs wrote: I use Reiser3 and Reiser4 on all my systems and fsck has always worked even if it has been much slower than I would like. The only problems I've experienced have

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 07:05, Hans Reiser wrote: Ric Wheeler wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: Ric Wheeler wrote: As an earlier thread on lkml showed this summer, we still have a long way to go to getting consistent error semantics in face of media failures between the various

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Nikita Danilov
Hans Reiser writes: Stephen Pollei wrote: Also note my opinion, doesn't really count if you grep the kernel sources for pollei, you won't find anything. Your opinion counts, but lets see what Nikita says before I say anything. Nikita is more expert than I in regards

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Ric Wheeler
Gregory Maxwell wrote: On 9/20/05, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another goal of the group should be to formulate a requested set of changes or extensions to the makers of drives and other storage systems. For example, it might be advantageous to be able to disable bad block

Re: Compression Plugin

2005-09-21 Thread Edward Shishkin
Gregory Maxwell wrote: On 9/20/05, David Masover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably lzo, which is already used for other things like network connections (ssh, openvpn, and so on). The nice thing about lzo is that it's fast, faster than gzip or bzip2, and gets decent compression -- not

Re: Key management in Reiser4

2005-09-21 Thread David Howells
Edward Shishkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, would you please review the following: KEY MANAGEMENT IN REISER4 There's a mailing list for such discussions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I should update the MAINTAINERS file to reflect this. Reiser4 will register its own

Re: Compression Plugin

2005-09-21 Thread Hans Reiser
PFC wrote: An interesting idea: select the algo and a range of compression levels per file, A simple check on wether it's an already compressed file (using file extension and magic number) should be quite easy to do and cheap. Now, intrigued by this lzo thingie, I ran a little

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Nikita Danilov wrote: Hans Reiser writes: Stephen Pollei wrote: Also note my opinion, doesn't really count if you grep the kernel sources for pollei, you won't find anything. Your opinion counts, but lets see what Nikita says before I say anything. Nikita is more

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Ric Wheeler wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: On 9/20/05, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another goal of the group should be to formulate a requested set of changes or extensions to the makers of drives and other storage systems. For example, it might be advantageous to be able to

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Ric Wheeler
Hans Reiser wrote: Ric Wheeler wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: On 9/20/05, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another goal of the group should be to formulate a requested set of changes or extensions to the makers of drives and other storage systems. For example, it might be

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Nikita Danilov
Hans Reiser writes: [...] So what do you suggest we change it to, Nikita? Just remove #ifdef/#endif as was suggested. Nikita.

Re: latest patches degrade reiser4 performance substantially

2005-09-21 Thread Andrew Morton
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the this time we have no idea which patch is responsible, probably in a day or two we'll have a patch to fix it. OK. I assume this performance change is demonstrable in just 2.6.14-rc2+reiser4? Beware that there are other changes in the -mm lineup

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Nikita Danilov wrote: Hans Reiser writes: Horst von Brand wrote: Funny that the texbook algorithms aren't used in real life. Wonder why... Try BSD. If the BSD book can be believed, they usetexbook algorithms. The textbook one-way elevator (as indeed exemplified by

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Nikita Danilov wrote: Hans Reiser writes: [...] Yes, and one can compensate for them fairly cleanly. I can't say more without the customer releasing the code first. That's the point: text-book algorithms are usually useless as is. They need adjustments and changes to work in real

Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:41:36AM -0500, David Masover wrote: And personally, if it was my FS, I'd stop working on fsck after it was able to check. That's what it's for. To fix an FS, you wipe it and restore from backups. If that's Reiser4's philosophy, just

Identify Superblock

2005-09-21 Thread Markus Hiereth
Hello, as YaST and fdisk showed different output for the partions of my hard-disk, I got confused and lost the correct start point for my partition /dev/hda5. Recreation of superblocks by reiserfsck --rebuild-sb creates a superblock, but afterwards, --rebuild-tree terminates with a message that

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