Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: magic is useless Determining File Types

2002-01-07 Thread Alexander G. M. Smith
Chris Dukes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:34:28 +: A wise person once said those who do not know Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly. In the case of structured files, it would appear that those that do not know OS/400 are doomed to reinvent it, poorly. Good point. I

[reiserfs-list] File size limit exceeded

2002-01-07 Thread Silvio Schlöffel
Hi! I have a problem with my reiser partition. If I copy larger files (90MB) from other partitions to her I become the following message File size limit exceeded and a broken file on the partition. Reiserfsck shows me no problems. The partition is 74GB big and I have 28GB of free disk space.

RE: [reiserfs-list] Intercepting all changes made to a file system on Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Scott Simpson
Perhaps this relies on a message passing OS - typically you tell the OS (and file system indirectly) that you're interested in changes to a particular file or directory, and you include some flags saying what kinds of changes you are interested (iNode info, file contents, etc). Then when

Re: [reiserfs-list] Intercepting all changes made to a file system on Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:24:19 PST, Scott Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks. I'll play with it. Unfortunately it only tells you something in the directory was changed, not what changed. This sucks. I won't know what changed and to find out I'd have to maintain a hash table of every inode

[reiserfs-list] [Fwd: Re: Magic is useless!]

2002-01-07 Thread Raphael Bosshard
---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:07:00PM +, Sander Vesik wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: Most major file formats already have a detectable magic byte signaturate, though some of the now prospering human readable formats using XML or whatever are

[reiserfs-list] Re: Magic is useless!

2002-01-07 Thread Alexander G. M. Smith
Raphael Bosshard [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded a message on Mon, 07 Jan 2002 20:09:17 +0100, it was originally from Daniel Veillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:24:14 -0500, and addressed to the Gnome 2.0 list: Yep, IMHO Mime-Type are slowing falling into obsolescence due to

Re: [reiserfs-list] When will Reiserfs be ready?

2002-01-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:48, _nasturtium wrote: What has happened to NTFS performance? During the Windows NT 3.5 days it was the slowest FS in production use, particularly for small files. Has this changed? (Should I go from FAT32 to NTFS on my laptop windows partition? Fear of

Re: [reiserfs-list] When will Reiserfs be ready?

2002-01-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:15, _nasturtium wrote: I was reading the FAQ on www.namesys.com and it seems Reiser4 is sponsored (but not endorsed by...) by DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency?). That seems like a good source of funds compared to your support business - your

Re: [reiserfs-list] magic is useless Determining File Types

2002-01-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:49, Hans Reiser wrote: There is an issue of going completly overboard, attribute/subattribute/subsubattribute anybody? This is certainly an overall interesting idea. How about file//acl for accessing ACLs? This does mean though you *MUST* have a filesystem specific dump

Re: [reiserfs-list] When will Reiserfs be ready?

2002-01-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:14, Andre Pang wrote: Some people need to run Windows to run various applications. It has many apps available which Linux does not; accept it. If Absolutely. In this case if you are doing sales then you MUST have MS software. There are enough hassles in applying for a

Re: [reiserfs-list] When will Reiserfs be ready?

2002-01-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:42, _nasturtium wrote: All of the blathering and silliness removed. Short version: Russell made a few comments to explain some stuff on the assumption that Nasturtium was actually asking honest questions. Nasturtium made a number of ad hominem attacks. Blah blah

Re: [reiserfs-list] Journal Questions

2002-01-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:11, pesarif wrote: 1. How big is the journal? 32M. It is possible to change this, but currently that requires recompiling your kernel (and running an altered mkreiserfs). Then a regular kernel won't mount them. It's painful enough that you don't want to do it. Hans

[reiserfs-list] Re: [Dri-devel] Voodoo5 SLI / AA

2002-01-07 Thread Dieter Ntzel
On Sunday, 7. January 2002 13:11, Russell Coker wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:11, pesarif wrote: 1. How big is the journal? 32M. It is possible to change this, but currently that requires recompiling your kernel (and running an altered mkreiserfs). Then a regular kernel won't mount

[reiserfs-list] Re: [Dri-devel] Voodoo5 SLI / AA

2002-01-07 Thread Chris Mason
On Monday, January 07, 2002 11:22:35 PM +0100 Dieter Nützel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 7. January 2002 13:11, Russell Coker wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:11, pesarif wrote: 1. How big is the journal? 32M. It is possible to change this, but currently that requires recompiling

[reiserfs-list] resize_reiserfs problem

2002-01-07 Thread Ciro Vargas Clemow
Hi all: I'm trying to change size of my root reiserfs v3.5 partition, but i can't do it. this is my partiton table. cfdisk 2.11b Unidad de disco: /dev/hdc Tamaño: 3228696576 bytes Cabezales:

Re: [reiserfs-list] resize_reiserfs problem

2002-01-07 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jan 07, 2002 17:57 -0500, Ciro Vargas Clemow wrote: I'm trying to change size of my root reiserfs v3.5 partition, but i can't do it. this is my partiton table. cfdisk 2.11b Unidad de disco: /dev/hdc

Re: [reiserfs-list] resize_reiserfs problem

2002-01-07 Thread Ciro Vargas Clemow
El Lun 07 Ene 2002 06:08PM, escribiste: Well, my Spanish isn't que bueno, but I think what you need to do is to increase the size of /dev/hdc3 to include the libre space at the end of the disk before you resize the filesystem. The resize_reiserfs tool is only changing the _filesystem_ and

RE: [reiserfs-list] Re: [Dri-devel] Voodoo5 SLI / AA

2002-01-07 Thread Adam Goryachev
Is there any way (at present) to gague how much of the journal is presently being used (high/low water marks perhaps?). My guess is a busy server will want a full 32M journal (maybe even larger) by my laptop will suffice with only a fraction of that. It would be nice to measure this.

Re: [reiserfs-list] resize_reiserfs problem

2002-01-07 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jan 07, 2002 18:26 -0500, Ciro Vargas Clemow wrote: El Lun 07 Ene 2002 06:08PM, escribiste: Well, my Spanish isn't que bueno, but I think what you need to do is to increase the size of /dev/hdc3 to include the libre space at the end of the disk before you resize the filesystem. The

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [Dri-devel] Voodoo5 SLI / AA

2002-01-07 Thread Dieter Ntzel
On Tuesday, 8. January 2002 00:20, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:32:16PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: Chris has worked on this (dynamic journal size) for ages. He told me something about it in the year 2000? Actually some of the namesys coders did this, it works

Re: [reiserfs-list] resize_reiserfs problem

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Clausen
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:43:07PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: Well, you can do it with cfdisk, it should be relatively easy to do in your case. GNU parted is probably the best tool for doing complex partition resizing tasks, but it does not appear to support reiserfs. There is a patch

Re: [reiserfs-list] magic is useless Determining File Types

2002-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 17:23:57 +0100, Russell Coker said: disk geometry is usually not worth knowing and lied about by the hard drive. I suspect that this is usually the case on mainframes too. Valdis? Well.. OK.. you caught me there. Older IBM disk drives *did* lie about their geometry

Re: [reiserfs-list] When will Reiserfs be ready?

2002-01-07 Thread Ben Ford
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