Re: More Slowdown

2005-11-17 Thread Ingo Bormuth
If you are frequently hit by fsync (as some of the previosly posters told us) an option might be to say something as tmgr.atom_max_age=30 (or tmgr.atom_max_size=?) in fstab (or remount the drive in vulnerable situations). Of course that sacrifices large parts of reiser4's mean

Re: More Slowdown

2005-11-17 Thread PFC
Just a few words about this slowdown thing. I use linux-2.6.11-cko1-swsusp2 with reiser4 included. I won't upgrade to a new version until Hans says the current one is at least as stable as it was before starting the merge... I get the slowdown once in a while, usually for 2-5

Re: Reiser3 bug in 2.6.11.11

2005-11-17 Thread Konstantin Münning
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Konstantin Münning schrieb: init started and first system startup messages appeared. But then a bunch of oopses appeared fast so I was not able to find which part of the kernel was causing the first error and then the keyboard stops responding so I couldn't

Re: reiserfsck --rebuild-tree failure

2005-11-17 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 20:27, iv wrote: i'm following an advice to send a bug report about failed reiserfsck --rebuild-tree found at http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#rebuild-tree. i tried to compile the newest reiserfsprogs-3.6.15-pre1 but it fails use reiserfsprogs-3.6.19.tar.gz from

Re: reiserfsck --rebuild-tree failure

2005-11-17 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Nov/17/2005, Vitaly Fertman wrote: i've got a lot of error massages in kern.log: kern.log. obvious, there are badblocks: badblocks.log. check out www.namesys.com/bad-block-handling.html interesting, I didn't know this feature. It works in Reiser 3 and 4? (It seems that yes, just

Re: More Slowdown

2005-11-17 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello Artur Makówka wrote: Hans Reiser wrote: fsync can be dramatically better optimized, and it will be after the kernel merge work is completed. This optimization will likely consist of reducing the tendency to merge atoms and handling fsync by using write twice algorithms to a fixed

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Re: More Slowdown

2005-11-17 Thread Hesse, Christian
Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Please try whether the attached patch improves anything. It simplifies fsync by avoid commiting of transactions which do not modify file being fsync-ed. The patch applied to 2.6.14-mm2 with warnings, but that can be ignored. Hi everybody, I'm suffering the same

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-17 Thread Philippe Gramoullé
Hello Hans, On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:17:37 -0800 Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What do the sysadmins on the list think? | | Hans Personally, for Reiserfs V3, i always compiled reiserfsprogs statically and installed the tools in /sbin. Mainly because, we used to have /usr on a

Re: More Slowdown or reiser4 update for 2.6.14-mm2

2005-11-17 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello Hesse, Christian wrote: Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Please try whether the attached patch improves anything. It simplifies fsync by avoid commiting of transactions which do not modify file being fsync-ed. The patch applied to 2.6.14-mm2 with warnings, but that can be ignored. Hi

Re: More Slowdown

2005-11-17 Thread John Gilmore
On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:40, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Please try whether the attached patch improves anything. It simplifies fsync by avoid commiting of transactions which do not modify file being fsync-ed. The patch applied to 2.6.14-mm2 with warnings, but that can be ignored. I

Re: More Slowdown or reiser4 update for 2.6.14-mm2

2005-11-17 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
Hi again, http://www.earthworm.de/tmp/reiser4-fsync.c with 2.6.13: sync() = 0 0.000198 fsync(3)= 0 0.003353 with 2.6.14 (with and without patch): sync() = 0 2.092873 fsync(3)

Re: More Slowdown or reiser4 update for 2.6.14-mm2

2005-11-17 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
Me again, meanwhile I've applied this patch to my 2.6.14-mm2 (gentoo): ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.14-mm2/reiser4-for-2.6.14-mm2-1.patch.gz ...and I've got to say: THANK YOU! This patch has cured my slow system, everything's running normal again. Everything? Well, I'm not so

Re: More Slowdown or reiser4 update for 2.6.14-mm2

2005-11-17 Thread Hesse, Christian
On Thursday 17 November 2005 18:22, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Hello Hesse, Christian wrote: Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Please try whether the attached patch improves anything. It simplifies fsync by avoid commiting of transactions which do not modify file being fsync-ed. The patch

Re: Regular Plugin

2005-11-17 Thread Edward Shishkin
Peter van Hardenberg wrote: The notion of the regular plugin seems odd to me. It is a seperate plugin type with distinct plugins that only serve to refer to file plugins (which are found in plugin/object.c, not in plugin/file/*.c). In accordance with the last policy file plugins, that

Re: More Slowdown or reiser4 update for 2.6.14-mm2

2005-11-17 Thread Thorsten Hirsch
Seems like there's a bug in your patch ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.14-mm2/reiser4-for-2.6.14-mm2-1.patch.gz [ cut here ] kernel BUG at fs/reiser4/block_alloc.c:149! invalid operand: [#1] last sysfs file: /class/vc/vcsa7/dev Modules linked in:

Re: More Slowdown

2005-11-17 Thread Hans Reiser
PFC wrote: Just a few words about this slowdown thing. I use linux-2.6.11-cko1-swsusp2 with reiser4 included. I won't upgrade to a new version until Hans says the current one is at least as stable as it was before starting the merge... I get the slowdown once in a while,

Re: More Slowdown

2005-11-17 Thread Hans Reiser
6% fragmentation is enormous. You very much need the repacker we have not yet written. remember that one seek and rotate takes ~12 ms, and during that time you could transfer 50MB*.012 bytes. Hans John Gilmore wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:40, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:

Re: More Slowdown

2005-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Francesco Biscani schrieb: What are the implications of doing something like this? Is sync going to stop working or isn't it using this function? sync(8) won't stop working, because it's using sync(2): % strace -T sync 21 | grep sync execve(/bin/sync, [sync], [/* 20 vars */]) = 0 sync()

Re: Reiser3 bug in 2.6.11.11

2005-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Konstantin Münning schrieb: init started and first system startup messages appeared. But then a bunch of oopses appeared fast so I was not able to find which part of the kernel was causing the first error and then the keyboard stops responding so I couldn't scrollback. At that point only

Re: File as a directory - file-as-dir vs. link-dirs (again) - 1/3

2005-11-17 Thread Leo Comerford
Once again, I have to apologise for a stupidly long and stupidly late reply. I've tried to make this thing a little more digestible by chopping it into three chunks. In order to keep any replies together, I suggest that people reply to the third part unless the reply is very specific to one of the

Re: File as a directory - file-as-dir vs. link-dirs (again) - 2/3

2005-11-17 Thread Leo Comerford
(This long essay has been posted in three parts. In order to keep any replies together, I suggest that people reply to the third part unless the reply is very specific to one of the others. This is part two, in which I criticise file-as-directory some more - far from exciting, but apparently still

[2.6 patch] fs/reiser4/: possible cleanups

2005-11-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - #if unused code away Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/reiser4/estimate.c |2 +- fs/reiser4/flush_queue.c |2 ++ fs/reiser4/fsdata.c

Re: File as a directory - file-as-dir vs. link-dirs (again) - 3/3

2005-11-17 Thread Leo Comerford
(This is the third and final choke-sized chunk. In order to keep any replies together, I suggest that people reply to this part unless the reply is very specific to one of the others.) File-as-dir is a flawed way of expressing parent-child relations. Unfortunately, when it comes to relations,

Erratum

2005-11-17 Thread Leo Comerford
On 11/18/05, Leo Comerford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ setroot /(whatever)/friend/Ed This should be $ setroot /(whatever)/portrait/Ed - this is what comes of writing things in a hurry Leo. -- Leo Richard Comerford - http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~lrc1 - accept no namesakes :)

Hi

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ZFS - Reiser team reactions?

2005-11-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
Looks like ZFS is no longer vaporware. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ Any commentary from the Reiserfs team? A (supposedly) production ready FS that provides the transactions (using a similar/same tree ripple technique as reiser4), compression, and snapshotting, that we

Re: Erratum

2005-11-17 Thread Peter van Hardenberg
On November 17, 2005 08:13 pm, Leo Comerford wrote: - this is what comes of writing things in a hurry Leo, As you may have noticed, I am working in this area right now. I'd like to read what you have written, but it's too long and jargon-laden for me to invest the time. Could you sum