Multiple data streams...

2003-04-02 Thread Anders Widman
Is this supported, or will it be supported by ReiserFS? I use this feature quite quite much.. Maybe this is something to add to ReiserFS? There is very brief info at Microsoft's website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/core/fncc_fil_khzt.asp

Re: Proposal for keying encrypted filesystem

2003-04-01 Thread Anders Widman
My policy is that user hassle should be minimal, and we should try to select at least one default key management set of utilities to integrate well with and test with. Are you sure we should not get keys from the environment? Is there too much performance cost? It would be best if people

Re: --fix-fixable being ignored

2003-03-08 Thread Anders Widman
I have an ide raid server with a 610GB /home directory with errors. Running reiserfsck --check says it has found 6 errors which can be fixed with --fix-fixable. But when I run it with --fix-fixable, the option is ignored and and a check is simply run again. Any advice? The filesystem errors

Re: Error messages.

2003-03-06 Thread Anders Widman
Anders, here is what I have and it works on thousands of duplicate servers: Tyan S2420 with 1.0GHz PIII 512MB RAM Promise PDC20269 in PCI1 Using PDC20268 Intel Dual 10/100 NIC in PCI2 Four Maxtor 250GB IDE drives off of the Promise controller lk 2.4.19 on RH7.3 hdparm -a64 -K1

Re: Slightly off topic.

2003-03-06 Thread Anders Widman
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, at 11:11am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get yourself a 3Ware controller. I'll second the 3Ware recommendation. We've used them and they are rock solid. Active, open source support from the OEM. Web-based management tool. Email alerts on problems. Very nice. I am

Re: Error messages.

2003-03-06 Thread Anders Widman
Do you have apic enabled or disabled in both the kernel and the BIOS? Do you have acpi enabled or disabled in both the kernel and the BIOS? Yes, right now both are. Will be trying without. If it works it means there is a nasty bug in the kernel/or Promise drivers? Have now tried without

Re: [SPAM] Free PPV tv 25149

2003-03-01 Thread Anders Widman
Why are these posted to the list? Start SpamAssassin results

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.5-pre2 release.

2003-02-26 Thread Anders Widman
# time reiserfsck -a /dev/sdb1 Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x811 of format 3.6 with standard journal Blocks (total/free): 143109020/59148009 by 4096 bytes Filesystem is cleanly umounted Replaying journal.. 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree..finished real

Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-13 Thread Anders Widman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anders Widman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The others want to make Linux a viable option for normal users and want Linux to be able to replace Windows or Mac OS. The only way I see that happen is if Linux starts to get more userfriendly and safe. Last time I

Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-12 Thread Anders Widman
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:26, Anders Widman wrote: Unplanned downtime do cause lot of harm to any business. It's better to stop when there's a serious error than to blindly continue and make things worse. I (and I think no one else) never said continue blindly. Most users

Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-12 Thread Anders Widman
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 02:17, Anders Widman wrote: I've used ReiserFS in the past, but have also used ext3 on my user's important data (/home) after a good chunk of one drive was converted to sparse/null files due to a screwup stemming from no 'badblocks' support in reiserfs

Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-12 Thread Anders Widman
Every resource we have is going to go into getting V4 done and stable so that we can sell it in the summer. Hopefully we will make it. Just a question. (I know lots of people will shout at me for asking, but please don't :) Will V3/4 be ported to Windows, or are we doomed to use the new

Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-12 Thread Anders Widman
On Mit, 12 Feb 2003, Anders Widman wrote: Just a question. (I know lots of people will shout at me for asking, but please don't :) Will V3/4 be ported to Windows, or are we doomed to use the new MS database with integrated Palladium software? very unlikely. porting a filesystem

Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-12 Thread Anders Widman
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:40:04PM +0100, Anders Widman wrote: Every resource we have is going to go into getting V4 done and stable so that we can sell it in the summer. Hopefully we will make it. Just a question. (I know lots of people will shout at me for asking, but please

Re: What Filesystem?

2003-01-29 Thread Anders Widman
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:20:26PM -0500, James Thompson wrote: I am a visual artist and musician. Check out the document at http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html. There a section that benchmarks various filesystems for their latency. The short story is that Reiserfs

Re: reiserfsprogs version

2003-01-16 Thread Anders Widman
Can someone point me to the right reiserfsprogs? ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.4.tar.gz TIA, Raj //Anders

Re: kswapd CPU usage and heavy disk IO

2003-01-09 Thread Anders Widman
Are you sure it is a ReiserFS and not a kernel thing? I would think it is probably not. I have seen this also when running things like badblocks /dev/hdb and the kswapd eats up all CPU recourses. Then again I am always using ReiserFS so I do not know if the ReiserFS is the cause or

[reiserfs-list] Re: Optimizing power usage!?

2002-09-19 Thread Anders Widman
Most messages on this forum have focused on optimizing performance, however I'm looking for suggestions in an effort to reduce power consumption on the 1.2TB RAID servers we run. The boxes are mostly used for archiving huge amounts of data and only see usage for a third of the day at most.

Re: [reiserfs-list] Credit Card fraud involving namesys.com registration

2002-06-30 Thread Anders Widman
names. register.com is only responsible, as a middle hand, to arrange payments for registrants to internic. Once you have payed, it is your domain to do whatever you like with. InterNic, on the other hand, would perhaps have the ability, or right to suspend a domain name. //Anders Widman

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Increasing SPAM.

2002-06-29 Thread Anders Widman
down the SPAM, or is this just a pipe dream? Um, Why not block messages from senders that are not registered with this list? Also, if someone outside this list tries to send a message here, he would recieve a note that he must register before posting, or something like that. - Anders Widman

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS BUG.

2002-04-22 Thread Anders Widman
Hi, So you ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree which finished properly, then mounted fs, got kernel oops, and then reiserfsck --fix-fixable aborted. Right? Could you provide us metadata of your partition extracted with: debugreiserfs -p /dev/xxx | bzip2 -c xxx.bz2 and put it somewhere on

Re: [reiserfs-list] Silly question, defrag

2002-04-04 Thread Anders Widman
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:08:21AM -0800, Matthew Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 03 April 2002 00:21, Joe Cooper wrote: Don't Well I don't, but when newbies who are used to computing on win32 systems hear that they may not just accept the word don't. Actually its hard to find the

Re: [reiserfs-list] Silly question, defrag

2002-04-04 Thread Anders Widman
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Anders Widman wrote: I do not agree. I run a fileserver with a 814GB filesystem using ReiserFS (I have run NTFS and ext2/3 also). Modern filesystems might be smarter in storing new files by not packing them tightly. In my case that workes fine up

Re: [reiserfs-list] Silly question, defrag

2002-04-03 Thread Anders Widman
Don't ;-) ReiserFS (and ext2|3) do fragment somewhat, but the impact is not worth fighting over on most systems (certain environments are impacted more than others--mail servers and web caches being two examples that are hit pretty hard by fragmentation performance degradation).

[reiserfs-list] Poor performance with fsck on ReiserFS

2002-03-18 Thread Anders Widman
Hey everyone. I had to do a --rebuild-tree to fix my filesystem. The problem is that it is very slow. It starts out by reading about 25MB/s for the first hours. Then it slowly degrades and comes to a crawl the last part. The filesystem is 814GB, and reiserfsck reports about 213 million blocks

Re: [reiserfs-list] Encryption plugin developer needed for reiser4

2002-03-12 Thread Anders Widman
Has anyone any clea about MS way of implementing security/encryption with NTFS under Windows XP? That could perhaps be a good source for ideas. //Anders Sam Vilain wrote: Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone says to me that they've already implemented most of what I need for

Re: [reiserfs-list] reiserfs -o notail less throughput than ext3?

2002-03-03 Thread Anders Widman
On Saturday, March 02, 2002 06:55:24 PM +0300 Oleg Drokin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:16:08PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: I have some observation here that I cannot explain to myself. It seems as though ReiserFS impaired my throughput on 650 MB files,

Re: [reiserfs-list] Serious ReiserFS errors when updating from 2.4.18pre9 to rc1

2002-02-18 Thread Anders Widman
Hello! Hi! =) On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: Blocks in wrong order *is* serious! Oops. (have you tried 2.5.3/2.5.4-pre1 kernels there?) No. I haven't tried 2.5.x. kernels yet and I'm not about to. Just making sure. Error that can cause these items in