Re: XFS corruption during power-blackout

2005-07-05 Thread Dieter Nützel
to remember Shaggy (JFS maintainer) saying in older 2.4 kernels he tried to write file data before metadata but had to change that behavior in 2.6, not really sure why or anything beyond that. Greetings, Dieter -- Dieter Nützel @home: Dieter () nuetzel-hh ! de

Re: ReiserFS quota and 2.6.10

2005-02-23 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2005 11:28 schrieb Jan Kara: Because I like to keep people happy, especially Valdis Kletnieks, I'll repost my query from another email account without a disclaimer..here we go. :) The disclaimer was quite longer than the message... == From the

Re: Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-29 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Montag, 29. November 2004 10:25 schrieb Bernhard Prell: Thank you very much for your feedback so far! Kerin Millar wrote: For this reason, and because I believe that the stability of reiserfs was improved drastically in later revisions of the 2.4 kernel, I would urge that you consider

Re: 2.6.4 corruption

2004-03-22 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Montag, 22. März 2004 01:55 schrieb Tom Vier: after rebooting (no umount, sysreq wouldn't respond) due to a radeon problem, some files had their data blocks switched. one file was truncated, and what was truncated (it's mounted notail, btw) was attached to another file. one file was

Re: new v3 2.6.4 logging/xattr patches

2004-03-22 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 20:26 schrieb Dieter Nützel: Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 20:22 schrieb Dieter Nützel: Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 17:55 schrieben Sie: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 11:44, Dieter Nützel wrote: The suse kernel of the day ;-) My experimental directory is a dump of all

Re: [PATCH] updated data=ordered patch for 2.6.3

2004-03-03 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 3. März 2004 10:13 schrieb Marc-Christian Petersen: On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:53, Dieter Nützel wrote: Hi Dieter, I'll try on SuSE 2.6.3-16. sorry for my ignorance, but where do you find 2.6.3-_16_? I only find -0 ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/suse

Re: v3 logging speedups for 2.6

2004-01-12 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2003 19:42 schrieb Chris Mason: On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:30, Dieter Nützel wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2003 19:10 schrieb Chris Mason: Hello everyone, This is part one of the data logging port to 2.6, it includes all the cleanups and journal

Re: v3 logging speedups for 2.6

2004-01-12 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Montag, 12. Januar 2004 21:08 schrieb Dieter Nützel: Am Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2003 19:42 schrieb Chris Mason: On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:30, Dieter Nützel wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2003 19:10 schrieb Chris Mason: Hello everyone, This is part one of the data logging

Re: reiserfsprogs-3.6.12-pre1 release

2003-11-02 Thread Dieter Nützel
Vitaly Fertman wrote (ao): The new pre release is available for downloading on ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/pre/reiserfsprogs-3.6.12-pre1.tar.gz The release includes: * bad block support, documentation is available at http://www.namesys.com/bad-block-handling.html

Re: Horrible ftruncate performance

2003-07-17 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2003 12:57 schrieb Oleg Drokin: Hello! On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:47:53PM +0200, Dieter N?tzel wrote: Somewhat. Mouse movement is OK, now. But... 1+0 Records aus 0.000u 3.090s 0:16.81 18.3% 0+0k 0+0io 153pf+0w 0.000u 0.050s 0:00.27 18.5% 0+0k

Re: Horrible ftruncate performance

2003-07-16 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2003 12:35 schrieb Oleg Drokin: Hello! On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:55:09PM +0200, Dieter N?tzel wrote: Somewhat. Mouse movement is OK, now. But... 1+0 Records aus 0.000u 3.090s 0:16.81 18.3% 0+0k 0+0io 153pf+0w 0.000u 0.050s 0:00.27 18.5% 0+0k 0+0io

Re: Horrible ftruncate performance

2003-07-11 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 17:24 schrieb Oleg Drokin: Hello! On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:16:56PM +0200, Dieter N?tzel wrote: OK some hand work... Where comes this from? I don't find it my tree: fs/eiserfs/inode.c -if (un.unfm_nodenum) inode-i_blocks +=

Re: Horrible ftruncate performance

2003-07-11 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 17:32 schrieb Oleg Drokin: Hello! On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:27:25PM +0200, Dieter N?tzel wrote: Actually I did it already, as data-logging patches can be applied to 2.4.22-pre3 (where this truncate patch was included). No -aaX. Right. Maybe it _IS_

Re: Horrible ftruncate performance

2003-07-11 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 17:36 schrieb Marc-Christian Petersen: On Friday 11 July 2003 17:32, Dieter Nützel wrote: Hi Dieter, Where comes this from? I don't find it my tree: fs/eiserfs/inode.c -if (un.unfm_nodenum) inode-i_blocks += inode-i_sb

Re: Horrible ftruncate performance

2003-07-11 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 20:32 schrieb Chris Mason: On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 13:27, Dieter Nützel wrote: 2.5 porting work has restarted at last, Oleg's really been helpful with keeping the 2.4 stuff up to date. Nice but. Patches against latest -aa could be helpful, then. Hmmm

Re: Error messages.

2003-03-06 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2003 13:23 schrieb Anders Widman: Hardware is so much fun to debug sometimes, and when you are the 1% case life can really suck. Do you have: bad cooling Nope. Not warmer than 35C anywhere, including the surface of the drives. bad power supply Well,

Re: What Filesystem?

2003-01-29 Thread Dieter Nützel
. Yes. Go with low-latency _and_ preemption patches (try Gentoo, it has it all). I did beta testing for Robert Love (MontaVista) for ages and it is _the way to go_ for multi media machines. Greetings, Dieter -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science University of Hamburg

Re: What Filesystem?

2003-01-29 Thread Dieter Nützel
..) The resources needed to produce a 10-minute video clip are different from the things you'll need to produce a 4 foot x 5 foot poster at 600DPI. You mean single vs 2-/4-/8-/etc. (NUMA) SMP systems or even clusters? ;-) Greetings, Dieter -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science

Re: slightly [OT] highmem (was Re: 2.4.20 at kernel.org and data logging)

2003-01-24 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 24. Januar 2003 18:03 schrieb Oleg Drokin: Hello! On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:00:19PM +0100, Dieter N?tzel wrote: higmem4GB / highmem64GB with pae or does it produce more overhead that you mention below? You get no advantage of course. But lots of overhead. Rumours

Re: what do you do that stresses your filesystem?

2002-12-23 Thread Dieter Nützel
normal IO (20-40 parallel gcc/g++ compilers (make -j20) in my case). WMs e.g. KDE 3.1 isn't a case any longer...;-) Give your workers a break. Merry Christmas! -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science @home

Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: [ANNOUNCE] reiser4 snaphots

2002-11-08 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 8. November 2002 21:39 schrieb Todd Lyons: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: Todd Lyons wrote: Maybe my understanding is a little off, but I thought that I could just rebuild the modules and install them and run depmod and the new module symbols would be in effect. But

Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs with Samba vs NetApp Filer

2002-10-10 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2002 20:02 schrieb Hans Reiser: Philippe Gramoullé wrote: Hi, Yes, that's what i meant by not *out of the box* snapshots. We quite never played with LVM as it adds another software layer and i didn't feel it was mature enough at the time we put everything in

Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs with Samba vs NetApp Filer

2002-10-10 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2002 20:57 schrieb Dieter Nützel: Read about it on LKML. LVM is dropped with 2.5.41+. LVM2 comes under the hood of EMVS. Of course EVMS ;-) -Dieter

Re: [reiserfs-list] reiserfsprogs-3.6.4-pre2

2002-09-17 Thread Dieter Nützel
in 3.6.4-pre2, so: newly created [b] in 3.6.4-pre2 and the previous -pres [c] or even in the 3.6.3 release,too ??? Manuel geh ins Bett oder lese richtig...;-) It should read (I think): * New stuff --- Changes... * with -pre2 fixed bugs... Good night! Dieter -- Dieter Nützel

[reiserfs-list] Re: Linux-2.4.17-rc1 boot problem (fwd)

2001-12-16 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2001 04:14 schrieb Chris Mason: On Monday, December 17, 2001 01:52:23 AM +0100 Dieter Nützel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cursing] I think its almost the same bug we found on friday in the P patch (not in the kernel yet) where 3.6.x filesystems are missing some

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: funny file permission after reiserfsck

2001-12-13 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2001 23:16 schrieb Chris Mason: On Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:17:12 PM +0100 Manuel Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/13/2001 10:45 PM, Chris Mason wrote: On Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:41:13 PM +0100 Manuel Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's

[reiserfs-list] Fwd: Re: [PATCH] lock-breaking in reiserfs for the preemptible kernel

2001-12-01 Thread Dieter Nützel
Some useful things you should all know about, too. Regards, Dieter -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: [PATCH] lock-breaking in reiserfs for the preemptible kernel Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 16:35:30 +0100 From: Dieter Nützel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Love

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

2001-11-21 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 22:20 schrieb Andreas Dilger: On Nov 21, 2001 21:19 +0100, Dieter Nützel wrote: Some files are _NOT_ deleteable even as root, argh? The normal ext2 solution in this case is move it all to a separate dir, cp -a from the old dir, and then wait for e2fsck

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

2001-11-21 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 22:20 schrieb Andreas Dilger: On Nov 21, 2001 21:19 +0100, Dieter Nützel wrote: Some files are _NOT_ deleteable even as root, argh? The normal ext2 solution in this case is move it all to a separate dir, cp -a from the old dir, and then wait for e2fsck

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

2001-11-21 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 23:51 schrieb Andreas Dilger: So, you have a lot of bad inodes in /dev, do this (untested, but easily reversible): mv /dev /.badattr mkdir /dev lsattr -d /dev Hopefully /dev is created without any attributes. If it is, then you need to find a directory

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] 2.4.10 improved reiserfs a lot, but could still be better

2001-09-24 Thread Dieter Nützel
On Monday, September 24, 2001 14:46:09 PM -0400 Chris Mason wrote: On Monday, September 24, 2001 10:09:59 PM +0800 Beau Kuiper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all again, I have updated my last set of patches for reiserfs to run on the 2.4.10 kernel. The new set of patches create a

[reiserfs-list] URGENCY: IBM U160 SCSI disk spin-down from time to time

2001-09-24 Thread Dieter Nützel
you very much in advance. -Dieter -- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-22 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Sonntag, 23. September 2001 05:14 schrieb george anzinger: Robert Love wrote: On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 19:40, safemode wrote: ok. The preemption patch helps realtime applications in linux be a little more close to realtime. I understand that. But your mp3 player shouldn't need root

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-21 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 21. September 2001 18:18 schrieb Stefan Westerfeld: Hi! On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:42:56AM +0200, Roger Larsson wrote: You might try stracing artsd to see if it hangs at a particular syscall. Use -tt or -r for timestamps and pipe the output through tee (to a file on

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Dieter Nützel
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Beau Kuiper wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Chris Mason wrote: On Thursday, September 20, 2001 03:12:44 PM +0800 Beau Kuiper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Resierfs on 2.4 has always been bog slow. I have identified kupdated as the culprit, and have 3

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

2001-09-20 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 21. September 2001 00:03 schrieb Oliver Xymoron: On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2001 23:10 schrieb Robert Love: On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 04:21, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: You've forgotten a one liner. #include linux/locks.h

[reiserfs-list] Re: [PATCH] Significant performace improvements on reiserfs systems

2001-09-20 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2001 22:52 schrieb Robert Love: On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 13:39, Andrew Morton wrote: Andrew, are these still maintained or should I pull out the reiserfs bits? This is the reiserfs part - it applies to 2.4.10-pre12 OK. For the purposes of Robert's patch,

[reiserfs-list] Re: Feedback on preemptible kernel patch

2001-09-14 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Freitag, 14. September 2001 06:35 schrieb Robert Love: On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 22:47, Dieter Nützel wrote: -- ReiserFS may be another problem. Can't wait for that. Most wanted, now. third, you may be experiencing problems with a kernel optimized for Athlon. this may or may

[reiserfs-list] Re: [reiserfs-dev] 2.4.9ac7 vs. 2.4.10pre4

2001-09-07 Thread Dieter Nützel
If I use kernel 2.4.10-pre4 and you explain your doubts apply-to-kernel-version-? with expanding-truncate or get_block for 2.4.8 what is not tested too much but it works for you ... and you're using kernel 2.4.7+ -- point me to the one I should use *now*, please. Try get_block patch.

[reiserfs-list] Re: [reiserfs-dev] 2.4.9ac7 vs. 2.4.10pre4

2001-09-05 Thread Dieter Nützel
Nikita Danilov wrote: As far as reiserfs is concerned latest -ac kernels include the same set of bug-fixes as 2.4.10-pre4. The only additional things in -ac kernel are big cleanups (that don't change functionality), patches for endianness support and support for displaying various

[reiserfs-list] Re: 2.4.7-ac4 disk thrashing

2001-08-08 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2001 17:41 schrieb Daniel Phillips: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:57, Alan Cox wrote: Could it be that the ReiserFS cleanups in ac4 do harm? http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dreiserfsm=3D99683332027428w=3D2 I suspect the use once patch is the more relevant one.

[reiserfs-list] What about your reiserfs-cleanup patch?

2001-06-14 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello Chris, here comes the starting snipped of it: diff -Nru a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c --- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c Thu May 31 09:55:13 2001 +++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c Thu May 31 09:55:13 2001 @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ windex = push_journal_writer(delete_inode) ;