Re: [reiserfs-list] Question on mount with big volumes

2001-08-16 Thread Philippe Gramoulle
Hi, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:44:56PM +0200, Philippe Gramoulle wrote: Has someone already created volumes above 1 terabytes ? Yes, of course :) Great ! What hardware/ drivers did you use ? For now linux is using 32bit sector indexing. This will limit you to

Re: [reiserfs-list] Question on mount with big volumes

2001-08-16 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:02:09PM +0200, Philippe Gramoulle wrote: Ragnar Kjørstad wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:44:56PM +0200, Philippe Gramoulle wrote: Has someone already created volumes above 1 terabytes ? Yes, of course :) Great ! What hardware/ drivers did you use ?

Re: [reiserfs-list] Question on mount with big volumes

2001-08-16 Thread Hans Reiser
The starvation occurs when some process sends large requests to the same scsi controller as our journal replay which sends one block requests, and the one block requests starve. Raid-resync is one known instance where this happens. Edward's patch cures that instance. Hans Edward Shushkin

Re: [reiserfs-list] 2.4.9 ?

2001-08-16 Thread Daniel T. Chen
Doesn't look like any Reiserfs changes made it into 2.4.9. Imo I'm safer running the -ac branch on my Reiserfs machines. --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Yves Glodt wrote: 2.4.9 seems to be out Got any

[reiserfs-list] Slashdot says: Linus is off to Finland for a week or so and released 2.4.9.

2001-08-16 Thread Hans Reiser
So I bet you that our patches that you assembled didn't go in simply because he was packing suitcases, and not for any reason deeper than that. We'll try for 2.4.10. Hans

[reiserfs-list] 30% less time with Edward's patch on first / unclean mounts

2001-08-16 Thread Philippe Gramoulle
Edward Shushkin wrote: It looks like you got the worst case when the system tries to find valid transaction (when your fs is just created or you have fs that was non-cleanly unmounted) and reads all journal blocks during raid5-resync process that causes a large number of IO requests. If

[reiserfs-list] reiserfs_delete_solid_item

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Gaughen
Hello, I have been getting the following warning: vs-5380: reiserfs_delete_solid_item: [-1 220 0x1 IND] not found I am currently running kernel version 2.4.7, with the latest 2.4.7-unlink-truncate-rename-rmdir patch. It looks like the cause of this warning was introduced by the unlink