Re: Reiser4 status as of this weekend

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:39, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 23:50, Markus TЖrnqvist wrote:
> > On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:30:59AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > >Markus Törnqvist wrote:
> >
> > [mmap]
> >
> > >>>substantial work to do right, and is in progress.  We currently have a
> > >>>fix that costs performance, and are fixing the performance issue
> > >>> (which is fixable but requires code....).
> > >>
> > >>Would you say this is the biggest issue?
> > >
> > >It is the only issue that I know of.
> >
> > How about Copy-on-capture? Is it usable? Does it provide better
> > performance?
>
> When we moved to mm kernel it broke. When it was working - it did not
> show significant effect in quick tests like bonnie.
Fix it.  Find the right test to measure its effect.
>
> > >>What about NFS?
> > >
> > >fixed by nikita recently but not released.  See next snapshot.
> >
> > I'm trying BK pulls. Yesterday it didn't compile, xfs seemed broken.
> > Retrying now, after bk -r get.
> >
> > I wrote a lame script, haven't used it much myself, but it should do
> > something. Like get a BK pull.
> > http://mjt.nysv.org/reiser/getreiser.sh
> > http://mjt.nysv.org/reiser/getreiser.sh.txt
> >
> > >by doing the architectural work....  Also, it requires that 2/3 of the
> > >work (by cost) be done in the US, and the moscow embassy has gone into
> >
> > Have you tried other governments?
> >
> > >total asshole mode and isn't giving work visas to most russians.  Still,
> > >we will try to get work visas in 6 months.  I hope that it being for DoD
> > >work will increase the chance of getting visas.
> >
> > That must not fail.
> > The DoD can't say "please give these guys work visas" just to cover
> > their own interests? Or this has no effect?
> >
> > >It is in the source code..... we have the best commented source code in
> > >the kernel (Andrew Morton is the only other kernel person who comments
> > >code well that I know of).
> >
> > There was also a tangent on the topic of creating daily snapshots.
> >
> > This might make it easier for people to come to terms with Reiser4.
> > People have many reasons to dislike BK, so a daily snapshot patch
> > against some vanilla system may be a good thing.
> >
> > However, having broken code in the BK for days without having time to
> > fix it is not good.
> >
> > So this would require changelogs and some testing on snapshots so that
> > every once in a while one can be labeled "stable as hell"