* [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. @ 2004-03-26 16:45 Nikita Danilov 2004-03-26 17:05 ` Reiser4 needs more testers Hans Reiser 2004-03-26 17:23 ` Jonathan Briggs 0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Nikita Danilov @ 2004-03-26 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Reiserfs developers mail-list, Reiserfs mail-list, Linux Kernel Mailing List Hello, new reiser4 snapshot against 2.6.5-rc2 is available at http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ It is mainly bug-fixing release. See READ.ME for the list of fixes and caveats. Should no significant problems be found in this snapshot, we shall start sending patches to -mm next week. Nikita. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Reiser4 needs more testers 2004-03-26 16:45 [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released Nikita Danilov @ 2004-03-26 17:05 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-26 19:32 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando ` (3 more replies) 2004-03-26 17:23 ` Jonathan Briggs 1 sibling, 4 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-26 17:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Reiserfs developers mail-list, Reiserfs mail-list, Linux Kernel Mailing List, cliff, Tom Welch, Kurt Garloff, Daniel Robbins, Ramon Reiser We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone. We will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day bug fixes. When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official kernel. We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) ) We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it soon. Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and ramon@namesys.com about poor documentation, etc., .... The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ -- Hans ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Reiser4 needs more testers 2004-03-26 17:05 ` Reiser4 needs more testers Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-26 19:32 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando 2004-03-27 0:47 ` Redeeman ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando @ 2004-03-26 19:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser Cc: Nikita Danilov, Reiserfs developers mail-list, Reiserfs mail-list, Linux Kernel Mailing List Hans Reiser wrote: Hi Hans, We will test the last snapshot. Thanks, Giovanni > We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory > related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone. We > will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both > multi-day bug fixes. When they are fixed, unless users/distros find > bugs next week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the > official kernel. > > We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those > two issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its > stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) ) > > We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of > scripts that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to > ship it soon. Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and > ramon@namesys.com about poor documentation, etc., .... > > The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at > > http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ > > -- -- -- Check FT Websites ... http://www.futuretg.com - ftp://ftp.futuretg.com http://www.FTLinuxCourse.com /Certification http://www.rpmparadaise.org http://GNULinuxUtilities.com http://www.YourPersonalOperatingSystem.com -- Europe: USA: Future Technologies Future Technologies Viale Grigoletti, 20 1158 26th Street #592 33170 - Pordenone (PN) Santa Monica, CA 90403 Italy. USA. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Reiser4 needs more testers 2004-03-26 17:05 ` Reiser4 needs more testers Hans Reiser 2004-03-26 19:32 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando @ 2004-03-27 0:47 ` Redeeman 2004-03-29 16:59 ` markw 2004-03-30 22:39 ` Steven Cole 3 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Redeeman @ 2004-03-27 0:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Reiserfs mail-list On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 18:05, Hans Reiser wrote: > We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory > related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone. We > will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day > bug fixes. When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next > week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official > kernel. > > We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two > issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its > stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) ) > i assume reiser4 will be proper to use for real soon? :> > We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts > that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it > soon. Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and ramon@namesys.com > about poor documentation, etc., .... > > The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at > > http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ -- Regards, Redeeman redeeman@metanurb.dk ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Reiser4 needs more testers 2004-03-26 17:05 ` Reiser4 needs more testers Hans Reiser 2004-03-26 19:32 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando 2004-03-27 0:47 ` Redeeman @ 2004-03-29 16:59 ` markw 2004-03-29 19:04 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-30 22:39 ` Steven Cole 3 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: markw @ 2004-03-29 16:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiser Cc: Nikita, Reiserfs-Dev, Reiserfs-List, Linux-Kernel, cliff, tom.welch, garloff, drobbins, reiserrf I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison. Reiser4 still seems to be lagging behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in the metric): metric url to test results ------ --------------------------------- reiser4 1208 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290774/ reiserfs 1819 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290775/ Mark On 26 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote: > We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory > related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone. We > will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day > bug fixes. When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next > week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official > kernel. > > We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two > issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its > stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) ) > > We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts > that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it > soon. Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and ramon@namesys.com > about poor documentation, etc., .... > > The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at > > http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Reiser4 needs more testers 2004-03-29 16:59 ` markw @ 2004-03-29 19:04 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-29 21:29 ` markw 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-29 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: markw Cc: Nikita, Reiserfs-Dev, Reiserfs-List, Linux-Kernel, cliff, tom.welch, garloff, drobbins, reiserrf This was the parallel fsync benchmark? Hans markw@osdl.org wrote: >I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against >reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison. Reiser4 still seems to be lagging >behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in >the metric): > > metric url to test results > ------ --------------------------------- >reiser4 1208 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290774/ >reiserfs 1819 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290775/ > >Mark > >On 26 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory >>related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone. We >>will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day >>bug fixes. When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next >>week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official >>kernel. >> >>We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two >>issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its >>stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) ) >> >>We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts >>that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it >>soon. Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and ramon@namesys.com >>about poor documentation, etc., .... >> >>The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at >> >>http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ >> >> > > > > > -- Hans ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Reiser4 needs more testers 2004-03-29 19:04 ` Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-29 21:29 ` markw 0 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: markw @ 2004-03-29 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiser Cc: Nikita, Reiserfs-Dev, Reiserfs-List, Linux-Kernel, cliff, tom.welch, garloff, drobbins, reiserrf It's an OLTP database workload, but it is the one with all those fsyncs that Nikita pointed out. Mark On 29 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote: > This was the parallel fsync benchmark? > > Hans > > markw@osdl.org wrote: > >>I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against >>reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison. Reiser4 still seems to be lagging >>behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in >>the metric): >> >> metric url to test results >> ------ --------------------------------- >>reiser4 1208 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290774/ >>reiserfs 1819 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290775/ >> >>Mark >> >>On 26 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote: >> >> >>>We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory >>>related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone. We >>>will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day >>>bug fixes. When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next >>>week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official >>>kernel. >>> >>>We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two >>>issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its >>>stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) ) >>> >>>We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts >>>that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it >>>soon. Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and ramon@namesys.com >>>about poor documentation, etc., .... >>> >>>The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at >>> >>>http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Reiser4 needs more testers 2004-03-26 17:05 ` Reiser4 needs more testers Hans Reiser ` (2 preceding siblings ...) 2004-03-29 16:59 ` markw @ 2004-03-30 22:39 ` Steven Cole 2004-03-31 0:56 ` Hans Reiser 3 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Steven Cole @ 2004-03-30 22:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser Cc: Nikita Danilov, Reiserfs developers mail-list, Reiserfs mail-list On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:05, Hans Reiser wrote: > We have one NFS related bug remaining, [snipped] Is this the NFS bug you have in mind, or a different one? I get "Input/output error" when I try to ls the contents of a directory on an nfs exported reiser4 system from the client system. spc2 is the nfs server, running kernel 2.6.5-rc2 with latest reiser4 patch. spc0 is the nfs client, running kernel 2.6.5-rc3-mm1 with nfs-utils 1.0.6. [steven@spc2 r4_testing]$ df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 ext3 798476 156840 601076 21% / /dev/sda8 ext3 7147260 5570304 1213892 83% /home none tmpfs 257456 0 257456 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda6 ext3 4024188 1874192 1945572 50% /usr /dev/sda7 ext3 806368 130220 635184 18% /var /dev/sda9 reiser4 3930680 241556 3689124 7% /r4_testing [steven@spc2 steven]$ cat /etc/exports /home/steven/kernels 128.165.67.190(rw) /r4_testing 128.165.67.190(rw) [steven@spc2 r4_testing]$ pwd /r4_testing [steven@spc2 r4_testing]$ ls linux-2.6.5-rc2-r4 I lightly tested the reiser4 filesystem by copying the kernel tree from the /home ext3 system and running one compile. On the client system, I mounted a few nfs systems: [steven@spc0 steven]$ df -T Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 ext3 471M 111M 337M 25% / /dev/hda11 ext3 26G 15G 11G 59% /home /dev/hda1 vfat 2.0G 1.9G 135M 94% /mnt/windows /dev/hda9 ext3 3.9G 1.8G 2.0G 47% /usr /dev/hda10 ext3 580M 118M 432M 22% /var /dev/hda5 vfat 1.9G 920M 963M 49% /win_d /dev/hda6 vfat 1.8G 1.3G 511M 72% /win_e spc5:/share/from_spc0 nfs 34G 25G 8.7G 74% /spc5_backup spc2:/r4_testing nfs 3.8G 236M 3.6G 7% /home/steven/r4_testing spc2:/home/steven/kernels nfs 6.9G 5.4G 1.2G 83% /home/steven/spc2_kernels [steven@spc0 steven]$ uname -r 2.6.5-rc3-mm1 The ext3 system works just fine: [steven@spc0 steven]$ ls /home/steven/spc2_kernels 2.6.0-test8-mm1 fs/ linux-2.6.2-r4/ linux-2.6.5-rc2-r4/ r4/ 2.6.0-test9-mm1 getit linux-2.6.2-rc2-mm1/ patch-2.6.2-rc2 r4.tar.gz 2.6.2-rc2-mm1 kexec-260test8-mm1.patch linux-2.6.2.tar.bz2 patch-2.6.5-rc2 reiser4/ 2.6.4-mm1 kexec-260test9-mm1-update.patch linux-2.6.4-mm1/ patch-fixk reiser4.tar.gz 4g4g_kexec.patch kexec-260test9.patch linux-2.6.4.tar.bz2 patch-nikita thediff all.diff linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2 linux-2.6.4-vanilla/ patch-nikita2 But the reiser4 system does not: [steven@spc0 steven]$ ls /home/steven/r4_testing ls: /home/steven/r4_testing/linux-2.6.5-rc2-r4: Input/output error Steven ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Reiser4 needs more testers 2004-03-30 22:39 ` Steven Cole @ 2004-03-31 0:56 ` Hans Reiser 0 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-31 0:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Steven Cole Cc: Nikita Danilov, Reiserfs developers mail-list, Reiserfs mail-list Yes, it is a readdir related NFS bug. I should have added that it is serious enough to make NFS over reiser4 a bad idea. Hans Steven Cole wrote: >On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:05, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>We have one NFS related bug remaining, [snipped] >> >> > >Is this the NFS bug you have in mind, or a different one? > >I get "Input/output error" when I try to ls the contents of >a directory on an nfs exported reiser4 system from the client system. > >spc2 is the nfs server, running kernel 2.6.5-rc2 with latest reiser4 patch. >spc0 is the nfs client, running kernel 2.6.5-rc3-mm1 with nfs-utils 1.0.6. > >[steven@spc2 r4_testing]$ df -T >Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >/dev/sda1 ext3 798476 156840 601076 21% / >/dev/sda8 ext3 7147260 5570304 1213892 83% /home >none tmpfs 257456 0 257456 0% /dev/shm >/dev/sda6 ext3 4024188 1874192 1945572 50% /usr >/dev/sda7 ext3 806368 130220 635184 18% /var >/dev/sda9 reiser4 3930680 241556 3689124 7% /r4_testing > >[steven@spc2 steven]$ cat /etc/exports >/home/steven/kernels 128.165.67.190(rw) >/r4_testing 128.165.67.190(rw) > >[steven@spc2 r4_testing]$ pwd >/r4_testing >[steven@spc2 r4_testing]$ ls >linux-2.6.5-rc2-r4 > >I lightly tested the reiser4 filesystem by copying the kernel >tree from the /home ext3 system and running one compile. > >On the client system, I mounted a few nfs systems: > >[steven@spc0 steven]$ df -T >Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >/dev/hda7 ext3 471M 111M 337M 25% / >/dev/hda11 ext3 26G 15G 11G 59% /home >/dev/hda1 vfat 2.0G 1.9G 135M 94% /mnt/windows >/dev/hda9 ext3 3.9G 1.8G 2.0G 47% /usr >/dev/hda10 ext3 580M 118M 432M 22% /var >/dev/hda5 vfat 1.9G 920M 963M 49% /win_d >/dev/hda6 vfat 1.8G 1.3G 511M 72% /win_e >spc5:/share/from_spc0 > nfs 34G 25G 8.7G 74% /spc5_backup >spc2:/r4_testing > nfs 3.8G 236M 3.6G 7% /home/steven/r4_testing >spc2:/home/steven/kernels > nfs 6.9G 5.4G 1.2G 83% /home/steven/spc2_kernels >[steven@spc0 steven]$ uname -r >2.6.5-rc3-mm1 > >The ext3 system works just fine: > >[steven@spc0 steven]$ ls /home/steven/spc2_kernels >2.6.0-test8-mm1 fs/ linux-2.6.2-r4/ linux-2.6.5-rc2-r4/ r4/ >2.6.0-test9-mm1 getit linux-2.6.2-rc2-mm1/ patch-2.6.2-rc2 r4.tar.gz >2.6.2-rc2-mm1 kexec-260test8-mm1.patch linux-2.6.2.tar.bz2 patch-2.6.5-rc2 reiser4/ >2.6.4-mm1 kexec-260test9-mm1-update.patch linux-2.6.4-mm1/ patch-fixk reiser4.tar.gz >4g4g_kexec.patch kexec-260test9.patch linux-2.6.4.tar.bz2 patch-nikita thediff >all.diff linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2 linux-2.6.4-vanilla/ patch-nikita2 > >But the reiser4 system does not: > >[steven@spc0 steven]$ ls /home/steven/r4_testing >ls: /home/steven/r4_testing/linux-2.6.5-rc2-r4: Input/output error > > >Steven > > > > > > -- Hans ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. 2004-03-26 16:45 [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released Nikita Danilov @ 2004-03-26 17:23 ` Jonathan Briggs 2004-03-26 17:23 ` Jonathan Briggs 1 sibling, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Jonathan Briggs @ 2004-03-26 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: Reiserfs mail-list, Linux Kernel Mailing List On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:45, Nikita Danilov wrote: > Hello, > > new reiser4 snapshot against 2.6.5-rc2 is available at > > http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ > > It is mainly bug-fixing release. See READ.ME for the list of fixes and > caveats. A definition of fibration: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fibration.html I'm going to have to study math for about a year before I understand all that, I think. It's a good thing we won't have to understand "fiber bundles", "paracompact topological space" and the "homotopy lifting property" to USE Reiser4. *grin* If I missed the discussion or a web page, I am sorry. But could someone post a quick explanation or pointer to one about this fibration plugin? What does it do and what effects will it have? -- Jonathan Briggs jbriggs@esoft.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. @ 2004-03-26 17:23 ` Jonathan Briggs 0 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Jonathan Briggs @ 2004-03-26 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: Reiserfs mail-list, Linux Kernel Mailing List On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:45, Nikita Danilov wrote: > Hello, > > new reiser4 snapshot against 2.6.5-rc2 is available at > > http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ > > It is mainly bug-fixing release. See READ.ME for the list of fixes and > caveats. A definition of fibration: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fibration.html I'm going to have to study math for about a year before I understand all that, I think. It's a good thing we won't have to understand "fiber bundles", "paracompact topological space" and the "homotopy lifting property" to USE Reiser4. *grin* If I missed the discussion or a web page, I am sorry. But could someone post a quick explanation or pointer to one about this fibration plugin? What does it do and what effects will it have? -- Jonathan Briggs jbriggs@esoft.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. 2004-03-26 17:23 ` Jonathan Briggs (?) @ 2004-03-26 18:11 ` Nikita Danilov 2004-03-26 17:11 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-27 12:32 ` [OT] Re[2]: " Maciej Soltysiak -1 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Nikita Danilov @ 2004-03-26 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jonathan Briggs; +Cc: Reiserfs mail-list, Linux Kernel Mailing List Jonathan Briggs writes: > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:45, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > new reiser4 snapshot against 2.6.5-rc2 is available at > > > > http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ > > > > It is mainly bug-fixing release. See READ.ME for the list of fixes and > > caveats. > > A definition of fibration: > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Fibration.html Reiser4 plugin was named this was due to some (arguably vague) similarity with mathematical fibrations. > > I'm going to have to study math for about a year before I understand all > that, I think. > > It's a good thing we won't have to understand "fiber bundles", > "paracompact topological space" and the "homotopy lifting property" to > USE Reiser4. > > *grin* Why, of course one has to understand it. Reiser4 refuses to mount unless supplied with the homotopy group of the tangent bundle of hard drive, for sure. > > If I missed the discussion or a web page, I am sorry. But could someone > post a quick explanation or pointer to one about this fibration plugin? > What does it do and what effects will it have? Fibration plugin affects how disk blocks are allocated for the files within the same directory. Basically, in reiser4 all file system data and meta-data (except for allocator bitmaps) are stored in a single balanced tree. Every piece of information in the file system (byte of file data, on-disk inode, directory entry containing file name, etc.) has a key that allows to locate this information in the tree. This imposes natural order on all file system data (because keys are just large integers, and can be compared). Block allocator tries to allocate blocks in a parent-first tree order. This means, that things with close keys have chances to be close to each other on a disk. This leads to the main high-level mechanism that reiser4 uses to control disk layout: through key assignment. In particular fibration plugin is called when new name is inserted into a directory, and, based on a name, selects some (otherwise unused) 7 bits in a key of directory entry. This allows to "slice" directory content into "fibers", hence the name. For example, one possible implementation is to place .o files in one fiber and all others in another. This significantly speeds compilations up, because .o files are created close to each other and don't interfere with sources. Fibrations, and well as other plugins, can be set per-object, see http://www.namesys.com/v4/pseudo.html for details. > > -- > Jonathan Briggs > jbriggs@esoft.com > Nikita. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. 2004-03-26 18:11 ` Nikita Danilov @ 2004-03-26 17:11 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-29 5:00 ` Cyrille Chepelov 2004-03-27 12:32 ` [OT] Re[2]: " Maciej Soltysiak 1 sibling, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-26 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Jonathan Briggs, Reiserfs mail-list, Linux Kernel Mailing List Nikita, would you confirm that the default fibration is to sort all files with '.' as the penultimate character by their last character first and then by the rest of the name in the usual lexicographic order? (If that is not the default, then please make it the default.) Also, please note that the URL you supplied does not yet describe the fibration plugin and its available settings. Please correct that on Monday. -- Hans ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. 2004-03-26 17:11 ` Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-29 5:00 ` Cyrille Chepelov 2004-03-29 16:19 ` Hans Reiser 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Cyrille Chepelov @ 2004-03-29 5:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser; +Cc: Nikita Danilov, Reiserfs mail-list Le Fri, Mar 26, 2004, Ã 09:11:00AM -0800, Hans Reiser a écrit: > Nikita, would you confirm that the default fibration is to sort all > files with '.' as the penultimate character by their last character > first and then by the rest of the name in the usual lexicographic order? > (If that is not the default, then please make it the default.) Wouldn't it be slightly beneficial to expand this policy to not just look for extensions matching .*\.(?) but .*\.(.*) as well? -- Cyrille, needing some time to dive back into reiser4 testing -- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. 2004-03-29 5:00 ` Cyrille Chepelov @ 2004-03-29 16:19 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-30 5:04 ` Cyrille Chepelov 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-29 16:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Cyrille Chepelov; +Cc: Nikita Danilov, Reiserfs mail-list Cyrille Chepelov wrote: >Le Fri, Mar 26, 2004, Ã 09:11:00AM -0800, Hans Reiser a écrit: > > > >>Nikita, would you confirm that the default fibration is to sort all >>files with '.' as the penultimate character by their last character >>first and then by the rest of the name in the usual lexicographic order? >>(If that is not the default, then please make it the default.) >> >> > >Wouldn't it be slightly beneficial to expand this policy to not just >look for extensions matching .*\.(?) but .*\.(.*) as well? > > -- Cyrille, needing some time to dive back into reiser4 testing > > > I thought about that, but other than compiles I don't know of an application that would benefit from this performance wise, and compiles usually have . as the penultimate character in their fileset filenames. I would actually much like to get feedback from others on this. -- Hans ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. 2004-03-29 16:19 ` Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-30 5:04 ` Cyrille Chepelov 2004-03-30 7:24 ` Vladimir Saveliev 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Cyrille Chepelov @ 2004-03-30 5:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser; +Cc: Nikita Danilov, Reiserfs mail-list Le Mon, Mar 29, 2004, Ã 08:19:56AM -0800, Hans Reiser a écrit: > >Wouldn't it be slightly beneficial to expand this policy to not just > >look for extensions matching .*\.(?) but .*\.(.*) as well? > I thought about that, but other than compiles I don't know of an > application that would benefit from this performance wise, and compiles > usually have . as the penultimate character in their fileset filenames. > I would actually much like to get feedback from others on this. I see. A little question on the importanceness of solving this right up front: is it possible to change the fibration policy of a mounted and active file system? Does such a change affect the repacker (as in: swapping the fibration policy causes the repacker to start shuffling things around according to the new policy)? If that's the case, then I guess there's some wiggle room for imperfection... (in fact, on second thought, my request wouldn't necessarily cause the best performance to happen. Norton Defrag used to have a "sort by type" option ca. 1994, and I remember that on my PC, it didn't give the best performance). Just out of curiosity, is it possible to create a fibration policy based on atime/mtime/ctime? -- Cyrille -- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. 2004-03-30 5:04 ` Cyrille Chepelov @ 2004-03-30 7:24 ` Vladimir Saveliev 0 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Vladimir Saveliev @ 2004-03-30 7:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Cyrille Chepelov; +Cc: Reiserfs mail-list Hello On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 09:04, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le Mon, Mar 29, 2004, Ã 08:19:56AM -0800, Hans Reiser a écrit: > > > > >Wouldn't it be slightly beneficial to expand this policy to not just > > >look for extensions matching .*\.(?) but .*\.(.*) as well? > > > I thought about that, but other than compiles I don't know of an > > application that would benefit from this performance wise, and compiles > > usually have . as the penultimate character in their fileset filenames. > > I would actually much like to get feedback from others on this. > > I see. A little question on the importanceness of solving this right up > front: is it possible to change the fibration policy of a mounted and active > file system? Changing fibration policy applies only to empty directory > Does such a change affect the repacker (as in: swapping the > fibration policy causes the repacker to start shuffling things around > according to the new policy)? repacker does not get affected > If that's the case, then I guess there's some > wiggle room for imperfection... > > (in fact, on second thought, my request wouldn't necessarily cause the best > performance to happen. Norton Defrag used to have a "sort by type" option > ca. 1994, and I remember that on my PC, it didn't give the best > performance). > > Just out of curiosity, is it possible to create a fibration policy based on > atime/mtime/ctime? > > -- Cyrille ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* [OT] Re[2]: [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. 2004-03-26 18:11 ` Nikita Danilov 2004-03-26 17:11 ` Hans Reiser @ 2004-03-27 12:32 ` Maciej Soltysiak 1 sibling, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Maciej Soltysiak @ 2004-03-27 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel ND> Why, of course one has to understand it. Reiser4 refuses to mount unless ND> supplied with the homotopy group of the tangent bundle of hard drive, ND> for sure. Oh man! Is reiser4 a part of some alien or future technology? From what I read and hear it seems so new, fresh and advanced, it seems _obvious_ :-) this code has been inspired by aliens or time travellers from the future. Or maybe it's just me being not so knowledgible as reiser4 gurus. Regards, Maciej ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released. @ 2004-03-26 17:40 Svetoslav Slavtchev 0 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Svetoslav Slavtchev @ 2004-03-26 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: lkml anyone having fixes for reiser3 + data loging & xattr, the fs_activation patch breaks reiser3 TIA best, svetljo -- +++ NEU bei GMX und erstmalig in Deutschland: TÜV-geprüfter Virenschutz +++ 100% Virenerkennung nach Wildlist. Infos: http://www.gmx.net/virenschutz ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2004-03-31 0:56 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 19+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 2004-03-26 16:45 [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released Nikita Danilov 2004-03-26 17:05 ` Reiser4 needs more testers Hans Reiser 2004-03-26 19:32 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando 2004-03-27 0:47 ` Redeeman 2004-03-29 16:59 ` markw 2004-03-29 19:04 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-29 21:29 ` markw 2004-03-30 22:39 ` Steven Cole 2004-03-31 0:56 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-26 17:23 ` [ANNOUNCE] new reiser4 snapshot released Jonathan Briggs 2004-03-26 17:23 ` Jonathan Briggs 2004-03-26 18:11 ` Nikita Danilov 2004-03-26 17:11 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-29 5:00 ` Cyrille Chepelov 2004-03-29 16:19 ` Hans Reiser 2004-03-30 5:04 ` Cyrille Chepelov 2004-03-30 7:24 ` Vladimir Saveliev 2004-03-27 12:32 ` [OT] Re[2]: " Maciej Soltysiak -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below -- 2004-03-26 17:40 Svetoslav Slavtchev
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