Re: Repacker and compression plugin

Re: Repacker and compression plugin

[Tom Reinhart]

>Are there any estimates of when the repacker and compression plugins
>will be available / stable?

I'd like to add a "me too".

I've been watching the work of Hans and co. with great interest for several 
years.  The performance and design of Reiser4 is very impressive.  But for 
me, improved performance is not enough compensation for the pain of 
switching to a "non-standard" filesystem.

Compression and encryption, on the other hand, are a killer feature.  No 
matter how many hard drives I buy, I never have have enough space, and there 
are no existing encryption solutions for Linux that are well integrated into 
the OS.  Even Windows XP has better filesystem security, as much as it pains 
me to say.

When the cryptocompress feature is ready, I will no doubt be taking a long 
weekend off and converting all of my Linux machines to reiser4.

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Re: Repacker and compression plugin

[Clemens Eisserer]

> I've been watching the work of Hans and co. with great interest for several
> years.  The performance and design of Reiser4 is very impressive.  But for
> me, improved performance is not enough compensation for the pain of
> switching to a "non-standard" filesystem.

I would like to add me too, but please believe me I don't want to be unpolite.
I think reiser4 is imho the best Filesystem available, with its
extensibility und its superior performance. Thanks a lot for doing
this, good fses need the world ;)

I thought about switching last October but the the kernel-integration
work started, bugs appeard and performance went down.
What I've heard from performance is still lower than last October,
compression pluggin should appear "soon", now a half year later its
still not available and resizer and repacker are far away :-/
I think I have to wait another year...

However thanks many many times, reiser4 is great and I hope community
and industry will find its value.

Best wishes, lg Clemens

Re: Repacker and compression plugin

[Robert Hulme]

Any of the Reiser devs have an answer to my questions? :-)

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Re: Repacker and compression plugin

[Hans Reiser]

Robert Hulme wrote:

>Any of the Reiser devs have an answer to my questions? :-)
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>"But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over
>them—bring them here and kill them in front of me." - Jesus (Luke
>19:27)
>"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would
>have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
>But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion" - Steven
>Weinberg
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Stability is reasonable, but we are sending in a batch of stuff soon
(maybe this week) that will improve CPU performance and maybe tomorrow
vs will tell us if there are stability improvements in there also, I
forget.  We fixed some cases where if you use up all memory it would
hang, that I remember.

Hans

Re: Repacker and compression plugin

[Hans Reiser]

> Are there any estimates of when the repacker and compression plugins
> will be available / stable?

This depends on how long we remain distracted by Hellwig and company more than by how long they take to complete.

As soon as we go into the kernel, zam and vs focus on the compression plugin stabilization followed by working on the repacker.  Neither of those tasks will take anywhere near as long as dealing with Hellwig's code changes  (none of which benefit reiser4 much).  Edward is working on the compression plugin, but it is a task that could much benefit from the senior guys helping him out with code audits and the like.

> Can anyone give me a feel for how reliable you consider the Reiser 4
> file system to be?

The users are more reliable sources than I am.  They have more computers running Reiser4 than I do.

It was stable, the VFS changes destabilized it, it is back to being stable again, the next release that I hope goes out this week will help that some more by a smidgen.

There is however one thing that could reduce stability in that patch, which is that we have changed the write code to greatly reduce CPU usage by not doing things 4k at a time.


Robert Hulme wrote:

>Any of the Reiser devs have an answer to my questions? :-)
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Re: Repacker and compression plugin

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi again,

> This depends on how long we remain distracted by Hellwig and company more than by how long they take to complete.

*Please* don't do this ;)
I know its your god given right and I also think the same way but I
would also like to see reiser4 in mainline anytime soon :-)

Thanks for reiser4, lg Clemens

Re: Repacker and compression plugin

[Peter van Hardenberg]

On Monday 27 March 2006 23:25, Hans Reiser wrote:
> (none of which benefit reiser4 much).  

Mainline will benefit R4 much. Good luck! I know you guys can do it!
-p

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Peter van Hardenberg (pvh@pvh.ca)
Victoria, BC, Canada

Repacker and compression plugin

[Robert Hulme]

Are there any estimates of when the repacker and compression plugins
will be available / stable?

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them—bring them here and kill them in front of me." - Jesus (Luke
19:27)
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have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion" - Steven
Weinberg

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Re: Repacker and compression plugin

[Raymond A. Meijer]

On Thu 23 Mar 2006 16:26, Robert Hulme wrote:

> Are there any estimates of when the repacker and compression plugins
> will be available / stable?

...mumbles something about a resizer or something...


Ray