Re: [BK][PATCH] Reiser4, will double Linux FS performance, pleaseapply

[Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>]

> The atomic transactions that reiser4 offers are a much higher level of 
> data security than data journaling.  Really, you should read the 17 page 
> papers I send you URLs to;-).....
> (www.namesys.com/v4/fast_reiser4.html).

Am I to assume the following is expected behavior then?

# mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sda2
mkfs.reiser4, 0.1.0
Information: Reiser4 is going to be created on /dev/sda2.
(Yes/No): y
Creating reiser4 on /dev/sda2 with default40 profile...done
Synchronizing /dev/sda2...done
# mount /dev/sda2 /ap
# df /ap
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              1490332       136   1490196   1% /ap
# (cd /ap && tar xzf /usr/src/linux-2.5.45.tgz)
# df /ap
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              1490332    200508   1289824  14% /ap
# sync
# df /ap
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              1490332    200468   1289864  14% /ap
# rm -rf /ap/linux-2.5.45
# df /ap
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              1490332    255436   1234896  18% /ap
# # wtf is going on here?
# sync
# df /ap
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              1490332     85848   1404484   6% /ap
# umount /ap
# mount /dev/sda2 /ap
# df /ap
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              1490332     54532   1435800   4% /ap
# # and here?

T.