Hi,
only commenting on one thing for now.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:51:37PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> e2fsprogs uses Unix API to work with partitions/images. Unfortunately,
> we have a limit of 2G for files, so I've made an ugly patch for
> e2fsprogs that uses libstore in e2fsck as "Hurd I
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:36:11PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
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> Probably there are some advantages in using libstore instead of Unix API.
Maybe.. but we can't fix every piece of software that uses Unix API to
access block devices :)
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Robert Millan
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Robert Millan wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:51:37PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
I put a great effort (and time) to assure that there will be no problems
with Alpha 3. Unfortunately, I still can't claim that. Data corruption
seems to be gone, but there are some strange hangs after an hour of
Hi Ognyan!
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:51:37PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
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> RELIABILITY
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> I put a great effort (and time) to assure that there will be no problems
> with Alpha 3. Unfortunately, I still can't claim that. Data corruption
> seems to be gone, but there are some
The third alpha-quality patch that makes ext2fs able to use large stores
is available for testing. The major change since the previous alpha is
using Neal's suggestion[1] of leaving to Mach the decisions which pages
are paged out and when.
[1] http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2003-05/
