Colin Walters wrote:
>
> Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Besides ext3, which other journaled FSes support data journaling?
> >
> > I know not ReiserFS... I think IBM's JFS does. Can XFS?
>
> XFS doesn't support data journaling, and I don't think there are any
> plans to in the nea
Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
> Does the XFS team expect their lowlevel code to be integrated into 2.5?
At least they intend to, yes.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:35:25AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Sven wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:00:17AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > and BTW, having the /var/lib/dpkg/status file corrupted is a big
> > > > mess, is there any way t
Sven wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:00:17AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > and BTW, having the /var/lib/dpkg/status file corrupted is a big
> > > mess, is there any way to rebuild it without resinstalling all
> > > packages (guessed at from a ls o
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:00:17AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > and BTW, having the /var/lib/dpkg/status file corrupted is a big
> > mess, is there any way to rebuild it without resinstalling all
> > packages (guessed at from a ls of /usr/share/doc ...)
>
>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:02:09AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > > Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > >
> > > > It's too bad that the XFS module (at least on ppc) is not part of
> > > > the pre-compiled kernel im
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Sven wrote:
> Is it really just coincidence, or is dist-upgrade doing something particular
> that reiserfs don't like ? Or maybe it is just that it is the only app that
> really is very disk intensive, unpacking files, replacing files, etc, ...
It may just be broken (again).
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Besides ext3, which other journaled FSes support data journaling?
> I know not ReiserFS... I think IBM's JFS does. Can XFS?
afaik only ext3 - all others are metadata only
t
--
thomas graichen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... perfection is reached, not
when ther
Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> and BTW, having the /var/lib/dpkg/status file corrupted is a big
> mess, is there any way to rebuild it without resinstalling all
> packages (guessed at from a ls of /usr/share/doc ...)
There are backups in /var/backups. You could probably just use the
backup s
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Besides ext3, which other journaled FSes support data journaling?
>
> I know not ReiserFS... I think IBM's JFS does. Can XFS?
XFS doesn't support data journaling, and I don't think there are any
plans to in the near future; the developers are focusing ma
At 2:07 PM +0200 9/19/01, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Kevin van Haaren wrote:
>Are you using one of the PPC trees as a basis? PPC isn't fully merged
>into Linus' yet AFAIK.
No, I wasn't sure I could apply an XFS patch against a PPC tree, or a
PPC patch against an XFS patched source so I avoided i
Kevin van Haaren wrote:
> >Are you using one of the PPC trees as a basis? PPC isn't fully merged
> >into Linus' yet AFAIK.
>
> No, I wasn't sure I could apply an XFS patch against a PPC tree, or a
> PPC patch against an XFS patched source so I avoided it. Or is there
> a PPC tree with XFS applie
At 10:23 AM +0200 9/19/01, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Woody has a patch for XFS. It's against kernel 2.4.5. There is NO
kernel-source package for 2.4.5. So there appears to be no way to do
a debian package XFS kernel install at this time.
You can build kernel packages with kernel-package fro
At 12:14 PM +0200 9/19/01, Sven wrote:
huh ? where did you looked at it ? i just found
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.0.1/kernel_patches
which has 2.4.5 only.
That said, on the download page, you can read :
XFS patches are also available in Debian-unstable ("Sid")
which s
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:23:29AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Kevin van Haaren wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > > Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > >
> > > Not my experience, when I looked more than a week ago, their FTP
> > > site already had patches
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:14:07AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Sven wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:14:57AM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > > What you are saying about ReiserFS is really unfortunate. When I
> > > read the archive, there is no question that XFS is a lot more
> > > re
Kevin van Haaren wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > Laurent de Segur wrote:
> >
> > Not my experience, when I looked more than a week ago, their FTP
> > site already had patches for early .10-pre versions.
>
> OK, I spent most of the weekend trying to ge
Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> > Laurent de Segur wrote:
> >
> > > It's too bad that the XFS module (at least on ppc) is not part of
> > > the pre-compiled kernel image (ReiserFS is),
> >
> > Not really, you still need patches (at least Alan
Sven wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:14:57AM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > What you are saying about ReiserFS is really unfortunate. When I
> > read the archive, there is no question that XFS is a lot more
> > reliable than ReiserFS. On the other hand, It seems that the Linux
> > commun
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:40:44PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:03:06PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >
> > This seems to be the first main stream example of FS conversion in linux.
>
> not really. ext3 really isn't any different from ext2 from a format
> perspective, the
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:14:57AM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> What you are saying about ReiserFS is really unfortunate. When I read the
> archive, there is no question that XFS is a lot more reliable than ReiserFS.
> On the other hand, It seems that the Linux community is promoting heavily
>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> Laurent de Segur wrote:
>
> > It's too bad that the XFS module (at least on ppc) is not part of the
> > pre-compiled kernel image (ReiserFS is),
>
> Not really, you still need patches (at least Alan Cox's) to use ReiserFS on
> big e
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> Laurent de Segur wrote:
>
> > It's too bad that the XFS module (at least on ppc) is not part of the
> > pre-compiled kernel image (ReiserFS is),
>
> Not really, you still need patches (at least Alan Cox's) to use ReiserFS on
> big e
Laurent de Segur wrote:
> It's too bad that the XFS module (at least on ppc) is not part of the
> pre-compiled kernel image (ReiserFS is),
Not really, you still need patches (at least Alan Cox's) to use ReiserFS on
big endian systems.
> and that the XFS kernel patches lag a few kernel revs behin
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:03:06PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
> This seems to be the first main stream example of FS conversion in linux.
not really. ext3 really isn't any different from ext2 from a format
perspective, the only thing `conversion' really does is add a journal
inode (a file) and s
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:14:57AM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> What you are saying about ReiserFS is really unfortunate. When I read the
> archive, there is no question that XFS is a lot more reliable than ReiserFS.
> On the other hand, It seems that the Linux community is promoting heavily
>
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:48:12PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:14:57AM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > > What you are saying about ReiserFS is really unfortunate. When I read the
> > > archive, there is no questi
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:14:57AM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > What you are saying about ReiserFS is really unfortunate. When I read the
> > archive, there is no question that XFS is a lot more reliable than ReiserFS.
> > On the other hand, It seem
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:14:57AM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> What you are saying about ReiserFS is really unfortunate. When I read the
> archive, there is no question that XFS is a lot more reliable than ReiserFS.
> On the other hand, It seems that the Linux community is promoting heavily
>
sts.debian.org
> Subject: Re: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386)
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:27:55AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> Laurent de Segur wrote:
>>
>>> Talking of which... Is anyone using one of the journaling fs (Reiser, XFS,
>>> JFS) on Pow
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:27:55AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Laurent de Segur wrote:
>
> > Talking of which... Is anyone using one of the journaling fs (Reiser, XFS,
> > JFS) on PowerPC daily and having some comments they would like to report? I
> > was planning on switching to ReiserFS or XFS
> without any fuse I had to fix the ext2-fs manually for about 15min. Luckally
> it
> seems I haven't lost anything on both system.
i make regular backups and use "e2fsck -y" to fix filesystems if e2fsck
bails, falling back to the tape if data is lost. how many mortals really
know how to do it be
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:07:39PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > the conclusion is macos is just stuffing its head in the sand.
>
> Exactly.
>
> Run Norton Utilities or the brain dead utility that comes with MacOS on it,
> and it will find and hopefully repair the errors.
>
> If you don't do this
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:47:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > While reading the thread about "HFS Plus on Linux ?" I had a experience I
> > want
> > to share with you.
> >
> > Within a an hour I had to hard reset both of my compute
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:31:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Talking of which... Is anyone using one of the journaling fs
> > (Reiser, XFS, JFS) on PowerPC daily and having some comments they
> > would like to report? I was planning on switchi
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> While reading the thread about "HFS Plus on Linux ?" I had a experience I want
> to share with you.
>
> Within a an hour I had to hard reset both of my computers, first my Linux-i386
> due to a complete lockup of the system while using
Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Talking of which... Is anyone using one of the journaling fs
> (Reiser, XFS, JFS) on PowerPC daily and having some comments they
> would like to report? I was planning on switching to ReiserFS or XFS
> for my home dir. Which one, if any, would be the
Laurent de Segur wrote:
> Talking of which... Is anyone using one of the journaling fs (Reiser, XFS,
> JFS) on PowerPC daily and having some comments they would like to report? I
> was planning on switching to ReiserFS or XFS for my home dir. Which one, if
> any, would be the most stable?
I poste
on 9/13/01 2:02 PM, Otto Wyss at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I leave it up to you to draw any conclusion.
I am not sure if we can draw any conclusions from individual and isolated
cases. I found ext2 extremely reliable so far. Most boo boo I had happened
with HFS in the past (but then I was using
While reading the thread about "HFS Plus on Linux ?" I had a experience I want
to share with you.
Within a an hour I had to hard reset both of my computers, first my Linux-i386
due to a complete lockup of the system while using el3diag, second my powermac
due to an not responding USB-keyboard/-mo
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