Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-17 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:17:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > (Vax/VMS System Software Handbook) > > (TOPS-20 User's Manual) > > Also Files/11 And don't forget the really ground breaking work (for the time) done by the Xanadu folk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-16 Thread Dale Amon
DEC had versioning files systems 30 years ago. Any patents on their style must certainly have expired long ago. Look at RSX-11 and other seventies era operating systems. This is ancient stuff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-19 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: > >The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. > >I extracted this from syslog: > >Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): > >ufs_check_page: bad entry > > Is this happened also with this patch: > http:/

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-16 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:04:22PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: > > >The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. > > >I extracted this from syslog: > > >Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kern

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-16 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:32:04AM +0400, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote: > >The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. > >I extracted this from syslog: > >Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): > >ufs_check_page: bad entry > > Is this happened also with this patch: > http:/

Re: Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-15 Thread Dale Amon
The error also happens in 2.6.19, same as in 2.6.18. I extracted this from syslog: Apr 17 00:14:08 kdev kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Apr 17 00:14:15 kdev kernel: UFS-fs error (device loop0): ufs_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=356, rec_len=668

Problem with ufs nextstep in 2.6.18 (debian)

2007-04-14 Thread Dale Amon
I recently noticed that I can no longer read my images of NeXTstep floppies on certain machines. All are running an up to date etch distribution but the difference between where I can read or not read seems to be the linux version. On a 2.6.18 machine: # mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=nextstep,loop n

Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER.

2007-04-07 Thread Dale Amon
Jan does have a point about bad blocks. A couple years ago I had a relatively new disk start to go bad on random blocks. I detected it fairly quickly but did have some data loss. All the compressed archives which were hit were near total losses; most other files were at least partially recoverable

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-24 Thread Dale Amon
uctured is not good enough for me to say this with confidence. That's why I'm asking here: in hopes that someone who really does know can say something about the worst case data loses. -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
errily reproduce the bad sector on the mirror disk) -- ------ Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northern Ireland

Has the iptables security patch been vetted?

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
have to find figure out why it is returning immediate success at that point, or rather prove to myself that it is just skipping making the bad table entries. -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing V

Re: [OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-23 Thread Dale Amon
rs. > > This did not originate from toyota.com - The spammer simply > used that domain as the "from" hostname. We are careful > about mail server security here, there is no open relay. > Yeah, I saw it to with *MY* domain on it and near had a fit! -- ---

General interest: lawyers talking about GPL and Linux

2001-03-02 Thread Dale Amon
lity under existing copyright and contract law. --- -- -- Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northe

Crypto patches for losetup

2001-02-15 Thread Dale Amon
IL PROTECTED]; since the LK-digest went away I've been finding I often (mostly?) miss things in the flood of thousands of itty bitty messages :-) -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Vi

Re: Secure Linux

2001-01-31 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:55:17AM -0800, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > > Hey Dale, got a URL for this? Now *I* am intrigued! > > > David D.W. Downey > RHCE > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ -- -- Use Linux: A comput

Secure Linux

2001-01-30 Thread Dale Amon
ot; involved with it? -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northern Ireland -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe