Re: the remount problem [2.4.0] kind of solved [patch]

2001-01-21 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, the following patch against 2.4.0 will allow the kernel > to write a message to the kernel log in case files are open for > write or delete on a partition which should be remounted. > I run my System with Read-

Re: the remount problem [2.4.0] kind of solved [patch]

2001-01-22 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why in hell are library open for write? But it doesn't seem to >> be only libraries: > They are not open for write. They are open for mmaped read. The > Problem with this is, that as long as the files are open, the

Re: devfs and /proc/ide/hda

2001-04-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == AJ Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:10:23PM +0100, Guest section DW > wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:54PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: >> >> > Im running kernel 2.4.1, I have entries like /proc/ide/hda, > >> /proc/ide/i

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William T Wilson wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > Linus has spoken, and 2.4.x now requires swap = 2x RAM. >> >> I think I missed this. What possible value does this have? >> (Not e

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-04-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! >> I was hoping to point out that in real life, most systems that >> need to access large numbers of files are already designed to >> do some kind of hashing, or at least to divide-and-conquer by >> using multi-level