Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Except the original plan did not hold water, even at the time. yes, that's why Reiser continued to add non-traditional filesystem features right up to the end. and the more it diverged from a traditional filesystem, the less like

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-15 Thread Nicolas George
dividual files, it would exhibit ridiculously poor performance > on every other filesystem and OS, and writing a database only for reiserfs > seemed overly limiting. Remember reiserfs was always a research project, and > never quite done; > reiser4 pushed these concepts further (e.g.

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 03:46:45PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Off-topic really, but could you explain (or point to an explanation) how applications could be redesigned for this 'new paradigm'. I ask because I used reiserfs because of (a) journalling and (b) handling

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-14 Thread debian-user
t; to be redesigned in order to take advantage of the new paradigm, and > then wouldn't work with any other filesystem or OS. Off-topic really, but could you explain (or point to an explanation) how applications could be redesigned for this 'new paradigm'. I ask because I used rei

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
w paradigm, and then wouldn't work with any other filesystem or OS. As a side effect, it provided the benfits of a journalling filesystem when there weren't a lot of good options for that on linux. It was briefly popular so people could avoid lengthy fsck's, not generally becau

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-13 Thread Wesley
August 13, 2024 at 2:14 AM, "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > Hi, > > i think i found documentation about effective storage of very small > > files in ext4: > > https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout#Inline_Data > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197633/how-to-use

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i think i found documentation about effective storage of very small files in ext4: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout#Inline_Data https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197633/how-to-use-the-new-ext4-inline-data-feature-storing-data-directly-in-the-inode https://m

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Benoit Lair
Hi We are still using Reiserfs for its space optimisation. Very optimised for a lot of little files and its shrink feature is better than with xfs The file system is more resilient with power outage per exemple than others So with linux 6.6 any way possible to load the module ? Le lun. 12 août

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread eben
On 8/12/24 04:09, Wesley wrote: Most recent years we keep using the ext4 filesystem. But years ago before ext4 we used the ReiserFS filesystem. In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small files). Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to ext4

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 12 Aug 2024 18:17 +1000, from curmudg...@telaman.net.au (David): >> Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to >> ext4? > > Is it even being maintained these days? Per Wikipedia: ReiserFS 3 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS>: "

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Wesley wrote: > In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small > files). Yes, that was its main strength. Possibly ext4 can economize on very small files, too. man 1 chattr mentions: "A file with the 'N' attribute set indicates that the f

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread David
On Mon, 2024-08-12 at 08:09 +, Wesley wrote: > Most recent years we keep using the ext4 filesystem. > But years ago before ext4 we used the ReiserFS filesystem. > In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many > small files). > Do you anybody still use Reis

anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-12 Thread Wesley
Most recent years we keep using the ext4 filesystem. But years ago before ext4 we used the ReiserFS filesystem. In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small files). Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to ext4? Thanks.

Re: How to enable reiserfs in buster

2020-02-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 03:33:34PM +0100, Bernard van de Koppel wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to enable reiserfs for the various systems we are moving to > buster. > > In the previous version ( the config for reiserfs was set to > "CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m

How to enable reiserfs in buster

2020-02-12 Thread Bernard van de Koppel
Hi, I would like to enable reiserfs for the various systems we are moving to buster. In the previous version ( the config for reiserfs was set to "CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m" in /boot/config-3.16.0-4-amd64) in debian 8.11. In Buster, this is set to "# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set&q

Re: ReiserFS: "filesystem is not clean" after a kernel update

2011-05-10 Thread Camaleón
uest (and all such systems) from > > > ReiserFS to EXT3/4? Hans is in prison. Reiser4 still isn't in > > > mainline. The number of eyes currently on Reiser3 code can easily be > > > counted on one person's fingers and toes, maybe just fingers... > > &

Re: ReiserFS: "filesystem is not clean" after a kernel update

2011-05-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 14:29:12 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/8/2011 7:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Yesterday I updated the kernel to 2.6.38-2 on wheezy and now I get (at >> a random basis) a warning about the ReiserFS filesystem "is not clean" >> when booting.

Re: ReiserFS: "filesystem is not clean" after a kernel update

2011-05-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/8/2011 7:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, Yesterday I updated the kernel to 2.6.38-2 on wheezy and now I get (at a random basis) a warning about the ReiserFS filesystem "is not clean" when booting. Despite the boot message, there are no more indications of a filesystem corruption

ReiserFS: "filesystem is not clean" after a kernel update

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
Hello, Yesterday I updated the kernel to 2.6.38-2 on wheezy and now I get (at a random basis) a warning about the ReiserFS filesystem "is not clean" when booting. Despite the boot message, there are no more indications of a filesystem corruption and indeed, the system has been al

no write access in /home reiserfs (encrypted) 2.6.32-2-686

2010-03-08 Thread robi
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-2-686 hello, I have upgraded kernel to 2.6.32-2-686 from 2.6.26-2-686. After that, when I boot my laptop (debian lenny) I get the error about no write access to /home. It's mounted with rw options, reiserfs and it's encrypted from /dev/mapper/dat-h

no write access in /home reiserfs (encrypted) 2.6.32-2-686

2010-02-23 Thread robi
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-2-686 hello, I have upgraded kernel to 2.6.32-2-686 from 2.6.26-2-686. After that, when I boot my laptop (debian lenny) I get the error about no write access to /home. It's mounted with rw options, reiserfs and it's encrypted from /dev/mapper/dat-h

Re: Corrupt Reiserfs file system

2009-11-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 22 November 2009 02:16:46 Ogya Chief wrote: > One partition on my linux box with reiserfs is corrupt and I am trying to > get it fixed. I ran the following command: reiserfsck --rebuild-sb > /dev/sdb2. Well, that was wrong. When dealing with ReiserFS, *ALWAYS* run reiserf

Corrupt Reiserfs file system

2009-11-22 Thread Ogya Chief
One partition on my linux box with reiserfs is corrupt and I am trying to get it fixed. I ran the following command: reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/sdb2. The report I got indicates that either I have a corrupt journal or I have changed the start of the partition table editor. It prompted me

reiserfs problem (journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big)

2008-06-30 Thread Alex
Hi I have a machine with debian 3.1 (sarge) and kernel 2.6.8-3-686-smp. Today suddenly al process started to block and i get this: Jun 30 01:00:12 localhost kernel: REISERFS: panic (device sdb1): journal-1413: journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big Jun 30 01:00:12 localhost kernel

reiserfs problem (journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big)

2008-06-30 Thread Alex
Hi I have a machine running debian 3.1 (sarge) with kernel 2.6.8-3-686-smp. Today suddenly all proccess started to block an i get this: Jun 30 01:00:12 localhost kernel: REISERFS: panic (device sdb1): journal-1413: journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big Jun 30 01:00:12 localhost kernel: Jun

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 07:22:40PM -0800, Joe Brenner wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Reiserfs = designed by one person who has had some kind of problems (I > > haven't looked into it). If damage occurs (e.g. unclean shutdown), may > >

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-20 Thread Brendan
On Saturday 19 January 2008, Joe Brenner wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reiserfs = designed by one person who has had some kind of problems (I > > haven't looked into it). If damage occurs (e.g. unclean shutdown), may > > not be able

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But all of that still gives me no reason to change all of my ext2 partitions to something else. I decided to change the first time I had a server down for an hour because it was waiting for the on-boot fsck to finish... :) -- To UNSUBSC

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 4:27 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xfs sure does copy and delete really large files faster - I do use it for video at home. How big do files have to be before one starts to notice the advantages of XFS? In my exp

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 18, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Jimmy Wu wrote: (4) ReiserFS can be flaky on a system crash. I haven't found it to be flaky on system crashes. I have found it to be extremely unforgiving of disk corruption and IDE bus problems. I was able to recover the data with reiserfsck, but it t

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-19 Thread David
Joe Brenner wrote: Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Reiserfs = designed by one person who has had some kind of problems (I haven't looked into it). If damage occurs (e.g. unclean shutdown), may not be able to fix the damage and loses data. I've been using resier

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-19 Thread Joe Brenner
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reiserfs = designed by one person who has had some kind of problems (I > haven't looked into it). If damage occurs (e.g. unclean shutdown), may > not be able to fix the damage and loses data. I've been using resierfs for

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Charlie
ed message "Your system is >--}    TOO SLOW to play this"? I can answer these two from experiences of laptops and desktops. I have only ever used ext3 except on one occasion back in 2001 where I had one partition ReiserFS for a short time. It didn't give me any problem, but I did

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it is part of /bin, /lib

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
To the other Mr. Johnson, sorry for the double, I botched the reply/reply to list distinction there. On Jan 19, 2008 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote: > > On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say: > >> Step 6: type tun

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:27:23PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote: > > If I may interject, creating the journal just creates a blank file. > > So when does the journaling begin? At remount? Perhaps on the next write once it is mounted as ext3? When the journ

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Curt Howland wrote: > If I may interject, creating the journal just creates a blank > file. This would explain why creating the journal does not seem to take any time. But "strings" showed that there was a lot of stuff (at least lots of filenames) in it. Perhaps the journal is *created* as a blan

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say: >> Step 6: type tune2fs -j /dev/hda5. The journal was created >> instantaneously (I'd expected this to take a long time. >> but i

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say: > Step 6: type tune2fs -j /dev/hda5. The journal was created > instantaneously (I'd expected this to take a long time. > but it did not). If I may interject, creating th

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Some steps may have been unnecessary, but it seems I have a > working ext3 system now. It is really easy. The real smoke test > will come, of course, when I pull the plug. Will do this now; if > you do not hear from me, the test will have failed. Thanks to all > who res

Re: Re: Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Paul Johnson wrote: > Step 1: Get root privileges. > Step 2: Type tune2fs -j /dev/whatever > Step 3: Remount the filesystem ext3... I did this, and indeed it was amazingly easy. On a partition of about 24 G (well, this is an *old* disk!) a file /.journal of 128 M (indeed much less than 1%) was cr

Re: Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 19, 2008 9:39 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > ... > > > > But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of > > X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year, > > un

Re: Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: ... > > But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of > X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year, > unfortunately also yesterday evening. In such a case there is > nothing you can do but

Re: Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
ist > of "advantages" is very short, and they are mostly advantages over > Reiserfs and other non-ext2 systems, not advantages over ext2. ext2 and 3 are 100% identical save for the journal. ext2 is just as unsafe as ext3, with ext2 perhaps being less safe due to the total lac

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 19, 2008 7:17 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ext3 = ext2 + metadata(default) journaling. Therefore slower than ext2. > But all of that still gives me no reason to change all of my ext2 > partitions to something else. ext3 isn't noticably slower for user-environments,

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
stratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from debian-administration touts XFS as the best in performance. But other sites mention that XFS may be more vulnerable to corruption on a crash/power outage than the other file systems. Then, people disagree on the performance of ext3 vs ReiserFS.

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
pedia article on ext3. It gives > a rather long list of "disadvantages". One of them ("No > checksumming in journal") even sounds pretty frightening. The list > of "advantages" is very short, and they are mostly advantages over > Reiserfs and other non-ext2 sys

Re: Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
) even sounds pretty frightening. The list of "advantages" is very short, and they are mostly advantages over Reiserfs and other non-ext2 systems, not advantages over ext2. But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me abou

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Dan H
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:47:29 +0900 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ext3 is best if you are dealing with a mixture of both and has the > added security factor of defaulting to Ext2 if it fails. Although I > have never had reason to find out. I'm in the habit of using buggy and crash-prone hardw

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
y > conflicting advice. For example, an article from > debian-administration touts XFS as the best in performance. But other > sites mention that XFS may be more vulnerable to corruption on a > crash/power outage than the other file systems. Then, people disagree > on the performa

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Kent West
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a "group reply" to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell m

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a "group reply" to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell me/flame me gently, and I

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Jimmy Wu
to wipe it and either shrink its partition and replace it with XP or possibly give all the space to Debian, repartitioning/reinstalling as necessary. I hope my HD won't complain about that. > Sure. But who the hell uses JFS on a laptop? :-) Some of the forums google turned up had pe

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it is part of /bin, /lib

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-18T16:11:17-0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: > (1) ext3 mounts and unmounts slowly, resulting in increased boot times. I use ext3 on same hardware, and (clean) mounts do not take any significant time: [ 19.209034] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 19.209039] VFS: Mounted

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > ext2. Never have used any other. I seriously hope that this was a joke... Aleks signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
ble to corruption on a > crash/power outage than the other file systems. That is correct, and a reason to avoid it. > Then, people disagree on the performance of ext3 vs ReiserFS. Then again, those people would even disagree on the current local weather. > In an attempt to get some

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:32:25 -0500 Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than > > > > ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? > > no to either > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc ... which is the rootfs > > even if /boot is fin

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Alvin Oga
day or more ) - it will/might take forever ( over a day or more ) to format 500MB or 1 terabyte fs or larger - it will take forever ( even longer ) to restore the 1 terabyte of data - "times" are based on past experience for say P4-2Ghz w/ 1GB of memory or equivalent > > (4) Re

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
rom debian-administration touts XFS as the best in performance. But other sites mention that XFS may be more vulnerable to corruption on a crash/power outage than the other file systems. Then, people disagree on the performance of ext3 vs ReiserFS. In an attempt to get some definitive answers, I threw tog

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread David
Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. Hello Jimmy, I have found: Xfs is best for large file sizes, if that's what you are dealing with - graphics, and the ilk;

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
rom debian-administration touts XFS as the best in performance. But other sites mention that XFS may be more vulnerable to corruption on a crash/power outage than the other file systems. Then, people disagree on the performance of ext3 vs ReiserFS. In an attempt to get some definitive answers, I threw tog

which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Jimmy Wu
uts XFS as the best in performance. But other sites mention that XFS may be more vulnerable to corruption on a crash/power outage than the other file systems. Then, people disagree on the performance of ext3 vs ReiserFS. In an attempt to get some definitive answers, I threw together some of the

Re: Recovering files on lvm/reiserfs partition

2007-12-20 Thread Owen Townend
keeping the drive > unmounted and storing data elsewhere until I can get this mess > untangled... :-/ > > TIA & HAND, > Jacob > > Hey, This is not really a recommended solution, but I have had some success in the past with manually re-creating lvm partitions and reise

Re: Recovering files on lvm/reiserfs partition

2007-12-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:52:14PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > Anybody know a way I can get most of these files back without having to > manually rename and reorganize everything? I'm keeping the drive > unmounted and storing data elsewhere until I can get this mess > untangled... :-/ Just pull

Recovering files on lvm/reiserfs partition

2007-12-20 Thread Jacob S.
Howdy list, So, I did something stupid. (Again.) My desktop went down, but I needed a backup off of it for a different computer on the lan, so I took out the lvm drive and put it in my other backup server. Only problem was, the lvm drive I put in and the lvm drive I pulled from the working ba

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-05-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:14:27AM -0400, Roby wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What happens when a Windows system encounters that filesystem, though? > > Doesn't scandisk sack it? I wouldn't want to find out ... > The posix option for vf

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-05-01 Thread Roby
Paul Johnson wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even >>> > filename case, but I'm not sure). U

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even >> > filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is fat32

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:28:36AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even > > filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is fat32. > > If it's VFAT, it'll retain case, though you can't have two files with the > same name s

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-24 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:27:53AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote in Article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > On 4/4/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > > > > OK, but if copy the file to fat32 partion, any problem

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
gt;> you have good backups!) >> - rsync all your data back to the new ext3-partition >> - adjust your /etc/fstab (replace reiserfs by ext3) >> - cross your fingers and reboot > > > OK, but if copy the file to fat32 partion, any problem ? Yes. Fat32 lacks filesystem p

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > My system now runing on reiserfs partation, i want to make it ext3 without > reinstalling debian. any idea ? The Hard Disk Upgrade HOWTO probably provides the best method. You will need

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
free space >> > - reformat your partition to ext3 (all data will be lost, so make sure >> > you have good backups!) >> > - rsync all your data back to the new ext3-partition >> > - adjust your /etc/fstab (replace reiserfs by ext3) >> > - cross your fin

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even > > > filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is > > > fat32. > > > > Note too that FAT32 maximum file size is 4GB. > > > > Also might want to note that you WILL

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
than On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/5/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also might want to note that you WILL lose filename case, FAT32 only > allows for lowercase characters in filenames. Thanks, i am going to try now, i will inform you t

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
'rescue system' (I recommend knoppix) from CD or usb > > > > - mount both your partition and the one with the free space > > > > - rsync -avx your data to the free space > > > > - reformat your partition to ext3 (all data will be lost, so make sure > &

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michael Pobega wrote: > > Also might want to note that you WILL lose filename case, FAT32 only > allows for lowercase characters in filenames. That would only be the filename of the tar-file, so it doesn't really mater. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Pobega
gt; > > > - mount both your partition and the one with the free space > > > > - rsync -avx your data to the free space > > > > - reformat your partition to ext3 (all data will be lost, so make sure > > > > you have good backups!) > > >

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even > filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is fat32. seconded. If it's of importance also check the maximum file size of yo

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Owen Heisler
- reformat your partition to ext3 (all data will be lost, so make sure > > > you have good backups!) > > > - rsync all your data back to the new ext3-partition > > > - adjust your /etc/fstab (replace reiserfs by ext3) > > > - cross your fingers and reboot > &g

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-04 Thread Kushal Kumaran
xt3-partition > - adjust your /etc/fstab (replace reiserfs by ext3) > - cross your fingers and reboot OK, but if copy the file to fat32 partion, any problem ? You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-04 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
ee space - rsync -avx your data to the free space - reformat your partition to ext3 (all data will be lost, so make sure you have good backups!) - rsync all your data back to the new ext3-partition - adjust your /etc/fstab (replace reiserfs by ext3) - cross your fingers and reboot OK, but if

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > On 4/4/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 21:14 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: >> > My system now runing on reiserfs partation, i want to make it ext3 >> > without reinstalling debi

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-04 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
On 4/4/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 21:14 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > My system now runing on reiserfs partation, i want to make it ext3 > without reinstalling debian. any idea ? You have to have a spare partition large enough to

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 21:14 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > My system now runing on reiserfs partation, i want to make it ext3 > without reinstalling debian. any idea ? You have to have a spare partition large enough to handle each partition's data in a tar.gz file. Do you ha

reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-04 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
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Re: Redimensionar file system ReiserFS

2006-12-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Alejandro, Esta lista es para discusiones en inglés. Si prefieres, conversar en español, por favor utilize la lista debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 01:15:13PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Tengo un Debian con file systems ReiserFS para /, /usr y /var. La > par

Redimensionar file system ReiserFS

2006-12-29 Thread Alejandro
Tengo un Debian con file systems ReiserFS para /, /usr y /var. La particion correspondiente a / esta entre medio de las particiones /boot (ext2) y /var. En este momento / me esta quedando chica y necesito hacerla mas grande. Siendo / una particion con ReiserFS, es posible agrandarla de alguna

Re: Re: Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

2006-11-30 Thread David Bruce
> > Is there a quick fix I can do to get her into her email for today? > > Use mutt. Actually, it is even easier - I also have Gnome but never use it - she can log into a Gnome session and use Icedove with no problems. > As a temp fix I suppose you could move her data but if

Re: Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

2006-11-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
hich also > fails, saying I need to use reiserfs --rebuild-sb, which also fails. I > think I may need to migrate my /home to ext3 or something. There was a thread not that long ago about this very issue. I have unreliable power without UPS. I migrated from ext3 due to power-failure ind

Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

2006-11-29 Thread David Bruce
I have a problem with my Sid system after an unplanned reboot due to a power outage. The reiserfsck fails to fix my /home (I have an LVM/raid1 setup) and says I need to do it manually using reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which also fails, saying I need to use reiserfs --rebuild-sb, which also

Re: how can i extract data from mallfunction reiserfs parttion

2006-08-15 Thread T
Promise FastTrak 100 controller which had one disk die in a mirrored pair and the fact that neither DamnSmallLinux nor SystemRescueCD has allowed me to write a file bigger than 2GB on an ext2 partition!! Eventually I found that SystemRescueCD would allow me to create and mount a ReiserFS par

how can i extract data from mallfunction reiserfs parttion

2006-08-15 Thread Jabka Atu
/hda6 /mnt/test/ mount: Operation not supported [qoute] when i try to reiserfsck /dev/hda6: Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes ### reiserfsck --check started at Tue Aug 15 19:33:59 2006 ### Replaying journal.. Reiserfs journal '/de

Re: Howto fix grub after converting to reiserfs

2006-07-28 Thread shell
06 17:03, marc wrote: Hi, I have a little problem :-o Machine has Windows on sda2 vfat, which is the MBR. (sda1 is not used), Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat shared space. Here's the story, so far - moved Linux (on sda3) to a safe place whil

Re: Howto fix grub after converting to reiserfs

2006-07-28 Thread Bob McGowan
wrote: Hi, I have a little problem :-o Machine has Windows on sda2 vfat, which is the MBR. (sda1 is not used), Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat shared space. Here's the story, so far - moved Linux (on sda3) to a safe place while booted on another pa

Re: Howto fix grub after converting to reiserfs

2006-07-26 Thread shell
sda2 vfat, which is the MBR. (sda1 is not used), Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat shared space. Here's the story, so far - moved Linux (on sda3) to a safe place while booted on another partition (sda6) - formatted sda3 as reiserfs - amended both fstabs

Re: Howto fix grub after converting to reiserfs

2006-07-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
; > > > > Machine has Windows on sda2 vfat, which is the MBR. (sda1 is not used), > > > Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat > > > shared space. > > > > > > Here's the story, so far > > > > > > - move

Re: Howto fix grub after converting to reiserfs

2006-07-26 Thread marc
Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat > > shared space. > > > > Here's the story, so far > > > > - moved Linux (on sda3) to a safe place while booted on another > > partition (sda6) > > - formatted sda3 as reiserfs > &g

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