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On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:28:14AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Since Suse 7.1 ships with 2.4/reiserfs I think this problem is solved. |
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> > |
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> > Well it seems to be still unsolved. |
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> > I tested the lates kernel 2.4.1-ac17 with and without nfs and lvm patches all with |
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> > the same result. |
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> > I posted a message to the reiserfs mailinglist. |
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> > |
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> Here are the answers |
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> Well, this is known weakness of reiserfs in its current state: it creates very |
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> big holes in file very poorly. |
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> Thanks, |
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> vs |
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> This isn't a bug, its a design flaw. reiserfs creates a little slower than |
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> ext2 does, and this test is really benchmarking the hole creation speed. |
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> We don't do it quickly, but the holes do get created. |
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> -chris |
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> ------------------- |
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> I added a patch to the lates glibc-2.2.2 package that increases the timeout in |
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> test-lfs so it should compile. |
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> Since there are other problems with glibc-2.2.2/binutils-2.1.10.0.7 I will update |
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> glibc-2.2.1 too. |
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OK, thanks Achim. Make sure to forward this information to Ulrich Drepper so that |
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maybe he can add a fix to the next version of glibc. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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