On Tuesday 06 July 2004 09:29, Francisco Javier Cabello Torres wrote: > > I'd not suggest to use these, those patches are really old and are likely > > to have bugs. > > Use ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/patches/data-logging/2.4.25/ > > and a kernel >= 2.4.25 with them. > > I have them running on several production systems with a 2.4.26 kernel. > > do Suse patches include reiserfs bug fixes? As far I know the patches for 2.4.xx have not been updated with later bug fixes. Namesys recommends a kernel >= 2.4.24 for reiserfs use. See http://www.namesys.com/download.html
The data logging patches have been developed along the 2.4.xx kernel series and the ones for 2.4.25 are the latest and the most stable. I don't know if these patches work with 2.4.27-rc3, they may interfere with a bug fix for mounting reiserfs on Out-Of-Memory conditions. I can confirm that these patches work reliable on 2.4.26. (At least on the two intel servers it's used on.) If I were you I would not use an old kernel like 2.4.20 that has MANY security holes, especially because you are not bound to some vendor kernel like red hat or suse. You can try kernel 2.6.7, too. It comes with data=ordered + xattr/acl + quota support per default. Later kernels than 2.6.7 may get a new block allocator that behaves better in multiprocess situations and disk-barrier support. -- lg, Chris
