Actually I did make it public, hit the wrong command on my mail client ;) I did not try the -mm kernel (latest patches is for -mm5 IIRC), I use software suspend 2 and it does not apply to the 2.6.12.x-mm series. Except for this problem reiser4 has worked great for me. Since I use a single partition and '/' does not get modified much I copied all my data over, rebuilt the filesystem, and then started using it. I have not discovered any problems, and the filesystem is quite fast.
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 09:11 pm, David Masover wrote: > Pat Double wrote: > > Forgive me for moving to private, but I've posted this on the list before > > without comment. > > Make it public again if you like. > > > The 2.6.12.x patches and 2.6.12.x applied from -mm have incorrect > > behavior when modifying the root directory. If you add or remove files in > > the root, the filesystem check fails. You can try this on a ram disk or > > loop file system. I'd be interested to see if you'd try it and let me > > know if you get a failed filesystem check. I am able to repair without > > data loss. > > I'll have to try it sometime, but not now. Does this happen on that -mm > kernel if you apply *all* the patches, not just reiser4-specific? > (Doing this would eliminate the need for my patch, obviously.) > > Incidentally, if you've been watching the list, I recently recovered > some ungodly amount of data that I'd effectively "rm -rf"ed. The kernel > used both to create that catastrophy and to recover from it was a > 2.6.12.2 kernel, patched just as I described, using fsck.reiser4 1.0.4. > > > On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:34 pm, David Masover wrote: > >>Gregory Maxwell wrote: > >>>On 8/8/05, David Masover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>[...] > >> > >>>My ability to use it is severely hampered only being able to use it on > >>>boxes running test-kernel of the day.. which are laden with other > >>>issues unrelated to reiser4 that I don't have time to deal with. > >> > >>How recent a Reiser4 do you need? There are some patches against the > >>vanilla kernel at > >> > >>http://namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/ > >> > >>But those seem out of date and don't work for me. But, the patches from > >>the mm-kernel have been rock-solid for me. I'm taking the vanilla > >>2.6.12.3 kernel and patching it with the Reiser4 patches from > >>2.6.12-mm2. Unpack this: > >> > >>http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12/2.6.12- > >>mm 2/2.6.12-mm2-broken-out.tar.bz2 > >> > >>to /usr/src/ and run this: > >> > >>#!/bin/sh > >># hack to bring mm reiser4 back to vanilla > >>cd /usr/src/linux > >>for i in `grep reiser4 ../broken-out/series`; do > >> patch -p1 < ../broken-out/$i; > >>done > >> > >>I've attached one patch of my own that makes it compile properly -- > >>apply after you run the script above. -- Pat Double, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
