Hello Fionn Behrens wrote: > Hi all, > > you may remember my recent "story from userland". Stubborn as I am, I > decided to give 2.6.14 another shot for it. Following a recommendation > found in the above mentioned thread, I tried the patch from > http://iphitus.loudas.com/archck.php this time, which includes the > latest reiser4 from mm. > > Unfortunately I once more hit the wall and was forced to go back to > 2.6.11 (including another --build-fs run to regain compatibility with > the old but working reiser4 drivers). I wish there was a mount option to > exclude the new extensions so I can test new kernels without losing half > a day for fscking when things get whacky. >
Did fsck.reiser4 say you that you have to --build-fs? > This time suspend seemingly works without reiser4 processes freaking > out. > But now it looks like any time any mmapped file is synced to a reiser4 > partition, the process who tries to do that will freeze forever. In Can you please check what fs/reiser4/reiser4.h:REISER4_USE_EFLUSH is set to? If it is 0, please try your test having it set to 1. > addition, any process trying to access the open mmapped file afterwards > will freeze forever as well. I created a screenshot of an strace running > while this happened. Find it at http://fionn.de/reiser4again.jpg > If the above does not help - would you please set up either sereial console or netconsole and catch sysrq-T output with its help? > Of course, tests on files on other file systems than reiser4 did not > show this behaviour. I tested on two different Systems, one Pentium M > and one Athlon, same result. > > I wish I knew what I am doing wrong. I'd bet you guys all have reiser4 > up and running with 2.6.14 and no problems at all. Or what? > > best regards, > Fionn
