Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

2007-04-14 Thread Ignatich
You might want to look at this discussion: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2007-April/027041.html Let me quote my last letter: The problem is not with CDDL, GPL is the problem. ATI and nVidia do provide binary modules with GPL "adapters", but I don't think legality of this app

REISER4: tracking down opps in reiser4_do_readpage_extent

2007-04-05 Thread Ignatich
Hi, I've been trying to narrow down the possible sources of oppses in reiser4_do_readpage_extent (vs-1426, nikita-2688) patch by patch. Reverting reiser4-use-generic-file-read.patch & friends didn't have any effect, downgrading kernel from 2.6.21-rc5 to 2.6.20 too. Eventually it all came dow

REISER4: fix for reiser4_write_extent

2007-04-05 Thread Ignatich
While trying to find the cause of problems with reiser4 in recent kernels I came across this. Incomplete write handling seem to be missing from reiser4_write_extent() thanks to reiser4-temp-fix.patch. Strangely, there is a patch by Edward Shishkin that should address that issue, but it is miss

reiser4 bugs in 2.6.21-rc4

2007-03-27 Thread Ignatich
There are two bugs I found in current -mm reiser4 code. 1. Some files seem to be zeroed out randomly. Usually it's /lib/security/pam_limits.so and /lib/security/pam_deny.so. As fsck.reiser4 didn't find anything wrong I decided to create clean installation in vmware and see if this bug appears