Re: reiser4 on PPC

[Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@msoe.edu>]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:10 +0400, Alex Zarochentsev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:03:13PM -0500, Jake Maciejewski wrote:
> > Now that reiser4 seems to be working on AMD64, I'm trying to test it on
> > PPC. Unfortunately, I haven't even been able to mount a reiser4 FS.
> 
> Unfortunately we could not test reiser4 on PPC because of lack of test machine.
> Currently no idea where it might fail.
> 
> > I get the following error: "mount: No such file or directory". I've
> > tried a loopback filesystem and a native partition. The same native
> > patition works when formatted with reiserFS. I've tried the code as a
> > module and builtin. I was using reiser4progs 1.0.4 and the latest -mm
> > patch on vanilla, which while not officially supported works on AMD64
> > and x86 and shouldn't cause a problem like this. fsck.reiser4 says the
> > unmountable filesystem is consistent. Is there anything else I should
> > try?
> 
> can you look at your machine /var/log/messages or dmesg(8) output for reiser4
> messages?

Well, now that I've actually checked it, there is a warning. I get the
same message regardless of the architecture the FS is created on.

reiser4[mount(22352)]: key_warning
(fs/reiser4/plugin/object.c:96)[nikita-717]:
WARNING: Error for inode 720575940379279360 (-2)

This is a clean, consistent filesystem we're talking about, so I guess
it's a kernel problem. Is it worth trying a different kernel version?
I'm trying to avoid -mm because it sometimes breaks alternative
architectures, but I wanted the lastest version of the code. As I
mentioned before, I used a cutsom patch that works on x86. I'm willing
to try other versions if necessary.

> 
> If you have possibility to check the fs by an fsck.reiser4 compiled on i386,
> please do it.  If you don't have i386 around or have no time to compile the
> progs there, make a small file with reiser4 fs image , compress it and make it
> downloadable.
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@msoe.edu>
> > 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex.
> 
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Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@msoe.edu>