Re: Full of surprises - A reiser4 story from userland

[Fionn Behrens <fionn@spamfilter.de>]

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On Mi, 2005-09-28 at 17:51 +0300, Islam Amer wrote:

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> I don't like to turn LKML into another battleground,

You mean because of fullquote-flames? ;-)
Seriously, I did not post this to lkml (although I was tempted).

> but from one user to another I have to answer this.
> 
> *You know reiser4 is development code , this is why it isn't included
> in vanilla ( yet ) in the first place.
> 
> *reiser4 is included in mm and the separate patches from the
> broken-out package should be applied in the order listed in the
> included series file ( usually using quilt ).

Sorry, I never used mm so far. Didn't know that. My fault.

> *reiser4 is sometimes victimized due to bugs in the -mm releases. For
> example I am having problems with a 100% cpu usage of a process called
> " ent:hda7! " cured only by a reboot. The problem has eased a little
> when I replaced the " per-task-predictive-write-throttling". However I
> think the problem still exists.

Sounds very much like what I experienced. As I don't have any other mm
patch installed the code obviously could not be victimized that way.
It is just broken.

> *reiser4 is in a state of flux due to the code changes being made in
> preparation for the review leading to ( hopefully ) its inclusion in
> the kernel.

I'd just wish I had found a sentence like this and a warning on
namesys.com when I began looking for a patch. Everything would have been
so much easier.

> I hope I cleared some of the problems you complained of , and I hope I
> didn't step on someones toes or make someone upset.

Of course not. Actually I might have to apologize:

Because of my good experiences with ReiserFS in the past I had high
expectations. As you correctly and rightfully stated, reiser4 is
development code and that probably means I should not rely on anything.

I just snapped in disappointment and if anyone else thinks I overreacted
then I apologize to you all for any offense taken.
Next time, I will be more careful.

best regards,
		Fionn
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