From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Zarochentsev Subject: Re: Compile probs with yesterday's auto-snapshot Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:41:27 +0400 Message-ID: <20040810194127.GS9811@backtop.namesys.com> References: <20040810192756.67EC115C33@mail03.powweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040810192756.67EC115C33@mail03.powweb.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Dabbs Cc: 'ReiserFS List' On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:19:54PM -0500, David Dabbs wrote: > > > Yesterday I kept having problems with an "incomplete type error" compiling > yesterday's auto-snapshot. I finally ended up changing the > CONFIG_REISER4_SYSFS define in fs/reiser4/kattr.h (I think that's the file) > from (1) to (0). yes. everything fine in the BK, but latest autosnapshots were made from wrong linux core patches. I have re-done the autosnapshot script setup and will check the next snapshot. > > In a separate but related question, does the reiser4 patchset add the > kernel-build configurable options to the kconfig e.g. > REISER4_STATS/DEBUG/SYSFS/NOOPT/COPY_ON_CAPTURE/SYSCALL/...? I'm > sure LARGE_KEY is there, but I can't remember which other one I saw. If it > doesn't already should LARGE_KEY prompt with a default value of "Y"? > > Also the READ.ME for the prior SNAPSHOT (03/26, yes ages ago I know) had the > following notes. Since the recent 08/04 snapshot only notes that "This is > mostly bug fix snapshot" should we assume that the prior notes are resolved > or that there are still issues with the items? I've made some notes below > > > > 1. Only i386 and UML on i386 are supported. > ddabbs: Big endian appears to be supported. > > 2. CONFIG_REISER4_FS_SYSCALL doesn't work. > > 3. CONFIG_REISER4_NOOPT doesn't work. > > 4. reiser4 has been tested as a root file system and works in read-only > mode, but: > > . remount is not yet supported, > . support in boot-loaders may be missing > > ddabbs: A grub patch is provided, so that comment is likely out-of-date. > > 9. reiser4 can now be compiled as a module. > > ddabbs: I don't think this is working yet. hmm. I thought we made all needed symbols exportable. what is the problem? > > c. CONFIG_REISER4_COPY_ON_CAPTURE is stabler than before. > > d. readdir() over NFS has known problems. > > e. mmap(2)-intensive workloads (iozone benchmark in particular) have > problems in low-memory setups. > > > David > > -- Alex.