Re: First impressions of reiserfs4

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Erik Hensema wrote:

>Currently I'm testing reiserfs4 on my otherwise vanilla 2.6.0-test4
>machine.
>
>At first I tried building reiser4 as a module. The kernel failed to link
>due to an unresolved symbol: sys_reiser4
>
compile without sys_reiser4 and not as a module, the config is fixed in 
what will be the next snapshot

>I tried commenting sys_reiser4 out from entry.S. Now the kernel linked
>fine.
>
>However, I can't insert the module due to unexported symbols:
>
>reiser4: Unknown symbol balance_dirty_pages
>reiser4: Unknown symbol max_sane_readahead
>reiser4: Unknown symbol generic_sync_sb_inodes
>reiser4: Unknown symbol truncate_mapping_pages_range
>reiser4: Unknown symbol wakeup_kswapd
>reiser4: Unknown symbol balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
>reiser4: Unknown symbol inodes_stat
>reiser4: Unknown symbol nr_free_pagecache_pages
>reiser4: Unknown symbol destroy_inode
>
>So, I tried linking reiser4 directly into the kernel. No problems there.
>
>As we speak I'm building Mozilla Firebird from source of a 20 GB reiser4
>partition. If something interesting comes up, this list will be the first
>to know :-)
>
>I've currently got only one small problem: df can't handle the data from
>the kernel it seems. I also got this problem on NFS mounted partitions:
>
fixed in what will be the next snapshot

>
>df: `/reiser4': Value too large for defined data type
>df: `/home': Value too large for defined data type
>
>  
>
thanks for your patience.

nikita, when are you releasing the next snapshot, with the improved 
performance and bug fixes

-- 
Hans