Re: Reiser4 documentation

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

ionita ioan wrote:

> Hello,
> After looking at some of the benchmarks for the new Reiser4, I was 
> very excited and decided to try it out. I followed all the steps to 
> patch the kernel, install libaal 0.5.0 (with stand-alone and 
> memory-manager both enabled), reiser4progs-0.5.2 (with stand-alone and 
> symlinks both enabled), made the reiser4 partition, was able to mount 
> it and use it, then decided to try to boot from it. I got the latest 
> version of grub (0.94), applied the latest reiser4 patch for grub-0.94 
> configured with --enable-reiser4, and found out that the reiser4 stage 
> files had not been built. After a little inquiry, with my limited 
> knowledge, found out that after the configuration, the generated 
> config.h had undef for aal-alone and reiser4-alone library and the 
> makefiles contained no instructions for building the reiser4 files. 
> Both libaal-alone and libreiser4-alone exist in /usr/lib and i have 
> issued ldconfig repeatedly. I attempted to build grub-0.93 with the 
> reiser4 patch from the snapshots page. Again, no reiser4 stage files 
> were created. I am frustrated with the lack of documentation 
> concerning reiser4 bootloader support. I believe that the burden lies 
> on the reiser4 developers at this point, and not the bootloader 
> coders, as long as reiser4 is not released as stable. It's in the best 
> interest of the reiser4 coders to add better documentation for this 
> matter, as this would enable more people to test the product and maybe 
> report bugs.
> Best wishes
>
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thanks for your patience. Vitaly, why was this so hard for him? Fix it.

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Hans