Reiser4 documentation

Reiser4 documentation

[ionita ioan]

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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Re: Reiser4 documentation

[Hans Reiser]

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

Re: Reiser4 documentation

[Vitaly Fertman]

Hello,

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 08:39, 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

there were some fixes in the reiser4 support in grub and in stand-alone 
mode of reiser4progs recently. all patches were sent in the list actually. 
but you can just obtain the current grub patch + reiser4progs from:
http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.24-internal.testing.

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Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman