auto-patches

auto-patches

[David Masover]

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I see an auto-snapshot for 2.6.7-rc3-mm1.  Good.

But I don't see anything other than a diff file.  How do I use it?

The latest official snapshot is 2004.03.26.  Do I use the reiser4progs
and libaal from there?

Do I apply the all.diff.gz from there, then apply the latest
auto-snapshot?  Or do I apply the latest auto-snapshot .diff.gz on a
fresh (no reiser4 at all) 2.6.7-rc3-mm1?

Also, I'm running reise4 as a root fs on a machine which is patched for
2004.03.26.  Is it safe to just install the new patches and utils?  Has
the on-disk format changed?  What can I do if it has (other than tar it up)?

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Re: auto-patches

[Henning Westerholt]

Am Samstag, 12. Juni 2004 16:43 schrieb David Masover:
> I see an auto-snapshot for 2.6.7-rc3-mm1.  Good.
>
> But I don't see anything other than a diff file.  How do I use it?
>
> The latest official snapshot is 2004.03.26.  Do I use the reiser4progs
> and libaal from there?
>
> Do I apply the all.diff.gz from there, then apply the latest
> auto-snapshot?  Or do I apply the latest auto-snapshot .diff.gz on a
> fresh (no reiser4 at all) 2.6.7-rc3-mm1?

Patch the 2.6.7-rc3-mm1 tree with the auto-snapshot file. No other reiser4 
patches are needed.

> Also, I'm running reise4 as a root fs on a machine which is patched for
> 2004.03.26.  Is it safe to just install the new patches and utils?  Has
> the on-disk format changed?  What can I do if it has (other than tar it
> up)?

The auto-snapshot from 2004.06.07-19.38-linux-2.6.7-rc1-mm1 break the on-disk 
format for me. I must rebuild my partitions, as the old (2004.03.26) snapshot 
segfaults after that on bootup. I try the -rc3 snapshot later..

The old fsck complains also about some stat-data errors, and refuse to fix 
them. Perhaps the 2004.04.21-internal.testing.fixed/ snapshot works with the 
new format? 

Best regards,

Henning

Re: auto-patches

[mjt]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 05:39:30PM +0200, Henning Westerholt wrote:

>The auto-snapshot from 2004.06.07-19.38-linux-2.6.7-rc1-mm1 break the on-disk 
>format for me. I must rebuild my partitions, as the old (2004.03.26) snapshot 
>segfaults after that on bootup. I try the -rc3 snapshot later..

AFAIK that was a temporary bug. Wasn't there a fix on the list for it?

I'm using 2004.06.09 on my Reiser4 / which was mkfs'd when the sky
itself was young.

>The old fsck complains also about some stat-data errors, and refuse to fix 
>them. Perhaps the 2004.04.21-internal.testing.fixed/ snapshot works with the 
>new format? 

Yes, but it's still sort of the old format ;)

Think I'll compile 2004.06.11, there was a comment on irc that it should be
the stablest in a while. So we'll see.

-- 
mjt