From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nicholas S. Wourms" Subject: Re: Reiser4's status of this week. Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:27:24 -0400 Message-ID: <40D4CBDC.7070208@netscape.net> References: <7794555.1087651158684.JavaMail.postfix@mx20.mail.sohu.com> <40D45B6C.7000002@namesys.com> <40D482CB.1080303@netscape.net> <20040619220830.GK4990@nysv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040619220830.GK4990@nysv.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: mjt@nysv.org Cc: Hans Reiser , reiserfs-list@namesys.com > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:15:39PM -0400, Nicholas S. Wourms wrote: > >>I've also noticed, as has been noted in the past, that bk pulls are >>still broken. Someone mentioned that it is a problem with the new bk. >>If this is true, why not contact Larry for support? Not that it matters >>now, since the reiser4-linux-2.6 isn't usable, but it might be helpful >>for future syncs. > > > The new 2.6s are very usable. I wasn't referring to the actual state of the kernel with the reiser4 patches. I was talking about the BK repo, which is *exactly* the same as a stock 2.6.5 with an -mm patch (in other words it has none of the reiser4 infrastructure patches applied, like it should have). This is contrary to what the namesys webpage says ought to be in there and is contrary with the way it had been in the past. > Last I spoke with Zam Zarochentsev he said he had a theory for fixing > the biggest bug that has to do with mmap applications when running out > of memory. > > Besides that, I haven't heard of any mission-critical bugs. > > As for BK, I don't care, as we have the auto-snapshots at the URL > http://namesys.com/auto-snapshots available. How you feel about BK is not relevant, I wasn't addressing this concern to you. Yes, I am aware of those snaps, but that defeats the purpose of bitkeeper, since you loose all the metadata and the simplicity of merging in code. Also, those snapshot patches omit (I think) all of the excellent "extras", like UML improvements, which Hans has done. My point is that the reiser4-linux-2.6 BK repo used to have everything except the actual fs/reiser4/* when it was called "reiser4-linux-2.5", but now it doesn't. There have been problems with the synching of the namesys public repos with the private repos in the past, so I thought this might be what is happening now to reiser4-linux-2.6. Cheers, Nicholas