Re: hard hang with reiser4-for-2.6.11-5 and VMware Workstation 5.0

["E.Gryaznova" <grev@namesys.com>]

Hello.

Thank you for the report.

VMWare/reiser4 is known problem, we can reproduce it.  But unfortunately 
I can't  estimate when this will be fixed.
Reiser4 format was changed in reiser4-5 patch for 2.6.11, reiser4progs 
for this format are not ready yet.

Thanks,
Lena

scott wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I have been using Reiser4 as my primary filesystem for
>some time now, and for the first time have encountered
>a problem that keeps me from doing what I want to do.
>
>I run VMware Workstation 5.0 with the virtual disk
>files on my Reiser4 / partition, which happens to be a
>Linux md RAID1 device.  The other day I built a new
>kernel, upgrading to the -5 release of the reiser4
>patches.  Either during boot or shortly after boot of
>any guest OS, my workstation becomes totally
>unresponsive.  Magic SysRq keys don't even work.
>  
>

>To narrow down the source of the problem, I applied
>the Reiser4 patch to a vanilla 2.6.11 kernel tree.  I
>saw the exact same issue.
>
>I tried reverting to a previous version of the Reiser4
>patch, but I get VFS errors about being unable to find
>a Reiser4 filesystem on my rootdisk using any other
>Reiser4 patchset.  Did the filesystem format change?
>  
>

>I tried recompiling the -5 release with debug enabled,
>but since the machine is unresponsive, I don't see any
>output.
>
>My question...  is this a known issue?  Or should I
>just keep pounding away at this until I can get some
>sort of debugging information?
>
>Thanks to you all for the always-interesting
>discussion threads on this list.  And thanks, Hans,
>for reiserfs and reiser4.
>
>be seeing you.
>
>scott
>
>
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