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

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

E.Gryaznova wrote:

> 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.
>>  
>>
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>> 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?
>>  
>>
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>> 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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Vitaly, what is the eta on updating reiser4progs?