From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: hard hang with reiser4-for-2.6.11-5 and VMware Workstation 5.0 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:38:03 -0700 Message-ID: <42B3188B.2010103@namesys.com> References: <20050617170514.23193.qmail@web53908.mail.yahoo.com> <42B308C0.4050807@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <42B308C0.4050807@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "E.Gryaznova" , Vitaly Fertman Cc: scott , reiserfs-list@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. >> >> > >> 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 >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports >> Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football >> http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com >> >> >> >> > > > > Vitaly, what is the eta on updating reiser4progs?