Re: reiser4 ; regressions in 2.6.14-rc1-mm1

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Laurent Riffard wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> In kernel 2.6.14-rc1-mm1, Reiser4 present 2 regressions with regard to
> 2.6.13-mm1 :
>
> A) Suspend-to-disk does not work because the process "[ent:hda8]"
> can't be stopped.
>
> $ mount | grep hda8
> /dev/hda8 on /home/laurent/kernel type reiser4 (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>
> Extract of the log  :
> Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, ent:hda8. not stopped
>
> I have already mentioned this in another mail to this list, it was
> done with a modified 2.6.14-rc1-mm1 kernel from Andrew Morton (without
> the input subsystem changes) plus vm-swap_prefetch-8.patch. I can now
> confirm the regression on a plain 2.6.14-rc1-mm1 without any
> additional patch.
>
> B) Can't mount a loop file on reiser4 :
>
> [root@antares ~]# mount /mnt/diske
> [root@antares ~]# mount | grep diske
> /dev/hdb8 on /mnt/diske type reiser4 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> [root@antares ~]# cd /mnt/diske/laurent/download/Mandriva-Linux-2006-0.5/
> [root@antares Mandriva-Linux-2006-0.5]# mount -t iso9660 -oloop,ro
> Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-0.5-CD1.i586.iso /mnt/disk
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
>
> If I copy this file to a reiser filesystem, I can mount it without any
> problem.
>
> Feel free to ask for more details.
> ~~
> laurent
>
>
Thanks laurent.  This latest reiser4 looks to be a bit of a turkey,
sorry for that.  It is slower also....

We will fix and......

Hans