From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiser4 ; regressions in 2.6.14-rc1-mm1 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:10:15 -0700 Message-ID: <4330C107.5070804@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Laurent Riffard Cc: reiserfs-list@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