From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: iosched (was Re: Full of surprises - A reiser4 story from userland) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:47:40 -0500 Message-ID: <433C36CC.7050003@slaphack.com> References: <1127914812.12894.96.camel@laptop> <1127921286.12894.106.camel@laptop> <433ABD7B.1010903@slaphack.com> <1127932340.12894.149.camel@laptop> <5d8b7b90509281213c95e30c@mail.gmail.com> <200509281952.j8SJq9Uo007371@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <433AFDF6.3070404@namesys.com> <5d8b7b9050928133842241311@mail.gmail.com> <433B3B8B.5090007@slaphack.com> <5d8b7b905092902343f3c2ce8@mail.gmail.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: <5d8b7b905092902343f3c2ce8@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Islam Amer Cc: michael chang , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Fionn Behrens , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Islam Amer wrote: >>IIRC, don't vanilla and -mm have some somewhat substancial internal >>differences that could require manual changes? I could be wrong >>though, I've never even looked at the diffs/patches for vanilla vs >>-mm. >> > > That's what I am pointing to. The patches might apply cleanly or have > a few FAILED hunks that can be fixed easily by hand. But what do I > know about the changes made to the vfs layer etc.. > I could break something without knowing it. Maybe I did, but I've had a relatively sane experience with it so far... Yet, Namesys has put out a 2.6.13 patch, so I'll be switching to that next time I have a reason to compile. I'm running two amd64 boxes and one Pentium 2 on Reiser4, and will soon be putting it on a Powerbook.