Re: reiser4 mount options

[Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>]

Hello.

butdiene wrote:

>unfortunately, "sync" still hangs firefox
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>anything else to try?
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Would you please collect and send me
sysrq-t statistics at firefox-hang time?
It can be activated by doing
echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger
in root console.

Thanks,
Edward.

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>butdiene wrote:
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>>/dev/root / reiser4
>>rw,atom_max_size=0x800,atom_max_age=0x927c0,atom_min_size=0x100,atom_max_flushers=0x1,cbk_cache_slots=0x10
>>0 0
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>>it works without initrd for me.  the mount options are set properly in
>>/proc/mounts now. 
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>>still need to see how it performs 
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>>thanks a lot!
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>>Zan Lynx wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 17:28 +0300, Edward Shishkin wrote:
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>>>>Sorry, ignore my suggestion about fstab. It is impossible to pass
>>>>reiser4-specific mount options for ''/" via fstab, because all such
>>>>options
>>>>are passed to "/" via remount, but ->remount_fs() super operation is not
>>>>implemented for reiser4.
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>>>>However, it is possible to pass reiser4-specific mount options for "/"
>>>>via
>>>>boot loader. I have passed a string "rootflags=tmgr.atom_max_size=2048"
>>>>to my grub, and it works for me. Note, that prefix "tmgr." is required
>>>>and
>>>>values should be passed in decimal format.
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>>>Last year when I needed rootflags I found out that they only work if
>>>your distro implements them through an initrd or initramfs.  Since most
>>>distros do this it works ok.  But my Gentoo system did not use an
>>>initramfs and I could not get rootflags options to work on the kernel
>>>command line.
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>>>So I made my own initramfs with BusyBox and a short script.
>>>-- 
>>>Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
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