Re: Forked reiserfsprogs

[Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>]

Jeff Mahoney wrote:

> Edward Shishkin wrote:

[...]

> >Problems:
>
> >1. The status of Reiserfsprogs-3.6.20.1 should be clarified.
> >  Did the Vladimir's branch get testing?
>
>
> I believe this is the version I was working with. It got testing, and
> the results weren't good. I'm not sure if these are specific to
> Vladimir's version or to Vitaly's version,


I think it was Vitaly's one (3.6.20), as Vladimir told about monthly
snapshots somewhere in ./tmp..

> but when I pushed it for a
> SLE10 SP2 alpha, I ended up getting lots of bug reports. They focused
> mainly in the area of endianness and divide-by-zero errors. So, I
> wouldn't call this version stable at all.


Hum.. I didn't know about it. It seems we need to rename it to something
like 3.6.20-preX..

> I didn't have the time or
> interest to figure out what these problems were especially since, at the
> time, I was told a real 3.6.20 didn't actually exist. I ended up backing
> out the change and porting all my patches to what you're calling 3.6.19.1.
>
> >2. I don't have Reiserfsprogs-3.6.20.1. Are there any snapshot
> >  on this mirror that can be put for public needs:
> >  ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/linux-reiserfs ?
> >3. Perhaps, I will need help in addressing possible bugreports
> >  and the final merge of all branches.
>
> >Any comments, updates, suggestions?
>
>
> If we actually have a stable 3.6.20, I'd be happy to forward port my
> patches. One thing needs to happen, though: We absolutely need to start
> testing on big endian hardware. We ship reiserfs on both powerpc and
> s390, and hit the endian bugs quickly on those systems.
>

Perhaps, I'll buy a cheap Mac G3 for testing (it is also needed for 
reiser4),
but s390 seems to be exotic here..

Ok, I'll put what I have: 3.6.19.1 and renamed 3.6.20.

Thanks Jeff.