From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Forked reiserfsprogs Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:28:01 +0400 Message-ID: <480E5861.7070205@gmail.com> References: <480B97E3.7080008@gmail.com> <480C0721.7090005@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <480C0721.7090005@suse.com> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Vladimir Saveliev , ReiserFS Mailing List , Ric Wheeler 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.