From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Reiser4 3.11x Testing Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:38:32 +0200 Message-ID: <52360CB8.1040403@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=88K2n8zqFdJoU1RMB8/9YPxpUxWTGFXq1TYFFqDiCJ8=; b=k4rJDbalSyXHt+lYxc0macuGwca8RGp3U33/kvON48kDECLqQVQoDT3T8k6PVVwzvX fHAGu4voziOxbT2aTBO/FnNmy3xWPrcepA+tJg6a2qgVO2G7PQ28087s4NsBf/o6QffA Hm1RFXZ4W9KI3DdHmzsO86qPhCjYdofYaCerESrW0j/w3HhhIiGlV0/KnC8UPvQkx9Q5 p6Xky1nAaaTOATsXIOJCJTg+kd5YxfxFbR/ZxLH4P0mj4fxjs7PaVTlkBHVvt25k7ZoN skLdfu5lTRwoG7gjOhNrR+/ODkhvvxfhfwfnRIzs1HDlRSUPC3YcIFsv6X9K6XURpvEp bS4w== In-Reply-To: Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Christopher Gentile Cc: reiserfs-devel Thanks for the report! Edward. On 09/15/2013 03:53 AM, Christopher Gentile wrote: > Hello all, > > Thank you for having me. > > I received kindly from Ivan a copy of his Reiser4 enablement kernel > patch for 3.11.x kernels. I am in testing as we speak on my rootfs > after backing up data and wanted to introduce myself. > > I am not a developer, just a heavy Linux enthusiast/amateur kernel > hacker. I loved Reiser4 on 3.10.xx and earlier kernels and have been > awaiting the functionality in the 3.11 series. > > I am here to be useful, post results, ask some questions, and do > testing for you. > > I have a beefy system so I can test most scenarios in an x86_64 environment. > > 3 SSD arrays and on large 10TB SATA3 array on a Corei7 3930K hexacore > with 32GB of DDR3 quad-channel RAM. > > Because of these specs I can test essentially whatever you like, > however not being a developer I don't know how except for the fact > that: > > -I use Gentoo linux > -Gentoo (if you're not familiar) is a rolling source-based distro, > tons of small files, all compiled. Lots of compression/decompression > going on access to small files, as wel as my own personal large files. > > If you need benchmarks done, need any commands executed looking for a > rest result please just ask, it's the least I could do. > > Currently I am running Reiser4 on root on sSD raid0, re-compiling my > entire world file (compiling 1500+ packages from extracted from > .xz,.gz,bz2 source tarballs). I am 500 packages into the compile > without a hitch thus far, using kernel stable 3.11.1 from kernel.org , > patched with the BFS 442 CPU scheduler, the kernel-gcc4.8 patch to > enable "-march=native" kernel compilation, and the UKSM patch for > online memory deduplication. > > If anybody needs testing on non-patched kernels, or with a specific > patch/kernel, please let me know. Storage is not an issue and > compilation is fast and thus not an issue. All I ask is please let me > know when the new patches come up for Reiser4. > > The Reiser4 patch was supposed to be included in the mailing list > thread as per Ivan's earlier message however there was an issue where > it didn't attach. Per Ivan's request I have refrained from posting it > as an attachment until Edward has a chance to review it. > > Best Regards, > > Chris Gentile > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html