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From: Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: hard hang with reiser4-for-2.6.11-5 and VMware Workstation 5.0
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:49:17 -0700
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To: "E.Gryaznova" <grev@namesys.com>
Cc: scott <scottfk@yahoo.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

I've been running VMWare 5 on my reiser4 partition for a while now and
haven't had any of the above issues.  Usually doing CPU intensive
stuff too, aka WebSphere Portal servers.  I use an -mm kernel, if that
matters.

Wil

On 6/17/05, E.Gryaznova <grev@namesys.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>=20
> Thank you for the report.
>=20
> VMWare/reiser4 is known problem, we can reproduce it.  But unfortunately
> I can't  estimate when this will be fixed.
> Reiser4 format was changed in reiser4-5 patch for 2.6.11, reiser4progs
> for this format are not ready yet.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Lena
>=20
> scott wrote:
>=20
> >Greetings,
> >
> >I have been using Reiser4 as my primary filesystem for
> >some time now, and for the first time have encountered
> >a problem that keeps me from doing what I want to do.
> >
> >I run VMware Workstation 5.0 with the virtual disk
> >files on my Reiser4 / partition, which happens to be a
> >Linux md RAID1 device.  The other day I built a new
> >kernel, upgrading to the -5 release of the reiser4
> >patches.  Either during boot or shortly after boot of
> >any guest OS, my workstation becomes totally
> >unresponsive.  Magic SysRq keys don't even work.
> >
> >
>=20
> >To narrow down the source of the problem, I applied
> >the Reiser4 patch to a vanilla 2.6.11 kernel tree.  I
> >saw the exact same issue.
> >
> >I tried reverting to a previous version of the Reiser4
> >patch, but I get VFS errors about being unable to find
> >a Reiser4 filesystem on my rootdisk using any other
> >Reiser4 patchset.  Did the filesystem format change?
> >
> >
>=20
> >I tried recompiling the -5 release with debug enabled,
> >but since the machine is unresponsive, I don't see any
> >output.
> >
> >My question...  is this a known issue?  Or should I
> >just keep pounding away at this until I can get some
> >sort of debugging information?
> >
> >Thanks to you all for the always-interesting
> >discussion threads on this list.  And thanks, Hans,
> >for reiserfs and reiser4.
> >
> >be seeing you.
> >
> >scott
> >
> >
> >
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>=20
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