Re: reiser4 and megaraid problems with debian 2.6.5

Paul Wagland
2004-04-14T12:36:49Z

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On Apr 14, 2004, at 11:05, Domenico Andreoli wrote:

> [ bringing this also on reiserfs ml, a great place for this kind
> of posts. this is also the reason of the full quoting. sorry ]

Thanks ;-)

>> I am using the debian prepared kernel with the debian reiser4 patch. I
>> made a cursory examination of the patch, and it appears to correlate
>> fairly closely with the patch from the namesys site.
>
> you forgot to specify version of the patch you are talking about,
> currently debian provides two versions. anyway i suppose you are
> talking
> about version 20040326-2, aren't you?

Yes, that is correct.

>> If I can help debug this situation (I am probably the only person
>> trying this combination :-) please let me know how I should go about
>> it.
>
> i'm sorry but i can't help further.

Thanks for the tip... the link that you referred to was most useful. I
might now have an idea what the problem might be... Further on in the
thread <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=108117079808733&w=2>
it says that there is something in the patch that "can lead to a
dirtied_when in the future, and missed writeback". Well, what happens
if the directory that I am missing was in that writeback that got
missed?

I will try updating the debian patch myself and give it another test
tonight and will report back on my findings. But, before I do so, does
it seem likely that this could cause the problem?

Cheers,
Paul

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