From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932286AbWHPWVp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:21:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932284AbWHPWVp (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:21:45 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:11916 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932286AbWHPWVo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:21:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:21:39 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Malte =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schr=F6der?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiserfs on-demand bitmap loading, what is the state? Message-Id: <20060816152139.0752f406.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200608161758.41935.MalteSch@gmx.de> References: <200608161758.41935.MalteSch@gmx.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:58:38 +0200 Malte Schr__der wrote: > Hello, > I set up a new raid system with about 500gib space and put reiserfs on it. It > takes some seconds to mount so I patched my 2.6.17.8-tree with those > reiserfs-patches from -mm. Mount time was reduced significantly (less than a > second). > What I found out about these patches is that they can introduce instability, > but that seemed a bit vague to me. The first version of the patches was (terribly) buggy. The version in current -mm has no known (to me) shortcomings. > Up to now I didn't encounter any problems, so are there (theoretical?) > problems with the on-demand code? Could that stuff go into mainline? Expect to see it in 2.6.19-rc1. > Maybe there are tests I could run, the data on that box is easily > recoverable ... Yup, please run tests - anything and everything. Be sure to run reiserfsck before the testing to make sure the fs is clean, then run it again at the end of testing, see if anything ended up out of place.