Re: 2.6.17-mm2

Reuben Farrelly
2006-06-25T10:29:55Z

On 25/06/2006 9:37 p.m., Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On 6/24/06, Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net> wrote:
>> 2.6.17-mm1 was a no-go for me due to the bustage with ReiserFS and
>> bitmaps, even
>> the hotfix didn't seem to fix that... :-(
>
> Take 2.6.17-mm1, apply the hotfix, then apply this patch from 2.6.17-mm2
> also:
>
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm2/broken-out/reiserfs-reorganize-bitmap-loading-functions-fix2.patch
>
>
> That should make 2.6.17-mm1's reiserfs work. (This way you can at
> least see whether your 2.6.17-mm2 bug happens under -mm1 as well.)

Thanks. That seems to work a bit better...in fact -mm1 it seems to work just
fine now.

The problem with Postfix and the disks shutting down is obviously new to -mm2.

Reuben