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From: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 for 2.6.32
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:15:54 +0100
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Hello.

2.6.32 has a new per-bdi flushing interface and related VFS changes,
which are incompatible with reiser4. Zen stuff works incorrectly, as
actually we need to fix VFS at first. I am working on this at leisure-time,
so wait..

Thanks,
Edward.

Yale Zhang wrote:
> Edward,
>
> I would like to upgrade from Linux 2.6.31  to  2.6.32 and know the zen
> kernel has reiser4 support, but this page
> http://zen-kernel.org/2.6.32-zen3-hot-tea/?searchterm=reiser4 says
> reiser4 has problems. Do you know if the problems are only 2.6.32 and
> not in 2.6.31,  and if so are they serious? Will you release a patch
> for 2.6.32 anytime soon? Thanks.
>
>