* Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic?
@ 2016-05-24 8:58 Georgios Tsalikis
2016-05-25 10:22 ` doiggl
2016-05-26 5:04 ` Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic? Jonáš Vidra
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From: Georgios Tsalikis @ 2016-05-24 8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: reiserfs-devel
I happened to format a rootfs partition and another one for /home with
Reiser4. It proved to be a disaster. Apart from the slow boot times
(expected from this drive) even after reaching a functional GUI the
disk kept doing I/O like crazy. When /home became Btrfs the issue
ceased. My other computer that uses an entire drive formatted with
Reiser4 is nice and silent as well.
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* Re: Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic?
2016-05-24 8:58 Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic? Georgios Tsalikis
@ 2016-05-25 10:22 ` doiggl
2016-05-26 0:15 ` Georgios Tsalikis
2016-05-27 8:05 ` 'Installing your Linux Distribution on Reiser4.' - [Found this as a guide] doiggl
2016-05-26 5:04 ` Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic? Jonáš Vidra
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From: doiggl @ 2016-05-25 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Georgios Tsalikis; +Cc: reiserfs-devel
On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:58:53 +0300, Georgios Tsalikis
<georgios@tsalikis.net> wrote:
> I happened to format a rootfs partition and another one for /home with
> Reiser4. It proved to be a disaster. Apart from the slow boot times
> (expected from this drive) even after reaching a functional GUI the
> disk kept doing I/O like crazy. When /home became Btrfs the issue
> ceased. My other computer that uses an entire drive formatted with
> Reiser4 is nice and silent as well.
>
Hello,
As far as I know you have to boot with a Reiser4 enabled kernel to read
reiser4 filesystem.
--Glenn
# lsmod |grep -i reiser4
Module Size Used by
reiser4 442368 0
# cat /proc/filesystems |grep -i reiser4 |sort
reiser4
--Glenn
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* Re: Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic?
2016-05-25 10:22 ` doiggl
@ 2016-05-26 0:15 ` Georgios Tsalikis
2016-05-26 6:00 ` doiggl
2016-05-27 8:05 ` 'Installing your Linux Distribution on Reiser4.' - [Found this as a guide] doiggl
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From: Georgios Tsalikis @ 2016-05-26 0:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: reiserfs-devel
On 25/05/2016 01:22 μμ, doiggl@velocitynet.com.au wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:58:53 +0300, Georgios Tsalikis
> <georgios@tsalikis.net> wrote:
>> I happened to format a rootfs partition and another one for /home with
>> Reiser4. It proved to be a disaster. Apart from the slow boot times
>> (expected from this drive) even after reaching a functional GUI the
>> disk kept doing I/O like crazy. When /home became Btrfs the issue
>> ceased. My other computer that uses an entire drive formatted with
>> Reiser4 is nice and silent as well.
>>
> Hello,
> As far as I know you have to boot with a Reiser4 enabled kernel to read
> reiser4 filesystem.
> --Glenn
>
> # lsmod |grep -i reiser4
> Module Size Used by
> reiser4 442368 0
>
> # cat /proc/filesystems |grep -i reiser4 |sort
> reiser4
>
> --Glenn
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It is implied that my kernel is patched and both / and /home were
mounted as Reiser4
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* Re: Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic?
2016-05-24 8:58 Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic? Georgios Tsalikis
2016-05-25 10:22 ` doiggl
@ 2016-05-26 5:04 ` Jonáš Vidra
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From: Jonáš Vidra @ 2016-05-26 5:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: reiserfs-devel; +Cc: Georgios Tsalikis
On Tue, 24 May 2016 10:58:53 +0200 Georgios Tsalikis
<georgios@tsalikis.net> wrote:
> I happened to format a rootfs partition and another one for /home with
> Reiser4. It proved to be a disaster. Apart from the slow boot times
> (expected from this drive) even after reaching a functional GUI the disk
> kept doing I/O like crazy. When /home became Btrfs the issue ceased. My
> other computer that uses an entire drive formatted with Reiser4 is nice
> and silent as well.
How large are the disks? The long boot time may be (at least partially)
caused by bitmap loading – try mount option “dont_load_bitmap”.
This won't help you with seeking *after* boot, though. It will actually
make it worse.
Do you have a proper IO scheduler set? What does
“cat /sys/block/sdX/queue/scheduler” say? (Replace sdX with the correct
identifier.)
Is there anything interesting in the system logs? I'm assuming there isn't.
--
Jonáš Vidra, vidra.jonas@seznam.cz
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* Re: Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic?
2016-05-26 0:15 ` Georgios Tsalikis
@ 2016-05-26 6:00 ` doiggl
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From: doiggl @ 2016-05-26 6:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Georgios Tsalikis; +Cc: reiserfs-devel
On Thu, 26 May 2016 03:15:55 +0300, Georgios Tsalikis
<georgios@tsalikis.net> wrote:
> On 25/05/2016 01:22 μμ, doiggl@velocitynet.com.au wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:58:53 +0300, Georgios Tsalikis
>> <georgios@tsalikis.net> wrote:
>>> I happened to format a rootfs partition and another one for /home with
>>> Reiser4. It proved to be a disaster. Apart from the slow boot times
>>> (expected from this drive) even after reaching a functional GUI the
>>> disk kept doing I/O like crazy. When /home became Btrfs the issue
>>> ceased. My other computer that uses an entire drive formatted with
>>> Reiser4 is nice and silent as well.
Hello,
What do following commands show ?
--Glenn
example:
# which fsck.reiser4
/usr/sbin/fsck.reiser4
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
# fsck.reiser4 -V
fsck.reiser4 1.0.6
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 by Hans Reiser, licensing governed by
reiser4progs/COPYING.
# fsck.reiser4 --print-profile /dev/sdb
Default profile:
create: "reg40" (id:0x0 type:0x0) [Regular file
plugin for creat(2)]
key: "key_large" (id:0x1 type:0xb) [Key plugin]
compress: "lzo1" (id:0x0 type:0xc) [Compression
plugin]
compressMode: "conv" (id:0x4 type:0xd) [Compression Mode
plugin]
cluster: "64K" (id:0x0 type:0x10) [Cluster plugin]
hash: "r5_hash" (id:0x1 type:0x3) [Directory entry
hash plugin]
fibration: "ext_1_fibre" (id:0x2 type:0x4) [Key fibration
plugin]
formatting: "smart" (id:0x2 type:0x5) [File body
formatting plugin]
# fsck.reiser4 --print-plugins /dev/sdb
Known plugins:
"reg40" (id:0x0 type:0x0) [Unix-file regular file plugin.]
"dir40" (id:0x1 type:0x0) [Directory file plugin.]
"sym40" (id:0x2 type:0x0) [Symlink file plugin.]
"spl40" (id:0x3 type:0x0) [Special file plugin.]
"ccreg40" (id:0x4 type:0x0) [Cryptcompress regular file plugin.]
"stat40" (id:0x0 type:0x1) [StatData item plugin.]
"cde40" (id:0x2 type:0x1) [Compound directory entry item
plugin.]
"nodeptr40" (id:0x3 type:0x1) [Node pointer item plugin.]
"extent40" (id:0x5 type:0x1) [Extent file body item plugin.]
"plain40" (id:0x6 type:0x1) [Plain file body item plugin.]
"ctail40" (id:0x7 type:0x1) [Compressed file body item plugin.]
"bbox40" (id:0x8 type:0x1) [Safe link item plugin.]
"node40" (id:0x0 type:0x2) [Node plugin.]
"rupasov_hash" (id:0x0 type:0x3) [Rupasov hash plugin.]
"r5_hash" (id:0x1 type:0x3) [R5 hash plugin.]
"tea_hash" (id:0x2 type:0x3) [Tea hash plugin.]
"fnv1_hash" (id:0x3 type:0x3) [Fnv1 hash plugin.]
"deg_hash" (id:0x4 type:0x3) [Degenerate hash plugin.]
"lexic_fibre" (id:0x0 type:0x4) [Lexicographic fibration plugin.]
"dot_o_fibre" (id:0x1 type:0x4) ['.o' fibration plugin.]
"ext_1_fibre" (id:0x2 type:0x4) [1-symbol extention fibration
plugin.]
"ext_3_fibre" (id:0x3 type:0x4) [3-symbol extention fibration
plugin.]
"extents" (id:0x0 type:0x5) ['Extents only' tail policy plugin.]
"tails" (id:0x1 type:0x5) ['Tails only' tail policy plugin.]
"smart" (id:0x2 type:0x5) [Smart tail policy plugin.]
"sdext_lw" (id:0x0 type:0x6) [Light stat data extension plugin.]
"sdext_unix" (id:0x1 type:0x6) [Unix stat data extension plugin.]
"sdext_lt" (id:0x2 type:0x6) [Large times stat data extension
plugin.]
"sdext_symlink" (id:0x3 type:0x6) [Symlink stat data extension
plugin.]
"sdext_plugin_set" (id:0x4 type:0x6) [Plugin Set StatData extension
plugin.]
"sdext_flags" (id:0x5 type:0x6) [Inode flags stat data extension
plugin.]
"sdext_crypto" (id:0x7 type:0x6) [Crypto stat data extension plugin.]
"sdext_heir_set" (id:0x8 type:0x6) [Heir Set StatData extension
plugin.]
"format40" (id:0x0 type:0x7) [Disk-format plugin.]
"oid40" (id:0x0 type:0x8) [Inode number allocator plugin.]
"alloc40" (id:0x0 type:0x9) [Space allocator plugin.]
"journal40" (id:0x0 type:0xa) [Journal plugin.]
"key_short" (id:0x0 type:0xb) [Short key plugin.]
"key_large" (id:0x1 type:0xb) [Large key plugin.]
"lzo1" (id:0x0 type:0xc) [lzo1 compression transform plugin.]
"gzip1" (id:0x1 type:0xc) [gzip1 compression transform
plugin.]
"none" (id:0x0 type:0xd) ['Don't compress' compression mode
plugin.]
"latt" (id:0x1 type:0xd) ['Check on dynamic lattice'
compression mode plugin.]
"ultim" (id:0x2 type:0xd) ['Check ultimately' compression mode
plugin.]
"force" (id:0x3 type:0xd) ['Compress evrything' compression
mode plugin.]
"conv" (id:0x4 type:0xd) ['Convert to extent' compression
mode plugin.]
"64K" (id:0x0 type:0x10) [64K size cluster plugin.]
"32K" (id:0x1 type:0x10) [32K size cluster plugin.]
"16K" (id:0x2 type:0x10) [16K size cluster plugin.]
"8K" (id:0x3 type:0x10) [8K size cluster plugin.]
"4K" (id:0x4 type:0x10) [4K size cluster plugin.]
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* 'Installing your Linux Distribution on Reiser4.' - [Found this as a guide]
2016-05-25 10:22 ` doiggl
2016-05-26 0:15 ` Georgios Tsalikis
@ 2016-05-27 8:05 ` doiggl
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From: doiggl @ 2016-05-27 8:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: doiggl; +Cc: Georgios Tsalikis, reiserfs-devel
On Wed, 25 May 2016 20:22:05 +1000, <doiggl@velocitynet.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:58:53 +0300, Georgios Tsalikis
> <georgios@tsalikis.net> wrote:
>> I happened to format a rootfs partition and another one for /home with
>> Reiser4. It proved to be a disaster. Apart from the slow boot times
>> (expected from this drive) even after reaching a functional GUI the
>> disk kept doing I/O like crazy. When /home became Btrfs the issue
>> ceased. My other computer that uses an entire drive formatted with
>> Reiser4 is nice and silent as well.
>>
> Hello,
Found this as a guide
--Glenn
'Installing your Linux Distribution on Reiser4.'
http://linuxhelp.150m.com/installs/install-on-reiser4.htm
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