Hi guys. First time post. Here is my issue with reiser4. Been a long time user. Have two Linux systems, Slackware12 and Gentoo x86. Gentoo has been formatted with reiser4 from Slackware using latest reiser4progs-1.0.6 with mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sda7. My Gentoo tarballs extract fine to the freshly formatted partition. Use the standard noatime,nodiratime settings for Gentoo /etc/fstab. Slackware uses a vanilla 2.6.24.2 kernel patched with the latest (012508) reiser4 patch and Gentoo uses same patch with 2.6.24-r2 gentoo sources kernel. All kernel configurations identical with reiser4 support compiled into kernel. If I boot into Gentoo everything is fine. I have played around with the compression plugins and they're fine too. The problem is if I chroot into Gentoo while running Slackware from a console to, for instance, update my Gentoo system (emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world), when I actually reboot into Gentoo I ALWAYS get a segfault. A reboot into Gentoo corrects the problem. Steps to ALWAYS reproduce problem: >From a Slackware console: mount /dev/sda7 /sda7 (Gentoo partition) mount -t proc none /sda7/proc (to enable internet connection in chrooted environment) chroot /sda7 /bin/bash env-update && source /etc/profile emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world After Gentoo is updated: exit umount /sda7/proc /sda7 It was suggested I try to sync the fs before umounting. Tried it, but same results, i.e. reboot into Gentoo and it segtaults near the end of the boot process complaining about several .sh scripts. Minor changes to Gentoo from the chrooted environment do not cause the segfaults when actually subsequently booting into Gentoo, nor are there ever any segfaults while in the chrooted environment. An fsck check after I umount the Gentoo partition does not show any irregularities or fs corruption either. I believe this issue is a bug, albeit minor. Any other information I can provide will be forth coming. Thank you for an otherwise stellar fs experience. Gary Hawco Tucson, AZ. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
