On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 01:28 +0400, Edward Shishkin wrote: > Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > > Edward Shishkin wrote: > > [...] > > > >Problems: > > > > >1. The status of Reiserfsprogs-3.6.20.1 should be clarified. > > > Did the Vladimir's branch get testing? > > > > > > I believe this is the version I was working with. It got testing, and > > the results weren't good. I'm not sure if these are specific to > > Vladimir's version or to Vitaly's version, > > > I think it was Vitaly's one (3.6.20), as Vladimir told about monthly > snapshots somewhere in ./tmp.. > > > but when I pushed it for a > > SLE10 SP2 alpha, I ended up getting lots of bug reports. They focused > > mainly in the area of endianness and divide-by-zero errors. So, I > > wouldn't call this version stable at all. > > > Hum.. I didn't know about it. It seems we need to rename it to something > like 3.6.20-preX.. > > > I didn't have the time or > > interest to figure out what these problems were especially since, at the > > time, I was told a real 3.6.20 didn't actually exist. I ended up backing > > out the change and porting all my patches to what you're calling 3.6.19.1. > > > > >2. I don't have Reiserfsprogs-3.6.20.1. Are there any snapshot > > > on this mirror that can be put for public needs: > > > ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/linux-reiserfs ? > > >3. Perhaps, I will need help in addressing possible bugreports > > > and the final merge of all branches. > > > > >Any comments, updates, suggestions? > > > > > > If we actually have a stable 3.6.20, I'd be happy to forward port my > > patches. One thing needs to happen, though: We absolutely need to start > > testing on big endian hardware. We ship reiserfs on both powerpc and > > s390, and hit the endian bugs quickly on those systems. > > > > Perhaps, I'll buy a cheap Mac G3 for testing (it is also needed for > reiser4), You could also try PearPC. On a fast x86/amd64 machine it probably isn't any slower than a low-spec G3. I have a beige G3 I'm not doing anything with (aside from testing reiser4 on it some time ago), but getting it to boot Linux without MacOS 8/9 installed is borderline voodoo, so I assume you wouldn't be interested. > but s390 seems to be exotic here.. > > Ok, I'll put what I have: 3.6.19.1 and renamed 3.6.20. > > Thanks Jeff. > -- > 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 -- Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@xxxxxxxx> -- 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
