Edward Shishkin wrote: > Dushan Tcholich wrote: > >> I'm transfering a gentoo user report of reiser4 problems: >> >> Quote: >> For me it only panicks when intensive operations are performed on loop >> file (portage sync, unmount). Main partition is R4CC with default >> settings with two loop files (portage and ccache) on it. Both are R4CC >> formatted as well. The first one (portage) is created as sparse file, >> second one (ccache) is ordinary prealocated loop file. Kernel panic >> occurs when I sync/unmount portage loop file. >> > > Loop devices over cryptocompress files don't work. > I disabled this functionality, but it seems the stub has > been broken at some point. > > I'll try to fix the loop functionality for cryptcompress files. > For now in order to create loop devices use files managed > by (classic) unix-file plugin, Ok? > > On a ccreg40 partition a file powered by unix-file plugin > can be prepared, for instance, by the following way: > > dd if=incompressible_file of=loopfile bs=65537 count=1 I assume that a file with the name "loopfile" didn't exist before (to ensure a conversion cryptcompress->unix-file) > then rewrite the loopfile with any data you want: it won't > be converted back to cryptcompress format anymore. > As "incompressible_file" have any .gz or .bz2 file of size > 64K > > I know, it looks like ugly workaround, but I believe we'll invent > more user-friendly interface to assign desired plugins in future.. > > Edward. > > >> Only messages I got are: >> reiser4 panicked cowardly: reiser4[pdflush(212)]: reiser4_handle_error >> (fs/reiser4/vfs_ops.c:232)[foobar-42]: >> Kernel panic - not syncing: reiser4_handle_error >> (fs/reiser4/vfs_ops.c:232)[foobar-42]: >> I'd like to point out that this setup worked for few days without >> problems, but later, probably when sparse file started to grow, it >> started panicking. >> /Quote >> More pointers: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5112215.html#5112215 >> >> I hope this is useful to you >> >> Dushan >> >> >> > > > -- 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
