On Sonntag 25 Januar 2009, Edward Shishkin wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 19 Januar 2009, Edward Shishkin wrote: > >> Ingo Bormuth wrote: > >>> Reiser4-for-2.6.28 does apply but fails to compile on > >>> vanilla-2.6.28.1 due to the following commit: > >>> > >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=comm > >>>it diff;h=54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e > >>> > >>> Attached is a tiny fix which works fine here. > >> > >> yeah, with your patch it will act as earlier, > >> however, -mm guys decided to get rig of __GFP_FS flag: > >> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-symlink-write_begin- > >>all ocation-context-fix-reiser4-fix.patch it seems they found it > >> deadlocky.. > > > > so without Ingo Bormuth's patch you can't use r4 with 2.6.28.1 > > Ingo's patch is against -rc > > > and later and > > with his patch there is a risk of deadlocks? > > Not sure. > Nobody complained so far.. hm, I had two lockups with 2.6.28 and your r4 patch so far. Suddenly the box only responded to sysrq - and on reboot the software raid5 with my r4 partitions on needed a resync. Might be related or not. I am back to 2.6.27 which never showed any misbehaviour. Glück Auf, Volker -- 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
