Re: Reiser4 module and 2.6.29-x-default kernel

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Hello,
Any progress on the Reiser4 module and 2.6.29-x-default kernel ?
Is this the one that will get updated at some point (see link)  ?
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/drivers:/filesystems/openSUSE_Factory/x86_64/
Glenn

Edward Shishkin wrote:
> Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> Edward - What's the reasoning behind it?
>
>> The reason is to reduce a cost of maintenance.
>
>> Since reiser4_set_page_internal() is not in vfs library
>> bad things are bound to happen. For example, set_page_dirty()
>> and friends were modified by vfs folks to update dirty pages
>> accounting and of course nobody knew that there are other
>> "friends" in reiser4 code, so I have spent a lot of time to figure
>> out why oom kills processes of dbench 190...
>
>  Has it been submitted upstream
> yet?
>
>> Nup, this is in -mm

Ok, if that's the goal, I can just track it when I update the reiser4 patch.
- -Jeff


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