Additional information on recursively removing a directory of approximately 5 GB on a Reiser4-formatted partition: If existing data directory of that size is copied over to a Reiser4 converted system, i.e., cp -a /mnt/intermediate-directory-data/* /mnt/newly-created-reiser4/. then attempting to recursively remove a directory of the size in question (or even much smaller!) hangs the system. It does not matter if the partition is mounted to accomplish the rm -r /mnt/other-partition/5GB-data operation. Even booting from a Reiser4 capable media like the one I created < https://sourceforge.net/projects/xonecuiltzin/ > and mounting the target partition of the hard drive and executing rm -r does hang the machine. On the other hand, if that much data is created by the running Reiser4 system (i.e., downloading/operating on source for building a custom Xorg distribution, for instance) then there is no problem using rm -r to delete recursively that much data. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Jose R R <Jose.r.r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Niltze! > > I have a couple of root partitions with Debian which recently have > been default-formatted with Reiser4. > > I have applied at the very least Mahoney's patch set (< > http://marc.info/?l=reiserfs-devel&r=1&b=201404&w=2 >) followed by > reiser4 for 3.14.1 patch (< > http://sourceforge.net/projects/reiser4/files/reiser4-for-linux-3.x/ >>) on kernels 3.14.4 and 3.15.2. Each kernel operates in a different > OS with reiser4 root fs. > > Attempting to remove a ~ 5 GB directory recursively (rm -r) the > operation hangs either system. > > Has the bug has been reported before? Or is it a feature ;-) > > Cheers! > [...] -- Jose R R http://www.metztli-it.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0! Download for GNU/Linux, Mac OS, Windows. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daylight Saving Time in USA & Canada ends: Sunday, November 02, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
