From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 12:53:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 12:53:22 -0400 Received: from krusty.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:35332 "HELO krusty.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 12:53:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:53:11 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 Message-ID: <20010511185311.A6756@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01050910381407.26653@bugs> <20010510134453.A6816@emma1.emma.line.org> <3AFA9AD8.7080203@magenta-netlogic.com> <20010511013726.C31966@emma1.emma.line.org> <3AFBFDB0.5080904@magenta-netlogic.com> <20010511175605.G28282@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> <3AFC178F.3090806@magenta-netlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AFC178F.3090806@magenta-netlogic.com>; from tmh@magenta-netlogic.com on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 17:47:11 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 11 May 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote: > ls can't access the files either, so I don't see how that could rectify > anything. The entire directory becomes inaccessible. This happened to > /lib once. Nasty. No-one can access the files once the caches are hosed. Purge the inode/dentry caches and retry. > I'd like to be able to use something like reiserfs, especially when > developing (it reduces boot time a lot). However to call it 'stable' on > 2.4.4 is simply wrong. If/when the nfs fix gets merged and tested > *then* it stands a chance of being called stable. Does that actually apply to 2.4.4 or rather to 2.2.19?