From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261732AbTH3RKg (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:10:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261815AbTH3RKg (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:10:36 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:53704 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261732AbTH3RKe (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:10:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3F50D986.6080707@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:06:14 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: erik@hensema.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nikita Danilov Subject: Re: First impressions of reiserfs4 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Hensema wrote: >Currently I'm testing reiserfs4 on my otherwise vanilla 2.6.0-test4 >machine. > >At first I tried building reiser4 as a module. The kernel failed to link >due to an unresolved symbol: sys_reiser4 > compile without sys_reiser4 and not as a module, the config is fixed in what will be the next snapshot >I tried commenting sys_reiser4 out from entry.S. Now the kernel linked >fine. > >However, I can't insert the module due to unexported symbols: > >reiser4: Unknown symbol balance_dirty_pages >reiser4: Unknown symbol max_sane_readahead >reiser4: Unknown symbol generic_sync_sb_inodes >reiser4: Unknown symbol truncate_mapping_pages_range >reiser4: Unknown symbol wakeup_kswapd >reiser4: Unknown symbol balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited >reiser4: Unknown symbol inodes_stat >reiser4: Unknown symbol nr_free_pagecache_pages >reiser4: Unknown symbol destroy_inode > >So, I tried linking reiser4 directly into the kernel. No problems there. > >As we speak I'm building Mozilla Firebird from source of a 20 GB reiser4 >partition. If something interesting comes up, this list will be the first >to know :-) > >I've currently got only one small problem: df can't handle the data from >the kernel it seems. I also got this problem on NFS mounted partitions: > fixed in what will be the next snapshot > >df: `/reiser4': Value too large for defined data type >df: `/home': Value too large for defined data type > > > thanks for your patience. nikita, when are you releasing the next snapshot, with the improved performance and bug fixes -- Hans