Re: Problems with reiserfs

2001-02-23 Thread hugang
Patrick Mackinlay : If your use redhat 7.0 ;Your will check the kernel "Makefile" ,change the gcc to kgcc , Try again ! Update the gcc from http://www.redhat.com/ > <_EIP>: >Code; d2cf9db8 <[reiserfs]create_virtual_node+298/490> <= > 0: 8b 40 14

Problems with reiserfs

2001-02-23 Thread Patrick Mackinlay
When 2.4.1 was released I reported a kernel oops with reiserfs, I got no response. The problem still persists with kernel 2.4.2. I am using mkreiserfs v2 (3.6.25) and tried on different ide hards disks as well as on a software raid 0 partition, I also tried with and without CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK d

Re: [NFS] Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-21 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - cannot do ".." lookups efficiently, or doesn't want to and > - can protect against this sort of loop (and any other issues >that > the VFS usually protects against) itself > then it can (with my patch) simpl

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-20 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday February 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote: > > > 2/ lookup(".."). > > A small question: > Why exactly is this needed? > > bye, Roman Having read the subsequent posts, I now see what you are thinking and know how to answer this. The probl

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-20 Thread Chris Mason
On Wednesday, February 21, 2001 09:54:19 AM +1100 Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "dek" == dek ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dek> OK so I think what I can take from this is: for kernel 2.4 in > dek> the foreseeable future, reiserfs over NFS won't work without > dek

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-20 Thread Brian May
> "dek" == dek ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dek> OK so I think what I can take from this is: for kernel 2.4 in dek> the foreseeable future, reiserfs over NFS won't work without dek> a special patch. And, filesystems other than ext2 in general Does this apply to the user space

Re: [NFS] Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-20 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: > If I read the code correctly, we set the dentry d_flag > DCACHE_NFSD_DISCONNECTED on such dummy dentries. We only force a > lookup of the full path if the inode represents a directory or the > NFSEXP_NOSUBTREECHECK export flag is not set. IMO y

Re: [NFS] Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-20 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I read the source correctly, namespace operation are done > with dir file handle + file name. I'm playing with the idea if > we could relax the rule, that all dentries must be connected to > the root. Inode to dentry l

Re: [NFS] Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-20 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On 20 Feb 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote: > IIRC several NFS implementations (not Linux though) rely on being able > to walk back up the directory tree in order to discover the path at > any given moment. If I read the source correctly, namespace operation are done with dir file handle + file

Re: [NFS] Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-20 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote: >> 2/ lookup(".."). > A small question: Why exactly is this needed? Short answer: the existence of 'rename' makes it necessary, since it means that the directory path is volatile as

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Neil Brown wrote: > 2/ lookup(".."). A small question: Why exactly is this needed? bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordo

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread dek_ml
Alan Cox writes: >> This may seem like a lot, but several of these are already >> requirements which most filesystems don't meet, and other are there >> to tidy-up interfaces and make locking more straight forward. > >As a 2.5 thing it sounds like a very sensible path. It will also provide >som

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday February 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This may seem like a lot, but several of these are already > > requirements which most filesystems don't meet, and other are there > > to tidy-up interfaces and make locking more straight forward. > > As a 2.5 thing it sounds like a very sen

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday February 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:40:24 AM +1100 Neil Brown > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When reiserfs came along, it abused this, and re-interpreted the > > opaque datum to contain information for recalling (locating) an > > in

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
> This may seem like a lot, but several of these are already > requirements which most filesystems don't meet, and other are there > to tidy-up interfaces and make locking more straight forward. As a 2.5 thing it sounds like a very sensible path. It will also provide some of the operations gro

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:40:24 AM +1100 Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When reiserfs came along, it abused this, and re-interpreted the > opaque datum to contain information for recalling (locating) an > inode - if read_inode2 was defined. I think this is wrong. > I s

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday February 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I hope to put out a patch set for testing in a day or so and possibly > > suggest it to Alan for his -ac series. I don't see it going into > > 2.4.2, but 2.4.3 might be possible if Linus agrees. > > Im not interested in a patch that requires NF

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Mason
On Monday, February 19, 2001 01:55:57 AM + Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> it had been cleared up. In particular, the Configure.help in 2.4.2-pre4 >> says "reiserfs can be used for anything that ext2 can be used for". > > The configure.help is wrong on that and one other thing. NFS

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-19 Thread Alan Cox
> I hope to put out a patch set for testing in a day or so and possibly > suggest it to Alan for his -ac series. I don't see it going into > 2.4.2, but 2.4.3 might be possible if Linus agrees. Im not interested in a patch that requires NFS is hacked for each file system that tells me the impleme

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, I grabbed these patches and applied them against 2.4.2-pre4 and > recompiled, rebooted. I am now able to use reiserfs with NFS, > basic operations appear to work as expected but I haven't done large amounts > of file IO or lots of concurren

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread dek_ml
Neil Brown writes: >On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I migrated some exported disks over to reiserfs and had no luck when I >> mounted the disk via NFS on another machine. I've noticed many messages >> about reiser and NFS in the archives, but my understanding was

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
> it had been cleared up. In particular, the Configure.help in 2.4.2-pre4 > says "reiserfs can be used for anything that ext2 can be used for". The configure.help is wrong on that and one other thing. NFS doesnt work without extra patches and big endian boxes dont work with reiserfs currently C

Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I migrated some exported disks over to reiserfs and had no luck when I > mounted the disk via NFS on another machine. I've noticed many messages > about reiser and NFS in the archives, but my understanding was that > it had been cleare

problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4

2001-02-18 Thread dek_ml
Hi, I migrated some exported disks over to reiserfs and had no luck when I mounted the disk via NFS on another machine. I've noticed many messages about reiser and NFS in the archives, but my understanding was that it had been cleared up. In particular, the Configure.help in 2.4.2-pre4 says "r