no more R4 on 2.6.11-nitro2

[Gentree]

Hi,

I have been using R4 for 18mths and 2.6.11-nitro2 since it came out.

Never any real probs but now I cant even get it to format and mount a partition.

Dont know if I've poked something I should or an update too far somewhere but after a mkfs.reiser4 it fails to mount the new fs and fsck.reiser4 shows errors and suggests --build-fs

if I do it finds plenty to do but despite reporting it clean it still fails to mount with just the same error.

[iphitus]

Upgrade your kernel, there have been internal changes in reiser4 since 2.6.11-nitro2.

Give archck8 a shot, it's in this forum.

[Gentree]

Thanks for the reply.

what do you mean by "internal changes" ? If I use the same kernel and still have reiser4progs-1.0.4 it should still work.

Dont tell me the ebuild with the same version now loads different software??

I got the feeling that was going to be one of those "Gentoo moments".

Hav you got some specifics.

Thanks again.
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[iphitus]

[Gentree]

I found the cause of confusion , upgrading R4 had pulled in libaal-1.0.5 but when I pulled back r4 to 1.0.4 I did not notice libaal.

But : that has not fixed it , still get the same.

Luckily I was not dumb enough to do this on a data partition, it was a brand new one so I just reformatted with the rebuild utils.

Oddly I still get the same error.

Make sense??

I really dont want to have to debug a whole new kernel and start running different R4 versions until I know it has been fully tested. I cannot risk the downtime if it starts to play up.


I had a working R4 set up , there is not reason to accept an unwanted update .

I need to know why this ebuild is not longer building the software that I had before.

This is not CVS , it is a stable ebuild version , it _should not_ change.



Thanks again
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[Gentree]

Damn, I said this was a gentoo moment.

I found I can solve this by getting version 1.1 of the 1.0.4 ebuild off cvs!

This is crap, I emerge sync, rebuild and existing package with what appears as the same version and it breaks.

Not good.

Anyway I have recovered the working system but it cost me a few hours of messing.

Now I've forgotten what I wanted to do with the partition in the first place!

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[Gentree]

After further digging I found that the most recent reiser4progs ebuild that actually works with the reiser4-1.0.4 in my kernel is reiser4progs-1.0.4.ebuild v1.4

A patch was applied in v1.5 for more recent kernels (presumably with the plugin model) that breaks existing 1.0.4.

You can mkfs but it wont mount.

All 1.0.4 have just been removed from portage, leaving 1.0.4_p1 which does not work either and the later 1.0.5

It appears the maintainer of these ebuilds does not understand the software or the patches he is applying and does not test the ebuilds he is maintaining.

So if you wish to be able to create R4 partions bases on 1.0.4 that work with 2.6.11 kernels (or for example to keep them readable by lxnay R4 liveCD kernel) you will need
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-fs/reiser4progs/reiser4progs-1.0.4.ebuild?rev=1.4

put it in overlay do the ebuild ... digest thing , mask 1.0.5 reiser4progs and libaal then rebuild .


HTH
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