Reiser4 and metas/

[eqxro]

Yeah, reiser4 again... I've been using reiserfs for quite some time and I simply loved it eversince I started using it. I read an article recently about the Reiser4 and what it could do, so I decided to try it... What I couldn't wait to try was the "metas" pseudo-folder....

So I took the patch, patched the kernel, rebooted, emerged reiser4progs, formated a whole partition, I created a file, chmoded to rwxrwxrwx, then chdir test.txt/metas... error: No such file or directory (

I'm now running the 2.6.9-nitro4 kernel, with the reiser4 patch in it, and still no success. I've tried LQ, googling around for the past week and still no success. Am i missing something?

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Forgot to mention... I'm using an AMD64, and I can't compile reiser4progs, the latest ebuild... something ending with "recompile with -fPIC" even though it was compiled with this option.
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[Jake]

1) to fix your -fPIC problem, unmerge the old version first

2) I trust reiser4 on x86, but on AMD64 I've been getting lockups and corruption. Under normal usage, it'll probably work for a few days. See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=256867 for details about my experiences with reiser4 on AMD64.

3) you'll need to revert http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9/2.6.9-mm1/broken-out/reiser4-disable-pseudo.patch if you want metas on 2.6.9-nitro4, but I would recommend using a recent -mm or vanilla patched with ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/ instead, especially if you're going to file a bug report

4) I think they're calling metas "...." these days, but it might still be "metas" or "..metas" in 2.6.9-nitro4.

[eqxro]

Odd.. I thought I replied to this... anyways:

1. Unmerging and recompiling did the trick... I have reiser4progs-1.0.2 compiled and working . 10x

2. I read your thread and I can't wait to stress test my partition

3. I reverted the patch and now I have access to the metas folder... now I've got a new toy to play around with

4. In my version it's still called metas. the version is the one suppiled withthe nitro4 sources