HOWTO: Reiser4 for gentoo-sources

UberDumm · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

Good advice is priceless. Thanks jake.
I'll take a look at the 2.6.13-2 broken-out patches and probably make an ebuild labeled "experimental", "unstable", or something like that.

keyser_soze · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject:

i put an ebuild up on wiki for reiser4-gentoo-sources-2.6.13.-r5

i left the other one there also

cheers
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iamben · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 275

anyone have any idea how long it normally takes namesys to release the reiser4 patch after a new kernel release? ive got reiser4-gentoo-sources-2.6.14.ebuild made, but it wont work until they release the patch.

schwarzygesetzlos · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:52 pm Post subject: some Reiser4 sissues resolved

Seems that some of the outstanding Reiser4 issues have been resolved.

I am using it now with gentoo-sources 2.6.14, having kernel stack size set to 4kb and zlib compiled in as a module. So far no problems encountered...

iamben · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 275

sorry, forgot i had posted here about it... here's the latest if anyone wants it, http://nixalan.net/reiser4-gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2.ebuild

mikfaina · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:48 am Post subject:

Sorry I have this erro while installing reiser4-gentoo-sources configuring the kernel

garlicbread · Apprentice Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 182

Is it just me or is reiser4 now horribly broken again on the AMD64?

2.6.12-r10 with reiser4 - perfect no problems
2.6.13-r5 with reiser4 - can't even mount without an error from somewhere within the reiser4 code
2.6.14-r2 with reiser4 - got as far as mounting the fs, but as soon as I try a directory listing with ls - kernel error something to do with SMP

It's probably because I've got SMP enabled for my dual core
I'm aware that they've been fiddling with the code / removing stuff etc to try and get it into mainline
but I can only figure that something in the gentoo patchset is interfering in some way, although I think I'll confirm that by trying vanilla to see what happens
the current namesys patches apply fine against the genttoo sources after the gentoo patchset
but as soon as you try to mount anything or access anything, it's all completly goosed

iamben · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 275

infirit · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject:

iamben · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 275

hah, good catch... all i was looking at were the non-existant symbol errors, those arent fatal though.

UberDumm · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

Amazing.
I checked out the wiki page and i'm happy to see that people are stepping up and taking ownership of the project and working on it. Thank you all. Feel free to add yourself to the credits.. or I might be forced to!

Anyway, I'll be in and out - Hopefully I'll be able to make some contributions.

Happy Holidays

garlicbread · Apprentice Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 182

reading through the namesys mailing list at the moment
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&r=1&w=2
there seem to have been a few other non-amd64 related issues including sync problems, lockups with mmapped files etc
the patches against 2.6.12 seem to be the last set that were stable enough for general use for me

I think there have been some fixes to the latest cutting edge versions perhaps 2.6.14-mm2
but I'll be waiting a while for things to stabilise before trying a new kernel version (perhaps 2.6.15 if R4 finally makes it into the mainline kernel)

nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

Hi all,
I have posted this in the reiser4 dev group and now I know that my mm-sources kernel panics without reiser4 in it.
how does one go about fixing it?

---- quoting more details ----
Hello

niv wrote:

>> Dear Developers,
>> My name is Niv and I am very new to Reiser4. I thought of giving it a
>> shot as I did a fresh installation of Gentoo 2005.1.
>> The pc is an Ideq 210V :
>> http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/barebone/ideq/210v/index.php3
>>
>> I am running a AMD XP3200+ with 512 Mb. the hard disk is a 250 Hitachi
>> IDE (not sata).
>>
>> I ran a stage1 install and got to the point of installing a window
>> manager. The partition I am trying to boot the mm kernel is /hda7 and it
>> booted fine using current vanilla 2.6.14. that partition is currently
>> EXT3. had no problems - emerge mm-sources -> make menuconfig -> make &&
>> make modules_install && make install
>>
>> I try to boot the new kernel and get two screens - then the kernel panic.
>> I took pictures with my cellphone. the photos are a mozaik of what shows
>> up on screen at the kernel panic.
>> Go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nivw/68386148/
>> then hit next on the right side to see the rest

I see nothing about reiser4 there. Would you please try to turn reiser4 off in
kernel configuration and try to boot off that kernel?

>>
>> I put it on my flickr to save BW.
>>
>> Thanks for giving us a better filing system,
>> Niv
>>
>>

keyser_soze · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:06 am Post subject:

reiser4-gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 is now available at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Reiser4_With_Gentoo-Sources#The_Ebuild_Files

have fun!
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Jake · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 1132

keyser_soze · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:27 am Post subject:

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nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

works fine here :-)

infirit · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:28 am Post subject:

aggelos · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

Is reiser4 possible on a raid device ?
Anyone tried to format a raid 1 or 0 as reiser4 ? :?:

keyser_soze

keyser_soze · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:08 am Post subject:

I have added reiser4-gentoo-sources-2.6.16.ebuild to the wiki
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keyser_soze · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

New patchset for kernel 2.6.16 out on 30/5

Added ebuild to wiki and removed some old ones to clear it up
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wantilles · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:54 am Post subject:

Is it still necessary to use 8k stack size, instead of the default 4k stack size?

keyser_soze · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: