Re: [gentoo-dev] Reiser-fs patch

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:36:33PM +0100, Philippe Namias wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As i look that you want to stay with the latest-fix on reiser-fs. I send you the
> e-mail i got on the linux-kernel mailing-list. So you can incorporate the patch in
> your own kernel or wait for next 2.4.3-preX
>
> As filesystem stuff are quiet critical (especially for me).

Hi Philippe,

What I've been doing is keeping an up-to-date version of linux and linux-sources-2.4.2.
Our version is now at 2.4.2-r2 (we lost -r3 in the hard drive crash, I need to add this
back sometime today).  This kernel series generally contains the latest ReiserFS patches
direct from http://www.namesys.com and patched against a stock 2.4.2 kernel.  I *think*
that those patches you included were the same patches we are now using, except that
the namesys guys are trying to get these fixes into the official 2.4.3 release?

Note: Achim generally maintains the linux and linux-sources versions that look like this:
2.4.2.2 (This would be 2.4.2_ac2, an Alan Cox kernel)
2.4.2_pre3 (This is a Linus pre-release kernel)
For these kernels, he generally tracks down the latest ReiserFS/NFS patches he can find.
Achim monitors the ReiserFS mailing list and is in contact with the author of the NFS patch,
so we generally have the latest and greatest versions of these patches.

I hope that helps, and I'll try to get a version of 2.4.2 on CVS today that includes the
5 Mar 2001 ReiserFS patches from namesys :)

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.