Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:27:30
Message-Id: 200909141125.49642.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs? by Adam Carter
1 On Monday 14 September 2009 02:25:45 Adam Carter wrote:
2 > > I am using reiserfs just for my squid-cache nevertheless
3 > > after I booted
4 > > 2.6.30-r4 on an amd64 system, I couldn't create any files on that
5 > > partition. Is there a way to convert the partition to work or
6 > > do I really have to change filesystems?
7 >
8 > I had some weirdness with .30 and reiser. I was using .30 sucessfully for a
9 > few days, then had to hard reset but reiser had problems mounting on
10 > reboot. I tried booting .30 twice with no luck. Booted .29 and it worked
11 > fine - in fact no messages about the filesystem at all - it just loaded
12 > normally. I didn't bother persuing it because I had read about similar
13 > issues with .30 (IIRC on this list) and figured it was probably a kernel
14 > bug....
15 >
16
17 I have no issues whatsoever on this amd64 notebook with 2.6.30 and reiser.
18 It's now on 2.6.31 and still working fine. My ancient x86 file server is still
19 on 2.6.29, mostly as I'd read the same report you did.
20
21 The problematic combination reported then was x86, reiser, 2.6.30, IDE chipset
22
23 --
24 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs? Konstantinos Agouros <elwood@×××××××.de>
RE: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs? Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au>