Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix"

From: Hans Reiser (reiser@idiom.com)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 17:05:59 EST


The version you were using was not stable (we thought it was at release time, but
it wasn't). Please try again with 3.5.14, it has months worth of bug fixes.

Hans

"Pedro M. Rodrigues" wrote:

> The only thing i can do now is give you a copy of the errors SGI
> Irix 6.4 machines (patched) gave when writing big files (around 5
> MB). I didn't pursue the matter further since the machines in
> question were being used in production, and due to the beta nature
> of the journaling code. Also, from reading the documentation i was
> expecting some problems. I used at the time linux-2.2.13-reiserfs-
> 3.5.5-journaling-beta.gz. Journalling was on. Kernel 2.2.13 patched
> with knfsd 1.4.7 was at the server machine.
> Anyway, when i started copying big files from the SGI machines to
> the server, and deleting them afterwards, i would get several NFS
> write error 13 on host spider, and several find_fh_dentry:
> 08:11/23519288 dir/23519263 not found! messages at the server.
> Now i am abroad away from my office, when i get back it's one of
> the things i plan to test and install in a production server if it goes
> well (i don't need nfs on that one, just samba).
>
> Regards,
>
> Pedro Rodrigues
>
> On 7 Jan 00, at 0:28, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> > Can you supply details?
> >
> > Hans
> >
> > "Pedro M. Rodrigues" wrote:
> >
> > > Not only that, exporting ReiserFS volumes with NFSv2 should be
> > > troublesome. My Sgi machines complain all the time about write
> > > errors. I didn't pay much attention at it yet, plan to do it soon.
> > >
> > > Pedro Rodrigues
> > >
> > > On 6 Jan 00, at 1:48, Peter Svensson wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, M.J. Galan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Indeed I'm using reiserfs for several filesystems on SMP, K7, RAID0,
> > > > > etc. with
> > > > > pretty heavy usage and it behaves quite well i.e. it is fast and seems
> > > > > reasonably
> > > > > stable (ver. 3.5.14).
> > > >
> > > > I seem to remember one of the gurus mentioning that there were some bad
> > > > interactions between the journaling systems of both ext3 and reiserfs and
> > > > the raid code.
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> > > > --
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