Reiser4 on AMD64 in 2.6.7 kernel ?

brankob · Apprentice Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 188

Hi to all,

like subject line says, I'm considering switching to Reiser4m but I need some things from kernel 2.6.7 (like improved tigon3 driver for Gigabit ethernet, improved some bits in blockedev handling etc).

Is there any way to do it with kernel 2.6.7 ? I have tried Hans patches (meant for 2.6.5.rc2), but its no good with 2.6.7.

Is anything known about when it is supposed to appear in mainline vanilla 2.6 kernels ?

Kiff · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 73

You could try the love-sources or evil-sources, they are supposed to have those patches included.

No experience with them whatsoever though!

thumper · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 552 Location: Venice FL

Redeeman has what appears to be a working patch on the 2.6.7 kernel, see this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=189452&highlight=reiser4

Also there is snapshots for a few 2.6.7 kernel versions here:
http://www.namesys.com/auto-snapshots/

I've not had time to poke at reiser4 yet, been watching its progress though, if you get a working kernel with reiser4 on amd64, post back what kernel and patch set you used.

George

athena · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 1

I was looking around for one, and I found this:

http://xy1.org/reiserfs-list@namesys.com/msg01405.html

which gives a link to

http://kem.p.lodz.pl/~peter/cko/reiser4/reiser4-2004.06.24-19.36-linux-2.6.7.diff.bz2

As I understand it, this is an altered version of the ones available at

http://thebsh.namesys.com/auto-snapshots/

but for the vanilla kernel instead of mm.

I don't know first hand if it works -- I've been trying to build a livecd with it and the nvidia's patch for their sata, but it does apply without errors and the kernel compiles.

brankob · Apprentice Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 188

I've tried this and all those patches (automatically generated etc) are a minefield.

I have applied this patch over a clean 2.6.7 and whole thing dies in first second of compiling.

Thanks, but my system really wants to live. I'll have to wait for official patch...

squeegy · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:23 am Post subject:

Use this It is 2.6.7-mm2 with Reiser4, v31a, and some other work of Nick Piggin. It uses the snapshot from 6.25.04.

Alternatively you could download the 2.6.7 kernel, patch it with 2.6.7-mm2, then apply the newest Reiser4 auto-snapshot.

P.S. Redeeman's server is sometimes down, so if you can't access it don't be discouraged just try again in a few hours.

brankob · Apprentice Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 188

Thanks. I have just tried that and gcc says:

thumper · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 552 Location: Venice FL

And I for grins tried as well and can confirm brankob's findings.

Kow · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 227

This is definitely an arch related bug.... I'd just wait until AMD64 devels get to Reiser4 as it'll probably work fine for x86 but will break on AMD64, and even if it compiled I would not trust it.
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-Kow

squeegy · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

Check Redeeman's notes for Redeeman4, he forgot symlinks don't translate into diff's or something to that effect. He explains you have to delete /usr/src/linux/include/asm and symlink it to your architecture.

brankob · Apprentice Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 188

I did that:

I have symlinked /include/asm to /include/asm-i386

Thing now dies after a few minutes of compiling, saying...

camouflageX · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 51