Reiser4, Udev.........

plbe · l33t Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 661

Anyone else have constant issues with udev and reiser4, or at least I believe reiser4 to be the culprit....Way to often while booting my system udev comes up with missing devices and the only way to fix the problem is to reinstall udev from the livecd. ~amd64 system, mm-sources

blackwhite · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 250

I did not encounter any problem by now, I am using patch gentoo-sources to support reiser4.

Jake · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 1132

Missing devices should have nothing to do with your root filesystem. In a udev configuration, a RAM-based filesystem is mounted over /dev. Possibly try disabling parallel startup.

If reiser4 is the only non-vanilla feature you're using in -mm, you should switch to a vanilla or gentoo kernel patched from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6. It's probably not the source of this problem, but I've had enough trouble with -mm that I avoid it whenever possible.

xordan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 148

I've been using udev with reiser4 for a while and I've had no problems. (Using -cko kernel)

mr.ed · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 75

In /etc/conf.d/rc, there's an option to save your devices as a tarball: this literally does what it says! If u have missing devices, recreate them and set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "yes". This way all of your devices will be saved, so up on reboot they should be there. U prolly have some custom nodes or devices, which udev doesn't recognise automagically.
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tomk · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

Moved from Gentoo on AMD64 to Unsupported Software.

yngwin · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject:

Reiser4 is only supposed to be stable on x86 (I'm using it myself), but problems are known to occur on all other platforms, including your amd64. I'd suggest using another filesystem.
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_loki_ · l33t Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 680 Location: in the shell

since a couple of days every boot is quite exciting as I the possibilty of no partitions at all are found are quite there. It seems that no device at all is created.. even my boot-partition with is ext3 is not there, but I have the feeling that this behaviour is connected to reiser4 somehow, too.
This more than annoying, as see no way to get this in order, the problem seems to occure randomly and the only solution I see is to have a completly new setup using a diverent filesystem (at least for my root-partition), which I acctually did two weeks ago as I wanted to give reiser4 a try.. (By the way: It's a x86 I'm talking about, no amd64)

plbe · l33t Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 661

Cinder6 · l33t Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California

No problems here.
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_loki_ · l33t Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 680 Location: in the shell

switched back to ext3 with dir_index, too, running love-2.6.12-rc6-love1with no problems so fare..