Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc build problem in make check

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:28:14AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> Achim Gottinger wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > Since Suse 7.1 ships with 2.4/reiserfs I think this problem is solved.
> >
> > Well it seems to be still unsolved.
> > I tested the lates kernel 2.4.1-ac17 with and without nfs and lvm patches all with
> > the same result.
> > I posted a message to the reiserfs mailinglist.
> >
> 
> Here are the answers
> 
> Well, this is known weakness of reiserfs in its current state: it creates very
> big holes in file very poorly.
> 
> Thanks,
> vs
> 
> This isn't a bug, its a design flaw.  reiserfs creates a little slower than
> ext2 does, and this test is really benchmarking the hole creation speed.
> We don't do it quickly, but the holes do get created.
> 
> -chris
> 
> -------------------
> I added a patch to the lates glibc-2.2.2 package that increases the timeout in
> test-lfs so it should compile.
> Since there are other problems with glibc-2.2.2/binutils-2.1.10.0.7 I will update
> glibc-2.2.1 too.

OK, thanks Achim.  Make sure to forward this information to Ulrich Drepper so that
maybe he can add a fix to the next version of glibc.

Best Regards,

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