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

[320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:

> 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.
>

I did this but it seems Ulrich is not interested. :-/

achim~

>
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>
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