From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1845 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2004 07:41:02 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 22 Jul 2004 07:41:02 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BnYCL-000726-S8 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:41:01 +0000 Received: (qmail 20599 invoked by uid 89); 22 Jul 2004 07:41:01 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 22040 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2004 07:41:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:40:54 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <200407210324.57026.lv@gentoo.org> <200407210634.21992.lv@gentoo.org> <200407211304.37526.carlo@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-66-58.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Kernel sources thread X-Archives-Salt: 25679eab-396a-479c-b103-18bb3e2b88ab X-Archives-Hash: ed4d3451dec082943a652a840615facc Carsten Lohrke posted <200407211304.37526.carlo@gentoo.org>, excerpted below, on Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:04:31 +0200: > I'll read the 2.6 changelogs and depending on what I read I set marks, > when to consider to switch (again). My current mark is 2.6.10, but this > may change, if I still have to read e.g. too much about code changes > regarding reiserfs. I take it this means you use reiserfs? I do, for all my partitions. You don't mention what kernel you are on now, but I'd strongly urge you to switch to something with data=ordered (2.6.6-rc-something IIRC) support if you haven't already (straight mainline kernel.org kernel, I'm talking, here). IMO, it's /well/ worth it. FWIW, 2.6.8-rc1 added data=journal mode support, I've been told, which may be of interest to you for its stability, once there's a 2.6.8 full release anyway, but ordered mode is perfect for my needs, and I'd DEFINITELY recommend it to anyone using reiserfs, if they haven't switched to a kernel using it already. (I've been asked how one switches modes. The answer at least for ordered is that it's the default once you have a kernel that supports it. Look at the mount messages logged during boot to verify it, as they should say using ordered mode if they are. Given how verbose they made the at-boot fscks (which I run thru a custom grep filter here, to filter out the "noise"), I'm surprised the ordered thing isn't more obvious, but that may reflect the fact that the guy that did the reiserfsck stuff isn't the guy who did the kernel patches.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list