Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.30 and reiserfs?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 14 September 2009 02:25:45 Adam Carter wrote:
> > I am using reiserfs just for my squid-cache nevertheless
> > after I booted
> > 2.6.30-r4 on an amd64 system, I couldn't create any files on that
> > partition. Is there a way to convert the partition to work or
> > do I really have to change filesystems?
> 
> I had some weirdness with .30 and reiser. I was using .30 sucessfully for a
>  few days, then had to hard reset but reiser had problems mounting on
>  reboot. I tried booting .30 twice with no luck. Booted .29 and it worked
>  fine - in fact no messages about the filesystem at all - it just loaded
>  normally. I didn't bother persuing it because I had read about similar
>  issues with .30 (IIRC on this list) and figured it was probably a kernel
>  bug....
> 

I have no issues whatsoever on this amd64 notebook with 2.6.30 and reiser. 
It's now on 2.6.31 and still working fine. My ancient x86 file server is still 
on 2.6.29, mostly as I'd read the same report you did.

The problematic combination reported then was x86, reiser, 2.6.30, IDE chipset

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