reiser4 on severn and 2.6.0-test4-bk9??

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Mon Sep 8 12:48:37 UTC 2003


  has anyone been ambitious enough to apply the reiser4 patches
to the latest 2.6.0-test4 kernel and play with reiser4?  i ask
since the instructions at www.namesys.com are a mite confusing.

  under DOWNLOAD, there's a link to "reiser for 2.6", which states
that you should first apply the patches (note *plural* here) from
http://www.namesys.com/snapshots .

  there are, in fact, two diff files there, but they have the
puzzling names

  reiser4-kernelonly.diff 	(23k)
  reiser4.diff			(2.6m)

puzzling because i would have thought the patch file(s) would
have been pretty much exclusively for patching the kernel.

  as a test, i applied the larger patch file, at which point,
the smaller one *appeared* to be superfluous.

  so, can someone explain the difference between the two patch
files, given that the smaller one seems unnecessary?  or am i
just misreading things?

rday





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