kernel-2.6.3-1.91 and Reiserfs

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Feb 22 21:44:23 UTC 2004


On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:34:26PM +0200, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:

 > > > Kernel-2.6.3-1.91 appears to freeze when a reiserfs (root in my case)
 > > > partition is mounted rw, but is fine when mounted ro. Using
 > > > kernel-2.6.2-1.74 there are no problems.
 > >
 > > I can confirm this as well.  Last kernel to work was 2.6.2-1.84.  I'll
 > > check to see if someone has put it in bugzilla...
 > 
 > A friend has told me that reiser in FC is in debug mode !!

regardless, the extra debug code in reiserfs should still allow
the filesystem to be used. The reason it broke is likely the
sleep_on() fixes.

		Dave





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