On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:08:58PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:38:43PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > It's really offtopic, but I have to correct obviously wrong statements.
> >
> > > While I'm here does anyone know anything about the 2 problems I
> > > descibed above.
> > >
> > > 1. No LFS support in reiser ( I know this ain't a reiser list. Sorry)
> >
> > The reiserfs 3.6 that got merged into 2.4 supports files >2GB when you
> > let it convert the disk to a new disk format (this implies that 2.2
> > reiserfs cannot read it anymore)
>
> I realize reiser 3.(something) will be in 2.4.1 kernel. It's not in the
> 2.4.0 that I just got. The reiser patch I used was 3.6.25. It
> was the latest they had on thier site. What do you mean "convert the
> disk
> to a new format" I have been reading (reiser list archives) and my
> problem
> with reiser almost seems to be a gcc revision problem. The Doc/Changes
There are no known reiserfs/gcc bugs (at least not known to me)
> in
> the src tree implies not to use 2.95.2 but to use 2.91.rr so I went back
> to that revision for kernel compile. My dist is SuSE 6.4 + updates.
> Maybe
> I should go back to 2.95.2 from SuSE? I've also read the XFS doesn't
> like
> 2.95.2 so maybe the answer to the original posters question, is that the
2.95.SuSE-7.0/6.4 doesn't generate a working XFS for me.
> two filesystems cannot coexsist at this time and function properly. I'll
> have to try 2.95.2 gcc when I get home and see if it matters. Back to
> "convert the disk to a new format", what do you mean. Maybe I just left
> out a step???
When the disk was created using reiser 3.5 on 2.2. The 3.6 reiserfs
will read/write it, but not support files >2GB. When you mount it with
the "conv" option it'll convert the disk to 3.6 format and support big files,
but you cannot go back to 2.2 anymore.
I see no reason why reiserfs and xfs shouldn't work in the same kernel,
except that it may OOM a bit faster because lots of memory can be pinned by
both.
-Andi
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