Thanks, that did it. Actually I also disabled kwallet in the geneneral settings as well (the other tab besides access controls), have not seen anything adverse yet... d. On Wednesday 14 December 2005 07:05, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi,
Have you formatted your RAID volume as Reiser4 root? BTW, did you compile Reiser4 support into SuSE kernel yourself?
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:21, Sbs Bofh wrote:
SuSE 10.0 ships with Reiser4 support as optional packages ( reiser4progs-1.0.4-2 and libaal-1.0.4-2). I'm aware that Reiser4 is not in the stock kernel yet and that its inclusion seems to be a slightly contentious issue.
...however...
on a test machine I've been putting Reiser4 through its paces. The box is AMD64-powered, boots from an IDE drive and has a 3ware RAID controller with 4x 300GB drives, as a RAID5 array w/ hot spare. The entire /dev/sda device was set up in to LVM2 and there's a 838GB Reiser4 filesystem on it.
So far, so good. I've loaded hundreds of GB of data and set up a mailserver with Maildirs and I have to say the performance is impressive.
EXCEPT, I get fairly regular corruption on the Reiser4 filesystem, which can only be fixed with a "fsck.reiser4 --build-fs" (although it does fix the corruption and I haven't yet found any evidence of lost data - lost+found is always empty).
After contacting Vitaly Fertman at Namesys for assistance it appears that this is due to an issue with "plugin set fields" (his words) in the 1.0.4version of the Reiser4 bits and he recommended I upgrade to 1.0.5.
Are the 1.0.4 > 1.0.5 changes likely to be backported by SuSE into reiser4progs-1.0.4-2 and updated packages released? Should I be filing a bug on this somewhere, or will the SuSE people already know about this? Can anyone confirm what version of Reiser4 tools is in the latest OpenSuSE 10.1alpha?
I really don't want to get into building packages myself - the whole point of our evaluation is to test out Reiser4 for use on production machines and we're not going to be building Reiser4 ourselves for a production machine even if the performance is great :-)
If OpenSuSE 10.1 has the 1.0.5 Reiser4 tools then I might as well upgrade the box to OpenSuSE 10.1 for our testing, even if it is still an alpha release.
Thanks in advance for any advice,
James