Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Nikita Danilov]

Dieter NЭtzel writes:
 > Sorry Nikita,
 > 
 > but kernel 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-N do _NOT_ boot for me.
 > I've tried it with "old" and "new" (current) N-inode-attrs.patch. But that doesn't matter.
 > 
 > [-]
 > IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
 > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
 > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
 > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:03) ...
 > Using r5 hash to sort names
 > ReiserFS version 3.6.25
 > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
 > Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
 > "Warning: unable to open an initial console." 

N-inode-attrs.patch uses previously unused field in reiserfs on-disk
inode structure to store inode attributes. It seems that in some cases
this field actually contains garbage. It may happen that you have got
immutable bit for your console device this way.

As a work around try to boot with ext2, do

lsattr /dev/console to check, and run 

chattr -R -SAadiscu /reiserfs-mount-point

for each reiserfs file system to clear all attributes. Yes, it's silly.

 > 
 > SysRq: Show Regs
 > 
 > Pid: 1, comm: init
 > EIP: 0023 : [<0804c842>] CPU: 0 ESP: 002b:bffffe10 EFLAGS: 00010246 Not tainted
 > EAX: ffffffff EBX: bfffff00 ECX: 0000000d EDX: ffffffff
 > ESI: bffffef4 EDI: 00000002 EBP: bffffe78 DS: 002b ES: 002b
 > CR0: 8005003b CR2: 080609c0 CR3: 27adc000 CR4: 000002d0
 > Call Trace:
 > 
 > SysRq: Show State
 > 
 > init, keventd, ksoftirqd_CPU, kswapd, bdflush, kupdated, scsi_eh_0, kreiserfsd
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 	Dieter
 > -- 
 > Dieter NЭtzel
 > Graduate Student, Computer Science
 > @home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de

Nikita.

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Andreas Dilger]

On Nov 21, 2001  11:49 +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Dieter NJtzel writes:
>  > but kernel 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-N do _NOT_ boot for me.
>  > I've tried it with "old" and "new" (current) N-inode-attrs.patch.
>  > But that doesn't matter.
>  > 
>  > [-]
>  > IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
>  > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
>  > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
>  > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:03) ...
>  > Using r5 hash to sort names
>  > ReiserFS version 3.6.25
>  > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
>  > Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
>  > "Warning: unable to open an initial console." 
> 
> N-inode-attrs.patch uses previously unused field in reiserfs on-disk
> inode structure to store inode attributes. It seems that in some cases
> this field actually contains garbage. It may happen that you have got
> immutable bit for your console device this way.

Hmm, this may be a kernel bug also, in a way.  I don't know if ext2
allows you to set attributes on char/block special files, but if it
does, then the "immutable" attribute should _probably_ apply to
changing the device inode, rather than writing to the device itself.

In any case, it is also a bad thing to leave garbage in unused parts of
on-disk data structs for just this reason, so mkreiserfs should zero
everything that is unused inside allocated structs (and the kernel too,
because reiserfs allocates inode tables dynamically, right?).

Cheers, Andreas
--
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Ed Tomlinson]

On November 21, 2001 03:16 am, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> In any case, it is also a bad thing to leave garbage in unused parts of
> on-disk data structs for just this reason, so mkreiserfs should zero
> everything that is unused inside allocated structs (and the kernel too,
> because reiserfs allocates inode tables dynamically, right?).

Also reiserfsck?  It would be nice if it cleaned too...

Ed Tomlinson

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Stuart Young]

At 11:24 AM 21/11/01 +0100, Dieter Nützel wrote:
>Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 11:02 schrieb Nikita Danilov:
>
> > Yes, it's right, but currently we have what we have currently. I am
> > going to extend inode-attrs.patch and add new mount option
> > "noattrs". With it ioctls to set and get attributes will continue to
> > work, but attributes themselves will not have any effect. Then, one can
> > boot with "rootflags=noattrs" and read-write root, clear all attributes
> > by chattr -R and remount root.
>
>After I've 'booted  into single user mode with "linux rootflags=noattrs" I
>could change my archives but _NOT_ /dev/console the right way. After the
>second reboot I got the warning and kernel hang, again. Something wrong 
>with your patch or my installation?

Erm, while disabling set and get as a nice idea, you only need to disable 
get. Disabling set will mean you 'cannot' reset the file that is causing 
the problem, because chattr won't actually be able to do what you want.

I haven't looked at the code that chattr uses either, but you may want to 
check at HOW it sets/resets values.

eg: Does it read in the value, change the bit and write it out again, or 
does it just change that bit? If it reads and get is disabled, well then 
you would want to make sure you set the 'full value' that needs to be 
there. Not a bug so much as something that just needs to be documented.


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Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Nikita Danilov]

Andreas Dilger writes:
 > On Nov 21, 2001  11:49 +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
 > > Dieter NJtzel writes:
 > >  > but kernel 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-N do _NOT_ boot for me.
 > >  > I've tried it with "old" and "new" (current) N-inode-attrs.patch.
 > >  > But that doesn't matter.
 > >  > 
 > >  > [-]
 > >  > IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
 > >  > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
 > >  > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
 > >  > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:03) ...
 > >  > Using r5 hash to sort names
 > >  > ReiserFS version 3.6.25
 > >  > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
 > >  > Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
 > >  > "Warning: unable to open an initial console." 
 > > 
 > > N-inode-attrs.patch uses previously unused field in reiserfs on-disk
 > > inode structure to store inode attributes. It seems that in some cases
 > > this field actually contains garbage. It may happen that you have got
 > > immutable bit for your console device this way.
 > 
 > Hmm, this may be a kernel bug also, in a way.  I don't know if ext2
 > allows you to set attributes on char/block special files, but if it
 > does, then the "immutable" attribute should _probably_ apply to
 > changing the device inode, rather than writing to the device itself.
 > 
 > In any case, it is also a bad thing to leave garbage in unused parts of
 > on-disk data structs for just this reason, so mkreiserfs should zero
 > everything that is unused inside allocated structs (and the kernel too,
 > because reiserfs allocates inode tables dynamically, right?).

Yes, it's right, but currently we have what we have currently. I am
going to extend inode-attrs.patch and add new mount option
"noattrs". With it ioctls to set and get attributes will continue to
work, but attributes themselves will not have any effect. Then, one can
boot with "rootflags=noattrs" and read-write root, clear all attributes
by chattr -R and remount root.

I put new version of the patch in the same place, Dieter, can you please
try it?

 > 
 > Cheers, Andreas

Nikita.

 > --
 > Andreas Dilger
 > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
 > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Dieter Nützel]

Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 11:02 schrieb Nikita Danilov:

> Yes, it's right, but currently we have what we have currently. I am
> going to extend inode-attrs.patch and add new mount option
> "noattrs". With it ioctls to set and get attributes will continue to
> work, but attributes themselves will not have any effect. Then, one can
> boot with "rootflags=noattrs" and read-write root, clear all attributes
> by chattr -R and remount root.
>
> I put new version of the patch in the same place, Dieter, can you please
> try it?

So here it goes.
You made one mistake in your README file:

[-]
        chattr -R -SAadiscu /reiserfs-mount-point

    for each reiserfs file system. Said garbage on root file-system can
    prevent system from booting (for example spurious immutable flag on
    /dev/console) to work around this, new mount option
    "noattrs" is provided. With it chattr and lsattr still work, but
    attributes don't have any actual effect. So, boot system with
        "rootflags=noattr", clear all attributes and reboot or remount root
        file system.
[-]

You've forgotten the little "s"  but had it right in your post.

After I've 'booted  into single user mode with "linux rootflags=noattrs" I 
could change my archives but _NOT_ /dev/console the right way. After the 
second reboot I got the warning and kernel hang, again. Something wrong with 
your patch or my installation?

SunWave1 /# l /dev/console
crw-------    1 root     root       5,   1 Nov 21 11:01 /dev/console
SunWave1 /# lsattr /dev/console
lsattr: Invalid argument While reading flags on /dev/console

Two other FS in /dev have some problems, too. But I think that is right.

SunWave1 /# chattr -R -SAadiscu /dev/
chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /dev//pts
chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /dev//shm

All the files in /proc show the same.

Here comes a little positive example, I think.

SunWave1 /# lsattr /tmp/
----------X-j /tmp//xwlog
--------B-X-j /tmp//kde-nuetzel
------------- /tmp//dcop6SKhoM
---------D-Ej /tmp//YaST2.tdir
----------XEj /tmp//ksocket-root
--------B-X-j /tmp//mcop-nuetzel
--------B--Ej /tmp//kde-root
--------B-X-j /tmp//ksocket-nuetzel
--------B--Ej /tmp//INSTALL
--------BD-Ej /tmp//modules.conf.-
---------DX-j /tmp//vi.recover
--------BD-Ej /tmp//mcop-root
------------j /tmp//lost+found
--------BD-Ej /tmp//modules.conf

What next?

Thanks,
	Dieter

PS Have you read about the latest ACL discussion on LKML?

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Nikita Danilov]

Dieter NЭtzel writes:
 > Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 11:02 schrieb Nikita Danilov:
 > 
 > > Yes, it's right, but currently we have what we have currently. I am
 > > going to extend inode-attrs.patch and add new mount option
 > > "noattrs". With it ioctls to set and get attributes will continue to
 > > work, but attributes themselves will not have any effect. Then, one can
 > > boot with "rootflags=noattrs" and read-write root, clear all attributes
 > > by chattr -R and remount root.
 > >
 > > I put new version of the patch in the same place, Dieter, can you please
 > > try it?
 > 
 > So here it goes.
 > You made one mistake in your README file:
 > 
 > [-]
 >         chattr -R -SAadiscu /reiserfs-mount-point
 > 
 >     for each reiserfs file system. Said garbage on root file-system can
 >     prevent system from booting (for example spurious immutable flag on
 >     /dev/console) to work around this, new mount option
 >     "noattrs" is provided. With it chattr and lsattr still work, but
 >     attributes don't have any actual effect. So, boot system with
 >         "rootflags=noattr", clear all attributes and reboot or remount root
 >         file system.
 > [-]
 > 
 > You've forgotten the little "s"  but had it right in your post.
 > 
 > After I've 'booted  into single user mode with "linux rootflags=noattrs" I 
 > could change my archives but _NOT_ /dev/console the right way. After the 
 > second reboot I got the warning and kernel hang, again. Something wrong with 
 > your patch or my installation?

Something is wrong with my head, it looks. Well, the simplest way to get
it working is 

chattr -SAadiscu /dev
rm /dev/console
mknod /dev/console c 5 1
chmod 700 /dev/console

this way /dev/console will be recreated and attributes of parent
directory "/dev" will be inherited.

 > 
 > SunWave1 /# l /dev/console
 > crw-------    1 root     root       5,   1 Nov 21 11:01 /dev/console
 > SunWave1 /# lsattr /dev/console
 > lsattr: Invalid argument While reading flags on /dev/console
 > 
 > Two other FS in /dev have some problems, too. But I think that is right.
 > 
 > SunWave1 /# chattr -R -SAadiscu /dev/
 > chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /dev//pts
 > chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /dev//shm
 > 
 > All the files in /proc show the same.
 > 
 > Here comes a little positive example, I think.
 > 
 > SunWave1 /# lsattr /tmp/
 > ----------X-j /tmp//xwlog
 > --------B-X-j /tmp//kde-nuetzel
 > ------------- /tmp//dcop6SKhoM
 > ---------D-Ej /tmp//YaST2.tdir
 > ----------XEj /tmp//ksocket-root
 > --------B-X-j /tmp//mcop-nuetzel
 > --------B--Ej /tmp//kde-root
 > --------B-X-j /tmp//ksocket-nuetzel
 > --------B--Ej /tmp//INSTALL
 > --------BD-Ej /tmp//modules.conf.-
 > ---------DX-j /tmp//vi.recover
 > --------BD-Ej /tmp//mcop-root
 > ------------j /tmp//lost+found
 > --------BD-Ej /tmp//modules.conf
 > 
 > What next?
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 	Dieter
 > 
 > PS Have you read about the latest ACL discussion on LKML?

Yes, but Hans thinks we shouldn't do ACL reiserfs 3.x and concentrate on
v4 in stead. You can try to persuade him though. Same for extended
attributes.

Nikita.

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Jeff Mahoney]

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:18:21PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Dieter Nützel writes:
>  > PS Have you read about the latest ACL discussion on LKML?
> 
> Yes, but Hans thinks we shouldn't do ACL reiserfs 3.x and concentrate on
> v4 in stead. You can try to persuade him though. Same for extended
> attributes.

    I started to write ACL support based on Andreas Grünbacher's patches at
    http://acl.bestbits.at a few months ago. Since there was no decided upon
    format, I stopped development so that I wouldn't leave non-standard
    filesystems in my wake. Once the ACL/EA format/API is finalized, I'll
    probably continue development on it.

    On a more technical note, adding a new item type, such as an
    extended attribute item will cause problems for implementations that
    don't know about them. An idea kicked around a few months ago was to
    simply change the version string so that implementations that don't
    know about ACL support can't mount the new version. "can't mount"
    could conceivably be changed to "can only mount read-only", but certainly
    not read-write, since non-solid items need special handling (every item
    but stat data is non-solid).

    This creates the following scenario:
    * Versions that don't know about the new version string will
      refuse to mount the fs.
    * Versions that know about the new version, but don't implement support
      will be read-only. This is because items get moved during balancing, even
      to un-related items. Knowledge of the inside non-solid items is required
      to move them around. So, even if there is a single ACL on the system, in
      some deep directory, it could affect balancing (cause a panic).
    * Versions that know about the new version, and implement support will
      be read-write.

    I see something along the lines of EXT2's compatibility matrix happening
    here, but due to the inherent incompatibilities, this may not be a prime
    candidate for 2.4 inclusion.

    -Jeff

-- 
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jeffm@suse.com         |    from being the villain in a James Bond movie."
jeffm@csh.rit.edu      |                   -- Dennis Miller

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Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Dieter Nützel]

Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 01:47 schrieb Dieter Nützel:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 01:07 schrieb Dieter Nützel:
> > Sorry Nikita,
> >
> > but kernel 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-N do _NOT_ boot for me.
> > I've tried it with "old" and "new" (current) N-inode-attrs.patch. But
> > that doesn't matter.
> >
> > [-]
> > IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
> > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
> > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:03) ...
> > Using r5 hash to sort names
> > ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
> > "Warning: unable to open an initial console."
> >
> OK, I've found it.
>
> N-inode-attrs.patch (both versions) is broken. After I've backed it out
> 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-M is up and running.

Apart from the above problems with the new N-inode-attrs.patch
2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS patches A-M flies.

dbench/dbench> time ./dbench 32
32 clients started
...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................+....++.......+........+....+...++...++++.++.++++...++..++++++++++.++********************************
Throughput 43.2101 MB/sec (NB=54.0126 MB/sec  432.101 MBit/sec)
13.880u 51.700s 1:38.77 66.3%   0+0k 0+0io 937pf+0w

Dbench 32 is 10 seconds and nearly 3 MB/sec faster then all kernels I've 
tried before.

Thanks Andrea, Linus and the whole ReiserFS team.

-Dieter

BTW If only the little MP3 playback (Noatun, KDE-2.2.2) hiccup after 9-10 
seconds of the dbench test would disappear. I think we need IO reservation or 
priority, no?

BTW2 Dear ReiserFS team have you read the thread about ACLs/extended file 
attributes on LKML lately?

Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Dieter Nützel]

Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 01:07 schrieb Dieter Nützel:
> Sorry Nikita,
>
> but kernel 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-N do _NOT_ boot for me.
> I've tried it with "old" and "new" (current) N-inode-attrs.patch. But that
> doesn't matter.
>
> [-]
> IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:03) ...
> Using r5 hash to sort names
> ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
> "Warning: unable to open an initial console."
>
> SysRq: Show Regs
>
> Pid: 1, comm: init
> EIP: 0023 : [<0804c842>] CPU: 0 ESP: 002b:bffffe10 EFLAGS: 00010246 Not
> tainted EAX: ffffffff EBX: bfffff00 ECX: 0000000d EDX: ffffffff
> ESI: bffffef4 EDI: 00000002 EBP: bffffe78 DS: 002b ES: 002b
> CR0: 8005003b CR2: 080609c0 CR3: 27adc000 CR4: 000002d0
> Call Trace:
>
> SysRq: Show State
>
> init, keventd, ksoftirqd_CPU, kswapd, bdflush, kupdated, scsi_eh_0,
> kreiserfsd

OK, I've found it.

N-inode-attrs.patch (both versions) is broken. After I've backed it out 
2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-M is up and running.

-Dieter

Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Dieter Nützel]

Sorry Nikita,

but kernel 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-N do _NOT_ boot for me.
I've tried it with "old" and "new" (current) N-inode-attrs.patch. But that doesn't matter.

[-]
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:03) ...
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
"Warning: unable to open an initial console." 

SysRq: Show Regs

Pid: 1, comm: init
EIP: 0023 : [<0804c842>] CPU: 0 ESP: 002b:bffffe10 EFLAGS: 00010246 Not tainted
EAX: ffffffff EBX: bfffff00 ECX: 0000000d EDX: ffffffff
ESI: bffffef4 EDI: 00000002 EBP: bffffe78 DS: 002b ES: 002b
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 080609c0 CR3: 27adc000 CR4: 000002d0
Call Trace:

SysRq: Show State

init, keventd, ksoftirqd_CPU, kswapd, bdflush, kupdated, scsi_eh_0, kreiserfsd

Thanks,
	Dieter
-- 
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Graduate Student, Computer Science
@home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de

Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Stuart Young]

At 01:07 AM 21/11/01 +0100, Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= wrote:
>Sorry Nikita,
>
>but kernel 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-N do _NOT_ boot for me.
>I've tried it with "old" and "new" (current) N-inode-attrs.patch. But that 
>doesn't matter.
>
>[-]
>IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
>reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:03) ...
>Using r5 hash to sort names
>ReiserFS version 3.6.25
>VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
>Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
>"Warning: unable to open an initial console."

Sure you compiled in Virtual Console support, or Serial Console support?


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Re: [REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Dieter Nützel]

Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2001 01:24 schrieb Stuart Young:
> At 01:07 AM 21/11/01 +0100, Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= wrote:
> >Sorry Nikita,
> >
> >but kernel 2.4.15-pre7 + preempt + ReiserFS A-N do _NOT_ boot for me.
> >I've tried it with "old" and "new" (current) N-inode-attrs.patch. But that
> >doesn't matter.
> >
> >[-]
> >IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
> >TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
> >NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> >reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:03) ...
> >Using r5 hash to sort names
> >ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> >VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
> >Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
> >"Warning: unable to open an initial console."
>
> Sure you compiled in Virtual Console support, or Serial Console support?

My .config is the same like the one for 2.4.15-pre6-preempt. So, yes, like 
I've did it for ages...;-)

Thanks,
	Dieter

PS I am fiddling around with the other new ReiserFS patches, now.

[REISERFS TESTING] new patches on ftp.namesys.com: 2.4.15-pre7

[Nikita Danilov]

Hello,

new reiserfs patches are available for testing at

ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.4/2.4.15-pre7.pending/

Description is in README file.

Nikita.