[CALL FOR TESTERS] ReiserFS on non-i386 hardware patch

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Thu Jun 2 18:28:08 PDT 2005


At 11:55 AM +0200 6/1/05, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I made a patch that should fix portability issues of ReiserFS but I
>don't have access to all platforms supported by FreeBSD. I tested it
>on sparc64 and Olivier Houchard tried it on arm.
>
>I would like to know if someone could test it and report any success
>or failure?

I tried it on PowerPC.  Following the instructions given by
Jung-uk Kim <jkim at niksun.com>, it looks like it is working okay
for me:

(68) # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f REISERFS -u 0
(69) # mount_reiserfs /dev/md0 /mnt

(70) # ls -l /mnt
total 8056
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       96 Aug  6  2004 Evanescence/
drwxr-xr-x  5 1000  1000       120 Sep  1  2004 GNUstep/
-rw-r--r--  1 1000  1000   4548644 Aug 23  2004 Shrek.mp3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       27 Sep  1  2004 
dir_symlink@ -> GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       41 Sep  1  2004 
evanesnce.mp3@ -> Evanescence/Evanescence - My 
Immortal.mp3
-rw-r--r--  2 1000  1000      3176 Sep  1  2004 file_hardlink
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel       23 Sep  1  2004 
file_symlink@ -> GNUstep/Defaults/WPrefs
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3680076 Oct 28  2004 ls*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       70 Aug  6  2004 motd

(71) # ls -lL /mnt
total 16605
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       96 Aug  6  2004 Evanescence/
drwxr-xr-x  5 1000  1000       120 Sep  1  2004 GNUstep/
-rw-r--r--  1 1000  1000   4548644 Aug 23  2004 Shrek.mp3
drwxr-xr-x  9 1000  1000      1528 Sep  1  2004 dir_symlink/
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  8737899 Aug  6  2004 evanesnce.mp3
-rw-r--r--  2 1000  1000      3176 Sep  1  2004 file_hardlink
-rw-r--r--  1 1000  1000       424 Sep  1  2004 file_symlink
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3680076 Oct 28  2004 ls*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       70 Aug  6  2004 motd

(72) # mount
/dev/ad0s5 on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/md0 on /mnt (reiserfs, local, read-only)
(73) # umount /mnt
(74) # mdconfig -d -u 0

Let me know if there's anything else I should test with it.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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