Re: reiser4 snapshot for August 26th.

[Hans Reiser]

Steven Cole wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:43, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:36:07PM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > > Disable "reiser4 system call" (CONFIG_REISER4_FS_SYSCALL) support, it is 
> > > > not ready.
> > > >        
> > > [...]
> > > arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0x7c4): In function `sys_call_table':
> > > : undefined reference to `sys_reiser4'
> > > make[2]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
> > > [...]
> > > CONFIG_REISER4_FS=m
> > >      
> > Building as module is also not yet supported.
> >
> >    
> Fine, then here's a patch:
>
> --- linux-2.6.0-test4-r4/fs/Kconfig.orig	2003-08-26 13:44:38.165059616 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test4-r4/fs/Kconfig	2003-08-26 13:46:43.672979512 -0600
> @@ -203,6 +203,9 @@
> 	tristate "Reiser4 (EXPERIMENTAL very fast general purpose filesystem)"
> 	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> 	---help---
> +	  Building as a module is not yet supported, so don't say 'M'
> +          unless you're a developer.
> +
> 	  Reiser4 is more than twice as fast for both reads and writes as
> 	  ReiserFS.  That means it is four times as fast as NTFS by Microsoft.
> 	  (Proper benchmarks will appear in a few months at
>
> Meanwhile, reiser4 seems to be working fine and is nice and fast.
>
> I did a "time bk -r co" for the current 2.6 tree, and here
> are the results for reiser4 and ext3 on 2.6.0-test4:
>
> Reiser4:
> real    1m55.077s
> user    0m30.740s
> sys     0m36.558s
>
> Ext3:
> real    3m48.438s
> user    0m26.400s
> sys     0m13.205s
>
> Steven
>
>
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>  
Better to disable it entirely.  Features too broken to compile should 
not be warned of, they should be invisible and not selectable in the 
menu.  Thanks Steven and Mike.

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Hans


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