Re: Reiser4 Linux 4.17.19-1 hangs in Google cloud VM, too.

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Oct 22 2018 - 23:39:21 EST


On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 03:19:12AM -0700, Metztli Information Technology wrote:
> I installed reiser4 -enhanced Linux kernel 4.17.19-1 --thus replacing the prior hung reiser4 -patched kernel 4.18.15-1 in the Google Compute Engine (GCE) cloud instance. After less than 24 hours the 4.17.19-1 hung in similar way to the 4.18.15-1.
>
> Please note that I had been running my custom Metztli Reiser4 Debian Stretch image with reiser4 linux 4.14.20-1 without issues for several months
> < https://github.com/Metztli/reiser4-debian-kernel-packaging-4.14.20 > --until I decided to upgrade to newer kernel(s).

Er... Does anybody maintain reiser4 these days? I can't recall a single mail
along the lines of "such-and-such VFS/VM/scheduler/etc. change would break reiser4"
in quite a few years (more than a decade, most likely)...