Re: PROBLEM: Reiser4 hard lockup

From: Edward Shishkin
Date: Mon Oct 26 2020 - 20:53:37 EST


On 10/26/2020 02:07 AM, David Niklas wrote:
I'll reply to both of you in this email.

On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 02:04:22 -0700 (PDT)
Metztli Information Technology <jose.r.r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Niltze, David-

A few observations are in order below:

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 1:39 PM David Niklas <Hgntkwis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello,

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reiser4progs 1.1.x Software Framework Release Number (SFRN) 4.0.1 file
system utilities should not be used to check/fix media formatted 'a
priori' in SFRN 4.0.2 and vice-versa.

Honestly, this is the first time I've heard about a Linux FS having
versioning other than a major one


This is because, unlike other Linux file systems, reiser4 is a
framework.

In vanilla kernel having a filesystem-as-framework is discouraged for
ideological reasons. As they explained: "nobody's interested in
plugins". A huge monolithic mess without any internal structure -
welcome :)