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

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 1:53 PM +0200 6/3/05, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>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:
>
>Did you try withtout Jung-uk Kim's workaround?

The only thing I applied was your original patch, and then added
"options REISERFS" to my custom kernel configuration.  Note that
PPC is still a 32-bit architecture on FreeBSD, so I wouldn't see
anything which was a 64-bit issue.

>>Let me know if there's anything else I should test with it.
>
>... try this with `motd' (small file which fits inside a block,
>with its metadata):
>	. cp motd /tmp (mmap(2))
>	. compare md5 of motd and /tmp/motd (read(2))
>You may do it again with `ls' which spans multiple bocks (these
>two files are stored differently in ReiserFS).

(90) cd /mnt
(91) cp motd /tmp
(92) cp evanesnce.mp3 /tmp
(93) cp ls /tmp
(94) md5 -r evanesnce.mp3 ls motd
f431f46c2c3bae9b94172691a667eada evanesnce.mp3
c9ea68636b3bea3b5cac8205fd4417ef ls
2ffa53790de34b7561f5661fb7f22a1d motd

(95) cd /tmp
(96) md5 -r evanesnce.mp3 ls motd
f431f46c2c3bae9b94172691a667eada evanesnce.mp3
c9ea68636b3bea3b5cac8205fd4417ef ls
2ffa53790de34b7561f5661fb7f22a1d motd

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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