Re: Linux 2.4.19pre1-ac1

[Jonathan Hudson]

In article <[e-mail]>,
	Alan Cox <[e-mail]> writes:
>> >> With 19-pre1-ac1 on a reiserfs partition I cannot patch a kernel. Patch
>> >> fails with "Invalid cross-device link" or "Out of disk space".
>> AF> 
>> AF> I can reproduce this too on ext2, so this does not seem to be FS related. 
>> 
>> Likewise (reiserfs here). Numerous fuzz or outright patch failures
>> with 2.4.19-pre1-ac1.
AC> 
AC> See the other mail for the questions - and reply to that too if you can. 
AC> Right now I've not managed to reproduce it. Do you see the problem on
AC> 2.4.19-pre1 (non -ac) [that has the same reiserfs changes in as -ac does]

There were no problems with 2.4.19-pre1, to which I reverted, pulled
the full 2.4.18, and patched back up to 2.4.19-pre1-ac2.

Booted into 2.4.19-pre1-ac2.

Patched back down to 2.4.18 and then back up to 2.4.19-pre1-ac2 again,
no problems seen.

Rebuilt 2.4.19-pre1-ac2 in 2.4.19-pre1-ac2. Reboot.

Ran the following twice.

for i in $(seq 1 10)
do 
 bzcat /net/tw/home/jrh/dl/patch-2.4.19-pre1-ac2.bz2 | patch -p1 -R
 bzcat /net/tw/home/jrh/dl/patch-2.4.19-pre1.bz2 | patch -p1 -R
 sleep 1
 bzcat /net/tw/home/jrh/dl/patch-2.4.19-pre1.bz2 | patch -p1  
 bzcat /net/tw/home/jrh/dl/patch-2.4.19-pre1-ac2.bz2 | patch -p1 
 echo "===========>" Step $i 
done

No problems seen. ac1 would have not have survived the above, so I'm
pretty sure that 2.4.19-pre1-ac2 has fixed the pre1 problems.