Re: [Next3-devel] ext4 snapshot merged to 3.1 kernel

[Amir G. <ami...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Greg Freemyer <gre...@gm...> wrote:
> Amir,
>
> I am now running kernel 3.1.0 with the ext4dev-kmp compiled from home:next4.

and this is the same kernel that worked fine with the kmp from filesystems repo?

>
> I tried xfstests "./check -g auto" from Aditya's git repo.
>
> It failed on both test 113 and 255.  That is on the first pass, so no
> snapshots were active.  I "assume" that the official ext4 in 3.1.0 doesn't
> fail, but I haven't tested it.

can you send the detailed error reports of those tests.

Thanks,
Amir.

>
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Greg Freemyer <gre...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Amir Goldstein <ami...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Amir Goldstein <ami...@gm...>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Greg Freemyer
>> >> <gre...@gm...> wrote:
>> >>> Amir,
>> >>>
>> >>> We currently have 2 KMP projects to be aware of:
>> >>>
>> >>> "filesystems/ext4dev-snapshots" is the released version which normal
>> >>> testers/people should be downloading from.  We need to do our best to
>> >>> keep it usable.
>> >>>
>> >>> "home:next4/ext4dev-snapshots" is the one that should only be used by
>> >>> the next4 team.
>> >>>
>> >>> I just uploaded your new patch to there and will see if it builds.
>> >>> (It was building last week with the old patch, but something happened
>> >>> to factory recently and our KMP no longer builds.
>> >>
>> >> That's my bad.
>> >> the patch ext4dev-trace.patch has an ugly ugly hack.
>> >> it has the absolute path of the OBS BUILD directory hardcoded in the
>> >> patch.
>> >> I just could find another way to make the KMP build properly.
>> >> Now OBS has changed the path from /usr/src/packages/BUILD
>> >> to /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD.
>> >> I will try to fix that by fixing the hardcoded path.
>> >>
>> >
>> > So now the module builds for Factory, but not for Thumbleweed,
>> > which still builds under /usr/src/packages/BUILD :-(
>> > I guess we can live with that problem for now...
>> >
>> > Amir.
>>
>> Tumbleweed will be moving on in the not too distant future to 3.2-rcx
>> etc., so it is not a good target for us.
>>
>> Let's just worry about factory/12.1.  12.1 should stick with 3.1 for
>> the next 18 months.
>>
>> Factory will move on two at some point, so 12.1 is our real target.
>> OBS just doesn't have full 12.1 repo support yet.
>>
>> I'll try to test this build in the next day or so, then push it to the
>> filesystem repo.
>>
>> Greg
>
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