Hi!
Since I found out that ktorrent working on reiser4 will end up in freezing the whole system I wanted to ask if anyone of the ktorrent developers reported that bug to namesys (the reiser4 development company)?
If somebody already told them, how did they react on this? Is there any way to run ktorrent on my reiser4 system? I definitely don't want to reformat using ext3/ext4. So is there anything new about this problem?

Thanks!

Haven't found the time yet to check out the bug. But monday or tuesday I should have some time.

I've downloaded several hundred gigabytes to a reiser4 drive. I'm running kernel 2.6.19.2 with no problems.
I have downloaded torrents with hundreds of files and some that are multigigabyte iso files. Neither one had problems.
My setup is that all my files run from a ext3 drive and various media files and torrents and whatever all go to one of several reiser4 drives.
I haven't had any trouble. Maybe the other poster has a older version. Or maybe his system overheated. Reiser4 is still new and there may be a few problems still.

I've just read your post, stormpunk.
So as far as I understand, you have ktorrent and the torrent files stored on an ext3 drive and only storing the downloaded files on an reiser4 partition. Is that right?
Well, I'm running my whole system on reiser4 (except the /boot partition which is ext3 because of Grubs lack of support for reiser4 atm). Maybe this is what makes the difference? When I'm storing the files on an ext3 partition everything works flawless. When running and storing on reiser4 only the systems start to freeze.
Afaik I also don't have an older version of reiser4. So I think it must be a bug running on a strict reiser4 system.....

But thanks for letting me know that it'll work using an ext3 reiser4 combination the other way around than I did.

Strange..... yesterday, I used Ktorrent on a fresh ext3 Archlinux system saving the files directly on a separate reiser4 partition. And after some time (it took longer than my plain reiser4 system) it also froze and the system wasn't reaction at all. So I don't know whether it's a bug on Archlinux or a reiser4 bug or a bug in Ktorrent.

George, did you test running ktorrent on an reiser4 system yet? Maybe you can find out what's going on....

BTW: After saving the files on an ext3 partition and not using reiser4 at all also worked this time....

Perhaps you have adaptive readahead enabled?

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-54 ... 0da15a3f27

Well, I don't think that adaptive readahead is enabled.
After reading the topic in the gentoo forum i wanted to do a

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echo 70 > /proc/sys/vm/readahead_ratio


but the file doesn't exist. So it must be something else....

Nevertheless thanks a lot for this information!

Why the **** does ubuntu has reiser4 kernel modules for all architectures except for amd64 ????

****, now I have to start compiling kernels.

jdong@severance:~$ find /lib/modules -name "*reiser4*"
jdong@severance:~$

Ubuntu does not have any reiser4 support in its kernel, for any architecture.

jdong wrote:

jdong@severance:~$ find /lib/modules -name "*reiser4*"
jdong@severance:~$

Ubuntu does not have any reiser4 support in its kernel, for any architecture.

They don't, my apologies, thought the packages on the website I found, were official.

Still annoying that they don't have amd64 package.