On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hi
>> I have install the  kernel using the Centosplus repo .. currenlly the kernel
>> is
>> 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.centos.plus
>> but how would i know if that patch is fixed in this version of the kernel
>>  as mentioned in http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3156
>> --
>> Regards
>> Agnello D'souza
>
> How about reading  the bug you linked where it states quite explicitly
> that it was fixed in the 5.3 centos plus kernel
> (2.6.18-128.el5.centos.plus) and recognising the version number as
> previous to the one you just installed...
>
> James

And if you wish to confirm that the patch is in the current centosplus
kernel you are running, issue a command:

rpm -q --changelog kernel-`uname -r` | more

You will find this line:

- added reiserfs patch (bug3156)

somewhere near the top of the output.

Akemi
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Thanks so much i was able to confirm it !!
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here what i did


refer http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus

edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
search [centosplus]
enabled=1
includepkgs=kernel* jfsutils reiserfs-utils


yum --enablerepo=centosplus install kernel


cat /proc/filesystems |grep reiser


possible that kernel module and not yet loaded.

 modprobe reiserfs



--
Regards
Agnello D'souza