Re: Support for ReiserFS

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:30:27PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:54:00AM +0300, Yury Umanets wrote:
> > > > Runar Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > >Is there hope for ReiserFS support in libparted anytime soon?
> > > > >
> > > > It is there for few years already. You need to install progsreiserfs 
> > > > first 
> > > > (ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/libreiserfs/progsreiserfs-0.3.0.5.tar.gz) 
> > > > and 
> > > > then build parted with reiserfs support turned on.
> > > 
> > > But it seems that progsreiserfs is completely unmaintained or something, 
> > > at
> > 
> > Yury is the maintainer (previous poster) and he released the above version
> > "recently" (in April) that supposed to fix problems.
> 
> Ok, well, i didn't follow the whole story about it,

Me neither but now I checked the 0.3.0.5 Changelog:

0.3.0.5
2004-18-04 Yury Umanets <address@hidden>
    * changes in indentation in all the sources.
    * cleanups and small fixes.
    * added reiserfs_tree_check() which can be used for checking a
      partition before resizing.
    * changes in confiure.in

0.3.0.4
2003-01-10 Yury Umanets <address@hidden>
....

So I was wrong, there weren't any fixes, just an optional(?) tree check
before resizing.
 
> > In the past there were several corruption problems posted all over the 
> > net but only one here (not from debian) but I've never seen any usable
> > bug reports (exact error messages, versions used, etc).
> 
> You mean this one : 
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244169

Not this one, AFAIR it was a Gentoo user. But the above reports look
indeed serious, removing the package was righful.
 
> The problem is maybe with the debian maintainer of this package, which
> has let this RC bug open for 146 days, without ever interacting with
> it.

If I see correctly, it wasn't reported upstream.
 
> Sure, we probably need a new debian maintainer for progreiserfs, and
> then the problem could be solved. I won't do this, and it may even be
> too late this late in the debian release process, but one never
> knowes.

I also think it's too late.

BTW, parted. This "minor" issue is a dup of the closed, serious CHS issue
with 2.6 kernels: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250528

        Szaka