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From: | Sam Liddicott |
Subject: | Re: libparted trashes reiserfs and enjoys it! |
Date: | Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:27:16 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) |
Sven Luther wrote:
How long is your memory? Does it still eat filesystems for breakfast? libparted certainly does!On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:58:21AM +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:Please don't use progreiserfs/libparted even though http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ says it comes from namesys.com I've just been talking to Hans Reiser and all after loosing a load of data using qtparted who pointed out that it is NOT written by them and is buggy as hell. (Enough to lose my data anyway). They are pulling it off their ftp site to avoid misleading people, but can I respectifully suggest you shell out to resize_reiserfs to do the dirty work of resizing.Well, reiserfs has been known for eating filesystems for breakfast, as long as i can remember, just don't use it. Do you feel comfortable transferring your revulsion to reiserfs (which I find to be ok) to libparted which is most certainly not? If I provide the code that causes libparted to shell to resize_reiserfs instead of used the "guarnteed to hose your data" "3rd party and unmaintained" progreiserfs is it like to be accepted?Now, code is welcome to use reiserfsprog library and reimplement the reiserfs resizing support in libparted, but nobody seems to care enough about reiserfs to actually provide code. Will do, thanks,Please search the mailing list archive for past threads on the subject. Friendly, can we at least remove reiserfs support from libparted in the mean time? there is no virtue in shipping dangerous code just because some people think namesys also ship dangerous code. It's hardly a favour to trash my data "because reiserfs would have trashed it sooner or later anyway" Sam |
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