Re: Support for ReiserFS

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

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.

> least it has been kicked out of debian/sarge recently because of bugginess,
> which forced me to remove reiserfs support in the compiled version of parted
> in debian sarge. 

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).

I understand Yury that he can't debug things if nobody tells him. E.g.
what if all users run it on a mounted partition and they ignored the
parted warning (fixed, it can't be ignored anymore) or it was used on
devfs but parted couldn't detect the mount state? There were such fixes 
in parted recently, AFAIR, but Debian still uses an old parted.

        Szaka