Re: bugreport concerning progsreiserfs

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, B.Hakvoort wrote:

> Well, here are the bugs i've found so far.. i'm able to reproduce them
> any time i want. Only tested on one box though..

I can confirm. I could reproduce the same corruptions by downloading the
CD version of RIP version 11.4 and using it on an empty disk (loop device,
whatever):
        
        http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

> SYSTEMINFO:
> - Linux version 2.6.8.1 (address@hidden) (gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo
> Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6))

Kernel 2.6.9. As previously discussed, most people reporting these
corruptions were using Gentoo but there were some Debian users too. 
RIP isn't based on anything.

> - parted 1.6.15 (unpatched)

1.6.15, AFAIK unpatched.

> - progsreiserfs 0.3.0.5

0.3.0.4
 
> BUG:
> - create a partition with a reiserfs filesystem of any size:
>   (in parted UI)
>   mkpartfs primary reiserfs 0 5000

Exactly the same command.
 
> - Scan this partition with reiserfsck from the 'official' package:
>   reiserfsck /dev/hdd1
> ---OUTPUT--------------------------------------------------
> reiserfsck 3.6.18 (2003 www.namesys.com)

3.6.19

> Zero bit found in on-disk bitmap after the last valid bit.
> Checking internal tree..finished
> Comparing bitmaps..vpf-10640: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps
> differs.
> Checking Semantic tree:
> finished
> 2 found corruptions can be fixed when running with --fix-fixable

Exactly the same error message.

I also made some other tests, randomly. The results were quite scary. 
For example after resizing reiserfs, Parted started to crash using 
'print' (float point exception), reiserfstune segfaulted, reiserfsck
quited without any messages (sometimes actually even before resizing
reiserfs) and so on.

        Szaka