Re: libparted trashes reiserfs and enjoys it!

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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.

There wasn't anything in the email indicating reiserfs problem: zero
information like version numbers, error messages, old and new partition
table, etc.

It's a well known fact that QTParted sometimes needlessly shifts 
the partition start (when libparted uses the wrong geometry) and 
as a consequence the filesystem becomes inaccessible. This is 
always interpreted by the users as the fault of the filesystem 
resizer which is obviosly not true and things could be trivially 
restored.

> 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.

Yury, the maintainer, says no problem in the latest version and before
making bogus conslusions, it would be nice to know what version users use
and what is actually the problem.

        Szaka