Re: libparted trashes reiserfs and enjoys it!

[Sam Liddicott]

Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:

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.
  

True enough, I'm following a trail and got lax with details.
I was using http://www.sysresccd.org/ a few weeks ago, the latest image they had at the time which I think dates from 2004.
qtparted on that disk has
1) done a reiserfs resize but corrupted LOTS of files,
2) totally hosed the filesystem so that nothing could be recovered.

Other filesystems on the disk were left intact

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.

  

It would be good if he could also upload this latest version to
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/libreiserfs/

The version there is 18 months old. (Or have the old version removed)

I'm even more puzzled to see that Yury has a namesys email address.

The responsibility of "whose code" is starting to baffle me.
However I do endeavor to be helpful and get to the bottom of this, to prevent other people suffering what I did.

Sam