Silly me had the file mounted - forget I mentioned that one could not fsck reiser4 files. My apologies. On 11/16/07, Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/16/07, Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fr, 16.11.07 12:02 "Christopher Sawtell" <csawtell@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Can you remember the last kernel that worked? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > Dushan > > > > > > > > Unfortunately not for sure. I'm not even sure if it ever worked > > > > at all, to be honest. There were some old threads from 2003 > > > > saying that loop is not supported (yet). Did that ever change? > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > imogen ~ # uname -r > > > 2.6.22.9 > > > imogen ~ # cd /media/Isos/Debian/ > > > imogen Debian # mount -o loop -t iso9660 > > > Debian-Etch-4.0-r1-Binary-1-20070819.iso /mnt/tmp > > > imogen Debian # ls /mnt/tmp > > > README.html README.txt debian install md5sum.txt > > > tools README.mirrors.html autorun.bat dists install.386 pics > > > README.mirrors.txt autorun.inf doc isolinux pool > > > > > > But it's broken for linux-2.6.23.1 > > > > > > If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to > > > ask. > > > > > > > So which version of reiser4 patch, progs etc do you use? > > > > Edward wrote, it never did. Now.. WTF? :) > > Odd isn't it, but the attached log is a pretty convincing > demonstration to me, and it will mount .iso files fine too. Somebody > must have corrected what turned out to be a tiny bug and never > documented it. > > However you cannot fsck.reiser4 the filesystem in the file:- > imogen tester # fsck.reiser4 --check opt.img > Fatal: The partition (opt.img) is mounted with write permissions, > cannot fsck it. > imho that should be fixed sometime. > > The patch against 2.6.22.9 is reiser4-for-2.6.22-2.patch.gz > size: 619987 > md5sum: f7060338c6b3f59a8b6aeee59e15f7a5 > > The patch against linux-2.6.23.1 is reiser4-for-2.6.23.patch.bz2 > size: 447704 > md5sum: 818328d0e50fc90f05832e680562dd4a > > ( Just so we all know exactly what I'm doing :-) > > The utility programs are reiser4progs-1.0.6.tar.gz > size: 799613 > > btw, There was a bug which showed up if you tried to over fill the > file system using either bittorrent or rsync. The filesystem used to > get seriously discombobulated. I haven't been game to try to trigger > it recently. > > Has that been been fixed? > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
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