-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Mahoney wrote: > Edward Shishkin wrote: >> On 12/4/07, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Edward Shishkin wrote: >>>>> On 12/3/07, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Edward Shishkin wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi Jeff. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Personally, I don't object. >>>>>>>> What does official reservation mean? >>>>>>>> I can send a request to Hans, but I guess >>>>>>>> we'll receive his "yes" or "no" with substantial delay.. >>>>> I just mean that those 12 bytes in the superblock are guaranteed not to >>>>> be used for something else. Given the pace of reiserfs development, I >>>>> don't expect this to be a problem as there are 76 more of them. :) >>>>> >>>>>> Well, I promise to not use them for something else ;) >> Great. That's the assurance I was looking for. :) > >>>>>> It seems we need something like reiserfsprogs-3.6.20? >> I actually posted a patch against reiserfsprogs-3.6.20 that reserves the >> same fields. It also implements the use of those fields. I have an >> updated version that treats timestamps in the future as suspect and >> forces a check. I'll post the update later today. > >>> Sorry, I am a bit confused.. >>> The latest git version of reiserfsprogs is 3.6.19; >>> The latest website version is also 3.6.19. >>> At the same time I can google and see that some distros >>> use reiserfsprogs-3.6.20. >>> Suse 10.3 uses "reiserfs utility package" 3.6.19-92 >>> Also I remember that Vladimir worked on some version >>> of reiserfsprogs not so long ago. >>> Any ideas about really latest version? > > I think Vladimir must have released what he was working on as 3.6.20. > That's the latest version I downloaded from ftp.namesys.com. > > It reorganizes the code into a saner structure as well as cleans up the > code quite a bit. It also adds the > 8 TB support that I ended up > grafting onto 3.6.19 for our release. Just to follow up here, the 3.6.20 release must've been a work in progress. It's totally hosed on big endian machines. I'll repost those patches against 3.6.19, since I just had to backport them anyway. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHmOxsLPWxlyuTD7IRAt2/AKCFoobXXBjiyc50o46Lgp+iHMh7yQCfUwDM Ex6LTc+gkotgu4NfTfmtDj0= =U8tD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
