Jaroslav Fojtik wrote: > Dear Jeff Mahoney, > > >>> Ok, please, have the 2.6.24.7 kernel and reiserfsprogs-3.6.21 >>> to format a partition: >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/reiserfs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.21.tar.gz >>> Catch all kernel messages and describe steps to reproduce the crash. >>> >> Since reiserfsprogs 3.6.21 doesn't support block sizes < 4k, he'll be >> unable to. >> > > I would like to ask you - I have made windiff 3.6.19 and 3.6.21 and I have noted > several changes. > > I can comment this piece of code if you really want to catch and fix > a problem found: > } else if (blocksize < 4096) { > reiserfs_warning (stderr, "Block sizes smaller than 4k " > "are not supported.\n"); > return 0; > } > > I do not know why these block sizes has been disabled - stability? speed? > Overflowing block count? > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9108 Reiserfs has never worked properly with small blocksizes, and it was unpleasant surprise when I saw that it is enabled again in reiserfsprogs-3.6.19. IMHO there is no chances to make reiserfs work with 512K blocks. Other cases should be carefully debugged. Put in longterm todo. Edward. -- 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
