Hi Edward, This patch is buggy, isn't it ? I've got 2 reiser4 FS in my /etc/fstab: /dev/vglinux1/lvkernel-r4 /home/laurent/kernel reiser4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime,tmgr.atom_max_size=2048 0 0 /dev/disk/by-uuid/b8dbe880-b664-49aa-8050-bddc91fd5e49 /mnt/diske reiser4 noauto,users,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 The first FS can't be mounted: [ 235.078342] reiser4[mount(4205)]: parse_options (fs/reiser4/init_super.c:253)[nikita-2307]: [ 235.078345] WARNING: Unrecognized option: "tmgr.atom_max_size=2048" although the second one can be mounted: [ 3152.046324] reiser4: sda7: found disk format 4.0.0. Let's have a look at the code in fs/reiser4/init_super.c: 392 int reiser4_init_super_data(struct super_block *super, char *opt_string) 393 { 394 int result; 395 struct opt_desc *opts, *p; 396 reiser4_super_info_data *sbinfo = get_super_private(super); 397 ... 442 p = opts; 443 444 push_sb_field_opts(p, opts, sbinfo); p is passed by value to push_sb_field(). push_sb_field() does increment its local copy of p, but here p remains equal to opts. ... 501 result = parse_options(opt_string, opts, p - opts); 3rd argument is 0 because p==opts. Now let's have a look at parse_options() 230 static int parse_options(char *opt_string, struct opt_desc *opts, int nr_opts) 231 { nr_opts always == 0 here. 232 int result; 233 234 result = 0; 235 while ((result == 0) && opt_string && *opt_string) { I assume opt_string is not null (opt_string == "tmgr.atom_max_size=2048" ?), so let's loop: 236 int j; 237 char *next; 244 for (j = 0; j < nr_opts; ++j) { nr_opts == 0, so we won't do any iteration here. 245 if (!strncmp(opt_string, opts[j].name, 246 strlen(opts[j].name))) { 247 result = parse_option(opt_string, &opts[j]); 248 break; 249 } 250 } here, j==0 and nr_opts==0. 251 if (j == nr_opts) { 252 warning("nikita-2307", "Unrecognized option: \"%s\"", 253 opt_string); 254 /* traditionally, -EINVAL is returned on wrong mount 255 option */ 256 result = RETERR(-EINVAL); oops ! ~~ laurent -- 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