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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with journal size option on mkfs
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:16:11 +0400
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To: Steve Pratt <slpratt@us.ibm.com>
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Hello!

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:12:40PM -0500, Steve Pratt wrote:

> I am in the process of writing a File System Interface Module (FSIM) for
> EVMS that will interface with ReiserFS and am having a problem with the -s
> (journal size) option on mkfs.reiserfs.  The problem is that if I specify
> any journal size the mkfs fails.  By fails, what I mean is that the device
> is not mountable, I don't actually get any error message from mkfs.  This
> happens even when I give it the default size of 8193 blocks.  I didn't see

This is because non-standard journal support is only included in 2.5 kernel
series.
2.4 support is available as separate patch for now.

Bye,
    Oleg