From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois-Rene Rideau Subject: Re: mkreiserfs -s 1024 makes unmountable partitions Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:26:51 +0100 Sender: Francois-Rene Rideau Message-ID: <20030127112651.GA10556@hell.mine.nu> References: <20030118115142.B21932@namesys.com> <20030117221535.GA945@Kadath> <20030118080941.B5575@humilis> <20030118115724.GA946@Kadath> <20030121213336.GA6756@hell.mine.nu> <20030122065712.D5575@humilis> <20030122100342.GA14100@hell.mine.nu> <20030124222823.GA15643@hell.mine.nu> <20030126181816.GA1274@Kadath> <20030127095957.A22720@namesys.com> Reply-To: Francois-Rene Rideau Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030127095957.A22720@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:59:57AM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote: > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/patches/data-logging Thanks for the tip. Can you tell me which patches are needed? >> In any case, I think that it is a bug that mkreiserfs doesn't check >> the consistency of its parameters with what the kernel is able to handle. > No, that's not a bug. mkreiserfs cannot know if you are just making > a filesystem and planning to reboot into proper kernel later > (or even move the disk to other system). > Also it cannot detect if your current kernel have any patches applied or = not. Well, it could detect that the kernel version is under some version, issue a Warning that a patch is required wrt vanilla kernel of same version, and give a pointer to said patch -- that would completely solve the issue with newbies like me asking you this question. Thanks a lot for the support! [ Fran=E7ois-Ren=E9 =D0VB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tu= nes.org ] [ TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing System | http://tunes.org= ] A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. -- Alan Perlis