Re: Bug #152548: docs about reiserfsprogs is confused

[Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>]

> > this is the last of the known ones, i'd like to make the package as clean
> > as possible, next release of debian distribution doesn't look too far
> > (BTW, any chance to have 3.6.12 soon?).

yes, I think in a week or so.

> > thanks for your contribute to the debian project.
> >
> > cheers
> > domenico
>
> Package: reiserfsprogs
> Version: 3.x.1b-1
> Severity: normal

this is very old version, you should try the latest -- 3.6.11.

> Man reiserfsck mentions
>
>        2. Run reiserfsck --check --logfile check.log /dev/hda1. If
> reiserfsck --check exits with status 0 it  means
>        no errors were discovered.
>
> and then says
>
> TODO
>        Faster recovering, signal handling, i/o error handling, 
> return reasonable exit codes, etc.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> With -fy, exit status 0 is reported if filesystem is not found on
> specified disk. That seems like a bug.

As was mentioned in the man page exit codes were not always 
correct in that version, but it is already fixed in last versions.

I have also checked the exit code of 
	reiserfsck --check /dev/hda1
from 3.x.1b where /dev/hda1 was not the reiserfs. SuperBlock was 
not found and it was aboted -- 134 was returned.

Would you try it all again with 3.6.11 and email me about the results?

-- 
Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman