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From: Francesco Biscani <frbiscani@jumpy.it>
Subject: Re: fsck.reiser4 wrong size error (?)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 22:06:28 +0200
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Hi,

On Friday 13 August 2004 11:16, Alex Zarochentsev wrote:
> Changing fs root dir fibration plugin would do that if the root dir was
> empty. Current code does not allow it.
>
> So, the problen cannot be fully solved.  However, you can re-create all
> second level sub-directories and assign another fibration plugins to them.

Would something like this be appropriate:

# mkdir /bin_new
# echo -e "ext-1\0" > /bin_new/metas/plugin/fibration
# cp -a /bin/* /bin_new/
# rm -fr /bin
# mv /bin_new /bin

Could this break systems or applications that relies on mtimes or other 
file/dir attributes? (Gentoo's portage system comes to mind) The "-a" option 
of cp should make this safe IMO.

> fs/reiser4/vfs_opts.c:reiser4_parse_options contains opts[] -- an array of
> all reiser4 mount option descriptions.

I'll look into that. Thanks for the pointer.

Thanks very much for the reply,

  Francesco