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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with journal size option on mkfs
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:47:31 +0400
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To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Cc: Steve Pratt <slpratt@us.ibm.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Oleg Drokin wrote:

>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
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>
>  
>
journal resizing and relocating will go into the next pre1.

Hans