Re: Problems with journal size option on mkfs

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Yury Umanets wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
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>> Oleg Drokin wrote:
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>>> Hello!
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>>> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:12:40PM -0500, Steve Pratt wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>>   
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>>> 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.
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> progsreiserfs (libreiserfs for reiser3) could relocate and resize 
> journal three versions ago.
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and the kernel code....