reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

   Sigh, this is the out-of-schedule bugfix release that we release
   because reiserfsprogs-3.6.5 and reiserfsprogs-3.6.6 introduced one additional
   check that is not necessary, but breaks on old filesystems (the journal
   parameters check) and lots of users are affected.
   The only change in this release compared to 3.6.6 is changing the check
   to be only performed in case of relocated journal.

   Grab it from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.7.tar.gz

   If you are just a user, you might want not to grab this release because you have
   rebuilt your superblock most probably. If you are representing a distro, and
   you are shipping/planning to ship reiserfsprogs-3.6.[56], you need this
   release instead.

   This change was sent to some people already (namely to Ed Boraas), but it turned out
   the patch was against wrong tree and did not apply to reiserfsprogs-3.6.6 at all.

   Sorry for all the confusion.

   (And reiserfsprogs-3.6.7-pre1 is still the latest code in fact, Vitaly might release it
    as reiserfsprogs-3.6.8-pre1 after May 11th, when all these long boring russian
    holidays are over)

Bye,
    Oleg

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Francis Stevens]

Oleg Drokin wrote:
>    Grab it from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.7.tar.gz
> 
>    If you are just a user, you might want not to grab this release because you have
>    rebuilt your superblock most probably. If you are representing a distro, and
>    you are shipping/planning to ship reiserfsprogs-3.6.[56], you need this
>    release instead.
> 

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm currently using  3.6.3, I'm just a 
user should I be installing 3.6.7 ? I don't understand the bit about 
rebuilding the superblock.

Francis Stevens

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:51:55AM +0100, Francis Stevens wrote:
> >   Grab it from 
> >   ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.7.tar.gz
> >   If you are just a user, you might want not to grab this release because 
> >   you have
> >   rebuilt your superblock most probably. If you are representing a 
> >   distro, and
> >   you are shipping/planning to ship reiserfsprogs-3.6.[56], you need this
> >   release instead.
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm currently using  3.6.3, I'm just a 
> user should I be installing 3.6.7 ? I don't understand the bit about 
> rebuilding the superblock.

Well, you might want to get 3.6.7 because of all the bugfixes since 3.6.3.

Bye,
    Oleg

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Francis Stevens]

Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:51:55AM +0100, Francis Stevens wrote:
> 
>>>  Grab it from 
>>>  ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.7.tar.gz
>>>  If you are just a user, you might want not to grab this release because 
>>>  you have
>>>  rebuilt your superblock most probably. If you are representing a 
>>>  distro, and
>>>  you are shipping/planning to ship reiserfsprogs-3.6.[56], you need this
>>>  release instead.
>>
>>Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm currently using  3.6.3, I'm just a 
>>user should I be installing 3.6.7 ? I don't understand the bit about 
>>rebuilding the superblock.
> 
> 
> Well, you might want to get 3.6.7 because of all the bugfixes since 3.6.3.
> 
> Bye,
>     Oleg

That's what I thought, but the "you might want not to grab this release 
because..." made me wonder if there was some reason why I shouldn't.

FAS

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Hans Reiser]

Francis Stevens wrote:

> Oleg Drokin wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:51:55AM +0100, Francis Stevens wrote:
>>
>>>>  Grab it from 
>>>>  ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.7.tar.gz
>>>>  If you are just a user, you might want not to grab this release 
>>>> because  you have
>>>>  rebuilt your superblock most probably. If you are representing a 
>>>>  distro, and
>>>>  you are shipping/planning to ship reiserfsprogs-3.6.[56], you need 
>>>> this
>>>>  release instead.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm currently using  3.6.3, I'm 
>>> just a user should I be installing 3.6.7 ? I don't understand the 
>>> bit about rebuilding the superblock.
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, you might want to get 3.6.7 because of all the bugfixes since 
>> 3.6.3.
>>
>> Bye,
>>     Oleg
>
>
> That's what I thought, but the "you might want not to grab this 
> release because..." made me wonder if there was some reason why I 
> shouldn't.
>
> FAS
>
>
>
Oleg, reword it.

-- 
Hans

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:03:59AM +0100, Francis Stevens wrote:
> >>> Grab it from 
> >>> ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.7.tar.gz
> >>> If you are just a user, you might want not to grab this release because 
> >>> you have
> >>> rebuilt your superblock most probably. If you are representing a 
> >>> distro, and
> >>> you are shipping/planning to ship reiserfsprogs-3.6.[56], you need this
> >>> release instead.
> >>Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm currently using  3.6.3, I'm just a 
> >>user should I be installing 3.6.7 ? I don't understand the bit about 
> >>rebuilding the superblock.
> >Well, you might want to get 3.6.7 because of all the bugfixes since 3.6.3.
> That's what I thought, but the "you might want not to grab this release 
> because..." made me wonder if there was some reason why I shouldn't.

Ah, hm. So that should in fact sound "If you already have 3.6.6 and
it works for you already, you do not need to upgrade to 3.6.7,
if you have any earlier version, it is recommended to upgrade to 3.6.7"

Does this version sounds more clear?

Bye,
    Oleg

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Francis Stevens]

Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 
> Ah, hm. So that should in fact sound "If you already have 3.6.6 and
> it works for you already, you do not need to upgrade to 3.6.7,
> if you have any earlier version, it is recommended to upgrade to 3.6.7"
> 
> Does this version sounds more clear?
> 
> Bye,
>     Oleg

Much clearer thank you. Sorry to be difficult.

FAS

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Fri, 02 May 2003 14:54:32 +0400, Oleg Drokin said:

> Ah, hm. So that should in fact sound "If you already have 3.6.6 and
> it works for you already, you do not need to upgrade to 3.6.7,
> if you have any earlier version, it is recommended to upgrade to 3.6.7"

Of course, most people won't find out if 3.6.6 is working or not until
they're not in a position to upgrade at that moment...

This is actually a serious issue for some places - what are people doing
for certification/acceptance testing for recovery tools such as fsck,
backup/restore, etc?

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Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:41:24AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > Ah, hm. So that should in fact sound "If you already have 3.6.6 and
> > it works for you already, you do not need to upgrade to 3.6.7,
> > if you have any earlier version, it is recommended to upgrade to 3.6.7"
> Of course, most people won't find out if 3.6.6 is working or not until
> they're not in a position to upgrade at that moment...

Well, if they don't know, that means they don't have 3.6.6 yet. ;)

Bye,
    Oleg

Re: reiserfsprogs 3.6.7 release

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Fri, 02 May 2003 17:43:18 +0400, Oleg Drokin said:

> Well, if they don't know, that means they don't have 3.6.6 yet. ;)

No, it means they installed 3.6.6, and they're watching the messages
scroll by and saying "<BLEEP> we need 3.6.7 instead"... ;)

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