From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>
Cc: ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>,
Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Stacked Reiser4 filesystems
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:00:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4089AE00.5090406@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40898898.3000907@gmx.net>
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>Hi,
>
>one of the really bad (read: unecpected) deficiencies of reiserfs is the
>fact that storing the image of another reiserfs filesystem as a file on a
>reiserfs filesystem will confuse reiserfsck --rebuild-tree to no end.
>
>IIRC somebody said this cannot happen with reiser4 anymore. Is this true?
>
>
Yes, we specifically set out to fix this.
>And what happens if I store an (incomplete) image of a certain reiser4
>partition as a file on the very same partition? Will the metadata from the
>file confuse fsck.reiser4 in rebuild-tree mode?
>
>
Vitaly will answer this in detail....
>Since reiser4 is now heading for inclusion in mainline, I would like to
>know whether the above flaws in reiserfs are fixed in reiser4.
>
>Regards,
>Carl-Daniel
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-24 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 21:20 Stacked Reiser4 filesystems Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-04-24 0:00 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-04-27 14:36 ` Vitaly Fertman
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