Re: http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.08.03-internal.testing/

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Vitaly Fertman wrote:

>On Wednesday 04 August 2004 21:47, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Markus TЖrnqvist wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:16:26PM +0800, Thomas Graham wrote:
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>>>>if a convertor are not done yet, I think we could wait until it's bundle
>>>>into the .tar.gz and we could use it, actually, do we HAVE TO do that
>>>>format changes ? or normal user could just ignore that except for some of
>>>>them who reach problem with that ?
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>>>I don't think you HAVE to do it, if you would, there would be a
>>>compensation in the kernel, and Vitaly said there is not.
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>>>So just avoid the reiser4progs like the plague, call the Namesys helpdesk,
>>>whatever and ask Vitaly to remove the file from the web, remove the
>>>code that changes the format, whatever.
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>>>I just hope I won't hit a corruptive bug on my machine, it would be pretty
>>>anticlimactic if I did and I would lose data because it decides to
>>>change the format.
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>>I don't understand why Vitaly cannot do one of the things suggested on
>>this thread: create an fsck option for people like Markus to use.
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>>If Vitaly does that, problem solved, yes?
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>>Chris is right that any disk format changes need to be made now.
>>Vitaly, send an email defining what you propose to do, and cc the list.
>>Do that now please.
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>I have written a converter (an option to debugfs), testing it, 
>it does well for the last half an hout already. 
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>I am going to release another internal snapshot with the explanation 
>in README how to use it.
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good answer.