Re: problem in mounting reiserfs

[Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>]

Avinesh Kumar wrote:

> but that's not true ... i tried with block sizes 512 bytes, 1024 bytes 
> and is working just fine.
> is anyone who can shed some bright light on this topic ?

Kernel checks if blocksize is from {512, 1024, ..., PAGE_SIZE}
Edward.

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> Christian Mayrhuber wrote:
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>> On Thursday 05 August 2004 12:08, Avinesh Kumar wrote:
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>>> ReiserFS is successfully created on /dev/hda6.
>>> ~ $ mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda6 /rfs
>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6,
>>>       or too many mounted file systems
>>> ~ $
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>>>           but the same steps worked when i chose block size of 4096
>>> bytes. please, help me out.
>>>   
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>> If I remember right Reiserfs cannot use blocksize != page size and 
>> page size is 4096 @ x86.
>> The only way to use reiserfs is with its default blocksize of 4096.
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