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From: Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4progs do not handle the reiser4 format changes
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:00:55 +0400
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
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David Masover wrote:

> E.Gryaznova wrote:
>
>> Notification:
>>
>> The reiser4 format was changed in reiser4-for-2.6.11-5.patch and new 
>> reiser4 kernel code is able to handle the old format.
>
>
> Good, so I don't have to reformat _immediately_...
>
> But, why isn't it for 2.6.12 yet?  We're already on at least 2.6.12.2, 
> last I checked...
>
>> The reiser4progs-1.0.4 are not able to handle the format changes. The 
>> fix for reiser4progs will be ready next week.
>
>
> Will there be a conversion tool?
>
>

No. Reiser4progs just will support a set of new plugins which have been 
added to the kernel.
In particular, mkfs.reiser4 should allow user to specify the plugins 
like other existing
ones. This will be a way to create cryptcompress files per superblock. 
There is another
more flexible way (which is compatible with the previous one) to create 
it per file/directory,
but it uses deprecated metas interface..
Note: since cryptcompress plugin is unstable, the new options are 
supposed to be undocumented.

Thanks,
Edward.