From: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
To: doiggl@velocitynet.com.au
Cc: ReiserFS Development List <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reiser4 patch and formatting partitions
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:38:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50405BF6.3070809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5040588D.10501@gmail.com>
On 08/31/2012 08:24 AM, Edward Shishkin wrote:
> On 08/31/2012 05:19 AM, doiggl@velocitynet.com.au wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Is the reiser4 patch with the [kernel 3.1 stuff by Marcin Baczyński]
>> available somewhere to try out.
>> - Can the patch be accessed from [1] when it is released.
>
>
> This is not yet reviewed/tested.
>
>
>> - Should I use the format option -o "formatting=extents" when creating a
>> partition e.g
>> mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40,formatting=extents /dev/sdaX
>
>
> No.
> Cryptcompress file plugin doesn't use extents. It uses
> tail packing technique, which uses the buggy balance primitive.
That said, use
mkfs.reiser4 -o create=reg40,formatting=extents /dev/sdaX
or just
mkfs.reiser4 -o formatting=extents /dev/sdaX
because "reg40" is default file plugin
Edward.
>
>
>>
>> Information from this thread [2]
>>
>> Thanks
>> Glenn
>>
>> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/reiser4/files/reiser4-for-linux-2.6/
>> [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/reiserfs-devel/msg03216.html
>>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-31 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-31 3:19 reiser4 patch and formatting partitions doiggl
2012-08-31 6:24 ` Edward Shishkin
2012-08-31 4:05 ` doiggl
2012-08-31 7:27 ` Edward Shishkin
2012-08-31 6:38 ` Edward Shishkin [this message]
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