Re: 2.4.9-ac12 - problem mounting reiserfs (parse error?)

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>]

On Sep 19, 2001  13:14 -0700, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Could you run gdb on your mount and show us what *data contains at
> > this point (last parameter).  According to man(8) "defaults" expands
> > to "rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async".
> 
> Hmm, I'm not versant with gdb (strace is the extent of my sophistication),
> so I'll try your suggestion below.
> 
> > You could also try putting all of these in /etc/fstab explicitly and
> > remove them one at a time until we find which one it is complaining
> > about.  Either mount(8) shouldn't be appending this option to the
> > mount data, or reiserfs needs to parse it in the kernel.
> 
> It seems that the reiserfs option parsing in 2.4.9-ac12 is foobar, as any
> one of "rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async" in the options field in
> /etc/fstab causes the mount to fail.  Also, mounting an r5-hashed reiserfs
> file system with the option string "hash=r5" gives this fine error:
> 
> REISERFS: Error, r5 hash detected, unable to force r5 hash
> 
> I can confirm that the following option strings give a successful mount:
> "conv", "hashed_relocation", "notail".  I didn't feel like going through
> all the options possible.

I have CC'd this to reiserfs-list so they know about it.

Cheers, Andreas
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