Re: [PATCH 2/2] reiserfs: Add mount counting

[Vladimir Saveliev <vs@clusterfs.com>]

Hello

Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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>> Edward Shishkin wrote:
>>> On 12/4/07, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:
>>> Edward Shishkin wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/3/07, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Edward Shishkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Jeff.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Personally, I don't object.
>>>>>>>>> What does official reservation mean?
>>>>>>>>> I can send a request to Hans, but I guess
>>>>>>>>> we'll receive his "yes" or "no" with substantial delay..
>>>>>> I just mean that those 12 bytes in the superblock are guaranteed
>>>>>> not to
>>>>>> be used for something else. Given the pace of reiserfs development, I
>>>>>> don't expect this to be a problem as there are 76 more of them. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, I promise to not use them for something else ;)
>>> Great. That's the assurance I was looking for. :)
>>>
>>>>>>> It seems we need something like reiserfsprogs-3.6.20?
>>> I actually posted a patch against reiserfsprogs-3.6.20 that reserves the
>>> same fields. It also implements the use of those fields. I have an
>>> updated version that treats timestamps in the future as suspect and
>>> forces a check. I'll post the update later today.
>>>
>>>> Sorry, I am a bit confused..
>>>> The latest git version of reiserfsprogs is 3.6.19;
>>>> The latest website version is also 3.6.19.
>>>> At the same time I can google and see that some distros
>>>> use reiserfsprogs-3.6.20.
>>>> Suse 10.3 uses "reiserfs utility package" 3.6.19-92
>>>> Also I remember that Vladimir worked on some version
>>>> of reiserfsprogs not so long ago.
>>>> Any ideas about really latest version?
>>
>> I think Vladimir must have released what he was working on as 3.6.20.
>> That's the latest version I downloaded from ftp.namesys.com.
>>
>> It reorganizes the code into a saner structure as well as cleans up the
>> code quite a bit. It also adds the > 8 TB support that I ended up
>> grafting onto 3.6.19 for our release.
>>
>> - -Jeff
>>
> 
> We have also been working with & testing a draft of Vladimir's updated
> code (not sure how different it is from what you took in).
> 
> Vladimir, did Jeff's drop include all of the changes or part of what you
> did with us?
> 

No, I do not think so. I forked that work from 3.6.19 and did not put it
anywhere but ftp.namesys.com/pub/tmp

Best regards,
Vladimir