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

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>]

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Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
> 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

That's strange. Someone else must've moved it to /pub/reiserfsprogs/
then. That's certainly where I got a copy of it. A google for
reiserfsprogs 3.6.20, shows several pointers to
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.20.tar.gz too.

- -Jeff
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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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