Re: QTParted/reiserfs trashes

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > BTW, a lot of people trashes reiserfs with qtparted. It's said (read
> > > > > qtparted forums) the problem is in the reiserfs_resizer but I don't 
> > > > > know
> > > > > the details.
[...]
> I still have no bug reports. 

They are all over in the user forums. See above for one reference
(qtparted forums). I've seen such reports "everywhere", maybe they were
all with qtparted, maybe not, I really don't remember.

> Speaking about possible cause of these problems, I'd mention, that
> there is no tree check before resizing.

Hmm, actually I'm a bit confused. There is reiserfsprogs and
progsreiserfs, right? From the naming I can't figure out what's 
the difference between them. Seems to be two different 
implementations from the same company? 

What I've meant was a recent reiserfsprogs with fixes like:

  - fix for shrinking the filesystem;
  - fix in mount entry detection code;
  - fix for the new fs size calculation in resizer;
  - fix for parsing the new fs size parameter correctly in resizer;
  - fix for checking if the new fs size is correct in resizer;
  - fix for handling the very last block on the device if formatted on pass2.

Some of them can cause trashed fs. 

        Szaka