Bug 138619 - Reiser4 support is buggy
Summary: Reiser4 support is buggy
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: x86-64 Other
: P5 - None : Major
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Reported: 2005-12-14 18:50 UTC by James Reather
Modified: 2005-12-15 13:05 UTC (History)
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Description James Reather 2005-12-14 18:50:13 UTC 
SuSE 10.0 ships with version 1.0.4 of Reiser4 as optional packages.  If you use this you frequently filesystem corruption and have to "fsck.reiser4 --build-fs" to repair it.

I reported this issue to Namesys, who confirmed it, and according to their response (from Vitaly Fertman), 1.0.4 of Reiser4 has an issue related to "plugin set fields" and the recommendation is to upgrade to 1.0.5.

I hope the Reiser4 1.0.5 bits be released for SuSE 10.0

Below is the ChangeLog for Reiser4...

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reiser4progs-VERSION/ChangeLog:
2005-08-12
        1.0.5 version.
2005-08-10
        Installation fix.
        Return value fixes.
        Backup block handling fixes.
2005-06-28
        Ability to link against libaal placed at arbitrary location is fixed.
        Unlink dir fix.
        Stat40 check_struct fix.
        Man pages for not ready utils are removed.
        Handle new (crc related) fields in plugin set correctly.
        Flush fs metadata fix (interrupt related).
        Do not flush dirty nodes if fsck fails.
        Recalculate bitmap checksums at the end of fsck if they are wrong.
        Do not update bitmaps after every fsck pass if no metadata found.
2005-03-23
        nomkid option to fsck -- ability to recover reiser4 w/out mkid check.
2005-03-21
        Large file handling fixes.
2005-03-16
        Some casting fixes.
2005-02-21
        Reg40 file body convertion fixes.
2005-02-20
        The 1.0.4 version.
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Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-12-15 13:05:18 UTC 
Hi James,

normally the package maintainer keeps track of the developments of his packages. Plaease only report `old versions' if they are very outdated. But even in that case it would be better to write a mail to the maintainer instead of using bugzilla.
Comment 2 Michael Gross 2005-12-15 13:05:48 UTC 
Closing as resolved.