Hmmm, given that version 7.1 is on freeze, does the freeze include utlities like
this? Tomsrtbt is really a very good alternative for a rescue system, as it
only needs one disk to work as opposed to 1 disk+cdrom for the standard rescue.
You can't really expect a server with a busted fs to have a CDROM drive eh?
Besides, there's a lot of space left on the second CD right??
\8)
On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote:
> There are 2 issues. "sparse-superblock" support and
> "ext2-filetypes" suport. Tomsrtbt-1.7.185 supports
> "sparse-superblock" support but not "ext2-filetypes".
>
> Whether "ext2-filetypes" presents a problem depends on
> the options that were used with mke2fs when you created
> the filesystem.
>
> It is not exactly true to say that there has been no
> progress on one that works with all of it, I have had
> it working for some time and have delayed releasing it
> for other reasons.
>
> I guess it is true after all that there seems to be none...
>
> Mostly, I have just not had time to finish the hard things
> I want to get done to it, including various interesting ways
> to make potentially a lot more space available with no loss
> in functionality.
>
> I suppose I should get *something* uploaded, even if it doesn't
> include the other (more interesting) enhancements, and even if
> I don't properly test it.
>
> So, ACCORDINGLY, I have uploaded:
>
> ftp://ftp.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt-1.7.198.tar.gz
>
> and
>
> ftp://ftp.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt-1.7.198.dos.zip
>
> Which are a pale untested shadow of what I really want to do for
> a next version, but, they will at least work with ext2-filetypes
> and sparse-superblocks, so, take em and test em and include em
> and let me know what works and what doesn't.
>
> -Tom
>
> On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ian C.Sison wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 19:51:16 +0800
> > From: Ian C.Sison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [tomsrtbt] Re: [Cooker] Tomsrtbt
> >
> > On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote:
> > > Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > >
> > > > Tomsrtbt don't support newly ext2 file system (kernel 2.0.* based) so
> > > > it's useless.
> > >
> > > Your information is incorrect. I cannot imagine the source of your
> > > information.
> > >
> > > Are you talking about the tomsrtbt distributed with L-M 6.1? I have
> > > used it many times with no problems to recover L-M 6.1 and 7.0
> > > problems. I have also used the latest 185 version of tomsrtbt with
> > > perfect results.
> > >
> > > I suggest that it be included in 7.1
> >
> > It does not work. I can confirm that. e2fsck will say that the filesystem is
> > not supported.
> >
> > Tom is working on a new version which will support the new ext2 formats, but
> > there seems to be no progress yet...
> >
