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and subject line reiserfsprogs: block allocator is not defined
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regarding reiserfsprogs: block allocator is not defined
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Package: reiserfsprogs
Version: 1:3.6.19-4
Severity: important
Neither mkreiserfs nor reiserfstune work with the documented -B switch:
reiserfstune -B hdb1.bb2 /dev/loop6
block allocator is not defined
Aborted
this _seems_ to have been fixed upstream in 2005:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg19758.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages reiserfsprogs depends on:
hi libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 universally unique id library
reiserfsprogs recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1:3.6.21-1
This seems to be fixed now in the new upstream version, though
differently then that patch from Vitaly you linked in the report.
fz:~# mkfs.reiserfs -B bb -f reiserfs
mkfs.reiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)
reiserfs is not a block special device
Continue (y/n):y
Guessing about desired format.. Kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64 is running.
Format 3.6 with standard journal
Count of blocks on the device: 25600
Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 8213
Blocksize: 4096
Hash function used to sort names: "r5"
Journal Size 8193 blocks (first block 18)
Journal Max transaction length 1024
inode generation number: 0
UUID: b5c8f05e-ffe4-4153-a81e-b8450658686d
Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100%
Syncing..ok
ReiserFS is successfully created on reiserfs.
fz:~# reiserfstune -B bb reiserfs
reiserfstune: 1 blocks were marked as bad.
fz:~# cat bb
20000
fz:~# reiserfstune -b bb reiserfs
reiserfstune: Block 20000 is marked as bad already.
reiserfstune: 0 blocks were marked as bad.
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Felix Zielcke
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