Re: reiserfsprogs release

Brandon Low (lostlogic@gentoo.org)
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 04:10:35 -0500


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I may be stupid, but if the latest release is 3.6.2 why is the "LATEST IS"=
=20
link still pointing to 3.x.1b? Is 3.6.2 the version which we (Gentoo=20
Linux) should be packaging? Is it more or less safe than 3.x.1b? Thanks!

--Brandon

On Wed, 07/10/02 at 12:06:48 +0400, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
>=20
> Hi all,
>=20
> the latest reiserfsprogs-3.6.2 is available on our ftp site.
>=20
> The most of changes are just bug fixes and speedups.
> StatData got wrong values sometimes.
> Tails were not converted back if had been converted to internal.
> Lost+found was not accessible sometimes due to wrong flag in
> metadata.
> Extra checks on --check and fixes on --fix-fixable were added
> for wrong st_nlinks, some info in internal tree.
> Some multiple checks during overwriting and relocation were
> eliminated.
> Etc.
>=20
> Added different block size support - 1k, 2k and for Alpha 8k.
> Kernel support we are going to include into 2.4.20.
>=20
> Support for bad block lists was added also but disabled for now
> due to some conflicts with the current kernel, which have not been
> solved yet.
>=20
> Verson numbering scheme was changed.
>=20
> Another pre release 3.6.3-pre1 is also available. It includes some=20
> great speedups for reiserfsck.
>=20
> --=20
>=20
> Thanks,
> Vitaly Fertman
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