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...
>
