In light of Stafan's statements below, a position on what versions of
reiserfsprogs are recommended for general usage would be appreciated.  In my
case, I took Vitaly's comments to mean that 3.x.1b-pre1 was strongly
recommended as the version to be using, and I locally built RPMs for these
and installed them on both of my Mandrake Linux systems.  Both systems are
in use with real data on them and are not test platforms, per se.  Should
back I off to one of the earlier reiserfsprogs releases?  I am running
kernel 2.4.17 (vanilla) on both systems.

Regards,

- David

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Fleiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 7:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Recovering a file system not found by
utilities


Hi Vitaly!

>> debugreiserfs *SEGFAULTED*.  And it looks like he found 2 other bugs.
>
> The latest utils do not segfault in the same case. Everyone should use
> ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/pre/reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b-pre1.tar.gz
>
> It is the best for now.

pre-releases are are not tested well, are dangerous and can eat all of your
data.
If you think everybody should use this newer version then MAKE A RELEASE.
Sorry for beeing loud but that's waht releases are for.

Test every of your pre-releases with lots of images fo damaged file systems.
Every possible fault caused by bugs or not should be part of at leat one of
those test cases.

This can be done automatically, that's what scripts are for.

Greetings,
Stefan

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