Good day, Oleg,
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:56:34AM -0500, William Stearns wrote:
>
> > I'd be interested in hearing whether the following issue is 1)
> > PEBCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard) on my part ;-), 2) a
> > bug in mkreiserfs, 3) a known issue with or without an available fix, or
> > 4) a non-issue.
> > My sincerest apologies if I've made a silly mistake at this end.
> > Cheers,
>
> Hm. I remembered I answered such a question, but my mailbox seems to contradict.
It might very well have been under a different subject.
> Ok, so this was not a problem, but a design decision instead.
> mkreiserfs did only work on device files.
>
> reiserfs 3.x.0j is old though.
> And new reiserfsprogs 3.x.1b (latest stable) can create filesystem on files
> now. (you need to specify -f switch)
Excellent! I'll pull down the latest version.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond - I really
appreciate it.
Cheers,
- Bill
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