> mount -o attrs in fact. I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this...
The 'attrs' mount option is broken with kernels 2.4.20-pre2 through -pre5 (the latest as of this email). See "license cleanup" patch found here: ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.4/2.4.19.pending/01-license_cleanup.diff It contains a re-work of reiserfs_parse_options() in super.c that removes the 'attrs' option. Perhaps a merge error or simple omission. Trivial fix: diff -ur linux-2.4.19-orig/fs/reiserfs/super.c linux-2.4.19/fs/reiserfs/super.c --- linux-2.4.19-orig/fs/reiserfs/super.c Sat Sep 7 17:29:12 2002 +++ linux-2.4.19/fs/reiserfs/super.c Sat Sep 7 13:44:27 2002 @@ -560,6 +560,7 @@ char * pos; opt_desc_t opts[] = { {"tails", 't', tails, -1}, + {"attrs", 0, 0, REISERFS_ATTRS}, {"notail", 0, 0, -1}, /* Compatibility stuff, so that -o notail for old setups still work */ {"conv", 0, 0, REISERFS_CONVERT}, {"nolog", 0, 0, -1}, --Allen Ibara
