On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:34:46AM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:22:50PM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > The drive still refused to mount.
> > I dug in fsck.reiserfs --help, and saw '--scan-whole-partition'. Tried
> > --rebuild-tree with that on. It showed a LOT of stuff about StatDatas,
> > and completed successfully.
> Well, this is likely to destroy data, but still it should be mountable at the point 
> of
> completion.
Now I get to prove to my boss why I wanted to spend so much on backups
:-).

> Can you please make a metadata dump for us?
> "debugreiserfs -p /dev/hdb1 | bzip2 -9c >metadata.bz2" and make this file
> available for us to download.
Stderr output of debugreiserfs here:
http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/~robbat2/reiserfs/debugreiserfs.run
metadata file:
http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/~robbat2/reiserfs/metadata.bz2

> > I just find that there is something definitely wrong if fsck says the
> > partition is fine, but Linux refuses to mount it. Either this is a bug
> > in Linux, or the reiserfsprogs. Either way, somebody has a bug :-)
> Sure, and we are interested in resolving the problem.
Same here.

> Thank you.
No, most definitely thank you. Now I have more ammunition against my boss
as to why Open Source is better. You guys really rock. I'd never get a
response from any other vendor this quickly (even though we pay some of
them a fair sum).

A question for you, so I can support things. Is there a list somewhere
of features requested, and how much you money you want to be paid to add
them in? Especially the smaller features (hint hint).

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