Re: reiserfsprogs release

[Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org>]

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I may be stupid, but if the latest release is 3.6.2 why is the "LATEST IS" 
link still pointing to 3.x.1b?  Is 3.6.2 the version which we (Gentoo 
Linux) should be packaging?  Is it more or less safe than 3.x.1b?  Thanks!

--Brandon

On Wed, 07/10/02 at 12:06:48 +0400, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> the latest reiserfsprogs-3.6.2 is available on our ftp site.
> 
> The most of changes are just bug fixes and speedups.
>     StatData got wrong values sometimes.
>     Tails were not converted back if had been converted to internal.
>     Lost+found was not accessible sometimes due to wrong flag in
>     metadata.
>     Extra checks on --check and fixes on --fix-fixable were added
>     for wrong st_nlinks, some info in internal tree.
>     Some multiple checks during overwriting and relocation were
>     eliminated.
>     Etc.
> 
> Added different block size support - 1k, 2k and for Alpha 8k.
> Kernel support we are going to include into 2.4.20.
> 
> Support for bad block lists was added also but disabled for now
> due to some conflicts with the current kernel, which have not been
> solved yet.
> 
> Verson numbering scheme was changed.
> 
> Another pre release 3.6.3-pre1 is also available. It includes some 
> great speedups for reiserfsck.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Thanks,
> Vitaly Fertman
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