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Re: reiserfsprogs or progsreiserfs? Reporting a cross-package bug



On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> At boot, the filesystem check complained that I don't have reiserfs
> tools installed to perform a filesystem check, so I want to install one.
> However, there are two: reiserfsprogs and progsreiserfs.
> 
> In their description, I see nothing that would help me in making the
> choice: one uses a library, the other doesn't.  But are they updated at
> the same time?  Are they really, really the same thing, just one uses a
> library?

No.

Reiserfsprogs is the "official" implementation, created by namesys.
Progsreiserfs is an alternate implementation. It does the same thing;
which you use depends on your preference.

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