Bug#139415: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#139415: 3.0.21-2002-03-19: Cannot initialize a partition to reiserfs)

[Zyk <zyk@bugfactory.org>]

> > It is impossible to initialize a reiserfs partition with this version
> > of the boot floppies because the "-v2" option given to the mkreiserfs
> > is not supported anymore.
> 
> Not true, the problem is known and our mkreiserfs has the compatibility
> options built-in. If you build with outdated (broken) Sid or outdated
> Woody packages - YOUR problem.

I didn't build them myself, I took the official woody intall floppies
from the
/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-i386/3.0.21-2002-03-19/images-1.44/bf2.4 directory located on an official debian mirror.

The mkreiserfs shipping with those install floppies do _not_ support
either the -q or the -v2 argument. You'll find the transcript of the
output of mkreiserfs and at the end of this mail...

If this problem is caused by an outdated woody package, then this report
should be transfered to the builder of the install disks.

Regards

Patrick

============[Content of tty3]===============================
Mar 22 04:47:49 (none) user.info dbootstrap[61]: Initializing partition
/dev/sda1 as ReiserFS
Mar 22 04:47:49 (none) user.err dbootstrap[61]: Filesystem creation with
cmd 'mkreiserfs -q -v2 -f -f /dev/sda1' failed (256)
Mar 22 04:47:49 (none) user.err dbootstrap[61]: The filesystem was not
created
...

============[Content of tty2]===============================

# mkreiserfs -q /dev/sda1

<-------------mkreiserfs, 2002------------->
reiserfsprogs 3.x.1a

mkreiserfs: invalid option -- q
Usage: mkreiserfs [options]  device [block-count]

...

# mkreiserfs -v2 /dev/sda1

<-------------mkreiserfs, 2002------------->
reiserfsprogs 3.x.1a

mkreiserfs: invalid option -- v
Usage: mkreiserfs [options]  device [block-count]

...