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



On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 02:26:40PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:13:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:

> > 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?

> 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.

It also depends on which suite you're using.  Progsreiserfs didn't ship
with woody, and has now been removed from testing due to a long
outstanding RC bug.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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