reiserfsck infinite loop at pass2 (built by Debian).

[Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>]

Hi all, 

while investigating the problem with infinite loop at pass2 of reiserfsck, 
what seemed to be reported by people using reiserfsprogs built by Debian, 
we found a debain patch against reiserfsprogs-3.6.4 (introduced in 3.6.4-2), 
what was the problem. Tests with this patch revealed the problem - bitops 
were changed and have not worked properly anymore. 

The reason why bitops were changed is that reiserfsprogs did not work 
correctly on big endian platforms that time. It was also fixed now and 3.6.5 
should work correctly. If you are going to use 3.6.5 do not forget about the 
patch 'reiserfsprogs-3.6.5-flush_buffers-bug.patch' or wait a few days for 
3.6.6 release. The latest reiserfsprogs and the patch can be obtained from
    ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/

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Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman