Bug 660285

Fedora 15 Alpha is also affected.

Kernel: 2.6.38.2-9.fc15


# gdisk -l /dev/sdc
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.6.14

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdc: 3907029168 sectors, 1.8 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): C7195AB9-71BF-4729-91FF-74374D255B8F
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 3907029134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 1159762028 sectors (553.0 GiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048       209715200   100.0 GiB   0700  Linux/Windows data
   2       209717248       838862847   300.0 GiB   0700  Linux/Windows data
   3       838862848      2097154047   600.0 GiB   0700  Linux/Windows data
   4      2097154048      2202011647   50.0 GiB    0700  Linux/Windows data
   5      2202011648      2726299647   250.0 GiB   0700  Linux/Windows data
   6      2726299648      2747271167   10.0 GiB    0700  Linux/Windows data

# mkreiserfs /dev/sdc6 -l reiser-test -u 444555
mkreiserfs: Cannot set up the UUID, uuidlib was not found by configure.


# mkreiserfs /dev/sdc6 -l reiser-test
mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)

A pair of credits:
Jeremy  Fitzhardinge  wrote  the  teahash.c  code  for  V3.  Colin  Plumb  also
contributed to that.

Nikita Danilov  wrote  most of the core  balancing code, plugin infrastructure,
and directory code. He steadily worked long hours, and is the reason so much of
the Reiser4 plugin infrastructure is well abstracted in its details.  The carry 
function, and the use of non-recursive balancing, are his idea.


Guessing about desired format.. Kernel 2.6.38.2-9.fc15.x86_64 is running.
Format 3.6 with standard journal
Count of blocks on the device: 2621440
Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 8291
Blocksize: 4096
Hash function used to sort names: "r5"
Journal Size 8193 blocks (first block 18)
Journal Max transaction length 1024
inode generation number: 0
UUID: <no libuuid installed>
LABEL: reiser-test
ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK!
        ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sdc6'!
Continue (y/n):y
Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100%
Syncing..ok
ReiserFS is successfully created on /dev/sdc6.

# blkid 
[...]
/dev/sdb5: LABEL="xxxxx-dataX" UUID="4336369f-bdde-4b56-ac7b-445bc9464d36" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdc6: LABEL="reiser-test" TYPE="reiserfs"

# mkreiserfs /dev/sdc6 -l reiser-test -u 15f8a714-b12e-4026-add9-22704b8b9999
mkreiserfs: Cannot set up the UUID, uuidlib was not found by configure.

For example, sdb5 is a reiserfs filesystem created under Slackware ??? before
even migrating to Fedora.

Any chances for it comming in F16?

Verified still broken in F16.

Still present in F17.

Come on people... Maybe I'm missing something, but this should be very easy to fix. It's kinda embarrassing that such a basic and essential thing (if you use reiser) doesn't work.

Sorry for ranting, but I needed to say that ;)

With a low priority, I don't really expect them to fix it unless someone not on project opts to do so and then push the changes.

I do agree that this might be low priority, but this was filed against F14.
The version field should be changed to either F16 or F17.

Maybe a 'feature request' might be needed for F18?
Otherwise F18 will be released also with this 'small' issue.

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fixed in rawhide, f18,f17,f16

reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-6.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-6.fc17

reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-7.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-7.fc18

reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-5.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-5.fc16

reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-6.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-5.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Works in F17 stable, thanks!

reiserfs-utils-3.6.21-7.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.