Passing arguments to mkreiserfs does not work ... sometimes it does. Downgrading to sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-r2 fixed the problem. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: shadow src # mkreiserfs -b 1024 -l WWW /dev/srv/www mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com) A pair of credits: Yury Umanets (aka Umka) developed libreiser4, userspace plugins, and all userspace tools (reiser4progs) except of fsck. SuSE (www.suse.com) pays for continuing work on journaling for version 3, paid for much of the previous version 3 work, and is paying for Chris and Jeff to do V3 maintenance. Reiserfs integration in their distro is consistently solid, and they were key to our becoming widely used. Block sizes smaller than 4k are not supported. shadow src # mkreiserfs -b 1024 -l WWW /dev/sda1 mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com) A pair of credits: Vitaly Fertman wrote fsck for V3 and maintains the reiserfsprogs package now. He wrote librepair, userspace plugins repair code, fsck for V4, and worked on developing libreiser4 and userspace plugins with Umka. Oleg Drokin was the debugger for V3 during most of the time that V4 was under development, and was quite skilled and fast at it. He wrote the large write optimization of V3. Block sizes smaller than 4k are not supported. shadow src # mkreiserfs -b 1024 /dev/sda1 mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com) A pair of credits: Many persons came to www.namesys.com/support.html, and got a question answered for $25, or just gave us a small donation there. Yury Umanets (aka Umka) developed libreiser4, userspace plugins, and all userspace tools (reiser4progs) except of fsck. Block sizes smaller than 4k are not supported. shadow src # mkreiserfs -l WWW /dev/sda1 mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com) A pair of credits: Lycos Europe (www.lycos-europe.com) had a support contract with us that consistently came in just when we would otherwise have missed payroll, and that they kept doubling every year. Much thanks to them. Elena Gryaznova performed testing and benchmarking. Guessing about desired format.. Kernel 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 is running. Format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 14048 Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 8212 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: fdca2e70-4621-4af2-a4b4-1a05697fc440 LABEL: WWW ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK! ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sda1'! Continue (y/n):no shadow src # Actual Results: Doesn't seem to recognize the --block-size option. 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sparc-solaris x64-freebsd sparc64-solaris x86-linux x64-macos sparc m68k-mint ia64 mips ppc-macos x86-interix hppa-hpux amd64-fbsd x64-solaris mips-irix m68k sh x86-solaris sparc-fbsd" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib64/portage/bin" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_DEBUG="0" PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary echo" PORTAGE_FETCH_CHECKSUM_TRY_MIRRORS="5" PORTAGE_FETCH_RESUME_MIN_SIZE="350K" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_INST_GID="0" PORTAGE_INST_UID="0" PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib64/portage/pym" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local 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Please see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304342 notabug
