Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 15:43:41 -0400
From: Tom Oehser <Tom@Toms.NET>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: tomsrtbt / RedHat 6.1

re: "... The Tomsrtbt rescue disk may have problems with ext2 file
systems created under Red Hat 6.1. ..."

Tomsrtbt-1.7.185 fixes this problem.

The problem is that ext2fs-1.16 creates filesystems by default that
cannot be used with 2.0.x kernels which don't support the sparse-super
option.  1.7.185 has a patch applied to 2.0.37 to add sparse-super
support.  The patch to retrofit sparse-super support to 2.0.x is
available at  http://www.toms.net/rb/add-ons/sparse-patch.bz2 if anyone
else is interested in it.  Many thanks to Ted Ts'o for whipping this
patch together in record time.

Other new additions to tomsrtbt are the 'rescuept' program to make
conjectures about what should have been in a partition table (similar to
fixdisktable and gpart), 'findsuper' to locate ext2fs superblocks, and
'undeb', a rudimentary un-'ar' program to extract the .tar files from a
.deb archive.

-Tom