Hello!

   It turned out that recently introduced additional journal check
   breaks journal replays on filesystems created with old reiserfs
   tools that do not write journal parameters into superblock.
   Please apply following patch that fixes the problem.

   Thank you.

Bye,
    Oleg
===== fs/reiserfs/journal.c 1.26 vs edited =====
--- 1.26/fs/reiserfs/journal.c	Thu Mar 13 14:52:15 2003
+++ edited/fs/reiserfs/journal.c	Tue Mar 25 16:38:55 2003
@@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@
 		     *newest_mount_id) ;
       return -1 ;
     }
-    if ( le32_to_cpu(desc->j_len) > sb_journal_trans_max(SB_DISK_SUPER_BLOCK(p_s_sb)) ) {
+    if ( le32_to_cpu(desc->j_len) > JOURNAL_TRANS_MAX ) {
       reiserfs_warning("journal-2018: Bad transaction length %d encountered, ignoring transaction\n", le32_to_cpu(desc->j_len));
       return -1 ;
     }
-
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