Re: Reiser4 patches.

[Brian Oborn <oborbria@athena.physics.isu.edu>]

Chris Wakefield wrote:
> On April 2, 2008 03:17:24 pm Chris Wakefield wrote:
>   
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I've been looking for an up-to-date URL regarding Reiser4 filesystem;
> > namesys.com is down.  Does anyone know where I can find Reiser4 stuff?
> >
> > Although I'm a big Debian fan and fairly experienced, I don't know if it's
> > possible to patch Debian sources with Reiser4 from the repos on the fly
> > with dpkg or...?
> >
> > I have managed to chroot into my latest deb install on Reiser4, but I was
> > hoping to BOOT directly to it....
> >
> > Grub2 is not patched yet for Reiser4;  There are some patches for legacy
> > Grub, but its not compiling.  I think it's the fact that the latest dev
> > files are: 1.0.6-1 and the legacy grub patch is:  1.0.5.
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> >     
Although I don't use reiserfs (xfs fan myself), I always make my /boot a 
separate partition and use ext2. /boot doesn't need any sort of 
performance, and the compatibility advantage of ext2 is nice. If your 
/boot is compatible with your bootloader and the modules for your root 
filesystem are in your initrd, then you can use anything for /

Hope this helps.

Brian Oborn

> > By-the-way, I noticed quite a difference of performance with Reiser4.
> >
> > Chris W.
> >     
>
> Opps, sorry for the noise here.
>
> I've tried lilo (v-22.8) and I haven't been able to make it boot to Reiser4, 
> although I know it's supposed to.
>
> I haven't patched it though, just used the repos.
>
> Chris W.
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