Reiser and raid

[barry <bazza@bazza.com>]

Hi, I've managed to get a set of boot disks ready with everything needed to do
reiserfs and raid, both with 2.2.19 and a few patches and with 2.4.x, however
I have a few slight problems

 1: editing the raidtab file, along with mkraid and mkreiserfs have to be done
from the command line, this is due to me not knowing enough to be able to hack
through dbootstrap and make it do what I want (any volunteers? I can give
exact commands that need to be performed and what needs asked)
 2: when I compile a 2.4.x kernel and just put it on the rescue disk, and run
the rdev script, / gets mounted readonly on booting (odd, fixed with a mount
-o remount,rw)
 3: busybox refuses to compile due to a load of nfs errors (maybe due to me
building on a box with 2.4.x?)
 4: putting a 2.4.x kernel on a set of dists (made with the boot-floppies
package) works fine, except for modules, but I doubt this is really a debian
boot issue, as the directory structure for modules changed, I'll try this out
with a newer modutils and stuff sometime shortly.
 5: definately not a debian-boot issue, using root as a raid with reiserfs
requires a seperate /boot, but that's because lilo doesn't like raids that
aren't level 1, and I don't know grub enough to try to get it working

if anyone can help me out with issues 1 to 3, please let me know, if so, I can
start helping people make the required changes to reiserfs and raid from boot
floppies, the work I've done is at http://bazza.com/debian/reiserhack, the
disks available there are really quite hacked, and you'll have to recompile a
2.4.x kernel to make them work if your hardware isn't the same as mine, or you
need additional support. I'll also write some documentation for my 2.2.19 disk
set and make them available, although 2.2 reiserfs patches only support up to
3.5 formats, not the newer one, which is preferable.

Thanks In Advance for any help

-- 
-Barry Hughes
Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into super-edit-debug-compile mode?
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs.)
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