Re: ReiserFS with Debian (Potato)?

[John Leuner <jewel@pixie.co.za>]

> >  I'm contemplating installing debian on ReiserFS like this:
> > 
> > 1: Install Debian.
> > 2: Patch & compile kernel with ReiserFS support.
> > 3: Backup the partitons [1] one after one and reformat them with
> >    ReiserFS, restore from backup.
> > 4: Be very happy! :-)
> > 

I recently installed potato and decided to make /usr and /home reiserfs.
Went single-user to do this, copied the data off and on -- no problems.

Then I tried to extract a tar.gz file from an NFS mount onto my (reiser)
home partition. Worked fine, but when I tried to build the application
(dosemu-1.0.1) the configure script got stuck and filled up the entire 2.5
gig partition. 

I extracted the same file to /var/ (which was still ext2) and of course
then it worked.

I don't know where I should file this bug though, since I don't really
know where the problem was.

John Leuner