[Gllug] Reiserfs gotchas?

[Dylan Brewis]

On Thursday 09 May 2002 10:52, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:22:20AM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:
> 
> > You will have to make an initrd RamDisk image for the kernel to get the
> > reiserfs module from as its too big to build into the kernel statically
> 
> I have compiled reiser statically into the kernel. I suppose it might
> depend on what other junk you have in there ...
> 
> > Lilo doesn't care what the filesystem is, it just goes to the
> > appropriate sector on the HD. The problem you will have is that the
> > kernel without access to its modules, will not be able to mount the root
> > partition if it is reiserfs. 
> 
> AFIK: reiser is a little more creative on block usage than other file 
system.
> Lilo could not cope with this, I don't know if recent ones can.
> I would leave /boot as ext2, it will only be 20 Mb odd and so any fsck won't
> take long anyway.

SuSE7.3 boots on Reisefs straight out of the box - at least it does on 6 
machines here.

> 
> Although I have had no problems with reiser (& I do use it), I am told that 
when
> reiser fails it can do so big time -- and the recovery tools aren't too 
nice.
> I don't know if that is a 'it screwed me 2 years ago' type story, or if 
there
> are still gremlins around.
> 
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> Alain Williams
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