[H-GEN] Debian Stable (Potato) + Reiserfs

[Paul Gearon]

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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:01:25AM +1000, Ewan Edwards wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 May 2001, you wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if there exists a Potato package for reiserfs, and whether
> > > it's possible to have the whole system on reiser, or if I have to have
> > > some partitions ext2 (e.g. /boot)
>
> > I am reasonably sure you will need at least one ext2 (eg: /boot)
> > partition. I tried using reiserfs with Mandrake7.2 a few months ago
> > and found it would not boot off a reiserfs partition. Maybe there is
> > a way around that, and others will be able to help,
>
> GRUB will boot a ReiserFS partition.

Other than booting issues, yes there are packages for ReiserFS.

It depends on the kernel package you're running (I don't know what kernel
Potato is up to), or if you're even using packages for your kernel (The
purists out there are probably horrified, but I find that packages get in
the way of kernel hacking).  All kernels from 2.4.1 have ReiserFS built
in.  Any kernels before that need kernel patches.  If you're interested in
packages for this then apt lists the following for "Sid":

kernel-patch-2.4.0-reiserfs - ReiserFS support for Linux 2.4.0
kernel-patch-2.2.17-reiserfs - ReiserFS support for Linux 2.2.17
kernel-patch-2.2.18-reiserfs - ReiserFS support for Linux 2.2.18

Some of these are probably in Potato.

Other than that, you'll need the filesystem tools, such as mkreiserfs:

reiserfsprogs - User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems


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