[plug] ReiserFS anyone

[Kim Covil]

> I have been having a battle getting a working system to be able 
> to check ReiserFS out.
> 
> Firstly are speed improvements worth the effort?
> 
> I have a seperate ext2 boot partition and a ReiserFS / partition
> formated with the
> Mandrake 8 install CD and am trying to boot using the mandrale 7.2 GRUB
> boot loader.
> 
> I can get the Kernel to boot up to the point it needs start init and it
> fails
> with the message unable to open initial display.
> man init has not been very helpfull.
> 
> I would be interested to here how others are booting their ReiserFS
> setups.

Did you compile Reiserfs into the kernel (ie not as a module)...?

if not you will need to build an initrd with the reiserfs module on it
in order to be able to boot at reiserfs root parition...

I can't remember the instructions for building an initrd off the top of
my head as I usually build these sorts of things into the kernel (if you
are using reiserfs on your root partition I see no benefit in having
reiserfs only as a module as the module will always be loaded)

Hope that helps...

Cheers

Kim

PS I gave up on reiserfs due to problems with exporting a reiserfs
parition over NFS causing file corruption and now am using SGI's XFS
instead...


-- 
====================================================================== 
Kim Covil - CSIRO Exploration & Mining  E-mail: kim.covil at dem.csiro.au
            PO Box 437, Nedlands,       Tel: +61 8 9284 8425    ,-_!\
            Western Australia  6009     Fax: +61 8 9389 1906   /     \
                                                               *_,-._/
=================================================================== v 
   Please direct all personal e-mail to kimbotha at covil.com.au