[gentoo-dev] ReiserFS and the 2.4.16 kernel

[gentoo-dev] ReiserFS and the 2.4.16 kernel

[Sanity in Anarchy]

The ReiserFS website says that the 2.4.16 and below kernels had problems that 
were outside of ReiserFS but affected it, and that might be what caused the 
corruption.  I look at the sources area of the ftp site, and I find that there 
are two patches in there for the 2.4.16 kernel.  I like ReiserFS enough to 
install on ext2, compile a new kernel, and then move the whole thing (all 5 
partitions of it) over to ReiserFS.  But most users will not want to do this, 
and so I suggest you use the latest kernel in your next release -- or even add 
a new build for the current release with the latest one.  ReiserFS says it 
needs at least 2.4.18.

Thanks for your help.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: ReiserFS and the 2.4.16 kernel

[Troy Dack]

Sanity in Anarchy wrote:

> The ReiserFS website says that the 2.4.16 and below kernels had problems
> that were outside of ReiserFS but affected it, and that might be what
> caused the
> corruption.  I look at the sources area of the ftp site, and I find that
> there
> are two patches in there for the 2.4.16 kernel.  I like ReiserFS enough to
> install on ext2, compile a new kernel, and then move the whole thing (all
> 5
> partitions of it) over to ReiserFS.  But most users will not want to do
> this, and so I suggest you use the latest kernel in your next release --
> or even add
> a new build for the current release with the latest one.  ReiserFS says it
> needs at least 2.4.18.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 

I'm using it on Gentoo-2.4.19 with no problems at all. This machine is not 
treated nicely at all, resets, power down with the "big switch" etc ...

Troy.

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