Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

[Paul Hoy <paul.hoy@mac.com>]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:41 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:43:05 -0400, Paul Hoy Gmail wrote:
> 
> > The Gentoo HOWTO wiki explains that a user should enable extended
> > attributes for his or her filesystems, and shows how you can do so
> > with Ext2. The author of the wiki says you can do the same with
> > reiserfs, but I don't recall seeing the option in the kernel (when I
> > configured it a couple of weeks ago).
> 
> It's there, I used the Wiki HOWTO to install Beagle myself quite
> recently. Here are my reiserfs kernel settings
> 
> [root@hactar ~]# grep REIS /usr/src/linux/.config
> CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
> CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y
> CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
> # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
> # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY is not set
> 
> > Finally, the Gentoo Wiki author adds the "user_xattr" option to the
> > reiserfs entry in fstab. This suggests that reiserfs is supported. The
> > fact that the option doesn't appear in the kernel, suggest that it's
> > not. And, the fact that the Beagle Web site says reiserfs is not
> > support Beagle also suggests that I can run Beagle on an reiserfs
> > filesystem.
> 
> You can run Beagle on a reiser3 filesystem.
> 
> 
Thanks, Neil, for your settings. I'll modify my stuff after work this
evening, and report back.

Paul

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