Paul Hoy Gmail wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. 
>
>Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle)
>and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attributues) as an
>example throughout. However, the Beagle Web site states in its FAQ
>(http://www.beaglewiki.org/FAQ) that Beagle does not support Reiser4S:
>"Reiser4 does not support the standard Linux extended attribute
>interfaces, but instead implements its own. If/when Reiser4 supports
>extended attributes, it will be supported."
>
>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).
>
>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.
>
>Any leads, hints, suggestions, solutions, answers?
>
>  
>
Hi,
Using reiserfsprogs-3.6.19 (reiser-3) and also have extended-attributes
support in kernel-config (reiser-3).
Haven't checked but think/remember that reiserfs-4 has it's own
security/encryption things (in filesystem).
IMO above wiki in for reiserfs-3 only and will work with it.
Extended-attr. for reiserfs are under reiserfs-config.
HTH. Rumen