On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:53:51AM +0200, Tilman Schoop wrote: > has anyone experiences with using reiserfs > for a flashdisk on an arm based board? > > We tried to compile Linux kernel 2.4.2-rmk1-np3 > with reiserfs support and tried to boot it > with a reiserfs root filesystem on the flashdisk. > But when it wants to mount the root filesystem > the kernel crashes with an alignment error.
Linux-2.4.2 contains a couple of known reiserfs errors that *will* corrupt your files. > So my question at the moment is, > is there anyone who has reiserfs running > in an ARM Linux kernel? AFAIK the handhelds.org folks run it on their skiffcluster machines. Reiserfs on a flash is a wast of space: reiserfs always uses 32MB for its journal, flash disks are usually not large enough for that. You'd better use JFFS2 for MTD flash devices or ext3 for self-contained flash devices. > Is the problem be solved by one of the newer > kernel versions? Always use the latest stable kernel. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
