> > I'm contemplating installing debian on ReiserFS like this: > > > > 1: Install Debian. > > 2: Patch & compile kernel with ReiserFS support. > > 3: Backup the partitons [1] one after one and reformat them with > > ReiserFS, restore from backup. > > 4: Be very happy! :-) > >
I recently installed potato and decided to make /usr and /home reiserfs. Went single-user to do this, copied the data off and on -- no problems. Then I tried to extract a tar.gz file from an NFS mount onto my (reiser) home partition. Worked fine, but when I tried to build the application (dosemu-1.0.1) the configure script got stuck and filled up the entire 2.5 gig partition. I extracted the same file to /var/ (which was still ext2) and of course then it worked. I don't know where I should file this bug though, since I don't really know where the problem was. John Leuner