Seems things have changed a bit.. but here is QA from reiserfs homepage
FAQ
Q. Can reiserfs be used as a root partition?
A. Yes, but you must mount /boot with the -notail option.
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, A V Flinsch wrote:
> On Saturday 23 December 2000 13:08, you wrote:
> > you can't have / as a reiserfs filesystem. everything else can be. If
> > you go to the resierfs website, the install docs say so explicitly.
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> Is this a 2.4 thing? My current fstab is:
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> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /usr/oracle reiserfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdb5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
> /dev/hdb6 /mnt/iso reiserfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hdb7 /root reiserfs defaults 1 2
> /dev/hde1 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
>
> As you can see / is a reiserfs partition. The only thing that is not is
> /boot
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