A V Flinsch wrote:
>
> On Friday 11 May 2001 04:53, Tommy Lawton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The system crashed last night (I think reiserfs in 8.0 is slightly
> > unstable?) and the root partition has some kind of screwed-up journal
> > bug. Does anyone have a copy of reiserfsck (preferably stand-alone so I
> > don't have to play with libraries) I can run off my vfat partition? And
> > advice for the future? I'm considering ditching reiser...
> >
>
> You can boot off the install cdrom as a rescue disk and run it from
> there, no need to screw around with the vfat partition.
>
> I had the same problem with 8.0, and reinstalled several times. I ended
> up reconverting everything back to ext2.
>
> Are there any plans to include sgi's xfs or ibm's jfs in the future, both
> seem to be more stable than reiserfs (especially with flaky disk drives)
The folks at SGI have XFS available. They've recently released v1.0 , and it's
working for a lot of people.
They have also recently released a replacement installer for Mandrake that will
include XFS as an option at install time.
Using that, you can now enable LVM, and XFS at install.
Yes... Little Linux is growing up. True volume management, AND journaled
filesystems.
Check out:
http://oss.sgi.com
There is a section for getting either replacement kernels for Mandrake (they did
the work of integrating the patches required into the stock Mandrake kernel!),
or for the more adventuresome, you can get the kernel source tree (also a
patched version of the Mandrake kernel), OR... just get the patch, and go at it!
The ISO image to replace the Mandrake installer is at:
ftp://ftp.thebarn.com/SGI/Mandrake-XFS1.0/1-Cooker-XFS-i586.iso
Many options from SGI, and they are very active about supporting it. The mailing
list is lively, and the support staff from SGI is quick to ansswer questions,
and resolving problems.
Ric
