On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:34 PM, g <gel...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > greetings, > > in one of my system boxes, i have scientific linux 5.2, fedora 8 and 10, > installed to ext3 fs, mandrake 2008 and '/home' installed to reiserfs. > > i access reiserfs from fc8, f10 and md2k8, and i need to access reiserfs > from sl5.2. > > i have check with yum for a reiserfs package, but find none thru repos. > > is there a package available that i can install to allow sl5.2? > > reformatting is not a practical option.
You might want to try out a kernel module package for reiserfs available from ElRepo: http://elrepo.org Follow the instructions to set up this repository and then issue a command: yum --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-reiserfs All kmod packages in this directory are kernel version independent (kABI-tracking) - meaning there is no need to reinstall for each kernel update. They were built by Alan Bartlett who is also in the Scientific Linux community. I did a test install of kmod-reiserfs on a SL5.3 x86_64 system. It loaded fine with: modprobe reiserfs I then update the kernel to the latest and it survived the update. Please note that I do not have a Reiser filesystem to test with. So I could only test loading / unloading the module. I would appreciate it if you could give it a try and let us know if this works for you. If you need to uninstall it, it will be as easy as typing: rpm -e kmod-reiserfs Hope this helps, Akemi
