Re: [Cooker] Reiser FS vs. 32-bit UIDs
Clay Haapala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the hackkernel-2.4 on the Beta-3 image support ReiserFS? Truth-to-tell, I could not get hackkernel-2.4 running, but I have not been able to spend much time on it. It dies for me with a panic in the boot sequence. I'm sure there is an FAQ for me to read on this somewhere reiserfs and 2.4 kernel are currently more unstable than the 2.2. one. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org Paris, France --Chmouel
Re: [Cooker] Reiser FS vs. 32-bit UIDs
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, you wrote: Clay Haapala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the hackkernel-2.4 on the Beta-3 image support ReiserFS? Truth-to-tell, I could not get hackkernel-2.4 running, but I have not been able to spend much time on it. It dies for me with a panic in the boot sequence. I'm sure there is an FAQ for me to read on this somewhere reiserfs and 2.4 kernel are currently more unstable than the 2.2. one. Aha! Mind telling us just how unstable reiser is on 2.2 ? Some of us here have it on production... It would be nice to know what to avoid... How about Reiser + NFS, bad combination ? The Reiser website seems to hint that this is so, if there are a lot of non-regular files in the exported filesystem..
Re: [Cooker] Reiser FS vs. 32-bit UIDs
"Ian C.Sison" wrote: On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, you wrote: Clay Haapala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the hackkernel-2.4 on the Beta-3 image support ReiserFS? Truth-to-tell, I could not get hackkernel-2.4 running, but I have not been able to spend much time on it. It dies for me with a panic in the boot sequence. I'm sure there is an FAQ for me to read on this somewhere reiserfs and 2.4 kernel are currently more unstable than the 2.2. one. Aha! Mind telling us just how unstable reiser is on 2.2 ? Some of us here have it on production... It would be nice to know what to avoid... How about Reiser + NFS, bad combination ? The Reiser website seems to hint that this is so, if there are a lot of non-regular files in the exported filesystem.. Ive used ReiserFS for several months on my /usr partition (which includes a "ln -s /usr/local/home /home"). Ive used 2.4 and ReiserFS for about a month, and 2.2 and ReiserFS for 2 to 3 months before that. Ive never had a problem with ReiserFS itself, although its a bit more difficult when you need to repair something. Booting LM 7.1 CD to repair something was fine with kernel 2.2, but now I use kernel 2.4 the ReiserFS partiton wont mount properly with a 2.2 kernel. Probably because of incompatible hash algorithms - you can choose from several. There are problems with ReiserFS and NFS, because NFS makes some assumptions about the filesystem that are true for ext2, but not for some more advanced filesystems. ReiserFS has hash algorithms that work around some of these problems, but you lose some quality in the hashes. The ReiserFS website has all the details about these problems. -- - Antony Suter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Examiner" openpgp:71ADFC87 - "And how do you store the nuclear equivalent of the universal solvent?"
[Cooker] Reiser FS vs. 32-bit UIDs
A scan of Reiser FS documentation on the web tells me that, similar to glibc, ReiserFS is ready for 32-bit UIDs. Anybody have experience with that? Does the hackkernel-2.4 on the Beta-3 image support ReiserFS? Truth-to-tell, I could not get hackkernel-2.4 running, but I have not been able to spend much time on it. It dies for me with a panic in the boot sequence. I'm sure there is an FAQ for me to read on this somewhere -- Clay Haapala "Woe to he who fears change more than disaster! For [EMAIL PROTECTED] how can he then avoid disaster?" -- from "the Firebugs"
