On Sun 14 Sep 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i'd like to set up an reiserfs filesystem for wwwoffle in an file. > (dont want to repartition the disk)
You'll lose one advantage of reiserfs: the saving on not having indirect and indirect blocks with large files, as that still has to be performed by the underlying filesystem. So don't be surprised if that doesn't perform as well as you'd expect. > For writing into an file, mkfs.reiserfs says it wants the -f option, > but the manpage says, with this option it writes to the whole disk. In my manpage, it says that -f forces mkreiserfs to continue even if the device is either a whole disk, OR is not a block device, or looks mounted. > So what is really meant ? Can I safely use it ? If you use it as a non-root user, it's perfectly safe whatever it tries to do... Paul Slootman
