Re: Reiser fs and YDL 2.1


Subject: Re: Reiser fs and YDL 2.1
From: Neil Jolly (neil@jollycom.ca)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 19:11:03 MST


On November 8, 2001 03:38 am, you wrote:
> --On Thursday, November 8, 2001 8:52 am +0100 Dennis Staiger
>
> <dnsstaiger@gmx.ch> wrote:
> > I'd like to install a journaling filesystem. As far as I know, YDL 2.1
> > comes with reiser fs, but I can't select it during the installation
> > process (text based).
>
> You need to compile support for Reiserfs into the kernel - there is an
> option for this in the filesystems part of the 2.4.x kernel config. I
> haven't tried it.
>
> > Now I wonder how I can install reiser fs (or ext3) with YDL 2.1 and after
> > all how well these journaling filesystems are supported on a ppc
> > platform.
>
> I'd love to know too! As far as I can see from reading the web sites,
> there are some performance issues with ext3 and it needs a 2.2.x kernel.
> Reiserfs requires a filesystem rebuild. So adopting either of them isn't
> at the "trivial" level.
>
> Iain

Here's a replay on a previous post:

Finally, journaling file system ReiserFS coming to the Mac, thanks to
Jeff Mahoney from SuSE. Installation of ReiserFS on Mac is rather tricky,
but really worth trying.

Step-by-step instruction available at:

http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/linux_tips_and_tricks.html

PS. MOL seem to have problems with ReiserFS, I am currently investigating
this issue.

Neil



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