| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
flak7
n00b
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
Posts: 44
Location: Poland
|
 Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: Reiserfs? |
 |
|
When I installed my Gentoo 2005.0 I was disappointed that "installer" lacks of Reiserfs support. Does the 2005.1/2006.0 install CDs have the reiserfs support? I know that easiest way to find out is to simply download CD images and try them out but for now I have only a modem so it is not very good idea.
_________________
IA32 - Slackware
SPARC64 - Gentoo |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Vulpes_Vulpes
Apprentice
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Posts: 264
Location: Amsterdam
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:17 am Post subject: |
|
|
I never used the installer but if you just give the Gentoo Handbook a try you will find that Reiserfs support is available in 2005.0. It is really worth trying!
Good luck!  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
at240
l33t
Joined: 12 Aug 2005
Posts: 603
Location: UK
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
| If you don't want to reinstall, just emerge reiserfsprogs and enable support for the filesystem in your kernel. It might be too late if you have no way of reformatting your partitions; but a new installation is not necessarily needed. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
flak7
n00b
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
Posts: 44
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Am I blind? I run the Gentoo SPARC cd look in /sbin, /usr/sbin and I can not find
any reiserfs tools. Do I have some damaged cd? I can not find any thing about reiserfs in Gentoo SPARC Handbook.
BTH: "installer" - I mean simply the Gentoo installation cd. You say that there is a graphical installer for SPARC?
_________________
IA32 - Slackware
SPARC64 - Gentoo |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
blu3bird
Retired Dev
Joined: 04 Oct 2003
Posts: 614
Location: Munich, Germany
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Reiserfs? |
|
|
| flak7 wrote: | | Does the 2005.1/2006.0 install CDs have the reiserfs support? |
they do not have reiserfs support.
reiserfs is not(no longer) supported on sparc. i think 2004.1 live cd had reiserfs support but you should stick to ext3
_________________
Black Holes are created when God divides by zero! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
flak7
n00b
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
Posts: 44
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Oh no!
The support has been dropped?! Anyone knows why? I see stable (not masked) reiserfsprogs-3.6.19 for SPARC.
_________________
IA32 - Slackware
SPARC64 - Gentoo |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
gust4voz
Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003
Posts: 373
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
That's because reiserfs is broken in the kernel.
It looks right and works right - for a while - until you start to get some subtle file corruption that can't be fixed.
_________________
Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
flak7
n00b
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
Posts: 44
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
You mean broken for SPARC architecture, not in general right?
_________________
IA32 - Slackware
SPARC64 - Gentoo |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
starrbuck
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Apr 2005
Posts: 138
Location: North Texas
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yes, of course, only on SPARC.
I cannot recommend anything but ext2/ext3 on SPARC.
_________________
Gentoo Linux is groovy, baby! Yeah! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
flak7
n00b
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
Posts: 44
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Thank you everyone. You stopped me from making critical mistake with Reiserfs on SPARC. Hope it will be fixed one day. For the time being my SPARC Gentoo will be the only Linux I use placed on non-Reiserfs filesystem. 
_________________
IA32 - Slackware
SPARC64 - Gentoo |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
starrbuck
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Apr 2005
Posts: 138
Location: North Texas
|
| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:08 am Post subject: |
|
|
I'm a ReiserFS fan myself. I run it on my i686 (AMD Athlon) Gentoo box but I've only used ext2/3 on my SPARCs due to the dangers.
_________________
Gentoo Linux is groovy, baby! Yeah! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Gentoo on Sparc
