Reiser4 on CentOS 4.1

Reiser4 on CentOS 4.1

[Steve Jacobson]

All,

I've compiled a new version of the 2.6.9-11.EL kernel for reiser 4 
support.  I applied the reiser4 patch, and rebuilt the kernel with it as 
a module.  I've installed the resultant kernel, and everything seems 
fine with it, in general.  I downloaded and compiled the reiser tools - 
reiserfsprogs-3.6.19 as I couldn't find a reiser4 specific set.  I can 
create a reiser file system running mkreiserfs with no problem.  When I 
go to mount it, with 'mount -t reiser4 /dev/sda4 /data' I get 'mount: fs 
type reiser4 not supported by kernel'.  Same with type reiserfs.  lsmod 
doesn't show it installed, so I try to insmod the module: 'insmod 
reiser4.ko'  I get :

insmod: error inserting 'reiser4.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module


I'm running (and building on) CentOS 4.1, new install with not much on it.

any thoughts or direction?

Thanks!

-steve j

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Steve Jacobson
Support Manager
SourceLabs, Inc.
steve@sourcelabs.com
(206) 322-0099 x110

Re: Reiser4 on CentOS 4.1

[Jake Maciejewski]

reiser4 is a completely different filesystem. reiserfsprogs will not
work. Use reiser4progs from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/.
You'll need to install libaal first.

You shouldn't be using insmod. Use modprobe instead. A clean rebuild of
your kernel might fix the symbol error.

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:30 -0700, Steve Jacobson wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've compiled a new version of the 2.6.9-11.EL kernel for reiser 4 
> support.  I applied the reiser4 patch, and rebuilt the kernel with it as 
> a module.  I've installed the resultant kernel, and everything seems 
> fine with it, in general.  I downloaded and compiled the reiser tools - 
> reiserfsprogs-3.6.19 as I couldn't find a reiser4 specific set.  I can 
> create a reiser file system running mkreiserfs with no problem.  When I 
> go to mount it, with 'mount -t reiser4 /dev/sda4 /data' I get 'mount: fs 
> type reiser4 not supported by kernel'.  Same with type reiserfs.  lsmod 
> doesn't show it installed, so I try to insmod the module: 'insmod 
> reiser4.ko'  I get :
> 
> insmod: error inserting 'reiser4.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
> 
> 
> I'm running (and building on) CentOS 4.1, new install with not much on it.
> 
> any thoughts or direction?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -steve j
> 
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Jake Maciejewski <maciejej@msoe.edu>