From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael chang Subject: Re: Distributions with out-of-the-box Reiser4 support? Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:12:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <194f6255050810094849b3164e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <194f6255050810094849b3164e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On 8/10/05, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > I hope this questions hasn't been asked too often (since it seems to > be a perfect example for this), but I'm not too long on this list and > for what I've seen it hasn't ... so please don't kill me ;-) Nonsense... I haven't seen it yet... but I think it's _supposed_ to be on the site somewhere. > Does anybody know a number of distrbibutions which support reiser4 out > of the box (installer, grub, reiserfs4-utils, ...)? > Is opensuse planned to include reiser4? Not sure; although IIRC, many distros plan to support it in the _future_. Apparently, that's why Hans is trying to hard to get it into the vanilla kernel -- so distros can support it. There should be a Gentoo Live CD that supports it... I believe at the moment Reiser4 root partitions are unsupported, so you are advised to use another filesystem for storing other files, especially /boot. [Some versions of GRUB support Reiser4, but there have been issues; others don't; there's supposed to be a patch for GRUB in order to support Reiser4, etc. etc.] Does Lindows support Reiser4 roots? > For now I am using Fedora but since a long time I feel uncomfortable > with their use-what-we-tell-you policy, they tell me to use ext3 or > gnome for example and if I want to make a different choice a get > anything but not a perfect installation. Consider using ReiserFS 3.6 in the meantime; and use either Debian or Ubantu [or stick with FC, if you need to]. Former gives you more control; I haven't used the latter but I hear it's rather popular. Gentoo has also been suggested -- but I don't know how it works or anything. I believe the consensus for most users is "while it's there, root/boot support isn't in yet, and there could be unsolved bugs, so use it to debug, or wait" or something. Iunno. *shrugs* Hans, or anyone from Namesys, might know better. -- ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.