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#1 2006-04-23 17:03:20

Gullible Jones
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[request] Reiser4-patched GRUB

... Because I can't copy and paste under Minimax, LILO is screwing up like there's no tomorrow, and Damn Small Linux can't handle Reiser4. Also, I think it might be nicer to potential Reiser4/GRUB users to have the PKGBUILD and other necessary files for building it wrapped up in a nice little tarball.

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#2 2006-04-24 10:26:26

iphitus
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Re: [request] Reiser4-patched GRUB

ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/ … 808.tar.gz

knock yourself out. I'm not sure whether it's up to date enough to work, but that's the latest.

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#3 2006-04-24 10:52:18

Gullible Jones
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Re: [request] Reiser4-patched GRUB

Ack, doesn't even matter... It turns out you cannot use makepkg when chrooted, so the PKGBUILD was useless. I've switched back to JFS.

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#4 2006-04-24 11:15:21

user
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Re: [request] Reiser4-patched GRUB

Gullible Jones wrote:

I've switched back to JFS.

why not xfs? I have used jfs, reiserfs 3, reiser4.
but xfs no chance, some one say xfs better than reiser3/4..

PS: i am using reiserfs 3.


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#5 2006-04-24 12:35:45

iphitus
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Re: [request] Reiser4-patched GRUB

user wrote:
Gullible Jones wrote:

I've switched back to JFS.

why not xfs? I have used jfs, reiserfs 3, reiser4.
but xfs no chance, some one say xfs better than reiser3/4..

PS: i am using reiserfs 3.

because that's what he's chosen. Gullible is aware of what filesystem he want's to use, and I dont think we need another "i use this" thread.

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#6 2006-04-24 14:55:22

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Re: [request] Reiser4-patched GRUB

iphitus wrote:

I dont think we need another "i use this" thread.

No, here "i am using" doesn't mean hype.
Recently, I heard many good things about xfs, though i am reiserfs mania..


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#7 2006-04-24 20:25:45

Gullible Jones
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Re: [request] Reiser4-patched GRUB

XFS is great for big files but its small-file performance is *hideous* - pacman is incredibly slow on it, unless your hard drive is a SATA or fast SCSI drive or something. And I've got a 7200 RPM IDE drive with a mere 2 MB cache, so with XFS pacman takes five minutes or so to find the data on a package...

JFS, on the other hand, is almost as good as ReiserFS with small files and uses less of my CPU time, and seems overall the fastest FS on my machine. That said, different filesystems seem to perform very differently on different machines. If you've got a custom-made machine with a Seagate Barracuda in it, XFS might be the best for all I know.

With regards to Reiser4... from what I've seen it's not half as bad as the benchmarks say, very much like ReiserFS - stronger in some areas, but still very much similar. One similarity I could definitely do without, though, is the long mount times. They're not quite as long as with ReiserFS, but they increase with volume size, so for large RAID arrays they'd probably be a showstopper... And damned if I can find an excuse for the mount times either, since Reiser4 doesn't fsck on mount as ReiserFS does.

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