Why isn't reiser4 in the installer?

techprophet · 2008-09-09 19:27:00

From my experience (using it almost since it came out) it is very stable and much faster than ext3 or xfs; Why isn't it in the installer? (Other than Reiser's murder, which I don't see as a reason to not use RFS4) Have other users had trouble with it?

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.:B:. · 2008-09-09 19:29:49

It's not in the installer because it's not in the mainline kernel.

Maki · 2008-09-09 19:30:24

Because it's not in the vanilla kernel, and arch uses the vanilla kernel.

lucke · 2008-09-09 19:30:38

It isn't in the kernel. Arch tries to provide its kernel as vanilla as possible.

Maki · 2008-09-09 19:34:15

Off-topic, WoW great timing, lucke

lucke · 2008-09-09 19:34:56

I was third :-( FAIL!

A bit more on-topic: I'm using R4 with cryptcompress on my / at the moment, but its not being in mainline makes it a bit of a pain in the ass.

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techprophet · 2008-09-10 15:03:42

Well, why not at least add reiser4progs to the LiveCD? I know how to format my partitions before hand and then mount them where they need to be;

lucke · 2008-09-10 15:14:39

Those aren't in the official repos either, so no dice.

If one knows how to install Arch with R4-enabled kernel, one should have no problems getting reiser4progs to work ;-)

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.:B:. · 2008-09-10 15:18:40

techprophet wrote:

Well, why not at least add reiser4progs to the LiveCD? I know how to format my partitions before hand and then mount them where they need to be;

That's a chicken or egg question, you still need the driver in the kernel to mount the FS itself . No kernel support, no possibility to mount a partition with an unsupported FS.

techprophet · 2008-09-10 16:42:01

Oh yeah, forgot about that; Well, I think I will work on modifying the Arch LiveCD to allow RFS4 installations; Maybe someone else will find it useful as well;

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firewalker · 2008-09-10 17:50:37

There is no certain future for Reiser4Fs since Hans Reiser have been convicted for murdering his wife.

techprophet · 2008-09-10 18:04:13

firewalker: Yes, I know; It is very saddening that he did that, for more reasons than just that;

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