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Demind

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Registered: 2007-07-10

Posts: 111

kernel with Reiser4 support

I've just made a package with reiser4 support.
Does someone find useful if i make a PKGBUILD with some config in order to download a compile a vanilla kernel optimized for x86_64 and with reiser4 support enabled?
I've noticed that in the AUR there only a kernel version supporting Reiser4 and this is the GIT one....maybe someone would find useful having the last vanilla...
Please make me know and in a couple of week (next week i'm abroad) i could prepare everything.

[edit] obviously i won't reply to this topic in the next 7-8 days :-)

Last edited by Demind (2008-04-03 18:13:49)

tgc

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From: DK

Registered: 2004-03-09

Posts: 96

Re: kernel with Reiser4 support

There is also the option of using the kernel26mm from the unstable repository, since it also has reiser4 support. The packages isn't updated at every mm-release, but it works

Demind

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Registered: 2007-07-10

Posts: 111

Re: kernel with Reiser4 support

There is also the option of using the kernel26mm from the unstable repository, since it also has reiser4 support. The packages isn't updated at every mm-release, but it works

My idea in fact was to prepare a package that could be updated more often and customized, i.e. for recent laptop users maybe could be optimized fore Core 2Duo or something like that.
Obviously since you are the only person that has answered to this topic is you i believe that the interest in such a package is low.
No problem

benvanderjagt

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Registered: 2008-05-29

Posts: 2

Re: kernel with Reiser4 support

I'm specifically looking for that.  I have never used Arch before, but I'm rather experienced with Linux and BSD.  I've been using Reiser4 for years and have been impressed the whole time.  I'll be switching over a number of my systems, mostly x86_64, to Arch for at least a couple months to try it out.  I had switched to Zenwalk when they introduced Reiser4 support in their installer, and I'm now switching -away- from Fedora since Fedora 9's support for Reiser 3.6 is effectively BROKEN.  If it were possible to install Arch straight onto a Reiser4 partition from scratch, then I'd be quite inclined to switch to it permanently.

On a similar note, a non-destructive NTFS install is something some of my customers want as well.  Dual-booting with one single partition, using a file as swap, seems to be appealing to customers.  I explain that doing so will mean that Windows won't be stopped from walking all over the Linux folders, but it's an in-between step that apparently works for some people.

Hope my message at least makes -some- sense.  I just finished downloading, so I'll go and see how installation goes.

Cheers!

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: kernel with Reiser4 support

The kernel on the install cd does not have reiser4 support. You need a custom one. Probably the quickest way to get / on reiser4 is to install elsewhere, install a kernel with reiser4 support, boot into it, and then transfer the installation.

Good news about arch is that you don't need to reinstall (unless you screw up big time) - that's the rolling release for you. Actually, I installed only once, and rolled since (about 1 year ago).

Last edited by bender02 (2008-05-29 05:00:15)

benvanderjagt

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Registered: 2008-05-29

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Re: kernel with Reiser4 support

I rather like Arch so far.  (-:  I still have something keeping X from loading up, but I'll tinker with it.  Had to add the noapic and acpi_os=name="Linux" options for one stupid little Compaq F730US laptop in order to keep it from hardlocking.

That's the way I've had to install most distro's when I wanted Reiser4, such as by making a 2GB partition, installing into that and building Reiser4 support, partitioning the rest of the drive, transferring the OS to that, and turning the original 2GB partition into swap.  Just wish Arch had a shortcut.  q-:  Oh well, that's not what drew me this direction anyway.  I've always wanted a distro that really didn't ever need to be fully reinstalled, and for a while I was using Slackware-current, but there were always sooo many things that broke along the way.  This is much nicer.

GGLucas

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Registered: 2008-03-13

Posts: 113

Re: kernel with Reiser4 support

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: kernel with Reiser4 support

I'm specifically looking for that.  I have never used Arch before, but I'm rather experienced with Linux and BSD.  I've been using Reiser4 for years and have been impressed the whole time.  I'll be switching over a number of my systems, mostly x86_64, to Arch for at least a couple months to try it out.  I had switched to Zenwalk when they introduced Reiser4 support in their installer, and I'm now switching -away- from Fedora since Fedora 9's support for Reiser 3.6 is effectively BROKEN.  If it were possible to install Arch straight onto a Reiser4 partition from scratch, then I'd be quite inclined to switch to it permanently.

The Fedora-not-using R3 is not without reason. ReiserFS3 was effectively dumped on the kernel developers after it was merged, and then had little development since then. For years now, any patches to it have been purely maintenance to keep it ticking over, whereas ext3 has been continually improved and advanced. Reiser3 is a dead FS in terms of development.

Arch won't be including reiser4 by default unless the kernel developers decide to merge it. That said, reiser4progs is in the repos, and kernel26mm is there too... so it's not like there's no support.