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On 12/26/05, Andrea Chiavelli <andrea-chiavelli@×××××××.it> wrote: |
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> Hi guys. |
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> I'm going to install gentoo 2005.1-r1 for amd64 on a turion-powered |
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> notebook and an awful dilemma caught me: should i use reiser4 for root |
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> partition or not? I've read tons of docs available on the topic but i |
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> found it a bit contradictory. Do you know anything about the actual |
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> state of support of the reiser4 fs? Does the default gentoo-kernel |
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> support it ? have you experienced reiser4 on a amd64? Is it really so |
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> fast or current software make it buggy and useless? |
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Some people (notably Duncan) have said it much better than I will, but |
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here's my 2 cents. I have run an almost pure reiser4 system since |
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July (/, /home/, /usr/portage are all reiser4; I only have one small |
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ext3 and a large xfs), and nothing has gone wrong. If you decide to |
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install using reiser4, and not have to do a filesystem change (backing |
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up all your files in the process), you need to find a LiveCD that will |
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support it for you, such as Lxnay's or Ahorn's. You can patch |
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gentoo-sources (there is a good post on the Unsupported Software |
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forum), or use another kernel. |
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(Incidentally, is ck still included in the portage tree? I thought |
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that had reiser4 support.) |
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My only gripe with reiser4 is how it handles user extended attributes. |
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Put simply, it does it completely different than other filesystems, |
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and as such, those programs that take advantage of it (in my case, |
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beagle), don't fully support reiser4. In beagle's case, the file |
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index isn't updated as fast as, say, on ext3. Hopefully Reiser will |
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give in and use the normal user_xattr, though I am not very |
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optimistic. |
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