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From: Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:56:25
Message-Id: 1128343623.13396.8.camel@darksystem
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4 by Chris Bainbridge
1 On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:10 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
2 > On 03/10/05, Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o> wrote:
3 > > I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via a
4 > > use flag. reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64.
5 >
6 > A quick search found this quote: "The topic in channel #gentoo-amd64
7 > on irc.freenode.net has said "Reiser4 is evil" for more than a year."
8 >
9 > However http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64 and the forum threads it
10 > links to seem to suggest that people are successfully using reiser4 on
11 > amd64 with recent kernels?
12 >
13 Yes it's true because reiser4 isn't ready for AMD64 atm. There are a
14 couple of users that tried reiser4 and they got nothing more than data
15 corruption because reiser4 is unstable.
16 For somehow reiser4 isn't in the stable kernel.
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21 Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,Media-Optical
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