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From: Paul Hoy <paul.hoy@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:45:45
Message-Id: 1124113269.11581.2.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:41 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:43:05 -0400, Paul Hoy Gmail wrote:
3 >
4 > > The Gentoo HOWTO wiki explains that a user should enable extended
5 > > attributes for his or her filesystems, and shows how you can do so
6 > > with Ext2. The author of the wiki says you can do the same with
7 > > reiserfs, but I don't recall seeing the option in the kernel (when I
8 > > configured it a couple of weeks ago).
9 >
10 > It's there, I used the Wiki HOWTO to install Beagle myself quite
11 > recently. Here are my reiserfs kernel settings
12 >
13 > [root@hactar ~]# grep REIS /usr/src/linux/.config
14 > CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
15 > # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
16 > CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y
17 > CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
18 > # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
19 > # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY is not set
20 >
21 > > Finally, the Gentoo Wiki author adds the "user_xattr" option to the
22 > > reiserfs entry in fstab. This suggests that reiserfs is supported. The
23 > > fact that the option doesn't appear in the kernel, suggest that it's
24 > > not. And, the fact that the Beagle Web site says reiserfs is not
25 > > support Beagle also suggests that I can run Beagle on an reiserfs
26 > > filesystem.
27 >
28 > You can run Beagle on a reiser3 filesystem.
29 >
30 >
31 Thanks, Neil, for your settings. I'll modify my stuff after work this
32 evening, and report back.
33
34 Paul
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