Colin wrote: >I found the Reiser4 emerge guide on the Gentoo forums, but that didn't >work for me. Is there any way to emerge Reiser4 support into my >kernel? > >
You might have to download a kernel patch directly from www.namesys.com. If you do decide to try out reiser4, be sure to subscribe to the mail list, and you might want to browse the archives of that list before jumping in. It is, after all, a _beta_ filesystem! >2.) This will be an embedded system, so how can I speed up the boot >process (after the BIOS hands control to GRUB)? > > Software Suspend v2. There was a link to a nice article about it here not too long ago. >3.) What's the Linux equivalent of DOS/Windows' autoexec.bat >(something to run commands on startup, namely "setterm -blank 0")? > > ~/.bashrc will be executed by every (bash) shell that is started. >4.) My USB key and/or a media card reader are sometimes plugged into >this computer, but not always. It's a hassle manually mounting them >every time I want to use it. Can I mount them in /etc/fstab even > > Try something like this: LABEL=USBKEY /mnt/usbkey auto noauto,user 0 0 (Use whatever LABEL your USB key has above). You will really need the "noauto" option, and probably want "user" if you don't want to have to be root to mount it. >5.) And as far as my USB key is concerned, FAT32 is slow and >unjournaled. It sucks. ReiserFS is the greatest thing since NTFS as >far as I'm concerned, and I'd like to use that on my USB key, since >it's speedy, journaled and space-efficient. > >Are there Windows/Mac OS 9/Mac OS X plugins for ReiserFS? I'd like to >put a small FAT partition on my key with just the plugins and a Reiser >partition spanning the rest for my data. > > Not AFAIK. There are some userspace read-only utilities for ext2 (and ext3), but nothing for reiserfs. Your best bet is probably fat32 (or my preference, vfat). BTW, even 'high-speed' USB disk keys can only transfer at ~9MB/sec, and seek time is nil for flash, so it doesn't really make sense to talk about a 'high performance' filesystem for a USB disk key, IMO. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
