Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 07:15 schrieb ext Colin:
> When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel?  I can emerge
> reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in /etc/fstab.

AFAIK there are kernel sources which have reiser4 patched in.

> Also, are there any good, journaled and encrypting filesystems for
> Linux?  I thought Reiser4 would have an encryption plugin;  did I read
> that somewhere or am I mistaken?

Encryption happens on device level, not filesystem level. Using dm-crypt 
[1], you first create an encrypted device and then put whatever filesystem 
you want on that device:

cryptsetup create /dev/hda3 crypto
mkreiserfs /dev/mapper/crypto

HTH...

        Dirk

[1]: http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt
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