Hello, I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem.
Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attributues) as an example throughout. However, the Beagle Web site states in its FAQ (http://www.beaglewiki.org/FAQ) that Beagle does not support Reiser4S: "Reiser4 does not support the standard Linux extended attribute interfaces, but instead implements its own. If/when Reiser4 supports extended attributes, it will be supported." The Gentoo HOWTO wiki explains that a user should enable extended attributes for his or her filesystems, and shows how you can do so with Ext2. The author of the wiki says you can do the same with reiserfs, but I don't recall seeing the option in the kernel (when I configured it a couple of weeks ago). Finally, the Gentoo Wiki author adds the "user_xattr" option to the reiserfs entry in fstab. This suggests that reiserfs is supported. The fact that the option doesn't appear in the kernel, suggest that it's not. And, the fact that the Beagle Web site says reiserfs is not support Beagle also suggests that I can run Beagle on an reiserfs filesystem. Any leads, hints, suggestions, solutions, answers? -- [email protected] mailing list
