On 18 Feb 2003, Marvin Pascual wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 13:49, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> >
> > 1. Backup data, where to is your problem. It can be a spare disk, a tape
> >    drive, or a separate partition.
> > 2. Wipe out ext2/ext3/XFS/JFS/whatever filesystem, replacing it with
> >    ReiserFS using the ReiserFS mkfs command (forgot which this is).
> > 3. Restore data.
> > 4. Modify /etc/fstab and company.
> > 5. Reboot.
>
> Ok, I got it.  But I'll be installing and compile afterwards a new
> kernel-2.4.20 from source.  Based on ReiserFS's install how-to, I still
> need to patch the kernel with the ReiserFS patch.  Do I really need to
> patch the kernel source with ReiserFS patch or the kernel-2.4.20 has
> already a native support on ReiserFS?
>

2.4.1 onwards has a working reiserfs included stock in the kernel.  The
more mature reiserfs (more bug fixes folded into the kernel)  are in
2.4.18 onwards.


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