I'm curious enough about ReiserFS that I want to play with it, but not
curious enough to devote a whole partition to it just yet. So I thought
I'd create a big file somewhere, put a filesystem in it, and "mount -o
loop" it. Alas, mkreiserfs won't let me get away with it:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=reiserfs.raw bs=4096 count=10240
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
# mkreiserfs reiserfs.raw
<-------------mkreiserfs, 2000------------->
reiserfsprogs 3.x.0d
mkreiserfs: reiserfs.raw is not a block special device.
Is there a way to create a ReiserFS in a regular file?
This is with Linux 2.4.2 (specifically the "kernel-source-2.4.2" package
from Progeny Debian 1.0) and reiserfsprogs 3.x.0d.
Thanks --
Greg
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