On Dec 27, 2007 12:56 PM, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2007 7:23 AM, Emanuele Leonardi
> > The upstream's kernel does not have reiserfs enabled. You will need to > > enable it and recompile the kernel. In make menuconfig (or make > > xconfig), go to File systems and check Reiserfs support (M). Or, edit > > the .config file and change the "# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set" line > > to "CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m" > > Preferably, use one of the make config choices; I've taken to .config > with vim on occasion, and there's sometimes consequences. > > You will also need (absolutely need) the reiserfs toolset. It seems to > me from reports I've seen that reiserfs is a little fragile, and you > really need the ability to fsck it. > > Probably, CentOS has all of what you need in one of its repos, and they > are compatible with RHEL and so SL. Well, if you go for CentOS, the centosplus kernel has reiserfs enabled and the reiserfs-utils package is available. They can be found in http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/centosplus . Doing a test run may not hurt. Akemi
