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2003-10-28 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi all, I am struggling for last few days to get my reiserfs filesystem working. Finally I installed kerlnel-image 2.20-reiserfs and things worked. I was able to mount my filesystem. But last night it seems that somehow it formatted that drive and all the data were lost. I was surprised and I

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-04 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel. Can ext2 be upgraded to ext3 once the machine is installed and I'm upgrading to 2.4.X? I take it I have to patch the kernel for ext3 as I don't see it as an option in my 2.4.10 kernel config. Thus spake A.R. (Tom) Peters

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:02:31 -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel. It's a separate patch at the moment, AFAIK. It is included in at least Alan Cox' series of patches for 2.4 kernels (where you need to say [*] Prompt for development

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Agno
Robert L. Harris writes: where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel. Can ext2 be upgraded to ext3 once the machine is installed and I'm upgrading to 2.4.X? I take it I have to patch the kernel for ext3 as I don't see it as an option in my 2.4.10 kernel config.

resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-03 Thread Robert L. Harris
I am rebuilding a box. I have the woody floppies, I've gotten to the point of initializing the root filesystem. Interestingly there is a mkreiserfs available and it can make the filesystem, but doesn't seem to be able to mount it. I've tried to install the modules but it won't install until

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-03 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote: I am rebuilding a box. I have the woody floppies, I've gotten to the point of initializing the root filesystem. Interestingly there is a mkreiserfs available and it can make the filesystem, but doesn't seem to be able to mount it. I've tried to

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-03 Thread Andrew Agno
I'd have to second using ext3 on the root filesystem, as I've made various configuration errors when setting it up, and it really is convenient to have it boot up as ext2 when ext3 fails. Andrew.

Re: ResiserFS?

2001-04-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:11:07PM -0400, Adam Bender wrote: OK, so I get the digest version of this list, which has the nasty habit of leaving some messages out sometimes. I missed the recent messages about ReiserFS. Could anyone give me a recap of what that was about? I was planning

Re: ResiserFS?

2001-04-05 Thread Brian May
Adam == Adam Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam OK, so I get the digest version of this list, which has the nasty Adam habit of leaving some messages out sometimes. I missed the recent Adam messages about ReiserFS. Could anyone give me a recap of what that Adam was about? I

Re: ResiserFS?

2001-04-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Brian May wrote: I have heard rumours of it causing data corruption on 2.4.x kernels, including 2.4.3. That's interesting. Where did you hear about the corruption under 2.4.3? I have never had a problem with it myself though... I haven't had any problems with it either, but I haven't

ResiserFS?

2001-04-04 Thread Adam Bender
OK, so I get the digest version of this list, which has the nasty habit of leaving some messages out sometimes. I missed the recent messages about ReiserFS. Could anyone give me a recap of what that was about? I was planning on installing it, but from the header it looked like there might