[FC4] HELP! grub/reiserfs problem on fc4
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Jun 19 00:17:46 UTC 2005
spmirowski wrote:
> Message: 12 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:58:00 -0400 From: Jim Cornette
> <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> Subject: Re: [FC4] HELP! grub/reiserfs
> problem on fc4 To: For users of Fedora Core releases
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>>> Clemen Canaria wrote:
>>>
>>> does anyone didn't get any problem using reiserfs under FC4?
>>>
>>> kernel panic = not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>>> unknow-block(3,3)
>>>
>>> hda1 - ntfs (windows xp)
>>> hda2 - reiserfs (/boot)
>>> hda3 - reiserfs(/)
>>>
>>> any idea what to do?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Reiserfs is not bootable on FC4 TEST3 and FC4 final. I was going to
> report
> in bugzilla but forgot to. It's a shame, reiserfs has certain
> features that make
> it better than ext3 (such as undeleting files, ext3 delete it, it's
> gone), but it is offically
> unsupported by fedora/red hat. How to make it work, I don't know, I
> switched to
> ext3 for now =(
>
> Stephen
>
When I tried Gentoo during a trial of different distributions, ext2 was
suggested for the /boot partition and reiserfs was suggested for the
other portions of the installation.
I setup reiserfs on some Fedora installations that worked when changes
to the kernel did not hamper its mountability. During the setup, I chose
ext3 for / /boot. I set / and /home to use reiserfs. I cannot recall
what swap was.
In comparison, using LVM as default setups for recent FC installations
use ext3 filesystem use forext3 filesystems for /boot, the others
portions of the filesystem can be in the lvm.
If you want the speed of reiserfs, you can try such a scheme. I believe
the ext3 /boot would not slow down things in the installation that use
the reiserfs.
Nothing in Fedora is really supported.Reiserfs does not seem to be
hampered interntionally and fixes to bugs in reiserfs were dealt with
very quickly.
Jim
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