[FC4] HELP! grub/reiserfs problem on fc4

[Jim Cornette]

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?
>>
>>  
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>
> 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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