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[gregory.thomas@xxxxxxx (Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC))]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Hasenstein [mailto:mha@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:20 AM
> 
> "Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC)" wrote:
> 
> > That's all fine and dandy.  However:
> > 
> > 1)  AFAIK even with 7.0 there is no dump.
> > 2)  AFAIK even with 7.0 there is no quota support.
> 
> And it doesn't support large files (>2GB) yet, which is supported on
> ext2 on SuSE Linux 7.0. If you need any of these things, too bad, if
> not, no reason to tell someone not to use ReiserFS. By far 
> most machines
> need neither one of those two things.
> 

Just warnings, that's all.  What other support for ReiserFS is missing?

> 
> > 3)  AFAIK with 6.4 there is no rescue disk support.
> 
> Of course there is. It's a filesystem like ext2. You don't 
> need anything
> special, just support in the kernel.
> 

Well, is the rescue kernel compiled with reiser support?  It wouldn't mount
for me and there is currently an unanswered message on the list from someone
else with the same problem.

> 
> > 4)  Last weekend I had filesystem problems after a reboot.  
> I have my doubts
> > that they were hardware related but they could be.  After 
> not being able to
> > mount reiserfs from the rescue disk, I booted the install.  I ran
> 
> If there's support for it in the kernel it will work. It's 
> just another
> filesystem. There's nothing special about it or ext2, they're both
> different versions of the same thing.
> 

Again, see the above question.

> 
> > reiserfsck, it got to about 60% and the vm manager killed 
> it.  I created a
> > bigger swap partitition and ran reiserfsck again and it 
> completed.  I still
> > couldn't boot until I re-installed aaa_base.
> > 
> > Missing dump is no big deal but I had scripts already set 
> up with dump.
> > Quota support is fairly important.  The big problem  is the 
> weakness of the
> > available tools in case you do have a problem.
> 
> Please use the 7.0 kernel. You can find it at
> ftp://ftp.suse.com?pub/people/mantel/ (no rpm, that's the 
> .tar.gz). Make
> sure to download the right thing from there, there's one big kernel
> image, and many small patchsets (only one of them is the one 
> to use, the
> latest one, of course).
> 
> Don't know why you had these problems, this link to the new kernel is
> independent.

I will give the new kernel a shot.

Thanks, Greg

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