reiser4 is coming out!!! FINALLY!!! :D

[XiaoKJ]

After so long... Its really out. I just emerged sync and one of the new packages is reiser4progs 1.00, which is 0.5.4 actually.

The namesys.com site isn't renewed yet! :D

Oh, I want my hands on it! :D

BTW, I don't know where to put this... :D

[JohnT]

BTW, I don't know where to put this... H-m-m-m...I've got a suggestion or two.;)

[XiaoKJ]

Originally posted by JohnT
H-m-m-m...I've got a suggestion or two.;)

Where?

[GaMMa]

Heh this seems to be the only Reiser4 thread in this forum. I made the switch from my two year old ext3 install of Gentoo. I must say it's got speedups in places. It's a good filesystem and I recommend it.

[mrBen]

I've been using Reiser3 for a while now, and it's been excellent. Reiser4 looks like it could be a significantly improvement, but I will wait a while for it to 'bed down' before I try it.

[eisman]

Does Reiser4 still needs some extra settings to boot from a reiserfs partition?

[mhacleth]

Originally posted by GaMMa
Heh this seems to be the only Reiser4 thread in this forum. I made the switch from my two year old ext3 install of Gentoo. I must say it's got speedups in places. It's a good filesystem and I recommend it.
I'm on Slack10. How can I use it?

[leonpmu]

sorry but I cam across issues on some packages that I install from source and because of reiser I had nightmares, I will rather stick to ext3, also ext3 seems to handle restores better....

[JohnT]

Originally posted by leonpmu
sorry but I cam across issues on some packages that I install from source and because of reiser I had nightmares, I will rather stick to ext3, also ext3 seems to handle restores better.... Do you remember what packages those were?

[leonpmu]

Sorry, not off the top of my head, it was a few months ago....

short term memo.... what what I saying again??? :D

[XiaoKJ]

My experience is very nice -- the reiser4 filesystem is much faster than all that I've used (ext2,3 reiser3 and reiser4)

Why? I do portage on it and it blazes through to the end. esp the caching part at the end.

However, I freaked myself out cos some kernels do not support reiser4 and others would conflict with gentoo's net services such that DHCP is not supported. Moreover, it was the time both my mainboard and graphics card spoilt, throwing chaos all over the place :D

[johntramp]

with the kernel needing to be patched before it can use reiser4, does this mean that I will not be able to access my harddrive through a knoppix cd or any other live cd for that matter?

[XiaoKJ]

you can say so...

but in no time (<1yr) knoppix should have the support too.

You can always make your own kernel and use it for knoppix...

EDIT: gentoo has a nitro-kernel live-cd in its forums. you can try that...

[CaptainPinko]

any idea when Reiser4 will be released as par of the main Linux kernel? Next release perhaps?

[XiaoKJ]

I dunno, but its in mm-sources and the likes. you can get ck-sources <=2.6.8.1-ck7 too

if you are the burning edge ones, nitro, redeeman and a few others support reiser4 too. you may even try to break out the patches for any kernel you wnt from mm-sources...

[mhacleth]

Originally posted by mhacleth
I'm on Slack10. How can I use it?

Well, I guess I have to answer my own question. I am now posting using my new Slack10 installed in a reiser4 partition. I am still testing this before I fully move over. Here's what I did:
1. downloaded kernel-2.6.8
2. applied the patch to 2.6.8.1
3. applied the -mm2 patch
4. configured kernel with reiser4 support
5. compiled new kernel and copied to /boot
6. rebooted with new kernel
7. downloaded libaal and reiser4progs and got them installed
8. formatted an empty paritition with reiser4
9. copied everything from my old slack partition to the new reiser4 partition (except /home, of course)
10. edited lilo.conf to add new partition and run lilo
11.reboot to the new partition
12. copied my /home/mhacleth to the new /home
13. downloaded NVidia driver and installed it.
14. startx and here I am!
:D

[timothykaine]

I tried Yoper 2.1 with Reiser4, made the comp lock up, tried again, didnt lock up, but gradually got slower as i used it, so ditched it and went back to Reiser 3.6

[CaptainPinko]

frankly my measure of stability is adoption by a big corporate distro OR debian. they need stability and they can't afford to have stuff crap out on them. that said i am pretty excited about. though with FreeBSD 5 and Solaris 10 being open-sourced I'm not sure I'll be using Linux in the long run anyhow but it's exciting all the way.

[GaMMa]

Eek Slack sounds fun to make the switch to Reiser4. For Gentoo all I had to do was get a Reiser4 LiveCD, make my partitions reiser4, make sure I have a kernel supporting it, reboot and yay :D.

[leonpmu]

A little bit OT, but I was thinking that in Linux we even have a choice of partition type!! Incredible.

Everything is a choice in Linux!!! even down to partition type!!!

[mhacleth]

Originally posted by GaMMa
Eek Slack sounds fun to make the switch to Reiser4. For Gentoo all I had to do was get a Reiser4 LiveCD, make my partitions reiser4, make sure I have a kernel supporting it, reboot and yay :D.

Since I don't know what to LiveCD to download, I manually installed a R4 partition on my home PC. And yes, its working!