Installation...i think reiserfs doesn't work.Tried multiple installation even with the default LVM mode, without SELinux, with logical partition, even fresh install on a single harddisk. Its kinda frustrating for i had a /home partition on reiserfs. It works when i have it mounted on a Suse 9.1 (default with reiserfs). I'm looking forward for this release. It has lots of new features, even K3B and dvd+rw-tools were of the latest version (supports dual-layer DVD...though haven't tried it yet!)
I always use reiserfs. I installed fc3-t2 on an athlon 2400 based system with the root on a scsi drive (tekram controller) and my home on an ide drive. No problems.
I use:
"linux reiserfs selinux=0" at the boot prompt. Make sure you use the selinux=0 here are you WILL have problems installing.
Timothy
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 20:23 +0800, Mazli Alias wrote:
Installation...i think reiserfs doesn't work.Tried multiple installation even with the default LVM mode, without SELinux, with logical partition, even fresh install on a single harddisk. Its kinda frustrating for i had a /home partition on reiserfs. It works when i have it mounted on a Suse 9.1 (default with reiserfs). I'm looking forward for this release. It has lots of new features, even K3B and dvd+rw-tools were of the latest version (supports dual-layer DVD...though haven't tried it yet!)
Timothy Sandel wrote:
I always use reiserfs. I installed fc3-t2 on an athlon 2400 based system with the root on a scsi drive (tekram controller) and my home on an ide drive. No problems.
I use:
"linux reiserfs selinux=0" at the boot prompt. Make sure you use the selinux=0 here are you WILL have problems installing.
Timothy
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 20:23 +0800, Mazli Alias wrote:
Installation...i think reiserfs doesn't work.Tried multiple installation even with the default LVM mode, without SELinux, with logical partition, even fresh install on a single harddisk. Its kinda frustrating for i had a /home partition on reiserfs. It works when i have it mounted on a Suse 9.1 (default with reiserfs). I'm looking forward for this release. It has lots of new features, even K3B and dvd+rw-tools were of the latest version (supports dual-layer DVD...though haven't tried it yet!)
Thanx mate...I reinstalled the moment i received your mail.It works like a charm...but somehow it raises the reiserfs issue with selinux enable. Is there a way to enable it back so we can have a good testing of this (FC3Test2) release.
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 01:09 +0800, Mazli Alias wrote:
Thanx mate...I reinstalled the moment i received your mail.It works like a charm...but somehow it raises the reiserfs issue with selinux enable. Is there a way to enable it back so we can have a good testing of this (FC3Test2) release.
No, reiserfs doesn't support extended attributes, so won't work with SELinux.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:09:12AM +0800, Mazli Alias wrote:
Thanx mate...I reinstalled the moment i received your mail.It works like a charm...but somehow it raises the reiserfs issue with selinux enable. Is there a way to enable it back so we can have a good testing of this (FC3Test2) release.
SELinux and ReiserFS aren't going to work together until somebody changes one and/or the other so that SELinux can work properly with ReiserFS's unusual xattr implementation. I have no idea when (or if) that's going to happen.
-Barry K. Nathan barryn@pobox.com
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:43:55AM -0500, Timothy Sandel spake thusly:
"linux reiserfs selinux=0" at the boot prompt. Make sure you use the selinux=0 here are you WILL have problems installing.
Speaking of reiserfs, when will it finally be listed as a filesystem choice during the install so we don't always have to remember to do the magical incantation "linux reiserfs" when we boot the CD's? I have been using reiser for several years and really like it but I always forget to add that boot option the first time I go to install a new box.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:56:56PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:43:55AM -0500, Timothy Sandel spake thusly:
"linux reiserfs selinux=0" at the boot prompt. Make sure you use the selinux=0 here are you WILL have problems installing.
Speaking of reiserfs, when will it finally be listed as a filesystem choice during the install so we don't always have to remember to do the magical incantation "linux reiserfs" when we boot the CD's? I have been using reiser for several years and really like it but I always forget to add that boot option the first time I go to install a new box.
AFAIK it's going to happen when/if Red Hat ever decides to support it, and that's not going to happen until it works with SELinux.
BTW, if (like me) you want to use reiserfs because you found it to be the fastest filesystem for your workloads under 2.4.x, you may actually want to use ext2 under 2.6.x (*not* ext3!). I haven't tried reiser4 yet, but ext2 under 2.6 is faster than anything else I've tried (JFS, XFS, ReiserFS 3.x, ext3, or (2.4.x and earlier) ext2). In fact, *much* faster than anything else I've tried. At least, that's my experience.
If you're using reiserfs because there's less overhead than other filesystems, you may want to also consider xfs with 512-byte blocks. Unlike reiserfs, xfs works with SELinux.
-Barry K. Nathan barryn@pobox.com
Barry K. Nathan wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:56:56PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:43:55AM -0500, Timothy Sandel spake thusly:
"linux reiserfs selinux=0" at the boot prompt. Make sure you use the selinux=0 here are you WILL have problems installing.
Speaking of reiserfs, when will it finally be listed as a filesystem choice during the install so we don't always have to remember to do the magical incantation "linux reiserfs" when we boot the CD's? I have been using reiser for several years and really like it but I always forget to add that boot option the first time I go to install a new box.
AFAIK it's going to happen when/if Red Hat ever decides to support it, and that's not going to happen until it works with SELinux.
-Barry K. Nathan barryn@pobox.com
Just out of curiosity...does ext3 still have that 4GB file size limitation...if it is that would be problematic for someone who download dvd.iso