Re: Reiser4 and Redhat

From: ERIC BURSLEY (ebursley_at_swbell.net)
Date: 09/10/05 

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:22:06 GMT

If you are willing to accept the risk that Red Hat won't support Reiserfs,
you can install the kernel-unsupported package for your kernel from Red Hat,
and then install the FC3 version of the file system utilities rpm that holds
the utilities for making and checking Reiserfs file systems. 

-- 
Eric Bursley
> Your point is well taken Jan.  However, other than enjoying rapid
> deployment of Redhat authored updates, I haven't really called upon our
> Redhat support agreement to maintain my three RHEL 4 WS systems.
>
> Hence, I'm looking at CentOS 4.1 and White Box Linux where the Reiser4
> filesystem might not be that much of an issue.  My two cents...
>
>

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