Reiserfs doesn't works!

[Barry K. Nathan]

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 at pobox.com>