Hi all. I'm contemplating installing debian on ReiserFS like this:
1: Install Debian. 2: Patch & compile kernel with ReiserFS support. 3: Backup the partitons [1] one after one and reformat them with ReiserFS, restore from backup. 4: Be very happy! :-) I know that /boot has to be ext2fs, and I'll prolly install 2 linuxen to work on one from the other. That way I can convert / to ReiserFS too. The problem is: will things break right and left because of ReiserFS? I know SuSE give you the choice between ext2 abd reiser at install, and I have tried it, so I know it's stable, but I don't know how much SuSE has modified to make it work. My understanding is that nearly all things WRT disk read/write is handled by the kernel, so programs don't know what filesystem they're on. Is that correct? Has anyone reading this done this before? I personally plan to write something about it and upload it to my website if I go ahead and do it, unless someone else has already done it! [1]: What should I use for this, I have two HDD's, and will have the backup on one (6Gig), and work on the other (10Gig). A simple ``cp'' will do, but there might be somthing better, recommendations? -- Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men (Martin Luther King, Jr.)"
