Renai LeMay wrote: > > I've been using reiserfs on my /doc partition for a while, and am very > impressed with it's performance.
It is fast, indeed. And fsck'ing no more :-) > A question - is it possible to install a reiserfs version of debian? > > how is this done? I think I saw something about resierfs-boot floppies a > while back. If you have an already running Debian system, then it would be easier to convert the partitions into reiserfs; provided that you have enough space on an unused partition. For example, if you have a /usr partition, then you can copy all the files in the partition into your mounted unused partition. Say, it was mounted on /mnt, then copy the files using: cp -avf /usr/* /mnt. Then on the /etc/fstab, redirect whatever device that was mounted on /usr to the device mounted on /mnt. Do the same for /var. It is pretty tedious and error prone (meaning: if it's the only system you use, there's a probability that it wouldn't be able to be booted). I think it would be great if Debian has a filesystem converter program, that can be run as, e.g., easily as: convert2reiserfs /usr /dev/<unusedpartition> which would be run when the system is booted (right before the partition is mounted). Problem is, with all the above copying files procedure, you'd be left with the root partition that is always mounted read-only. Because it is read-only, reiserfs "replays" the transaction log, well, on a read-only filesystem. I don't know what the consequences of it; mesg only says (approx.) "warning, replaying transaction log on a read-only filesystem". It's a warning, not an error. So, the log might be replayed correctly, or might be not. Oki
