Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-12 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:00:43 -0500 "Lennart Sorensen" wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 07:01:58PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > Why was Reiser3 phased out? It wasn't *grossly* unstable or > > anything, and despite lack of maintenance it was still a good > > little filesystem that could have staye

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-12 Thread Jose R R
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:22:21 +0100 > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> Adam Wilson (2016-01-11): >> > This is somewhat off-topic, but why was ReiserFS support removed >> > from d-i? I am a big fan of Reiser3 personally, but I use XFS now. >> >> In

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 07:01:58PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > Why was Reiser3 phased out? It wasn't *grossly* unstable or anything, > and despite lack of maintenance it was still a good little filesystem > that could have stayed for longer. I had plenty of silent data corruptions with reiser 3.6

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam Wilson (2016-01-11): > Why was Reiser3 phased out? It wasn't *grossly* unstable or anything, > and despite lack of maintenance it was still a good little filesystem > that could have stayed for longer. > > And why UFS? It may be obsolete, but I should think it would be > relatively stable. S

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-11 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:22:21 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Adam Wilson (2016-01-11): > > This is somewhat off-topic, but why was ReiserFS support removed > > from d-i? I am a big fan of Reiser3 personally, but I use XFS now. > > In linux's changelog: > | linux (3.10.1-1) unstable; urgency=lo

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-11 Thread Jose R R
(Bonus) Reiser4 version 4.0.1 -enabled patch for Debian Linux kernel packaging: On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Jose R R wrote: > Niltze, all- > > I have been building iterations of Debian-Installer (d-i) enhanced > with Reiser4 4.0.1 kernel, disk and filesystem utilities. Thus far I > have used

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-11 Thread Jose R R
(3/3) Reiser4 version 4.0.1 -enabled patches for Debian Installer components and/or userland utilities: On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Jose R R wrote: > Niltze, all- > > I have been building iterations of Debian-Installer (d-i) enhanced > with Reiser4 4.0.1 kernel, disk and filesystem utilities.

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-11 Thread Jose R R
(2/3) Reiser4 version 4.0.1 -enabled patches for Debian Installer components and/or userland utilities: On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Jose R R wrote: > Niltze, all- > > I have been building iterations of Debian-Installer (d-i) enhanced > with Reiser4 4.0.1 kernel, disk and filesystem utilities.

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-11 Thread Jose R R
(1/3) Reiser4 version 4.0.1 -enabled patches for Debian Installer components and/or userland utilities: On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Jose R R wrote: > Niltze, all- > > I have been building iterations of Debian-Installer (d-i) enhanced > with Reiser4 4.0.1 kernel, disk and filesystem utilities.

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam Wilson (2016-01-11): > This is somewhat off-topic, but why was ReiserFS support removed from > d-i? I am a big fan of Reiser3 personally, but I use XFS now. In linux's changelog: | linux (3.10.1-1) unstable; urgency=low | […] | * udeb: Remove obsolete and unsupported drivers and filesystem

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-10 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 00:11:27 -0800 Jose R R wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Jose R R wrote: > > Niltze, all- > > > > I have been building iterations of Debian-Installer (d-i) enhanced > > with Reiser4 4.0.1 kernel, disk and filesystem utilities. Thus far I > > have used a local build on

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-08 Thread Jose R R
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:20 AM, dimas wrote: > 2016-006 05:42 Jose R R wrote: >> I have built a modified version of initramfs-tools package that has as >> default those Reiser4 -specific settings >> but wanted to allow d-i to select most of its packages from regular >> Debian repositories. > well

Re: Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-06 Thread Jose R R
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:21 AM, dimas wrote: > great job, man! Appreciated. > >> As for Stretch and Sid, manual intervention is required only to modify >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file by adding at the end: >> crc32c_intel >> reiser4 >> *before* installing the custom Reiser4 kernel, thus: >>

Reiser4-enabled Debian Unstable (Sid) netboot iso

2016-01-06 Thread Jose R R
Niltze, all- I have been building iterations of Debian-Installer (d-i) enhanced with Reiser4 4.0.1 kernel, disk and filesystem utilities. Thus far I have used a local build on Debian Sid of VirtualBox 5.0.10 environment to test multiple Reiser4 installations. For flexibility, especially if you ar