On Dec 27, 2007 12:56 PM, John Summerfield
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > On Dec 27, 2007 7:23 AM, Emanuele Leonardi

> > The upstream's kernel does not have reiserfs enabled. You will need to
> > enable it and recompile the kernel.  In make menuconfig (or make
> > xconfig), go to File systems and check Reiserfs support (M).  Or, edit
> > the .config file and change the "# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set" line
> > to "CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m"
>
> Preferably, use one of the make config choices; I've taken to .config
> with vim on occasion, and there's sometimes consequences.
>
> You will also need (absolutely need) the reiserfs toolset. It seems to
> me from reports I've seen that reiserfs is a little fragile, and you
> really need the ability to fsck it.
>
> Probably, CentOS has all of what you need in one of its repos, and they
> are compatible with RHEL and so SL.

Well, if you go for CentOS, the centosplus kernel has reiserfs enabled
and the reiserfs-utils package is available.  They can be found in
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/centosplus .  Doing a test run may
not hurt.

Akemi