OK well reiserfs is actually EXT2 with a journal slapped on top of it just like EXT3 so you can try mounting it as readonly EXT2 though admittedly I haven't tried it it should work in theory, but certainly can't hurt if you try it in read only mode.

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Subject: Re: reiserfs?

On 07/18/2017 05:33 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:04 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I need to read a reiserfs partition on a flash drive.
>> Any words of wisdom?
> 
> *Why* ? reiserfs has languished since the arrest of Hans Reiser for
> murdering his wife. And much like ReiserFS, Hans claimed complete
> innocence until actually looking at evidence proved that her sudden
> absence was entirely his fault.
> 

Hi Niko,

Ya, no fooling!  :-)

I was trying to read the reiserfs partition on my
Knoppix Live USB drive.

I eventuality qemu-kvm boot the flash drive and used
cifs to import the data I wanted from my Samba server

-T