On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Pete Chown wrote: > James Morris wrote: > > > Reiserfs does not support file labeling, although there is a patch in the > > suse kernel for it (we would only want to apply something that is > > upstreamable though). > > I hope this patch will make it into FC2. It won't unless Hans accepts the patch upstream. > I have a lot of machines that are running on reiserfs, and can't easily > be switched. This is for the obvious reason that reorganising the > filesystems is time consuming. More importantly, though, there is an > application which was developed specifically with reiserfs in mind, and > creates huge numbers of small files. It would be difficult to run this > under ext3. You can probably solve this with a context mount, as you won't need reiserfs for the entire box. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
