On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Kevin Freeman wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i could have sworn that, on some mailing list recently, > > someone posted that there was some kind of "reiserfs" option > > available at install time. there's no mention of this in > > Appendix H, "additional boot options", in the install guide. > > > > am i misremembering? > > Maybe just a bit - the option is there but not supported. Therefore it > is undocumented. Boot the installer using "linux reiserfs" and you will > be able to format and install to one or more Reiserfs partitions. Note > that _upgrading_ a reiserfs root partition is not possible at this time > - I am hacking away at this in my spare time. RedHat has stated that > they do not support ReiserFS because there are cases in which the file > system can become corrupted. by "_upgrading_ a reiserfs root partition is not possible", do you mean that you can't do an "upgrade" style install if the root FS is already reiser? just trying to be careful how i interpret this. rday
