reiserfs question

[Robert Meyer]

Have you checked out the patch by RedHat for Reiserfs?  It's the
rc.sysinit.patch file:

--- rc.sysinit.orig     Mon Jul 30 22:58:45 2001
+++ rc.sysinit  Mon Jul 30 22:57:16 2001
@@ -211,7 +211,8 @@
 
  _RUN_QUOTACHECK=0
  ROOTFSTYPE=`grep " / " /proc/mounts | awk '{ print $3 }'`
-if [ -z "$fastboot" -a "$ROOTFSTYPE" != "nfs" ]; then
+if [ -z "$fastboot" -a "$ROOTFSTYPE" != "nfs" \
+                    -a "$ROOTFSTYPE" != "reiserfs" ]; then
 
          STRING=$"Checking root filesystem"
         echo $STRING

There is also one for halt (halt.patch)
--- halt.orig   Mon Jul 30 17:26:24 2001
+++ halt        Mon Jul 30 17:26:36 2001
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
 
 # Remount read only anything that's left mounted.
 #echo $"Remounting remaining filesystems (if any) readonly"
-mount | awk '/ext2/ { print $3 }' | while read line; do
+mount | awk '/ext2|reiserfs/ { print $3 }' | while read line; do
     mount -n -o ro,remount $line
 done

It seems that someone has seen this before...

Cheers!

Bob Meyer
--- Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> i'm setting up a few redhat 7.1 systems and all the filesystems on these
> machines are reiserfs, with the exception of /boot. i found a nifty
> "updates" floppy that lets you create reiser filesystems thru the redhat
> installer, very cool, let me know if anyone wants it. anyway, when the
> system boots up and it goes to mount / it pauses as says " Will put log
> info to stderr" and expects either a <CR> or yes <CR>. what really gets
> me is that i've modifed /etc/fstab to NOT fsck /. 
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> i'm using a custom kernel, 2.4.14 that i've patched to support LVM
> (logical volume managment) but i'm getting the same thing with the stock
> redhat smp and enterprise kernels.
> 
> -- 
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corp.
> darinper at cognigencorp.com


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Bob Meyer
Knightwing Communications, Inc.
36 Cayuga Blvd
Depew, NY 14043
Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
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