ReiserFS

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ReiserFS is a journaling filesystem for Linux licensed under the GPL-2 license and is the predecessor of Reiser4. ReiserFS was originally developed by Namesys and Hans Reiser, but is under maintenance by volunteers nowadays.

Installation[edit | edit source]

Kernel[edit | edit source]

Support for ReiserFS has to be enabled in the Kernel first.

KERNEL Enabling ReiserFS support
File systems  --->
   <*> Reiserfs support

Emerge[edit | edit source]

Utilities for ReiserFS are available in sys-fs/reiserfsprogs package:

root #emerge --ask sys-fs/reiserfsprogs

See also[edit | edit source]

  • Ext4 — an open source disk filesystem and most recent version of the extended series of filesystems.
  • XFS — a high-performance journaling filesystem
  • ZFS — a next generation filesystem created by Matthew Ahrens and Jeff Bonwick.
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