Re: Workaround for ReiserFS on root-filesystem

From: Daniel Andersen
Date: Tue Apr 06 2004 - 08:31:10 EST


> Hi Folks!
>
> I use ReiserFS for my root-filesystem while trying to upgrade to a newer
> kernel-version (still using 2.4.20) I got a error, that / could not be
> remounted read/write. After googling a bit I stumbled over the fact that
> ReiserFS as root-filesystem doesn't work since version 2.4.22 (or
> something like this).
>
> So I asked myself if there exists any workaround/howto/something-else so
> I could get away from making my root-fs to an ext3 one. Does anyone
> know something about it?

Hmm.. It works perfectly fine for me with all 2.4.20-25 kernels, so you
should not trust everything you find on google ;-)
How big is your root partition? Which version of ReiserFS are you using?

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