ReiserFS
ReiserFS is considered as deprecated in the Linux kernel [1] and was removed in Linux kernel 6.13 [2] . Users of ReiserFS are encouraged to migrate their data to supported filesystems such as ext4 , XFS , or btrfs .
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
Kernel
Support for ReiserFS has to be enabled in the Kernel first.
File systems --->
<*> Reiserfs support
Emerge
Utilities for ReiserFS are available in sys-fs/reiserfsprogs package:
root
#
emerge --ask sys-fs/reiserfsprogs
Troubleshooting
ReiserFS filesystem corruption issues
If the ReiserFS partition is corrupt, try booting the Gentoo Install CD and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the corrupted filesystem. This should make the filesystem consistent again, although there may be some lost files or directories due to the corruption.
See also
- 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.