Most of the documentation is a snapshot of the old Namesys site (archive.org, 2007-09-29).

There was also a Reiser4 Wiki (archive.org, 2007-07-06) once on pub.namesys.com.

Reiser4 development appears to have stalled and ReiserFS is deprecated and scheduled to be removed from mainline Linux in 2025.

Reiser4progs

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(use $VER so we only have to update this variable and then copy & paste the rest; glibc-devel-static has been renamed to glibc-static in Fedora)
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To compile <tt>reiser4progs</tt>, we'll need <tt>libaal</tt> too:
 
To compile <tt>reiser4progs</tt>, we'll need <tt>libaal</tt> too:
  
  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/reiser4/reiser4-utils/libaal/libaal-1.0.6.tar.gz
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VER=<font color="red">1.0.6</font>
  tar -xzf libaal-1.0.6.tar.gz
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  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/reiser4/reiser4-utils/libaal/libaal-$VER.tar.gz
  cd libaal-1.0.6
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  tar -xzf libaal-$VER.tar.gz
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  cd libaal-$VER
 
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/libaal
 
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/libaal
 
  make && sudo make install
 
  make && sudo make install
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  sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev uuid-dev                            # Debian, Ubuntu
 
  sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev uuid-dev                            # Debian, Ubuntu
  sudo    yum install readline-devel  libuuid-devel <span class=plainlinks>[http://marc.info/?l=reiserfs-devel&m=114871738809424 glibc-devel-static]</span>   # openSUSE, Fedora
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  sudo    yum install readline-devel  libuuid-devel <span class=plainlinks>[http://marc.info/?l=reiserfs-devel&m=114871738809424 glibc-static]</span>         # openSUSE, Fedora
 
   
 
   
  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/reiser4/reiser4-utils/reiser4progs/reiser4progs-1.1.0.tar.gz
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VER=<font color="red">1.1.0</font>
  tar -xzf reiser4progs-1.1.0.tar.gz
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  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/reiser4/reiser4-utils/reiser4progs/reiser4progs-$VER.tar.gz
  cd reiser4progs-1.1.0
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  tar -xzf reiser4progs-$VER.tar.gz
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  cd reiser4progs-$VER
 
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/reiser4progs ''--with-libaal=/opt/libaal''
 
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/reiser4progs ''--with-libaal=/opt/libaal''
 
  make && sudo make install
 
  make && sudo make install

Revision as of 23:28, 30 August 2015

The tools to maintain a Reiser4 filesystem are called reiser4progs and can be found on Sourceforge. If your distribution does not ship a pre-compiled package, we have to build this manually.

To compile reiser4progs, we'll need libaal too:

VER=1.0.6
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/reiser4/reiser4-utils/libaal/libaal-$VER.tar.gz
tar -xzf libaal-$VER.tar.gz
cd libaal-$VER
./configure --prefix=/opt/libaal
make && sudo make install

cd /opt/libaal && ln -s lib64 lib       # For 64 bit systems!

Now we can build reiser4progs:

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev uuid-dev                            # Debian, Ubuntu
sudo     yum install readline-devel  libuuid-devel glibc-static          # openSUSE, Fedora

VER=1.1.0
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/reiser4/reiser4-utils/reiser4progs/reiser4progs-$VER.tar.gz
tar -xzf reiser4progs-$VER.tar.gz
cd reiser4progs-$VER
./configure --prefix=/opt/reiser4progs --with-libaal=/opt/libaal
make && sudo make install

Note: if libaal has been installed from a distribution package (libaal-dev resp. libaal-devel), the --with-libaal flag can be omitted!

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