Revision as of 20:57, 15 April 2019

Please help with testing Reiser4 and report any issues to the mailinglist!

Stable patchsets

As reiser4 is still not in mainline, Edward Shishkin is kind enough to provide patches for the stable version of the Linux kernel.

Standalone reiser4 tree

According to Reiser4 Upstream Git Repositories on GitHub, this is how the the standalone tree can be used.

Download the latest Reiser4 kernel patch and patch the kernel:

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/reiser4/files/reiser4-for-linux-4.x/reiser4-for-4.7.0.patch.gz

cd /usr/local/src/linux-git
git checkout -b local-4.7 v4.7
gzip -dc ~/reiser4-for-4.7.0.patch.gz | patch -p1

Replace fs/reiser4 with the standalone version:

rm -r fs/reiser4
cd ../

git clone https://github.com/edward6/reiser4 reiser4-git
cd reiser4-git/
git archive --format=tar --prefix=reiser4/ HEAD | tar -C ../linux-git/fs/ -xvf -

Be sure to adjust the directories as necessary on your system!

With that, we should be able to build the kernel now:

cd ../linux-git/
> enable CONFIG_BLOCK
> enable CONFIG_REISER4_FS

Distribution packages

openSUSE

openSUSE is building reiser4 packages too:

• reiser4 (doiggl)
• reiser4-kmp (Jeff Mahoney)

Please see drivers:filesystems for more external file system modules.