The following has be reported by IBM LTC: [BETA] RHEL3 does not support reiser as installed Please fill in each of the sections below. Hardware Environment: 2064-116, shark e20 Software Environment: taroon under VM Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount a pre-existing reiserfs volume 2. 3. Actual Results: message: mount: fs type reiserfs not supported by kernel Expected Results: able to mount pre-existing volumes that have been formatted as reiserfs Additional Information: We have been using SuSE's 2.4.7 and 2.4.19 for quite some time so we have hundreds of volumes formatted in the reiserfs. The last Redhat s/390 release (7.1/7.2) is ancient history and within our lab, few users have tried it. All our systems currently are SuSE. They will not be the least bit happy if they have to convert their data volumes to ext3 because that is what RedHat has choosen to package. RedHat is behind the curve in a big way here! Reiserfs should be included in the kernel so that existing data volumes can be mounted without having to recompile the kernel. The users should have an easy option to use whatever file system they choose.by the by, jfs also is not included in the installed base. RedHat does not give the user a choice, but forces them into ext3. - Red Hat needs to include JFS and Reiserfs in RHEL3.
reiserfs and jfs are included, as modules in the kernel-unsupported RPM
Note to the installer people: this scenario illustrates that we will need to think of a way to get the -unsupported RPM installed when people really need it...
kernel-unsupported is available via the Red Hat Networks updates channel now. packaging of kernel-unsupported will be improved in B2.
------ Additional Comments From jlsibley.com 2003-20-08 14:31 ------- I will test as soon as I get the Beta2 code.
------ Additional Comments From jlsibley.com 2003-24-09 12:48 ------- This has only been partially fixed on beta2 CD. User must manually install "kernel-unsupported" rpm to get mount support. There does not seem to be a screen that allows you to select this option. Tools to support reiser are not supplied, so there is no ability to fix or tune and existing reiser fs from RHEL3. fsck, mkrs, tune, etc, are not supplied. I think the IBM requirements for Reiser should be updated to include full support for the filesystem, not just mount ability. I think, if you look into it, the same will be true for JFS. The JFS mount support was supplied by the "kernel unsupported" rpm, but I do think that the tools have been added. Any customer with SuSE currently installed may have trouble supporting existing reiser filesystems on dasd when Redhat is installed.
this issue needs to be worked on a business level.
---- Additional Comments From khoa.com 2005-03-27 12:45 EST ------- James - can we close this bug report now ? Is this still an issue ? (I am trying to clean up old bug reports....).
---- Additional Comments From jlsibley.com 2005-03-28 13:00 EST ------- This is part of an ongoing discussion, as I understand it with RedHat about Reiserfs. At what release do they provide full utility support for residerfs?
created issue tracker 72819