Will there be Reiser4 and Ext4 support for Feisty kernel?

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at mikefedyk.com
Fri Feb 9 05:11:12 UTC 2007


Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> I'm trying out the two filesystems reiser4 and ext4, however, none of 
> those filesystem is compiled in the kernel, and cannot be mounted. My 
> e2fsprogs is patched to support ext4, I'm using 2.6.20-6-386 from ubuntu 
> feisty main repository,
> with the latest feisty upgrade. I was wondering if will there be any 
> chance to test/use those filesystem under Ubuntu Feisty?

Simple, download the source package, patch the ubuntu kernel, make a 
changelog entry and compile new binary kernel packages.

I doubt ubuntu will support reiser4 or ext4 until long after they are 
merged into the kernel and not market as experimental.




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