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General purpose journaling filesystem supported by Linux since 2.4.1.

ReiserFS is a general-purpose, journaling filesystem supported by Linux since 2.4.1. It was written by a group at Namesys, headed by Hans Reiser.

ReiserFS has some important features:

  • Filesystem journaling - as opposed to to the then current ext2
  • Online Filesystem Growth
  • Tail Packing - reduces filesystem fragmentation
  • Optimized for small files

However, it also has some drawbacks:

  • Use of the Big Kernel Lock (BKL) - limits filesystem operations to a single core
  • Lack of a true defragmenter
  • fsck can corrupt an already corrupted filesystem
  • Lack of migration path - Reiser4 is not planned to be backward-compatable
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Is there a way to mount ReiserFS partition in Windows?

Is there a good reliable way to mount ReiserFS partitions in Windows? All I found is YAReG but it doesn't really mount a drive so I can't use my favorite tool for file operations and, more importantly, it won't understand unicode file names.
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How do I delete a directory that appears to contain nameless files?

I'm trying to delete a supposedly empty directory on a ReiserFS filesystem, but I can't because rm keeps complaining that the directory isn't empty. $ rm -rf thedirectory rm: cannot remove `thedirectory': Directory not empty $ ls -a thedirectory …
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How to get enable reiser4 on kernels > 2.6.38? Are there alternative FS like reiser4?

I can't find a patch for reiser4 for kernels newer than 2.6.38. How to access reiser4 on modern kernels? The only workaround I know is to use a thing like mountlo (filesystem running in UML kernel with reiser4, with FUSE interface). Are there…
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DiskInternal's Linux Reader Search

A 2TB external hard drive having multiple reiserfs, ext2/3 and similar linux file systems on it. In need for a quick search from within windows xp I found Linux Reader from DiskInternals. It performed ok - good for reading data or just surfing the…
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Rebuilding tree of reiserfs partition with no free space left

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=qqq bs=1M count=40 $ mkfs.reiserfs -f qqq ReiserFS is successfully created on qqq. $ mountlo-0.6 qqq ~/mnt/tmp $ cat /dev/frandom > ~/mnt/tmp/qqq cat: write error: No space left on device $ df ~/mnt/tmp/ Filesystem …
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ddrescue 2gb USB onto reiserfs partition

I have rescued my 2gb usb stick in nearly two days onto an 100gb blank reiserfs partition with these two commands: ddrescue -f -n /dev/sda /dev/sdb8 logfile ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sda /dev/sdb8 logfile since I did not know what to do next, I tried…
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Is it possible to restore a backup on different filesystems?

I'm now using Ubuntu 10.04 with ext4 and for the second time in my life I experienced data loss (not for real: I got backups) and I'm assuming problems with the recent ext4 fs. I want to restore all of my configurations (/etc and the like), data and…
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Resizing 2 partitions (NTFS and ReiserFS3)

When creating a Win7 and Gentoo setup I miss allocated the space needed for Windows and Linux. I have a 320 gb drive and created a 40gb partition on Win7 and used the rest of the space on Linux. Now I need about 70gbs on the NTFS partition. Are…
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Are there any Reiser file system drivers for Windows XP?

... apart from http://rfsd.sourceforge.net which seems to have been abandoned, and apart from plugins to Total Commander?
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Best method to copy big partition contents with many hard links

We had a LVM of almost 16TB with ReiserFS. We now want to add more disks, but we cannot continue using ReiserFS, as it has a maximum capacity of 16TB. This volume is being used to make incremental backups with RSync, which hardlinks unchanged…
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Accidentally mounted a ReiserFS drive as MBR on my windows box - how do I recover?

I had a WD Netcenter with a 160GB drive that kept dropping off the network. I opened up the enclosure and removed the hard drive, connected to a Windows box without knowing the drive used ReiserFS.... When mounting on the Windows box, I chose "MBR"…
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