Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263805AbUDFN3x (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:29:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263810AbUDFN3x (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:29:53 -0400 Received: from mail.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.2]:6289 "EHLO mail.broadpark.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263805AbUDFN3w (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:29:52 -0400 Message-ID: <001001c41bdb$3ddbf6b0$1e00000a@black> Reply-To: "Daniel Andersen" From: "Daniel Andersen" To: "Thomas Bach" Cc: "LKML" References: Subject: Re: Workaround for ReiserFS on root-filesystem Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:29:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 948 Lines: 21 > Hi Folks! > > I use ReiserFS for my root-filesystem while trying to upgrade to a newer > kernel-version (still using 2.4.20) I got a error, that / could not be > remounted read/write. After googling a bit I stumbled over the fact that > ReiserFS as root-filesystem doesn't work since version 2.4.22 (or > something like this). > > So I asked myself if there exists any workaround/howto/something-else so > I could get away from making my root-fs to an ext3 one. Does anyone > know something about it? Hmm.. It works perfectly fine for me with all 2.4.20-25 kernels, so you should not trust everything you find on google ;-) How big is your root partition? Which version of ReiserFS are you using? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/