Re: Unable to upgrade from RedHat 8.0 with Reiserfs root locatedon raid 5

[Kevin Freeman <kfreem02 attbi com>]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Does Red Hat Linux 9 ever claim to support reiserfs in any way?  I've

As far as I know RedHat has never supported Reiserfs on the root
partition.  But they have left open a back door which ornery geeks like
myself try to use anyway ... ;)

> never heard of it being used with Red Hat kernels before. Are you sure
> this is supposed to work?
>
> --Jeremy

No, I was not certain that it would work.  When it did not, I asked here
in the hope that someone knew why.  Jeremy Katz (in another reply) has
given me a gentle nudge in the direction of adding support, and I
probably will just for fun.

Kevin