Bug 78767

Summary:	SILO and ReiserFS imcompatibility not shown anywhere in guide.
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Robert W. George <rwgeorge>
Component:	Gentoo Linux Sparc Installation Guide	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	docs-team, sparc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert W. George 2005-01-19 20:40:17 UTC

It would be nice to see a note in the "Setting up your partitions" portion of the SPARC guide that tells of the SILO/ReiserFS incompatibility.  I went through the entire install, oly to find out that I could not install the boot loader on my ReiserFS partition.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Follow the SPARC guide exaclty.
2.  Deviate from the recomendation, and use ReiserFS for your filesystem.
3.  Try to install SILO.

Actual Results:  
Severe frustration when SILO reports that ReiserFS is not yet supported.

Expected Results:  
The docs should have warned about this earlier.

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-01-20 03:47:04 UTC

"ReiserFS works only partially on sparc64 systems and is therefore not recommended for general use. XFS should be avoided, as it is known to have many problems on SPARCs and could ruin your data. Another journaling filesystem, JFS, is not supported. Regardless of your decision for filesystems, the bootloader requires that the root partition be either ext2 or ext3."

Comment 2 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-20 04:45:30 UTC

Actually the newer 2005.0 livecd will only support ext2/3, no more reiserfs or xfs.
So, docs team, you can safely drop every mention to them in the handbook (no tools, no kernel support either).
Thanks.

Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-23 07:19:27 UTC

Reopening for 2005.0 changes

Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-23 11:35:00 UTC

Fixed in CVS for 2005.0 draft.