From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: Two Reiser4 FSs in the same HDD cause head seek panic? Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:22:05 +1000 Message-ID: <3ba9c56a60bb5f4e6d9f6e3bb867ebe3@mail.velocitynet.com.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Georgios Tsalikis Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 May 2016 11:58:53 +0300, Georgios Tsalikis wrote: > I happened to format a rootfs partition and another one for /home with > Reiser4. It proved to be a disaster. Apart from the slow boot times > (expected from this drive) even after reaching a functional GUI the > disk kept doing I/O like crazy. When /home became Btrfs the issue > ceased. My other computer that uses an entire drive formatted with > Reiser4 is nice and silent as well. > Hello, As far as I know you have to boot with a Reiser4 enabled kernel to read reiser4 filesystem. --Glenn # lsmod |grep -i reiser4 Module Size Used by reiser4 442368 0 # cat /proc/filesystems |grep -i reiser4 |sort reiser4 --Glenn