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Reiser4 Now Available For Linux 4.8 Kernel

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 16 November 2016 at 06:31 AM EST. 6 Comments

While Linux 4.9 will be released in just a few weeks, the remaining Reiser4 file-system developers have just updated their code to support the Linux 4.8 stable kernel.

Reiser4 for Linux 4.8.0 is now available for those wanting to run this out-of-tree file-system on the current stable kernel. The Reiser4 kernel is now compatible with 4.8 and there is also a kernel oops fix when mounting forward-incompatible volumes, unneeded assertions were removed, some VFS changes were made, and there is now rename2 support.

This code doesn't appear to have the new Reiser4 mirror and failover support.

Those wanting to grab the latest Reiser4 file-system patches can find them hosted via SourceForge.

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