From: Bill Anderson <bill@libc.org> No additional effor trequired.
Well, for a newbie, the effort is figuring out how to format the partitions! :)
Actually, the reiserfs installer patch is a helluva lot simpler, since it is a floppy update to the installer. :)
I heard from someone who worked at an (ahem... unix-based) OS company that reiserfs is flaky... that's why I was looking for something else. There are a couple others out there, but SGI has been working on XFS for years, and it's operating in production systems, so I have confidence that it's rock solid. but anyway, with SGI's installer CD, installing RH7.1 with XFS couldn't be easier -- you boot with the XFS disk and start the installation process with that, then eventually it asks you to insert RH CD#1 and #2... viola! done.