## Where can you use [[ReiserFS]]?
There seems to be much confusion amongst new [[OpenAFS]] administrators about when and where they can use [[ReiserFS]]. This document attempts to describe supported uses, and explain why the others are unsupported.
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### Supported: Vice partitions on namei-based fileservers
**Why:** Namei-based fileservers store volumes in regular files on the vice partitions. No meta-data is stored in the inodes of these files.
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### Unsupported: Vice partitions on inode-based fileservers
**Why:** Inode-based fileservers access volumes directly via inode, and sneakily stuff bits of volume metadata into portions of the inode structure. Since [[ReiserFS]] does not have persistent inodes, this process will not work.
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### Unsupported: Cache partitions on [[OpenAFS]] clients
**Why:** The cache manager operates directly on filesystem inodes. [[ReiserFS]] does not have persistent inodes.
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-- [[RayLink]] - 04 Mar 2004