Re: reiserfs and /boot
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 23:38, mdevin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 00:34:44 -0300, Haroldo Stenger wrote:
> > mdevin wrote:
> > > Can anyone enlighten me on what is recommended with respect to changing
> > > over to reiserfs for all partitions? I have been unable to find any
> > > mention of a particular need to leave one partition ext2 in the reiserfs
> > > FAQ or the namesys site.
> >
> > I leave the /boot partition as ext2. Reiserfs doesn't show any gain in such a
> > small space. The rest, I prefer them as reiserfs.
> >
> Do you know if this is just a space issue, or is there some thing with
> no-tails option on small partitions that I should be aware of? I just
> seem to remember some issue about no-tails. It might be something to do
> with the fact that the bios needs to read the kernel image directly from
> the disk during the boot, and if reiserfs packs tails together at the
> end of a partition, then it may not all be in sequence ????????
>
> I am really not sure, but just remember some issue like this.
>
> Has anyone gone totally reiserfs?
>
> Cheers.
> Mark.
My system is on a single 8 gig reiserfs partition and I've had no problems.
I had to install from woody cd 5 for reiserfs support and always build reiserfs into the kernel.
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