Re: reiserfs and /boot
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:13:03AM +1000, mdevin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:47:02 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, mdevin (mdevin@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> > > I am looking into changing over to reiserfs on all my partitions. I
> > > tried this once before about 1yr ago and everything was OK, but I
> > > remember that I left a small partition as ext2 for /boot.
> > >
> > > I can't remember the whole details for why I left /boot ext2 now, but
> > > it was something to do with reiserfs otherwise requiring a no-tails
> > > option and thus using more space ?????
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > If you're dead-set on this, switch from LILO to GRUB.
>
> Why do you say this? I read somewhere that LILO works fine with
> reiserfs since (about) version 21.6. Can you explain why GRUB is
> needed? Not that I have anything against it, but I have only ever used
> LILO.
I agree, I'm using LILO version 21.5-1 beta and ReiserFS with a modified
potato.
> >
> > That said, I'll echo comments here. Reiserfs is overkill (and wasteful)
> > for really small partitions. I tend to set my cutoff around 100-200
> > MiB. /boot's typically 10-20 MiB.
> >
> > The problem is the reiserfs journal node, which is about 32 MiB,
> > invariant, itself.
> >
> > If you really want journaling, make /boot, /, and /tmp ext3fs.
> >
> I don't really need journalling for /boot, especially since I mount it
> read only anyway. So I guess I can leave it ext2. I did do this 1 yr
> ago when I last experimented with reiserfs. I just couldn't remember if
> it was solely due to a wasted space issue for such a small partition.
I belive a small boot as ext2 is recommended for older versions of
Reiser. I think current versions don't have the issues associated with
previous, [don't quote me on this] as I don't remember the reasons
why...
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