on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Gary Hennigan (glhenni@sandia.gov) wrote:
> mdevin <mdevin@ozemail.com.au> writes:
> > 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:
<...>
> > 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 use LILO and all my partitions are reiserfs. Never had any trouble
> and I don't have the "notail" option set. I believe that is something
> that was required before LILO was updated to know about reiser.
GRUB has some nice features and gets beyond limitations of LILO. That
said, I use both (though generally not on the same system).
> > > 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.
>
> It's a matter of perspective. Who cares if you waste a bit of disk
> space or it's 5-10% slower when accessing that small partition? How
> often do you access /boot anyway? If you're worrying about wasting
> 30MB of disk space then you probably shouldn't be running a
> journalling FS anyway.
It's less this issue, than the fact that most people contemplating a
switch to Reiser already _have_ their systems partitioned. I can spare
the 90 MiB required for /boot, /, and /tmp journals. What I can't spare
is the several hours to back up, repartition, and restore (or verify if
using GNU parted) my HD.
> For me, it was a convenience. I don't want a mis-mash of partition
> types. Too much maintenance if something crashes (was that an ext2,
> ext3, or reiser FS?). And I've got plenty of disk space to burn.
There's a couple of reasons I've posted my partitioning guides to the
'Net. Among them: Google is my backup. I've also got hardcopy of my
system partition tables and fstabs. There's reasons other than
filesystem type to have this information available.
> I will say this, on another system I manage I do have an ext3
> partition so that I can use ACLs and it's been just as trouble free as
> the reiserfs partitions. I started using reiser before ext3 was stable
> so that's really the only reason I use reiser instead of ext3 for the
> majority of my partitions.
For large directories, Reiser has a distinct advantage in that is it
uses hashes rather than lists for the directories. This becomes
significant after a few hundred entries, and essential over a few
thousand.
Peace.
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