Karl Hasselström wrote:
On 2004-07-26 21:50:14 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:40:19AM +0200, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:I've run reiserfs on a few Debian boxes for a year or two now, and the bogeymen haven't come for me yet, so I'd say it's not a problem.The other ancient bogeyman was booting. Any restrictions on having /boot be on a reiserfs?I haven't tried that, mostly out of laziness. You would probably want a kernel with reiserfs linked statically and not as a module (unless some initrd magic makes it work anyway), but other than that, I don't think there should be any problems.
I would expect no problem if you're using lilo: lilo is supposed to be able to boot anything the host OS can navigate and the BIOS read.
For grub: man grub info grubI don't see a lot of point in having /boot as a resiserfs partition: it's write rarely, read occasionally so performance isn't an issue. I gather some folk read it ro or not at all, except when required for kernel upgrades.
As I understand it, the kernel does not need to read /boot at all: the initial ramdisk is read by the boot mangler.
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