Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2008-02-22 at 21:36 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:

> >  Reiserfs for a small partition such as boot? make no sense. Typical is
> >  ext2 (not 3).
> I had the space to waste and my back was up against the wall. Some of us have 
> long and horrid memories of the time taken to do fsck.ext2 on a 20G HD once 
> the mount count was exhausted, that's what made me switch to SuSE/reiserfs. 
> One day I had a power glitch and the newly installed SuSE 6.2 test box was up 
> in a jiffy while the ext2 box clunked it's way painfully through a check.

Boot partition needs to be something like 20..100 Mb. Minimum for reiser 
is 100, a lot is "wasted" in the journal. Such a small partition recovers 
very fast even with no journal, as ext2, with the plust that the kernel 
supports it internally (no modules needed in initrd).

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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