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[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Friday 2008-02-22 at 21:36 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> 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.

I used 60G, no problem. the kernel supports reiserfs also, so that's no 
problem and ext2 has been a pain since day one, no better than when we 
had to use Minix partitions with bootlace and shoelace early on in 
Linux. I was also surprised at the number of times we had to fsck disks 
in Solaris a-la ext2.
Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

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