Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01 of December 2008 15:30:46 Sid Boyce wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Monday, 2008-12-01 at 10:07 +0100, Jiri Srain wrote:
> > > On Saturday 29 of November 2008 21:40:31 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, 2008-11-30 at 09:30 +1300, Quentin Jackson wrote:
> > > > > Can I ask, what filesystems are supported, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, vfat?
> > > > > Anything else?
> > > >
> > > > For the booting partition, it appears that only ext2/3 and reiserfs.
> > > > JFS stopped being supported a few years ago, and now XFS.
> > >
> > > Yes, exactly. For /boot partitoin only ext2 (recommended), ext3 and
> > > reiserfs
> > > are supported.
> >
> > Careful: not only /boot partition, but also / partition when /boot
> > directory is in the same partition as /. Ie, the booting partition.

Yes, I tend to mean what you describe when saying /boot partition, due to how 
many times I said that.

> > So, we are returning to the old situation, when a separate /boot
> > partition is again needed.

Either, or having ext2/ext3/reiserfs root

> > -- Cheers,
> >        Carlos E. R.
>
> Quoting an often repeated statement of an associate, "somebody's just
> having a laugh, ain't they?" - my laptop (ext3) just told me on a reboot
> that it has gone 71 days without a check and it will eventually boot up
> at some time in the not too distant future. I must have misread the
> intention or value of "tune2fs -c -1 /dev/sda1".
> A pretty ugly picture to present to anyone who urgently expected a boot
> up time to be reasonable. Imagine someone, especially your boss, having
> to stand leaning over you while you do nothing productive for between 20
> minutes and half an hour or longer or however long a piece of string is
> supposed to be.
> I hope it can be seen from such instances why people are seeking refuge
> in XFS/JFS, ext3 is not real-world some of the time -- 65% check after
> 12-15 minutes of unproductive time.

I cannot really comment on ext2/ext3, however, this issue can be very easily 
solved by separate /boot partition, which is fsck-ed very quickly due to its 
size, and root/data on XFS/JFS/whatever.

Jiri

-- 
Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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