Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 02 of December 2008 13:51:29 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2008-12-02 at 13:24 +0100, Jiri Srain wrote:

> > Any feedback and suggestions what is missing for the future is welcome.
>
> How about:
>
> ] The /boot partition can hold one of ext2 or ext3 filesystems.
>
> reiserfs also works, although not recomended for a separate /boot, but is
> is ofthen used for "/" without a separate "/boot" partition.

The reason why reiserfs is not mentioned is its complexity; for booting, you 
should prefer a filesystem which is as simple as possible to avoid problems 
which Josef posted in regard of XFS. Even though I'm not aware of any single 
case when reiserfs didn't work for booting, our goal was to define scenarios 
which we believe that will keep working in the future.

I still remember that when reiserfs was introduced, the only way to use it for 
booting was to disable sharing of a sector by tails of multiple files (notail 
option). On the other hand, I agree it is not likely that this situation will 
reappear in the future.

Additionally, while ext3 driver is part of the kernel-<flavor>-base package, 
reiserfs is not (it is in kernel-<flavor>, which may not be installed).

Jiri

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Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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