Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3442 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 December 2001 23.10, Tim Harrell wrote:
> > Only on /boot. Don't do it on /
>
> Sorry, Anders. I'm getting a little confused. Are you saying that I should
> not use notail, except on /boot? My problem is I do not have an actual
> /boot partition, it just lives under root.  notail is supposed to be a lot
> quicker isn't it?

You only need notail on a reiserfs partition that holds /boot.

>
> > No no. having reiser in the initrd is only needed if 1) you have reiser
> > as a module as opposed to compiled statically in the kernel (the default
> > in suse) and 2) you have reiser on /
>
> OK, I take it I have it native in the kernel for 7.2 then, and that I can
> forget about loading reiser in initrd (I'm not intending to make / a reiser
> fs just yet).

I'm sorry, my paranthesis got a little misplaced. The default in suse is to 
have it as a module, so if you make / a reiserfs partition you'll need to 
have it in initrd.

regards
Anders