-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-12-06 at 03:24 +0100, Frans de Boer wrote:
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 01:50 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-12-05 at 16:18 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
Might try 'xfs'. ??
Xfs on / requires a separate /boot partition formatted as ext2. You might get it working without this, but it is not guaranteed.
I use ext3 for / and xfs for /home. Still, nobody has experienced the same?
Also, my /boot partition is ext3. I just wonder, what is the benefiet of using xfs above ext3?
The "benefit" is that there is real danger (documented) of not being able to boot, and perhaps destroying the filesystem, if you have grub installed on an xfs partition. Does it suffice? >:-) Another benefit is that installing any journaled filesystem (xfs, reiser, ext4/3) on the /boot partition is a waste. It is a very small partition (about 100 MB, perhaps), where the log takes a fair amount of the available size and serves no purpose. Why no purpose? Because the system doesn't write to it. Almost never. Worse, as I learnt recently, if you hibernate to disk the disk, that journal has to be replayed in memory before the system recovers, which takes time, and that code is broken for some filesystem types. That covers whether to use ext3 or ext2 on a boot partition. Use only ext2 for /boot. Safer. As to the benefits of xfs over ext3 (except for the boot partition), well, to name one, it does instant fsck on boot, like reiserfs. Every two months ext3 "needs" and fsck that takes a long, long time. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksbkT4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VQjgCeMXLa9yjg4V0FN4s6mBP16wAz 6uwAn3rOPTdeC2m39gBeX06IwU5jWLSN =0fTp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org