On Thursday 06 Dec 2001 10:14 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
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
Ok, I think the fog is clearing now. I don't need to load the reiser modules
as I'm not using Reiser on / (and hence anything in /boot either), it *is* a
module and not in the stock kernel however. Good.
I also don't *have* to put notail as a mount option, for reasons explained.
However, I hear that notail is a fair bit quicker so I guess there's no harm
in me using it anyway? (if I can live with the extra fragmentation, as I've
lived with it on ext2!)
Cheers,
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Tim Harrell