http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538795
User carlos.e.r@opensuse.org added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538795#c13
--- Comment #13 from Carlos Robinson
(In reply to comment #11)
* grub takes long to load after hibernate on reiserfs. Known. Documented (I think so) and unfixable.
Known to whom?
At least the Kernel developers ;)
Ah... so they are true to the saying that good developers are bad documenters. Sigh.
AFAIK, it has not been mentioned in the factory mail list, and the YaST installer does not warn about it. Not that I remember.
But YaST does not suggest you use reiserfs. I mean - reiserfs is abandoned and basically unmaintained since ages - it's a miracle that it still works at all!
;-)
No, it recommends to use ext4 which to me is still experimental and a no-no for me. I think it warns if you select XFS (for booting), and perhaps refuses to install boot on JFS. If there is a known issue, it should warn.
So if a user selects reiserfs, then he obviously knows what he's doing - and he get's what he wants.
Well, AFAIK, it has some kind of support till the end of SLES 11, I think. Remember that reiserfs was the default filesystem installed by SuSE for some years, so many users came to like and prefer that filesystem. Thinking that all of them are aware of the problems it may have... that's too much to suppose. When a filesystem has had known issues for installing boot on it, yast warns. xfs, jfs...
I mean - YaST2 also does not warn you if you select XFS "Attention, deleting a huge number of small files will be dog slow. Consider to backup, mkfs and restore your backup without the files you want deleted instead!"
:-)
But that is not something that is broken, it just a known behaviour. I do use XFS for /home and it works fine. It is also very fast and recommended for multimedia.
Can I assume that, the problem being grub, it will/might work if /boot is moved to a separate ext2 partition? I can try that route.
Yes, that will work well. ext2 (or any other non-journaling FS) is actually the best choice for /boot if you want to use hibernation (even though I use ext3 and never had any problems with it, it probably just works in ext2 compat mode in grub).
I use ext2 for the very small partitions used for /boot, ext3 doesn't make sense there.
I'll open a new one. But the reiserfs issue has to be documented properly before this one can be closed as solved or wontfix.
I agree. Go ahead, write the article in the Wiki ;)
I can't, I don't know what the issue is with reiserfs as root regarding hibernation. I just wrote a line in the Most Annoying Bugs wiki, but that's all I can do. I don't know what the issue is. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.