Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2008-02-22 at 21:36 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
Reiserfs for a small partition such as boot? make no sense. Typical is ext2 (not 3).
I had the space to waste and my back was up against the wall. Some of us have long and horrid memories of the time taken to do fsck.ext2 on a 20G HD once the mount count was exhausted, that's what made me switch to SuSE/reiserfs. One day I had a power glitch and the newly installed SuSE 6.2 test box was up in a jiffy while the ext2 box clunked it's way painfully through a check.
Boot partition needs to be something like 20..100 Mb. Minimum for reiser is 100, a lot is "wasted" in the journal. Such a small partition recovers very fast even with no journal, as ext2, with the plust that the kernel supports it internally (no modules needed in initrd).
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
I used 60G, no problem. the kernel supports reiserfs also, so that's no problem and ext2 has been a pain since day one, no better than when we had to use Minix partitions with bootlace and shoelace early on in Linux. I was also surprised at the number of times we had to fsck disks in Solaris a-la ext2. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org