On 13.06.2009, Linda Walsh wrote:
New and casual users will want to put everything in 1 partition. Make it xfs and lilo, they'll be happy. No fsck, and if they power off their system, they won't corrupt things -- they may lose everything anything recently written, but maybe they should clearly know that they should set 'sync' for disks that might just "go away"
There's a lot of reasons to have the separate /boot, as I wrote a few minutes ago. Read it, and you'll see why the opensuse people do it that way. If you want to have absolute reliability, go ahead and mount your xfs filesystems with barrier support and turn off the disks write cache (hdparm -W0), or mount your ext3 partitions with "data=journal". But don't complain that your computers performance encounters max. downgrade and suffers from long hickups in case of increasing I/O. There was also a long discussion at the lkml a few weeks ago on this topic you maybe should've read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org