On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:12:34 -0400 Jonathan <eyesw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Ionut Biru <ib...@archlinux.org> wrote: > > On 08/09/2012 01:55 AM, Myra Nelson wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: > >>> On Aug 8, 2012 6:04 PM, "Allan McRae" <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 09/08/12 05:29, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > >>>>> Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: > >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski > >>>>>> <tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ > >>>>>>> Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. > >>>>>>> I don't have the time now to look at it. > >>>>>> Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we > >>>>>> figure out what's broken. > >>>>> The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. > >>>>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/ > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> It is needed as the ext2 fs stuff has been removed from the kernel > >>> headers. > >>>> > >>>> Allan > >>>> > >>> > >>> Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable. > >> > >> Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable, without a > >> doubt it does. > >> > >> Dave's install scripts work great easiest install I've ever done, > >> however it won't boot off of ext2 with syslinux. > >> > > > > Why do you want ext2 on /boot? All bootloaders support ext3/4 this days. > > > >> Myra > >> > > > > > > -- > > Ionuț > > > > In the past I have seen ext2 saves time during boot vs ext3.Having a > journal is no use since the files are rarely changed and the > filesystem is mostly opened read only. The journal takes up some > space. These may matter to you if you are trying to optimize boot > times or disk usage. But there is no ext{2,3} these days. The driver is ext4 for all ext* FS, only configurations differ... > > to see journal size: > device=/dev/sda7; debugfs -R "stat <$(tune2fs -l $device | awk > '/Journal.inode/ {print $3}')>" $device |& awk '/Size: / {print $6}' | > head -1; unset device > > John -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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