Does anyone know what the notail thing does?
Cant find that in man mount or man fstab.
Do I have to att something special to lilo if i like to use the whole disk
with reiserfs?
I have also heard that there is some patch to grub for reiserfs so i think
that a patched grub would be nice in mandrake 7.1b.
/M
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Kevin Forge wrote:
> I have a single '/' partition and a '/home' that are both RiserFS.
> No ext2 anywhere on my PC.
>
> /dev/hda2 / reiserfs notail 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>
> Civileme wrote:
> >
> > Magnus Holmberg wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to install Mandrake 7.1 on a / partition with reiserfs.
> > > Or do i need to have /boot on ext2 filesystem?
> >
> > I did all partitions except windows, swap, and /boot on reiser. I did
> > /boot on ext2 because checking it is trivial and I had no notion whether
> > the kernel in memory when /boot is read had the reiser fs patch or not.
> > I suppose the Open BIOS project with linux as the BIOS could feature
> > Reiser if someone wanted to be a puritan, and use nothing else. I did
> > not in fact try /boot as Reiserfs on my test system, so I can't say
> > whether it will work.
> >
> > But with an ext2 /boot, Reiser can definitely be used for all the other
> > partitions. It is not backwards compatible with ext2 since the storage
> > method is something like a B-Tree, but ext2 and reiser partitions can
> > coexist. Checking out several partitions totalling 10 Gb of storage
> > (UDMA/33 without optimizations) in less than nine seconds on boot after
> > being stopped in the midst of 40 users with makes in progress (by a
> > hardware reset) is pretty good, in my estimation. Now I am creating and
> > reading, resizing and writing back , many many tiny files to see if I can
> > confuse it long term. So far, its efficiency with bundles of small files
> > seems to be superior to ext2fs.
> >
> > Civileme
> >
> > --
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> > and its mailer and L-M 7.1
>
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