Bob Sanders <rsand...@sgi.com> posted 20090127160758.ga44...@sgi.com, excerpted below, on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:07:58 -0800:
> Actually while this is the problem, it's exaggerated by the fact that > the typical install (non-Gentoo) doesn't use a seperate boot partition. > In the normal, commerical setting, /boot resides as part of /. Thus > /boot is always mounted. And as you point out with a system crash it's > possible that the journal will need to be replayed before a system boot > can happen. Actually, I had meant to mention that but forgot. Thanks for the catch! =:^) You're quite right, without a dedicated /boot partition it'd be on /, which of course tends to be mounted while the system is operational. =:^) Possibly countering that would be the fact that (for servers anyway, perhaps somewhat less so for desktops/laptops) it's probably more common for non-Gentoo systems to have their / mounted r/o under normal operation, since few distributions use the "rolling updates" idea that's part of the appeal of Gentoo for many of us, but that makes keeping / mounted r/o rather a hassle. And a filesystem mounted r/o at the time of a crash shouldn't have any journal playback to worry about. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
