On Monday January 20 2003 02:37 pm, et wrote:
> On Monday 20 January 2003 03:01 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Brinkman wrote:
It shouldn't make a
> > > differnence, but Civileme use to always recommend that a small
> > > ext3 /boot partition be used. Then any and all other partitions
> > > (/, /home, and so on) can be either XFS or ReiserFS. IME, this
> > > does seem to provide the best results. I've found ReiserFS to
> > > be faster than XFS on a desktop system.
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > I don't recall the reasoning behind that. why was it that the
> > /boot partition should be ext3 and the rest being foratted as
> > ReiserFS?
>
> as I recall it had to do with early Reiser and if it was compiled
> in instead of being a module added to the kernel at startup, if the
> reiserFS was a module and hosed the boot would not compete, but if
> the kernel had reiser complied in it was no problem, and this was
> reiser like in MDK 7.2 or 8.0
I dunno, ask Civileme. But, ever since he recommended it, and I've
done it ... no gremlins. BTW, I've never needed to compile RFS into
the kernel. I've always used it as a module. RFS and some other FS's
only fail if you init.rd image is hosed.
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