On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 12:43, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > I am curious if it is for performance or stability? I remember Civileme > from the list and he obviously has a lot of insight into the file > system. So please Anne for future reference if you could find it for me. > > Many Thanks, > > Tony. iirc, it had to do with reiser being a module to the Kernel at the time.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS? > > > On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 4:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Tuesday September 2 2003 09:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > > Tom, > > > > > > What is the reason you make /boot ext3? I do everything reiserfs > > > is this wrong? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Tony. > > > > Because Civileme told me too ;) If you don't know, Civileme > > was a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His > > job was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system > > testing. He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot > > should be on an ext3 partition. I never did understand exactly why > > tho, I just trusted his advice. > > I'd go one further. Based on what Civileme said, my /boot is ext2. I > think I may have the original post, if it helps, but it would take a > bit of digging. > > Anne -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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