the reason is mainly for system recovery IIRC. reiser fs support was marked as experimental in kernels, and some kernels may not be compiled with reiser fs.
by comparison, it's hard to imagine anyone not compiling support for ext2 into any general purpose kernel, esp those used for the floppy disk system recovery distributions and such. also, IIRC, all(most?) ext3 partitions are simply read as ext2 if the kernel doesn't support ext3. so using as ext3 is quite "safe" as well, in term of kernel support. hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 00:43 Subject: RE: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS? > 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. > > -----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 > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > > This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have > received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or > disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes > or the postmaster <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immediately. > > The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not > necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless > specifically stated. > > Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their > attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) > to verify the integrity of such emails. > > > Business Computer Projects Ltd > BCP House > 151 Charles Street > Stockport > Cheshire > SK1 3JY > > Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 > Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 > Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com <http://www.bcpsoftware.com/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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