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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. posted <200603101957.57631.bss03@××××××××××.net>, |
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excerpted below, on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:57:57 -0600: |
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> *I* run ext2/3 on boot because when I installed I didn't know 2 things (1) |
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> notail makes grub work or (2) you can tell reiser to use less than 33M for |
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> journal. Also, it can make some system recovery easier -- since ext2/3 is |
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> the most widely built-in filesystem, among linux kernels. |
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AFAIK, the notail for /boot requirement is looonngg obsolete. I've been |
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running reiserfs with tails on for /years/ now, since Mandrake |
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8.1/eXPrivacy, which is when I switched from MSWormOS since I chose to |
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upgrade to Linux rather than take MS' anti-privacy downgrade. That's |
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what, four or five years ago now? Neither LILO nor GRUB nor x86 nor amd64 |
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nor Mandrake/Mandriva nor Gentoo, seem to have a problem with Reiserfs |
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tails at this point, and while I believe it was LILO that could cope with |
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them first, GRUB hasn't had issues for awhile, either. |
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Either that or nothing I use now or have used since I switched to Linux |
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has had a tail, and I find that rather hard to believe. |
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It /has/ been only recently that I've started using non-standard reiserfs |
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journals, however, larger on my big partitions, smaller on /boot and the |
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like. Still, a few megs on a half-gig partition on a 100+ gig hard drive |
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that has so much room part of it isn't even partitioned yet, isn't a big |
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deal. Anything amd64 should be modern enough to have a roomy hard drive. |
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You /do/ have a point with the system recovery, however. As well, some |
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consider reiserfs not entirely stable, tho if folks have backups as they |
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should, that shouldn't be an issue, and it's never been one here, |
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certainly since data=ordered became the reiserfs default (as I believe it |
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is with ext3). |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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