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On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 17:43 +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> On 02/10/05, Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On 10/2/05, Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On 02/10/05, Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> > > > Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> > > > > On 02/10/05, R Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > >>I still think it's retarded to have a reiser 4 boot partition, but |
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> > > > >>whatever stirs your pot. ;P |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > It makes sense if you're actually using reiser4 for everything else. |
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> > > > > Why bloat your kernel with an extra FS just for /boot? |
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> > In addition, why bloat your fs by having a journaled filesystem for |
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> > essentially static files? |
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> Because it's easier to have a single fs for / than have multiple |
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> partitions, and try to isolate all of the things that are "essentially |
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> static" and move them over to unjournalled file systems. Journalling |
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> operations on /boot are responsible for filling a very, very small |
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> percentage of my hard disk. |
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Which is still much larger than the space needed for the ext2 driver. |
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*grin* |
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