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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:56:11
Message-Id: 434004F1.1000404@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4 by Chris Bainbridge
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4 Chris Bainbridge wrote:
5 > On 02/10/05, R Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >
7 >>The grub maintainer's stance was that reiser 4 support would not be
8 >>included in grub until it was included in gentoo-sources, not any kernel
9 >>in portage. The grub maintainer has been AWOL for the last 9 months or
10 >>so however, so i guess it's now up to the base-system herd. I was under
11 >>the impression that feature-adding patches should be sent upstream.
12 >>
13 >>I still think it's retarded to have a reiser 4 boot partition, but
14 >>whatever stirs your pot. ;P
15 >
16 >
17 > It makes sense if you're actually using reiser4 for everything else.
18 > Why bloat your kernel with an extra FS just for /boot?
19 >
20
21 Because most people want a tried and true fs on /boot, because if that
22 tanks your system doesn't boot. I'm not trying to bash reiser here, I
23 still use ext2 on /boot even if xfs is my main fs of choice for this reason.
24
25 Alec Warner (antarus)
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