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On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 11:22, Rod Roark wrote: |
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> Hi, I have a couple of comments, and a question. |
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> Your reiserfs-bashing is obsolete. :-) |
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Oh, they finally redid their fsck tool so it didn't segfault half way |
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through and eat perfectly fine partitions? You mean the numerous |
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bugfixes making their way into the recent kernel releases had nothing to |
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do with reiserfs file corruption? :) |
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We used to recommend reiserfs... we stopped for a reason :( |
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> I've been using it |
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> for the past 5 months on a colocated server and find it to |
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> be fast, space-efficient and stable. The only stability |
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> problem I had was at the very beginning and was traced to |
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> faulty memory (reiser seems to be unforgiving of hardware |
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> problems). |
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I've had squid boxes where reiserfs was fine for months. I've also had |
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workstations that have died horribly... the same hardware where ext3 and |
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xfs have 0 problems... *shrug* I've personally found that under load |
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the only things reiserfs is really faster then XFS for are file |
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deletions. XFS brings to the table a stable on disk format, acls, |
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extended attributes, etc and a _working_ fsck tool. |
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Don't mean to turn this into an XFS vs reiserfs flamewar but just trying |
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to point out one of many reasons why we don't recommend reiserfs |
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anymore. |
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> Which brings me to my question. I want to use lilo, and I |
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> don't want a separate boot partition. However lilo refuses |
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> to install without /boot in fstab. How can I get around |
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> this? |
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Yes, the lilo ebuild currently isn't too intellegent about this issue. |
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The grub ebuild is much more intellegent about this issue but I've been |
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waiting for the eclass implementation to stabalize before having the |
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code shared between both ebuilds. Its on my todo list :/ |
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For now edit the lilo ebuild and completely remove the pkg_setup() |
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function and it should work for you. |
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Bruce A. Locke |
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blocke@××××××.org |