On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 23:38, mdevin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 00:34:44 -0300, Haroldo Stenger wrote: > > mdevin wrote: > > > Can anyone enlighten me on what is recommended with respect to changing > > > over to reiserfs for all partitions? I have been unable to find any > > > mention of a particular need to leave one partition ext2 in the reiserfs > > > FAQ or the namesys site. > > > > I leave the /boot partition as ext2. Reiserfs doesn't show any gain in such > > a > > small space. The rest, I prefer them as reiserfs. > > > Do you know if this is just a space issue, or is there some thing with > no-tails option on small partitions that I should be aware of? I just > seem to remember some issue about no-tails. It might be something to do > with the fact that the bios needs to read the kernel image directly from > the disk during the boot, and if reiserfs packs tails together at the > end of a partition, then it may not all be in sequence ???????? > > I am really not sure, but just remember some issue like this. > > Has anyone gone totally reiserfs? > > Cheers. > Mark.
My system is on a single 8 gig reiserfs partition and I've had no problems. I had to install from woody cd 5 for reiserfs support and always build reiserfs into the kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
