on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > mdevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:47:02 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, mdevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
<...> > > Why do you say this? I read somewhere that LILO works fine with > > reiserfs since (about) version 21.6. Can you explain why GRUB is > > needed? Not that I have anything against it, but I have only ever > > used LILO. > > I use LILO and all my partitions are reiserfs. Never had any trouble > and I don't have the "notail" option set. I believe that is something > that was required before LILO was updated to know about reiser. GRUB has some nice features and gets beyond limitations of LILO. That said, I use both (though generally not on the same system). > > > That said, I'll echo comments here. Reiserfs is overkill (and > > > > wasteful) for really small partitions. I tend to set my cutoff > > > around 100-200 MiB. /boot's typically 10-20 MiB. > >> > > > The problem is the reiserfs journal node, which is about 32 MiB, > > > invariant, itself. > > It's a matter of perspective. Who cares if you waste a bit of disk > space or it's 5-10% slower when accessing that small partition? How > often do you access /boot anyway? If you're worrying about wasting > 30MB of disk space then you probably shouldn't be running a > journalling FS anyway. It's less this issue, than the fact that most people contemplating a switch to Reiser already _have_ their systems partitioned. I can spare the 90 MiB required for /boot, /, and /tmp journals. What I can't spare is the several hours to back up, repartition, and restore (or verify if using GNU parted) my HD. > For me, it was a convenience. I don't want a mis-mash of partition > types. Too much maintenance if something crashes (was that an ext2, > ext3, or reiser FS?). And I've got plenty of disk space to burn. There's a couple of reasons I've posted my partitioning guides to the 'Net. Among them: Google is my backup. I've also got hardcopy of my system partition tables and fstabs. There's reasons other than filesystem type to have this information available. > I will say this, on another system I manage I do have an ext3 > partition so that I can use ACLs and it's been just as trouble free as > the reiserfs partitions. I started using reiser before ext3 was stable > so that's really the only reason I use reiser instead of ext3 for the > majority of my partitions. For large directories, Reiser has a distinct advantage in that is it uses hashes rather than lists for the directories. This becomes significant after a few hundred entries, and essential over a few thousand. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Hollings: bought, paid for, but couldn't deliver the CBDTPA: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html
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