[KLUG Members] Re: Laptop reiser corruption and fixing it

[Bryan J. Smith]

"Michael W. Holdeman" wrote:
> Interesting. I will consider this approach (ext2/, and ext3
> else).  Although all my systems are /boot as a seperate
> partition I should also include /boot as ext2?

Yes, especially since it is so small (which really negates the
advantage of journaling) and rarely used.  Heck, you can even umount
/boot after boot (like in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local), so there is no
"clean/dirty" issue at all!  ;-P

In keeping / (root) ext2, I try to minimize its size.  Usually 1GB
or so.  I separate out /tmp, /var, /usr and /home (if local/non-NFS)
as standard.

I use this approach with both Ext3 and XFS for the non-root
filesystems.  Ext3 is fully LILO compatible, and so is XFS.  But if
LILO is not in the MBR (but at the start of the partition), XFS
cannot be loaded via initrd (which is what I like to do, for
flexibility).

If you use SGI's official releases (which are _well-tested_), you
have the option of both Ext3 and XFS.  This is because SGI just
modifies the already RedHat-patched releases.

-- Bryan

P.S.  Ext3 is also in the stock kernel as of 2.4.15.  XFS is in an
officially patched version of 2.5.x (Who is the official guy
maintaining it?  From Connectiva?  It's in his patch).

-- 
Bryan J. Smith, Engineer        mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org   
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