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

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Hmm.... I've never seperated /tmp or /var. Guess there is no reason why I 
couldn't. I usually seperate /usr and /home, and any non/home NFS exports.  
(eg.. /ptfd)

Mike.

ps (SGI??) I am running SuSE 7.2P, Caldera eD2.4 (kernel 2.4.9), and Caldera 
server 3.1.1.







On Tuesday 29 January 2002 13:12, you wrote:
> "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 
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hich 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).