ReiserFS?

[John H. Robinson, IV]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:16:23PM -0700, David Rees wrote:

> Since generally /boot is a small partition (all of mine are right around
> 10MB) and reiserfs reserves 32MB for it's journal, reiserfs isn't the best
> filesystem for small partitions.  I recommend keeping /boot on ext2, and
> then moving / to reiserfs.

since a seperate /boot partition is deprecated with the GRUB and newer
LILO boot loaders (ie: 1024 is a thing of the past) i do not maintain a
seperate /boot partition.

when i did have a seperate /boot, mine were 3 to 5MB is size. i could
still fit about 5 kernels in there.

if you do have a seperate /boot partition, and it is ext2, i would
recomend keeping it mounted r/o. this way you do not have to worry at
all abut corrupted filesystems in case of a power outage, or otherwise
unplanned reboot.
	how often do you need to write to /boot anyway? only when
	upgrading a kernel, and then a ``mount -o remount,rw /boot'' is
	not all that hard.

> Personally, I don't trust reiserfs 100% (Give me a couple more kernel
> revisions, maybe by 2.4.10) for mission critical situations yet

i do not trust 2.4.x for mission critical.

-john

but i am a big reiserfs fan.