From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from tesla.newpaltz.edu (tesla.newpaltz.edu [137.140.1.102]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9715E20ED948 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:36:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from res57-81.resnet.newpaltz.edu (res57-81.resnet.newpaltz.edu [137.140.57.81]) by tesla.newpaltz.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00230 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 14:32:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lilo and Reiserfs From: "Bruce A. Locke" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20020401162221.BAA9D3A6F7@www.livepenguin.com> References: <20020401162221.BAA9D3A6F7@www.livepenguin.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 01 Apr 2002 14:45:41 -0500 Message-Id: <1017690345.4018.8.camel@kodiak.chronospace.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: a9fd2a43-5c87-460d-8e43-dafe6ebb53b6 X-Archives-Hash: be0d193250a39f3cfaaa2540ddb87ad5 On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 11:22, Rod Roark wrote: > Hi, I have a couple of comments, and a question. > > Your reiserfs-bashing is obsolete. :-) Oh, they finally redid their fsck tool so it didn't segfault half way through and eat perfectly fine partitions? You mean the numerous bugfixes making their way into the recent kernel releases had nothing to do with reiserfs file corruption? :) We used to recommend reiserfs... we stopped for a reason :( > I've been using it > for the past 5 months on a colocated server and find it to > be fast, space-efficient and stable. The only stability > problem I had was at the very beginning and was traced to > faulty memory (reiser seems to be unforgiving of hardware > problems). I've had squid boxes where reiserfs was fine for months. I've also had workstations that have died horribly... the same hardware where ext3 and xfs have 0 problems... *shrug* I've personally found that under load the only things reiserfs is really faster then XFS for are file deletions. XFS brings to the table a stable on disk format, acls, extended attributes, etc and a _working_ fsck tool. Don't mean to turn this into an XFS vs reiserfs flamewar but just trying to point out one of many reasons why we don't recommend reiserfs anymore. > Which brings me to my question. I want to use lilo, and I > don't want a separate boot partition. However lilo refuses > to install without /boot in fstab. How can I get around > this? Yes, the lilo ebuild currently isn't too intellegent about this issue. The grub ebuild is much more intellegent about this issue but I've been waiting for the eclass implementation to stabalize before having the code shared between both ebuilds. Its on my todo list :/ For now edit the lilo ebuild and completely remove the pkg_setup() function and it should work for you. -- Bruce A. Locke blocke@shivan.org