Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 10:02 +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On 02/10/05, R Hill <dirtyepic.sk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The grub maintainer's stance was that reiser 4 support would not be
> > included in grub until it was included in gentoo-sources, not any kernel
> > in portage.  The grub maintainer has been AWOL for the last 9 months or
> > so however, so i guess it's now up to the base-system herd.  I was under
> > the impression that feature-adding patches should be sent upstream.
> >
> > I still think it's retarded to have a reiser 4 boot partition, but
> > whatever stirs your pot. ;P
> 
> It makes sense if you're actually using reiser4 for everything else.
> Why bloat your kernel with an extra FS just for /boot?

The space added to a kernel for ext2 is *much* less than the overhead of
using a journaling file system for /boot.  You're wasting exponentially
more space using reiser on /boot.  The same would be true if you were
using ext3, which is why you always see us suggesting using ext2 for
boot.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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