Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4

[Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com>]

On 10/2/05, Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/05, Alec Warner <warnera6@egr.msu.edu> wrote:
> > Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> > > On 02/10/05, R Hill <dirtyepic.sk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>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?
In addition, why bloat your fs by having a journaled filesystem for
essentially static files?
> >
> > Because most people want a tried and true fs on /boot, because if that
> > tanks your system doesn't boot.  I'm not trying to bash reiser here, I
> > still use ext2 on /boot even if xfs is my main fs of choice for this reason.
>
> Being able to boot a kernel isn't much use without a root fs. If I
> can't boot, I have a livecd sitting on my desk. I guess if I had a
> ramdisk on /boot with a shell and some recovery tools then I might
> care, but I don't.
>
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