Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4

[Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>]

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?
>
> 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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