From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RKiyq-0005fY-6N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:56:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7E3121C035 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j92GUYrP005406 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 16:30:35 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x37so66721nfc for ; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:38:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jZUEnn53ER9U1zoK2+w3GjKhPKTCfWf3c4ZQ6c92r37u2k+jMHhZeewfFZM2IlekRLUqyWRKoVfcNTFNh/WJq/47vbvlB43WrmLIC/EqiTWqSTd65XnJh+R829b3JbAQ6CRvnz2rl4f9vFvZzl0XQdMIocs9+Iy5XjfXQNuQfHM= Received: by 10.48.3.12 with SMTP id 12mr173821nfc; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.247.7 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 09:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <623652d50510020938i4e459edx@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 16:38:31 +0000 From: Chris Bainbridge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4 In-Reply-To: <434004F1.1000404@egr.msu.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <623652d50509291110667cfab7@mail.gmail.com> <623652d50510020302t7211c5e2g@mail.gmail.com> <434004F1.1000404@egr.msu.edu> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j92GUYrP005406 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 3a892427-24c4-4105-847e-73b92fc55a3c X-Archives-Hash: 6b62cc75e588426d16d21ef0f6a157fb On 02/10/05, Alec Warner wrote: > Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > On 02/10/05, R Hill 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 re= ason. 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. --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list