Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: grub reiser4

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

On 02/10/05, Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 it's easier to have a single fs for / than have multiple
partitions, and try to isolate all of the things that are "essentially
static" and move them over to unjournalled file systems. Journalling
operations on /boot are responsible for filling a very, very small
percentage of my hard disk.

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