* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml hb-install-ppc-disk.xml hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
@ 2006-08-17 2:09 Josh Saddler
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From: Josh Saddler @ 2006-08-17 2:09 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
nightmorph 06/08/17 02:09:33
Modified: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml hb-install-ppc-disk.xml
hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
Log:
removed dir_index instructions, since it's included in the default mke2fs.conf and overrides other good options. bug 101034
Revision Changes Path
1.2 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?rev=1.2&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Index: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- hb-install-hppa-disk.xml 9 Aug 2006 16:35:14 -0000 1.1
+++ hb-install-hppa-disk.xml 17 Aug 2006 02:09:33 -0000 1.2
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v 1.1 2006/08/09 16:35:14 fox2mike Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v 1.2 2006/08/17 02:09:33 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<sections>
<version>6.0</version>
-<date>2006-02-27</date>
+<date>2006-08-16</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -214,10 +214,7 @@
<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
full data and ordered data journaling. ext3 is a very good and reliable
-filesystem. It has an additional hashed b-tree indexing option that enables
-high performance in almost all situations. You can enable this indexing by
-adding <c>-O dir_index</c> to the <c>mke2fs</c> command. In short, ext3 is an
-excellent filesystem.
+filesystem.
</p>
<p>
1.3 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml?rev=1.3&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
Index: hb-install-ppc-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3
--- hb-install-ppc-disk.xml 11 Aug 2006 16:31:53 -0000 1.2
+++ hb-install-ppc-disk.xml 17 Aug 2006 02:09:33 -0000 1.3
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml,v 1.2 2006/08/11 16:31:53 josejx Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml,v 1.3 2006/08/17 02:09:33 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<sections>
<version>6.2</version>
-<date>2006-08-11</date>
+<date>2006-08-16</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -394,10 +394,7 @@
<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
full data and ordered data journaling. ext3 is a very good and reliable
-filesystem. It has an additional hashed b-tree indexing option that enables
-high performance in almost all situations. You can enable this indexing by
-adding <c>-O dir_index</c> to the <c>mke2fs</c> command. In short, ext3 is an
-excellent filesystem.
+filesystem.
</p>
<p>
1.2 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml?rev=1.2&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Index: hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml 9 Aug 2006 16:35:14 -0000 1.1
+++ hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml 17 Aug 2006 02:09:33 -0000 1.2
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml,v 1.1 2006/08/09 16:35:14 fox2mike Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml,v 1.2 2006/08/17 02:09:33 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<sections>
<version>6.0</version>
-<date>2006-02-27</date>
+<date>2006-08-16</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -587,10 +587,7 @@
<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
full data and ordered data journaling. ext3 is a very good and reliable
-filesystem. It has an additional hashed b-tree indexing option that enables
-high performance in almost all situations. You can enable this indexing by
-adding <c>-O dir_index</c> to the <c>mke2fs</c> command. In short, ext3 is an
-excellent filesystem.
+filesystem.
</p>
<p>
1.2 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml?rev=1.2&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml?r1=1.1&r2=1.2
Index: hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- hb-install-sparc-disk.xml 9 Aug 2006 16:35:14 -0000 1.1
+++ hb-install-sparc-disk.xml 17 Aug 2006 02:09:33 -0000 1.2
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml,v 1.1 2006/08/09 16:35:14 fox2mike Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml,v 1.2 2006/08/17 02:09:33 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<sections>
<version>6.0</version>
-<date>2006-02-27</date>
+<date>2006-08-16</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -516,7 +516,8 @@
modes like full-data and ordered-data journaling. Ext3 has an additional hashed
b-tree indexing option that enables high performance in almost all situations.
You can enable this indexing by adding <c>-O dir_index</c> to the <c>mke2fs</c>
-command. Ext3 makes an excellent and reliable alternative to ext2.
+command, though this can only be done if you are using a 2.6 kernel. Ext3 makes
+an excellent and reliable alternative to ext2.
</p>
</body>
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml hb-install-ppc-disk.xml hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
@ 2007-06-26 7:07 Josh Saddler
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From: Josh Saddler @ 2007-06-26 7:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
nightmorph 07/06/26 07:07:27
Modified: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml hb-install-ppc-disk.xml
hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
Log:
fixing tree type confusion. spank whoever told me to add that ext3 stuff in the first place, and me for blindly adding it. all fixed now; also fixed reiserfs, since it's actually B+, not B*
Revision Changes Path
1.5 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?rev=1.5&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?rev=1.5&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?r1=1.4&r2=1.5
Index: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- hb-install-hppa-disk.xml 7 May 2007 18:11:42 -0000 1.4
+++ hb-install-hppa-disk.xml 26 Jun 2007 07:07:27 -0000 1.5
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v 1.4 2007/05/07 18:11:42 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v 1.5 2007/06/26 07:07:27 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<sections>
-<version>8.0</version>
-<date>2007-05-07</date>
+<version>8.1</version>
+<date>2007-06-26</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -212,14 +212,14 @@
<p>
<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
-journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes
-like full data and ordered data journaling. It uses a hashed B*-tree index that
-enables high performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very
-good and reliable filesystem.
+journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
+full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high
+performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable
+filesystem.
</p>
<p>
-<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B*-tree based filesystem that has very good overall
+<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B+tree-based filesystem that has very good overall
performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small
files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales
extremely well and has metadata journaling. ReiserFS is solid and usable as
1.10 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml?rev=1.10&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml?rev=1.10&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml?r1=1.9&r2=1.10
Index: hb-install-ppc-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.9 -r1.10
--- hb-install-ppc-disk.xml 9 May 2007 00:52:08 -0000 1.9
+++ hb-install-ppc-disk.xml 26 Jun 2007 07:07:27 -0000 1.10
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml,v 1.9 2007/05/09 00:52:08 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml,v 1.10 2007/06/26 07:07:27 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<sections>
-<version>8.1</version>
-<date>2007-05-08</date>
+<version>8.2</version>
+<date>2007-06-26</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -520,14 +520,14 @@
<p>
<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
-journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes
-like full data and ordered data journaling. It uses a hashed B*-tree index that
-enables high performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very
-good and reliable filesystem and is highly recommended for most installs.
+journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
+full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high
+performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable
+filesystem.
</p>
<p>
-<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B*-tree based filesystem that has very good overall
+<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B+tree-based filesystem that has very good overall
performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small
files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales
extremely well and has metadata journaling. ReiserFS is solid and usable as
1.7 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml?rev=1.7&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml?rev=1.7&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml?r1=1.6&r2=1.7
Index: hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.6 -r1.7
--- hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml 8 May 2007 21:17:07 -0000 1.6
+++ hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml 26 Jun 2007 07:07:27 -0000 1.7
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml,v 1.6 2007/05/08 21:17:07 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml,v 1.7 2007/06/26 07:07:27 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<sections>
-<version>8.0</version>
-<date>2007-05-07</date>
+<version>8.1</version>
+<date>2007-06-26</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -588,14 +588,14 @@
<p>
<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
-journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes
-like full data and ordered data journaling. It uses a hashed B*-tree index that
-enables high performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very
-good and reliable filesystem.
+journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
+full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high
+performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable
+filesystem.
</p>
<p>
-<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B*-tree based filesystem that has very good overall
+<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B+tree-based filesystem that has very good overall
performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small
files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales
extremely well and has metadata journaling. ReiserFS is solid and usable as
1.6 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml?rev=1.6&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml?rev=1.6&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml?r1=1.5&r2=1.6
Index: hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.5 -r1.6
--- hb-install-sparc-disk.xml 7 May 2007 18:11:42 -0000 1.5
+++ hb-install-sparc-disk.xml 26 Jun 2007 07:07:27 -0000 1.6
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml,v 1.5 2007/05/07 18:11:42 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2007.0/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml,v 1.6 2007/06/26 07:07:27 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<sections>
-<version>8.0</version>
-<date>2007-05-07</date>
+<version>8.1</version>
+<date>2007-06-26</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@
<p>
<b>ext2</b> is the tried-and-true Linux filesystem. It does not support
journaling, which means that periodic checks of ext2 filesystems at startup
-can be quite time-consuming. There is quite a selection of newer-generation
+can be quite time-consuming. There is quite a selection of newer-generation
journaled filesystems that can be checked for consistency very quickly at
startup, and are therefore generally preferred over their non-journaled
counterparts. In general, journaled filesystems prevent long delays when a
@@ -511,11 +511,11 @@
</p>
<p>
-<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem. It provides
-metadata journaling for fast recovery as well as other enhanced journaling
-modes like full-data and ordered-data journaling. It uses a hashed B*-tree
-index that enables high performance in almost all situations. Ext3 makes an
-excellent and reliable alternative to ext2.
+<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
+journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
+full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high
+performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable
+filesystem.
</p>
</body>
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml hb-install-ppc-disk.xml hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
@ 2008-03-01 14:15 Xavier Neys
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From: Xavier Neys @ 2008-03-01 14:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
neysx 08/03/01 14:15:57
Modified: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml hb-install-ppc-disk.xml
hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml hb-install-sparc-disk.xml
Log:
#179796 tone down ReiserFS desc, recommend ext3 and cut some cruft
Revision Changes Path
1.4 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?rev=1.4&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?rev=1.4&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml?r1=1.3&r2=1.4
Index: hb-install-hppa-disk.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4
--- hb-install-hppa-disk.xml 1 Mar 2008 07:05:42 -0000 1.3
+++ hb-install-hppa-disk.xml 1 Mar 2008 14:15:57 -0000 1.4
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v 1.3 2008/03/01 07:05:42 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-hppa-disk.xml,v 1.4 2008/03/01 14:15:57 neysx Exp $ -->
<sections>
<version>9.0</version>
-<date>2008-02-29</date>
+<date>2008-03-01</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@
<body>
<p>
-We'll take a good look at disk-oriented aspects of Gentoo Linux
-and Linux in general, including Linux filesystems, partitions and block devices.
-Then, once you're familiar with the ins and outs of disks and filesystems,
-you'll be guided through the process of setting up partitions and filesystems
-for your Gentoo Linux installation.
+We'll take a good look at disk-oriented aspects of Gentoo Linux and Linux in
+general, including Linux filesystems, partitions and block devices. Then, once
+you're familiar with the ins and outs of disks and filesystems, you'll be
+guided through the process of setting up partitions and filesystems for your
+Gentoo Linux installation.
</p>
<p>
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
<p>
The block devices above represent an abstract interface to the disk. User
-programs can use these block devices to interact with your disk without worrying
-about whether your drives are IDE, SCSI or something else. The program can
-simply address the storage on the disk as a bunch of contiguous,
+programs can use these block devices to interact with your disk without
+worrying about whether your drives are IDE, SCSI or something else. The program
+can simply address the storage on the disk as a bunch of contiguous,
randomly-accessible 512-byte blocks.
</p>
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@
<p>
Although it is theoretically possible to use a full disk to house your Linux
system, this is almost never done in practice. Instead, full disk block devices
-are split up in smaller, more manageable block devices. On most systems,
-these are called <e>partitions</e>. Other architectures use a similar technique,
+are split up in smaller, more manageable block devices. On most systems, these
+are called <e>partitions</e>. Other architectures use a similar technique,
called <e>slices</e>.
</p>
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@
The number of partitions is highly dependent on your environment. For instance,
if you have lots of users, you will most likely want to have your
<path>/home</path> separate as it increases security and makes backups easier.
-If you are installing Gentoo to perform as a mailserver, your
-<path>/var</path> should be separate as all mails are stored inside
-<path>/var</path>. A good choice of filesystem will then maximise your
-performance. Gameservers will have a separate <path>/opt</path> as most gaming
-servers are installed there. The reason is similar for <path>/home</path>:
-security and backups. You will definitely want to keep <path>/usr</path> big:
-not only will it contain the majority of applications, the Portage tree alone
-takes around 500 Mbyte excluding the various sources that are stored in it.
+If you are installing Gentoo to perform as a mailserver, your <path>/var</path>
+should be separate as all mails are stored inside <path>/var</path>. A good
+choice of filesystem will then maximise your performance. Gameservers will have
+a separate <path>/opt</path> as most gaming servers are installed there. The
+reason is similar for <path>/home</path>: security and backups. You will
+definitely want to keep <path>/usr</path> big: not only will it contain the
+majority of applications, the Portage tree alone takes around 500 Mbyte
+excluding the various sources that are stored in it.
</p>
<p>
@@ -195,61 +195,11 @@
</body>
</subsection>
-<subsection>
-<title>Filesystems?</title>
-<body>
-<p>
-Several filesystems are available. Ext2, ext3, XFS and reiserfs are found stable
-on the HPPA architecture. The others are very experimental.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ext2</b> is the tried and true Linux filesystem but doesn't have metadata
-journaling, which means that routine ext2 filesystem checks at startup time can
-be quite time-consuming. There is now quite a selection of newer-generation
-journaled filesystems that can be checked for consistency very quickly and are
-thus generally preferred over their non-journaled counterparts. Journaled
-filesystems prevent long delays when you boot your system and your filesystem
-happens to be in an inconsistent state.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
-journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
-full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high
-performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable
-filesystem.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B+tree-based filesystem that has very good overall
-performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small
-files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales
-extremely well and has metadata journaling. ReiserFS is solid and usable as
-both general-purpose filesystem and for extreme cases such as the creation of
-large filesystems, very large files and directories containing tens of
-thousands of small files.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>XFS</b> is a filesystem with metadata journaling which comes with a robust
-feature-set and is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this
-filesystem on Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and
-an uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data
-in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions
-when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good
-deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>JFS</b> is IBM's high-performance journaling filesystem. It has recently
-become production-ready and there hasn't been a sufficient track record to
-comment positively nor negatively on its general stability at this point.
-</p>
-
-</body>
+<subsection>
+<include href="../hb-install-filesystems.xml"/>
</subsection>
+
<subsection id="filesystems-apply">
<title>Applying a Filesystem to a Partition</title>
<body>
@@ -325,7 +275,7 @@
</pre>
<p>
-Create and activate the swap now.
+Create and activate the swap with the commands mentioned above.
</p>
</body>
@@ -333,7 +283,6 @@
</section>
<section>
<title>Mounting</title>
-<subsection>
<body>
<p>
@@ -350,9 +299,9 @@
</pre>
<note>
-If you want your <path>/tmp</path> to reside on a separate partition, be sure to
-change its permissions after mounting: <c>chmod 1777 /mnt/gentoo/tmp</c>. This
-also holds for <path>/var/tmp</path>.
+If you want your <path>/tmp</path> to reside on a separate partition, be sure
+to change its permissions after mounting: <c>chmod 1777 /mnt/gentoo/tmp</c>.
+This also holds for <path>/var/tmp</path>.
</note>
<p>
@@ -367,6 +316,5 @@
</p>
</body>
-</subsection>
</section>
</sections>
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+++ hb-install-ppc-disk.xml 1 Mar 2008 14:15:57 -0000 1.3
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml,v 1.2 2008/03/01 06:43:00 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-ppc-disk.xml,v 1.3 2008/03/01 14:15:57 neysx Exp $ -->
<sections>
<version>9.0</version>
-<date>2008-02-29</date>
+<date>2008-03-01</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -456,11 +456,11 @@
<p>
If you intend to also install MorphOS on your Pegasos create an affs1 filesystem
at the start of the drive. 32MB should be more than enough to store the MorphOS
-kernel. If you have a Pegasos I or intend to use any filesystem besides ext2 or
-ext3, you will also have to store your Linux kernel on this partition (the
-Pegasos II can only boot from ext2/ext3 or affs1 partitions). To create the
-partition run <c>mkpart primary affs1 START END</c> where <c>START</c> and
-<c>END</c> should be replaced with the megabyte range (e.g. <c>0 32</c>) which
+kernel. If you have a Pegasos I or intend to use any filesystem besides ext2 or
+ext3, you will also have to store your Linux kernel on this partition (the
+Pegasos II can only boot from ext2/ext3 or affs1 partitions). To create the
+partition run <c>mkpart primary affs1 START END</c> where <c>START</c> and
+<c>END</c> should be replaced with the megabyte range (e.g. <c>0 32</c>) which
creates a 32 MB partition starting at 0MB and ending at 32MB. If you chose to
create an ext2 or ext3 partition instead, substitute ext2 or ext3 for affs1 in
the mkpart command.
@@ -502,53 +502,11 @@
</body>
</subsection>
-<subsection>
-<title>Filesystems?</title>
-<body>
-
-<p>
-Several filesystems are available for use on the PowerPC architecture including
-ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and XFS, each with their strengths and faults.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ext2</b> is the tried and true Linux filesystem but doesn't have metadata
-journaling, which means that routine ext2 filesystem checks at startup time can
-be quite time-consuming. There is now quite a selection of journaled
-filesystems that can be checked for consistency very quickly and are thus
-generally preferred over their non-journaled counterparts.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
-journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
-full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high
-performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable
-filesystem.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B+tree-based filesystem that has very good overall
-performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small
-files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales
-extremely well and has metadata journaling. ReiserFS is solid and usable as
-both general-purpose filesystem and for extreme cases such as the creation of
-large filesystems, very large files and directories containing tens of
-thousands of small files.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>XFS</b> is a filesystem with metadata journaling which comes with a robust
-feature-set and is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this
-filesystem on Linux systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and
-an uninterruptible power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data
-in RAM, improperly designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions
-when writing files to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good
-deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly.
-</p>
-</body>
+<subsection>
+<include href="../hb-install-filesystems.xml"/>
</subsection>
+
<subsection>
<title>Activating the Swap Partition</title>
<body>
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+++ hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml 1 Mar 2008 14:15:57 -0000 1.3
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml,v 1.2 2008/03/01 06:43:00 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-ppc64-disk.xml,v 1.3 2008/03/01 14:15:57 neysx Exp $ -->
<sections>
<version>9.0</version>
-<date>2008-02-29</date>
+<date>2008-03-01</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
it is with multiple partitions)
</li>
<li>
- Security can be enhanced by mounting some partitions or volumes read-only,
+ Security can be enhanced by mounting some partitions or volumes read-only,
nosuid (setuid bits are ignored), noexec (executable bits are ignored) etc.
</li>
</ul>
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
To finish up, write the partition to the disk using <c>w</c> and <c>q</c> to
quit <c>mac-fdisk</c>.
</p>
-
+
<note>
To make sure everything is ok, you should run mac-fdisk once more and check
whether all the partitions are there. If you don't see any of the partitions you
@@ -314,7 +314,37 @@
</pre>
<p>
-Type <c>p</c> to display your disk's current partition configuration:
+If you still have an AIX partition layout on your system, you will get the
+following error message:
+</p>
+
+<pre caption="Error message from fdisk">
+ There is a valid AIX label on this disk.
+ Unfortunately Linux cannot handle these
+ disks at the moment. Nevertheless some
+ advice:
+ 1. fdisk will destroy its contents on write.
+ 2. Be sure that this disk is NOT a still vital
+ part of a volume group. (Otherwise you may
+ erase the other disks as well, if unmirrored.)
+ 3. Before deleting this physical volume be sure
+ to remove the disk logically from your AIX
+ machine. (Otherwise you become an AIXpert).
+
+Command (m for help):
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+Don't worry, you can create a new empty dos partition table by pressing
+<c>o</c>.
+</p>
+
+<warn>
+This will destroy any installed AIX version
+</warn>
+
+<p>
+Type <c>p</c> to display your disk current partition configuration:
</p>
<pre caption="An example partition configuration">
@@ -568,62 +598,11 @@
</body>
</subsection>
-<subsection>
-<title>Filesystems?</title>
-<body>
-
-<note>
-Several filesystems are available. ext2, ext3 and ReiserFS support is built in
-the Installation CD kernels. JFS and XFS support is available through kernel
-modules.
-</note>
-<p>
-<b>ext2</b> is the tried and true Linux filesystem but doesn't have metadata
-journaling, which means that routine ext2 filesystem checks at startup time can
-be quite time-consuming. There is now quite a selection of newer-generation
-journaled filesystems that can be checked for consistency very quickly and are
-thus generally preferred over their non-journaled counterparts. Journaled
-filesystems prevent long delays when you boot your system and your filesystem
-happens to be in an inconsistent state.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
-journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
-full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high
-performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable
-filesystem.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ReiserFS</b> is a B+tree-based filesystem that has very good overall
-performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing with small
-files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x-15x. ReiserFS also scales
-extremely well and has metadata journaling. ReiserFS is solid and usable as
-both general-purpose filesystem and for extreme cases such as the creation of
-large filesystems, very large files and directories containing tens of
-thousands of small files.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>XFS</b> is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported
-under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel. It comes with a robust feature-set and
-is optimized for scalability. We only recommend using this filesystem on Linux
-systems with high-end SCSI and/or fibre channel storage and a uninterruptible
-power supply. Because XFS aggressively caches in-transit data in RAM, improperly
-designed programs (those that don't take proper precautions when writing files
-to disk and there are quite a few of them) can lose a good deal of data if the
-system goes down unexpectedly.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>JFS</b> is IBM's high-performance journaling filesystem. It has recently
-become production-ready.
-</p>
-
-</body>
+<subsection>
+<include href="../hb-install-filesystems.xml"/>
</subsection>
+
<subsection id="filesystems-apply">
<title>Applying a Filesystem to a Partition</title>
<body>
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@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
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<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/2008.0/hb-install-sparc-disk.xml,v 1.2 2008/03/01 06:43:00 nightmorph Exp $ -->
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<sections>
<version>9.0</version>
-<date>2008-02-29</date>
+<date>2008-03-01</date>
<section>
<title>Introduction to Block Devices</title>
@@ -486,36 +486,11 @@
</body>
</subsection>
-<subsection>
-<title>Filesystems?</title>
-<body>
-
-<p>
-Several filesystems are available, some are known to be stable on the
-SPARC architecture. Ext2 and ext3, for example, are known to work well.
-Alternate filesystems may not function correctly.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ext2</b> is the tried-and-true Linux filesystem. It does not support
-journaling, which means that periodic checks of ext2 filesystems at startup
-can be quite time-consuming. There is quite a selection of newer-generation
-journaled filesystems that can be checked for consistency very quickly at
-startup, and are therefore generally preferred over their non-journaled
-counterparts. In general, journaled filesystems prevent long delays when a
-system is booted and the filesystem is in an inconsistent state.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<b>ext3</b> is the journaled version of the ext2 filesystem, providing metadata
-journaling for fast recovery in addition to other enhanced journaling modes like
-full data and ordered data journaling. It uses an HTree index that enables high
-performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is a very good and reliable
-filesystem.
-</p>
-</body>
+<subsection>
+<include href="../hb-install-filesystems.xml"/>
</subsection>
+
<subsection id="filesystems-apply">
<title>Applying a Filesystem to a Partition</title>
<body>
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