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 1Q9f3a-0004o5-Tt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:59:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D3581C00F; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2917B1C00F for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh4 with SMTP id 4so3934072gyh.40 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:57:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ceLtOldZVPPuKmM3dKUErqUoJ4Cljw90rS7JpJRhjK0=; b=wc/2SUvSJ7WYg+ZElEudhor4tIbw9MjZINdgmpCS3QBN/GX1kD/Cy7yde025SDmL35 BedpYZNC4g6b9S62bl0Sw3KVrZ95SAXiOcH/zxz9LEH6KYCLzD1rRnrGXt4UVYZupQCJ 0qMVW4JqAFYaP2c5e3Gm3HLw7CegZ+Rk3ilE0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SEEUDUsYY11adcJbQApjwVHh68IEadi/JN9gDJ4/PqlHAGLm36DCwp+pl1WrsNC+MC I+TrSGsWC0AY1NZU1SKiITQiv0X/lzDunN/md3Q5rBMm4gLoirfNs++PJIUcq9HVuqme BohWg1fDKL/pYAPj5/oaabOS+0CXGH/1IQ53U= Received: by 10.150.1.18 with SMTP id 18mr5590446yba.369.1302620250262; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-118-199.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.118.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l2sm3190213ybn.18.2011.04.12.07.57.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DA46856.3050308@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:57:26 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4 References: <5C243285-9BE6-4D7C-BA33-9861596E8B17@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <201104121531.01101.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201104121531.01101.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7454ba425a34e87ab622b8c142a7439f Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: > >> Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: >> > >>> There's no need for extents on such a small partition, >>> nor journalling (because you write to /boot so >>> rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're >>> doing so is minuscule). >>> >> Yea, sure, but that's not the point. I just wanted to >> use ext4 for everything. Not on this system, but often, >> my boot partition is very active, as I copy many kernels >> there for many different (arch)machines and different hardware >> (HD, SSD, CF, SD...) I try to make the many systems I admin >> as homogeneous as possible, hence the switch to ext4 >> for boot. >> > Nevertheless, if ext4 isn't working for you you should follow the advice you've > been given and format /boot as ext2. All my boot partitions are ext2, regardless > of which others are ext4 or reiserfs. > > Same here. I use ext3 and reiserfs, depending on what it is, but /boot is always ext2. Why, it works well with grub and has for many many years and most likely will for many years to come as well. As for making things the same, that my not always be a good idea either. I put some things on reiserfs but some on ext3. It seams each file system has its strengths and weaknesses. I read that portage, with a lot of small files, does better on ext* file systems. So I put portage on that. Most everything else is on reiserfs. Just my $0.02 worth and that ain't much. Dale :-) :-)