On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 17:43 +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On 02/10/05, Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 10/2/05, Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 02/10/05, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> > > > > On 02/10/05, R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.

Which is still much larger than the space needed for the ext2 driver.
*grin*

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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