Magnus Holmberg wrote:
> Is it possible to install Mandrake 7.1 on a / partition with reiserfs.
> Or do i need to have /boot on ext2 filesystem?
I did all partitions except windows, swap, and /boot on reiser. I did
/boot on ext2 because checking it is trivial and I had no notion whether
the kernel in memory when /boot is read had the reiser fs patch or not.
I suppose the Open BIOS project with linux as the BIOS could feature
Reiser if someone wanted to be a puritan, and use nothing else. I did
not in fact try /boot as Reiserfs on my test system, so I can't say
whether it will work.
But with an ext2 /boot, Reiser can definitely be used for all the other
partitions. It is not backwards compatible with ext2 since the storage
method is something like a B-Tree, but ext2 and reiser partitions can
coexist. Checking out several partitions totalling 10 Gb of storage
(UDMA/33 without optimizations) in less than nine seconds on boot after
being stopped in the midst of 40 users with makes in progress (by a
hardware reset) is pretty good, in my estimation. Now I am creating and
reading, resizing and writing back , many many tiny files to see if I can
confuse it long term. So far, its efficiency with bundles of small files
seems to be superior to ext2fs.
Civileme
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