On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Neil Walker wrote:
> Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > IIRC you have to use special mount option to use ReiserFS for /boot
> > partition.
>
> Using reiserfs on a /boot partition is just plain silly. ;)
> Furthermore, in this day and age, why would you even want a /boot
> partition? FWIW, using reiserfs on my 64bit systems (Opteron,
> Athlon64, Pentium D, Athlon X2, Core2 Duo) works fine without any
> issues or hoops to jump through with /boot on the / partition.
>
Note: I'm not advertising ReiserFS for /boot :-)
I think that any choice is good, given that you know what are doing; see
the other thread (Backups), where is shown as xfs can be a good choice
for /boot.
That said I always used ext2 for /boot (or not kept it on a separate
partition).
Ciao
Francesco
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