On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:37:44 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because Civileme told me too ;) If you don't know, Civileme was
> a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His job
> was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system testing.
> He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot should be
> on an ext3 partition. I never did understand exactly why tho, I
> just trusted his advice.
That advise is now out-dated as it applies to ReiserFS.
It is now perfectly safe and acceptable for /boot to be ReiserFS.
I have 6 systems all partitioned fully as ReiserFS and have never
encountered any problem as related to the fs.
In the case of XFS, ext2 or 3 should still be used for /boot.
Charles
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