On 10/9/07, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > > I think Vineet is coming from a Linux background. It used to be that > there were, and still may be, advantages to using a separate /boot in > Linux. > > If I recall correctly /boot just contains the booted kernel, and can > only reside on /ext2. (At the time there was no ext3). /boot can also > optionally contain kernel backups and kernels with different compile > options. (For those times when you recompiled the kernel w/ a new > module, and needed the old kernel to fallback to if things went tits > up. > > I think one of the main reasons at the time, to use a separate /boot > was if you wanted to use a different filesystem for /, as the kernel > image needed to reside on a ext2+ filesystem.
Gentoo. Presumably you were usually mounting /boot read-only, so you didn't need journalling. Mark -- ------------------------------------------------------ Born to the false world, the wanderer, Storyteller, The Pied Piper On a quest for immortality Gathering a troop to find the fantasy -- Nightwish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20071009/d2facdf0/attachment.html>
