[mdlug] reiserfsck and badblocks

[Aaron Kulkis]

Joseph C. Bender wrote:
> Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
>> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>>> Really?  Didn't know that -- I was under the impressionn that
>>> SuSE required an ext* filesystem for the root filesystem.
>>>
>>> I'll remember that, as I'm going to be upgrading my laptop
>>> from 10.1 in the near future.
>> Oh, I just remembered one consideration. To maintain compatibility with
>> the Irix implementation, Linux XFS always starts writing the file system
>> in the first sector of the device it is written to. This makes it
>> incompatible with installing GRUB (or LILO for that matter) into the
>> first partition of the boot sector with an XFS boot partition. As long
>> as you can install the boot loader elsewhere, MBR or another partition,
>> then XFS can be used for boot/root filesystems.
>  >
> 	I use XFS extensively on my laptops that I have Linux loaded on, just 
> because it's been a really good fit for them.
> 
> 	That being said, I always set up /boot as ext3.  Firstly,  because of 
> the issues with installing Grub or LILO mentioned above.  Secondarily, 
> if I get into a real jam, /boot is then Linux-universally mountable from 
> a boot CD or Live CD.  I've gotten jammed up trying to recover a 
> non-booting system when /boot is XFS and not always easily mountable. 
> As the partition has almost no activity against it after the boot 
> process is done, it's not a big deal to have this happen.  / and the 
> other filesystems are then set up XFS.
> 

Wow, you and I have almost identical thoughts on the /boot as EXT3 idea.