From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Rutledge Subject: Re: ReiserFS on a flash device? Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 00:05:47 -0700 Sender: Shawn Rutledge Message-ID: <20030728070547.GF894@ecloud.org> References: <200307261640.13629.swsnyder@insightbb.com> <1059303331.17569.119.camel@haron.namesys.com> <20030728023345.GD1686@matchmail.com> <1059368036.6406.0.camel@haron.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1059368036.6406.0.camel@haron.namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:53:57AM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 06:33, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:55:31PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > > > Default journal size is too big (32MB) for usual embedded device. I > > > mean, that flash is expensive and it is pity to loss 32MB for journal :) > > > > What? You mean it isn't reduced in size based on block device size like > > with ext3? > > Yes, is isn't. Use reiserfstune to make it smaller. Well I'm glad to hear it's possible to use ReiserFS on small devices, but I think that requiring a kernel patch, or a GRUB patch, to handle different journal sizes is not good. Are there plans to have the kernel and GRUB detect it at runtime? -- _______ Shawn T. Rutledge (_ | |_) e_cloud@yahoo.com * http://ecloud.org:8080 __) | | \________________________________________________________________