From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries Subject: Re: Recommended partition scheme for nilfs2 Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 19:19:37 +0200 Message-ID: <201107061919.38253.dexen.devries@gmail.com> References: <4c09eb01174eecf704c751d7bf1b4bb2.squirrel@linuxbsdos.com> <3414843e1dfde171b9a9da8db1d295a6.squirrel@linuxbsdos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:x-face :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=HI/cybsDmjEcGnLeguBHx19ZY/ebX5RMNYfXhNTgnNQ=; b=Sy2zYI2eEctgqnsxcX5JeGM909Q492omUWaqZkWyf7f6lzLjhE8GhUJF8ecnz5HtgU KoVJOwXI1Wlf+Im0pzB/ZeCZTx74IfwiwUZa+UGI/oM3vwUfp2gVNztiy/uSyglWztCp h+1SjS+ALbaTJaveyQWETrTxKcGXv0eonj1Yg= In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nilfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-nilfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Wednesday 06 July 2011 18:05:29 you wrote: > Just one more thing. > > For btrfs and other file systems, it is customary to have a separate boot > partition, so that at a minimum, you have 3 partitions - /boot, Swap, and > /. Would that be a problem for nilfs2? > > If it is ok to have a separate boot partition, does it make sense to use > nilfs2 on it? Or is it better to use a non-journaling file system, like > Linux Native (ext2) on the boot partition, and nilfs2 on /. for reference, my setup at home and at work: two harddrives, one for / and /boot, the other for /home. both / and /home are NILFS2, while /boot is ext3. i wanted a very reliable journaling FS on /boot to lessen risk of foobar, and also I'm using lilo, which is not supported by NILFS2 yet -- lack of fibmap syscall. -- dexen deVries > (...) I never use more than 800Mb of RAM. I am running Linux, > a browser and a terminal. rjbond3rd in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692529 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html