On 02/10/05, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > On 02/10/05, R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I still think it's retarded to have a reiser 4 boot partition, but > >>whatever stirs your pot. ;P > > > > It makes sense if you're actually using reiser4 for everything else. > > Why bloat your kernel with an extra FS just for /boot? > > Because most people want a tried and true fs on /boot, because if that > tanks your system doesn't boot. I'm not trying to bash reiser here, I > still use ext2 on /boot even if xfs is my main fs of choice for this reason.
Being able to boot a kernel isn't much use without a root fs. If I can't boot, I have a livecd sitting on my desk. I guess if I had a ramdisk on /boot with a shell and some recovery tools then I might care, but I don't. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
