Bug#387370: 'notail' default mount option for reiserfs partitions.

2008-03-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 20 March 2008, Teodor wrote: > The default mount option for the / reiserfs partition is 'notail'. Is > this something of concern? Actually, looking at the code, the notail option is added for whichever partition has /boot. This can be of course be the root partition if there is no se

Bug#387370: 'notail' default mount option for reiserfs partitions.

2008-03-20 Thread Teodor
The default mount option for the / reiserfs partition is 'notail'. Is this something of concern? According to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiserfs article, this option is RECOMMENDED: "Tail packing, a scheme to reduce internal fragmentation. Tail packing, however, can have a significan