[lug] Redhat 7.1 beta and RieserFS

[Alan Robertson]

Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> 
> "Michael J. Pedersen" wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> > > You also can't boot off a Reiserfs partition.  So you need at least a
> > small
> > > /boot partition that is ext2.
> >
> > Actually, yes, you can boot off of a reiserfs partition. It requires a
> > particular option be passed in for mounting / (I believe it's -notail),
> > but it
> > can be done. I know it can, because I've done it in the past.  Check
> > their
> > webpage for specifics on how to do it.
> 
> Thanks for the update.  My posting was based on (I believe) a SUSE
> knowledgebase article that I found when I first installed a system with
> Reiserfs.  They seem to be one of the major sponsors for that dev effort.


Yes they are.

There are some complications to booting from one, and you *can* get around
them, but I've always just put in the /boot because it's so easy, and you
often need the /boot partition anyway.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at unix.sh