Re: [ILUG] journaling comparison...

From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain alphyra.ie)
Date: Tue 28 Aug 2001 - 18:15:21 IST


On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, kevin lyda wrote:

> not for transfer time it isn't.

?

> i can almost see ext3 for /, but not for /usr. /usr doesn't
> change much, so what's the point of journalling?

to save the fsck. like you said, doesn't change much, so it's no
overhead.

> as i said, it can be mounted ro. at worst you'll fsck a 1.5 gig fs
> which takes just a few seconds on a decent machine.

just go with ext3 - no fsck at all.

> grub's fine for home use i suppose,

havn't tried it - don't know. but hey..

> but lilo makes more sense for servers. it supports serial consoles
> and it boots linux.

really? ah.......

:)

i think grub supports serial aswell. it's nicest feature is
understanding filesystems as opposed to hard-coding the location into
the boot sector of the partition. (ever forgotten to run lilo?)

> anything else (for a server) is a fluffy waste of bytes.

i don't know.. i'd have to try out grub first guess.

> kevin

--paulj



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