On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:12:34 -0400 Jonathan <eyeswide@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 08/09/2012 01:55 AM, Myra Nelson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
On Aug 8, 2012 6:04 PM, "Allan McRae" <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 09/08/12 05:29, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski > <tobias.powalowski@googlemail.com> wrote: >> It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ >> Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. >> I don't have the time now to look at it. > Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch. > > I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we > figure out what's broken. The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/
It is needed as the ext2 fs stuff has been removed from the kernel
headers.
Allan
Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable.
Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable, without a doubt it does.
Dave's install scripts work great easiest install I've ever done, however it won't boot off of ext2 with syslinux.
Why do you want ext2 on /boot? All bootloaders support ext3/4 this days.
Myra
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In the past I have seen ext2 saves time during boot vs ext3.Having a journal is no use since the files are rarely changed and the filesystem is mostly opened read only. The journal takes up some space. These may matter to you if you are trying to optimize boot times or disk usage.
But there is no ext{2,3} these days. The driver is ext4 for all ext* FS, only configurations differ...
to see journal size: device=/dev/sda7; debugfs -R "stat <$(tune2fs -l $device | awk '/Journal.inode/ {print $3}')>" $device |& awk '/Size: / {print $6}' | head -1; unset device
John
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