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Re: Documentation suggestion

To: Curtis Regentin <cregentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Documentation suggestion
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 15:25:19 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Sort of like this?

http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/1.0_caveats.html
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The fsr utility and system partitions 

In general we do not foresee the need to run fsr on system partitions
such as /, /boot and /usr as these will in general not suffer from
fragmentation. There are also issues with defragmenting the files lilo
uses to boot your system. Should these files be moved by fsr then you
must rerun lilo before you reboot or you may have an unbootable system. 
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Might be worth putting in the man page, or somewhere else as well,
though.

-Eric

Curtis Regentin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It might be worth mentioning LILO, and the boot partition somewhere in
> the context of the filesystem reorganizer.  I haven't tried it, but I
> can't imagine that it won't make the system unbootable due to LILO's block
> mapping being wrong.
> 
>  - Curtis

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