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Re: best linux kernel with memory management

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: best linux kernel with memory management
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:22:11 +0200 (MEST)
Cc: Martin MOKREJ? <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> > >>>>kernel worked fine. Also 2.4.25 had problems which was on Gentoo
>> > >>>>install CDROM. I don't remember exact their exact revisions, but I
>> > >>>>shouldn't have used xfs also for /. I thought better xfs everywhere
>> > >>>>than combined with reiserfs. Of course, /boot is ext3.
>
>There should be no problems using XFS for everything, including
>/boot - I do that on all my systems (for a few years now).

/boot (whose root is / for me) can be reiser, the bootload installer just needs
to know that is has to unpack files otherwise they might not boot.



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