Futuer of grub/grub2 to F11

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Sun Dec 28 20:38:52 UTC 2008


Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:43:20PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
>   
>> Once upon a time, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> said:
>>     
>>> Better question is, why do you need ext4 on /boot?
>>>       
>> If all the rest of your partitions are ext4, why would you want to load
>> additional FS module(s) (ext2 or ext3+jbd) just for one filesystem?
>>     
>
> Doesn't the kernel now include those drivers, as opposed to having
> them as modules?
>
> $ grep '\(JBD\|EXT3\)' /boot/config-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64 
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
> CONFIG_JBD=y
> # CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
> CONFIG_JBD2=m
> CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG=y
>
>   
And it will likely continue to be built in and used, as more and more 
solid state drives appear (journaling is a bad idea for solid state).

--CJD




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