On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 02:41, Kort E Patterson wrote: > > My current project uses ext3 on "/boot" and "/" Raid-1 partitions > (boots off the raid partitions so raid-1 support must also be > compiled directly into the kernel, and the --omit-raid-modules > option used with mkinitrd). I haven't had any problems I didn't > create for myself. Using journalised filesystems on /boot is overkill, because write operations on that partition are extremely rare. Plus, the journal consumes some disk space. /boot is better when mounted as Ext2, and turn sync on: LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 sync 1 2 -- Florin Andrei The ability to remember useless stuff is inversely related to the useful knowledge in one's head.