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Re: Hand-modifications to make Linux-Athena work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Mon Sep 18 19:52:39 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:48:57 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ddaniel@vigor.JPL.NASA.GOV, Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU, linux-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jered J Floyd's message of Sat, 16 Sep 1995 06:46:59 -0400,
<199509161046.GAA11166@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 06:46:59 -0400
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
> 3) what about making sure /var/vice/cache is a separate partition of
> sufficient size? Also we need to insure it gets mounted at boot time.
I personally don't recommend this because of the magic of the root
partition. If you have your AFS cache on the root partition, you
don't have to fsck every time you boot. This has always been
explained to me as "The root partition is magic." Anyone have a
better reason?
This is not true. I used to have my AFS cache on the root, and I know
this is not true; the partition would indeed need to be re-fsck'ed on
each boot after I had used AFS. In addition, having designed the fsck
and e2fsck programs on Linux, I also know it to not be true from how
those programs are designed.
The only way this could be true is if you've disabled filesystem checks
on the root partition, but that kinda defeats the whole point. :-)
- Ted
