Root (should be) written to rarely. The extra reliability of ReiserFS comes at a cost, and it's not well justified for the root partition, it's also not as well supported by the various backup and recovery tools, yet.
/boot is almost exclusively read-only, so there's no reason to carry the overhead of a journaling filesystem, hence the ext2 recommendation. There used to be problems with journalling filesystems on /boot, but this is no longer the case.
/home is likely to have pretty constant read/write/rewrite activity, so the extra reliability of Reiser is both valuable, and worth the overhead.
I'd also recommend allocating 10G or so on the second disk for /var and /tmp, and load it up with ext3 or ReiserFS, just to move the heavy activity in those directories onto the second disk.
Major.Mikey wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2005 08:47 am, Jason Spatafore wrote:
>
>>another thing I would do is:
>>
>>/ (root) Use ext3
>>/boot Use ext2
>>/home ext3 (or reiserfs)
>
>
> Why the differend file systems? I never thought of using more than one! Why
> not reiserfs for root?
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