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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> ext2/3/4 are all backwards compatible. ext4 does have a certain feature |
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> (I forget what) that once used breaks this compatibility but you are |
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> highly, highly unlikely to ever do that on /boot. |
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"Extents," I believe. But I don't know exactly what that means, or |
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when it comes into play. |
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> The benefits of ext3/4 are irrelevant for /boot anyway - that |
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> filesystem is write-seldom, read ever so slightly more often. |
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Well, there's ext4's "high water" mark, which reduces fsck time...but |
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/boot is generally small enough that fsck time is negligible. |
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:wq |
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