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On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:37:24 +0000 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 09:26:50PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > ext2/3/4 are all backwards compatible. ext4 does have a certain |
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> > feature (I forget what) that once used breaks this compatibility |
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> > but you are highly, highly unlikely to ever do that on /boot. |
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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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> Really? I put my PC into power saving mode before going to bed each |
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> evening. The PC needs to read /boot to return to normal operation. |
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So that part of the disk is read once a day. How many reads are made in |
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a day on the rest of the disk? |
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It still fully qualifies as "seldom". Let's put it in human terms - if |
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a single read to the disk were equivalent to one day on human terms, |
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you are looking at a read every 45 lifetimes. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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