From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:31:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104121531.01101.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110412T160407-623@post.gmane.org>
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote:
> Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
> > There's no need for extents on such a small partition,
> > nor journalling (because you write to /boot so
> > rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're
> > doing so is minuscule).
>
> Yea, sure, but that's not the point. I just wanted to
> use ext4 for everything. Not on this system, but often,
> my boot partition is very active, as I copy many kernels
> there for many different (arch)machines and different hardware
> (HD, SSD, CF, SD...) I try to make the many systems I admin
> as homogeneous as possible, hence the switch to ext4
> for boot.
Nevertheless, if ext4 isn't working for you you should follow the advice you've
been given and format /boot as ext2. All my boot partitions are ext2, regardless
of which others are ext4 or reiserfs.
--
Rgds
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-11 18:12 [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4 James
2011-04-11 20:18 ` Mick
2011-04-12 5:57 ` Stroller
2011-04-12 14:10 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-04-12 14:31 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-04-12 14:57 ` Dale
2011-04-12 15:16 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-12 15:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-13 10:14 ` Alex Schuster
2011-04-11 20:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-04-12 2:09 ` Mark Shields
2011-04-12 9:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-12 14:20 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-04-12 16:53 ` James
2011-04-13 9:46 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 12:56 ` James
2011-04-14 13:14 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 14:41 ` Paul Hartman
2011-04-14 13:10 ` James
2011-04-14 13:41 ` James
2011-04-14 14:11 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 15:07 ` James
2011-04-14 15:52 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 16:29 ` James
2011-04-14 19:49 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 20:19 ` James
2011-04-14 21:12 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-14 20:24 ` James
2011-04-14 14:13 ` Dale
2011-04-14 14:52 ` James
2011-04-14 16:14 ` Dale
2011-04-14 16:34 ` James
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