From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RNUrx-0003UH-KJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:28:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D55421C068; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521DF21C071 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg8 with SMTP id 8so5999262wyg.40 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:26:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KjYPKoonLorCFKViSHh9Qvlhg30u3W/pfUIwv88Y5IU=; b=rax7b5EphNe8GSpow6vAOdm3EUPBCO3cSP3NnRx4bhHpEBeQw4Q5yLUD/39t3WiYOQ 0E1NKsaMdKm1p/IrR2Yen83K2GFgmpizzXIC8uMH2SXn5kVPClpu0OJoESVrcrc6xI6r D6GvaAzuoLaDi7sQc52XW0avS/W5BTSwQ9OvE= Received: by 10.216.132.94 with SMTP id n72mr405289wei.51.1320694018591; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:26:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com (196-215-114-169.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.114.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fi11sm28867488wbb.9.2011.11.07.11.26.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:26:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:26:50 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot? Message-ID: <20111107212650.78b8a910@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4EB82372.7030206@gmail.com> References: <4EB82372.7030206@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2d13f049-1970-42cc-bfe9-7d6b8f165a39 X-Archives-Hash: ca47a3fc54f2319ecda1c54669b4ab57 On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:29:06 +0100 Jarry wrote: > Hi, > just out of curiosity: is it possible to use ext4/ext3 > filesystem even for separate /boot partition? Yes. ext2/3/4 are all backwards compatible. ext4 does have a certain feature (I forget what) that once used breaks this compatibility but you are highly, highly unlikely to ever do that on /boot. The benefits of ext3/4 are irrelevant for /boot anyway - that filesystem is write-seldom, read ever so slightly more often. > For /boot I'm still using ext2, but a friend of mine > is just doing installation and asked me what filesystem > he should use, so I told him not to complicate things > and simply use ext4 for all. But now I'm not so sure if he > is able to boot his new fresh gentoo-system at the end? > > Jarry -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com