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 1RNo0C-0007cu-9Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:54:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 690A521C020; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D4821C020 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:52:56 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,477,1315177200"; d="scan'208";a="819605048" Received: from 213-152-39-90.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 08 Nov 2011 15:52:54 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [192.168.1.102]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E114AA426 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:47:53 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot? From: Stroller In-Reply-To: <20111108083724.GA3497@acm.acm> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:52:54 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <87090C32-B1F2-44C1-8AAF-6F8F0ED4E396@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <4EB82372.7030206@gmail.com> <20111107212650.78b8a910@rohan.example.com> <20111108083724.GA3497@acm.acm> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) X-Archives-Salt: 6bcce90e-7d8b-4a9f-b975-a06e1dd10375 X-Archives-Hash: 629abac1b5c214199deb33c90437ae84 On 8 November 2011, at 08:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > ... >> The benefits of ext3/4 are irrelevant for /boot anyway - that >> filesystem is write-seldom, read ever so slightly more often. >=20 > Really? I put my PC into power saving mode before going to bed each > evening. The PC needs to read /boot to return to normal operation. But in this case you're only reading from it. The writes are still very = seldom, so journalling &c is unneeded.=20 I've never used sleep / hibernate on Linux, but if it requires /boot = then mount it read-only, as suggested by Neil Bothwick for other = reasons. Stroller.