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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot?
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

"Extents," I believe. But I don't know exactly what that means, or
when it comes into play.

> The benefits of ext3/4 are irrelevant for /boot anyway - that
> filesystem is write-seldom, read ever so slightly more often.

Well, there's ext4's "high water" mark, which reduces fsck time...but
/boot is generally small enough that fsck time is negligible.

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