From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4/ext3 for /boot?
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:41:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j99for$4mq$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiCvLcCUGNHTn-MS0Gxf1rsJ7rKx9AdRyaJ4Vs0rDRcpuw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/07/2011 09:32 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> 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.
Works just fine with extents too. At least Grub as included in Portage
(it contains patches that add support for ext4.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-07 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 18:29 [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot? Jarry
2011-11-07 18:37 ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-11-07 19:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-07 19:32 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-07 20:41 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-11-07 20:42 ` Stroller
2011-11-07 21:14 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-08 8:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-11-08 9:49 ` Dale
2011-11-08 11:15 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-08 12:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-08 13:11 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-08 14:14 ` Dale
2011-11-08 21:59 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-11-08 22:07 ` Paul Hartman
2011-11-09 2:44 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-09 9:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-09 11:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-09 3:03 ` bill.longman
2011-11-09 4:16 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-09 4:18 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-09 5:22 ` bill.longman
2011-11-09 6:42 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-09 1:36 ` J.Marcos Sitorus
2011-11-08 15:52 ` Stroller
2011-11-08 16:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-08 18:59 ` David Guillermo
2011-11-09 18:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-07 19:38 ` Alex Schuster
2011-11-08 0:41 ` pk
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