[gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:


> > James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 
> > does not have drivers for ext4.  Not sure if there's 
> > a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4.

Mick, that's what I was wondering.
No evidence either way, that I could find
 so I decided to make everything ext4.

> 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.

James