On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@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. -- :wq
