On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 09:26:50PM +0200, Alan McKinnon 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.
> The benefits of ext3/4 are irrelevant for /boot anyway - that > filesystem is write-seldom, read ever so slightly more often. 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. > -- > Alan McKinnnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).