On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:37:24 +0000 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> 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. So that part of the disk is read once a day. How many reads are made in a day on the rest of the disk? It still fully qualifies as "seldom". Let's put it in human terms - if a single read to the disk were equivalent to one day on human terms, you are looking at a read every 45 lifetimes. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
