Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?

2021-09-07 Thread J. William Campbell
On 9/7/2021 12:58 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, Le 05/09/2021 à 18:47, J. William Campbell a écrit : AFAIK, the on disk format for ext4 is the same as ext2. If the code can read an ext2 filesystem, it can read an ext4 filesystem. I am not sure about that. AFAIK, some ext4 features such

Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?

2021-09-05 Thread J. William Campbell
On 9/5/2021 6:41 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 09:00:52AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2021 21:43:50 +0100 Steve McIntyre wrote: Ummm. In my experience quite a number of older armel/armhf devices booting using U-Boot may *not* be able to boot using ext4. I don

Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?

2021-09-04 Thread J. William Campbell
On 9/4/2021 4:47 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2021 14:00:06 -0700 "J. William Campbell" wrote: but if we are talking about a /boot partition, there is no good reason to change it to ext4. Ext4 is reliable than ext2, I guess. And, /boot needs it. Ext4 is more reliable

Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?

2021-09-04 Thread J. William Campbell
On 9/4/2021 1:44 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/4/21 22:32, Hideki Yamane wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:33:37 +0200 Ben Hutchings wrote: This is bug #985463. If we can confirm no architecture has a limit to use ext2 now, then we can change it to ext4, right? I may have missed

Re: [FYI] linux 2.6 still not working with PReP (ppc32)

2005-01-06 Thread J. William Campbell
will be again! Best Regards, J. William Campbell Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:04:01AM -0800, J. William Campbell wrote: Hi Sven, Thanks for the comments. I think you are correct that it is at least an interrupt assignment problem. Cool. I

Re: [FYI] linux 2.6 still not working with PReP (ppc32)

2005-01-05 Thread J. William Campbell
bus on the other. The boards therefore are pci from the kernel point of view, all VME stuff is inside a driver. Best Regards, J. William Campbell Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:46:37AM -0800, J. William Campbell wrote: Hi Sven, I don't know if this will hel

Bug#286409: installation-reports

2004-12-19 Thread J. William Campbell
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: vmlinuz-prep.initrd from  people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd uname -a: never got this far Date: 18-December-2004, all day long more or less Method: TFTP of local copy of vmlinuz-prep.initrd