ext2 for /boot ?

MJang mike at mommabears.com
Wed May 5 16:25:45 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 10:49 -0500, Wes Hardin wrote:
> On 05/05/2010 09:47 AM, Paul Elliott wrote:
> > On 05/05/10 15:31, Benjamin Griese wrote:
> >> Think about a power off/surge while you're install a new kernel :)
> >
> > Took the words right out of my mouth :-)
> >
> > On the server we would much rather have stability over a small (if any)
> > increase in boot speed and that's why I'm asking if this was a change in
> > policy or a regression.
> 
> I gotta think a UPS would provide better stability during a power outage than ext3.

If I remember right, Fedora seems to default to ext4 for /boot now. Any
pluses/minuses relative to ext3 in that respect?

Thanks,
Mike





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