On Tue, Aug 16, Martin Vidner wrote:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:24:58PM -0400, Steven Sroka wrote:
I don't if this is the right list to send this to but, during installation of openSUSE 12.1, Yast offers a default/recommended partitioning scheme. The given /boot partition is set to be formatted as ext4. Journaling is not needed though - shouldn't the partition be formatted to ext2 instead for efficiency? I guess my line of thought is based off of KISS.
Arvin, who should have a better informed opinion, is on vacation thes week.
Anyway, journaling is not needed at all, as long as your system never crashes. And as long as you don't need to reboot, you don't need to care about /boot consistency.
We even have different variables for default_fs and default_boot_fs in yast2-storage (AFAIK we had reiser as default_fs and ext2 as default_boot_fs long time ago, when disk space was more precious that today), but both are set to ext4 currently. No idea who decided about that, but changing this silently is probably not a good idea. BTW: Journaling can also make sense on /boot, since /boot is also sometimes written to (e.g. during kernel updates, grup reconfig...). Tschuess, Thomas Fehr -- Thomas Fehr, SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-74053-482, Email: fehr@suse.de GPG public key available.