From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Friday 25 May 2012 17:07, Adam conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > Since I have unlimited downloads (so far!), the only cost of getting   
   > other distros is time (about 4 hours for a full DVD) and the small   
   > cost of the DVDs to burn them to.   
      
   Wow, that long?  I can download a complete DVD in about 20 minutes. 8-/   
      
   > So far (while running Mandriva 2010.0), I've downloaded Mandriva 2011,   
   > Mageia 2 (official release), PCLinuxOS 2011.09, openSUSE 12.1, and out   
   > of curiosity Slackware 13.37, CrunchBang 10, and Debian 6.0.5 in   
   > progress (8 DVDs!).  I'll also check out opinions online of all of   
   > those.  Offhand, would you happen to know whether any of them prefer   
   > ext3 or ext4 for their root partitions?  Or is ext4 already pretty   
   > much standard already?   
      
   Well, when it comes to the Linux kernel, there is no such thing as a   
   standard filesystem - because it can be installed on ext2, ext3, ext4,   
   reiserfs, XFS or JFS - but most distributions now do default to ext4.   
   It is a robust and very fast filesystem.   
      
   Do however bear in mind that if you're going to use ext4 on the   
   partition which holds the kernel images and the bootloader files, then   
   you will need grub2, as grub-legacy can't handle ext4 yet.   
      
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