From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Saturday 26 May 2012 04:56, Adam conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > Aragorn wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Friday 25 May 2012 17:07, Adam conveyed the following to   
   >> alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > Thanks!  I realize there's no absolute "standard", but I understand   
   > most distros have a preference or recommendation.  I was thinking that   
   > I could use mkfs to create the filesystem for each distro while using   
   > my "production" distro, which would (I hope) eliminate the need to   
   > re-create it during installation.   
      
   Of course.  ext4 is ext4 is ext4 is ext4... ;-)   
      
   Every new kernel release, there will be patches to the ext4 code - as   
   well as that of other filesystem types - but that's just code with   
   regard to how the kernel handles the on-disk data.  The on-disk   
   filesystem structure itself remains the same.  (They can't afford to   
   break that with every new kernel release.)   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Strange.  Under Mandriva 2010.0:   
   >   
   > [adam@eris ~]$ df /   
   > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on   
   > /dev/sda5              19G   11G  7.3G  60% /   
   > [adam@eris ~]$ sudo grub --version   
   > grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)   
   > [adam@eris ~]$   
      
   Yes, but as I gather, ext4 support in grub-legacy is a backport from   
   grub2.  If my sources are wrong, then I am wrong too, but I was told   
   that upstream grub-legacy does not have ext4 support.  So if the   
   Mandriva grub-legacy does, then that may be because of said backport   
   patch.   
      
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