On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
ext2 instead of ext3 is a good idea... maybe this should be offered on the NSLU2 by default as one option. On the other hand, it's also fairly easy to use the default partition schema and then change ext3 to ext2 in the partitioner manually before actually formating the disk. Maybe it's enough if I mention this on my web site. What do you think?
Mentioning the ext2 option (and how to get it) on the web page is probably good enough, since via the web page is the most common (only really useful?) way to get a working installation. So I'd go with that for Lenny. Adding it as an option for Stretch is worth a wishlist bugreport, seems to me.
noatime is a known wishlist that will be done after lenny, I guess.
Does that mean that there's no way to specify it at install/ partitioner time? Or that there's no way to specify it at all? Or just that it's available but not automatic in Lenny and planned to be automatic in Stretch? Or something else?
I was under the impression that relatime (a good compromise between strict POSIX semantics and practicality) would be standard (at least in certain kinds of installations) in Stretch. Is that still true?
Thanks! Rick