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Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?



On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 05:32:51AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:33:37 +0200
>Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>> This is bug #985463.
>
> If we can confirm no architecture has a limit to use ext2 now,
> then we can change it to ext4, right?

Ummm. In my experience quite a number of older armel/armhf devices
booting using U-Boot may *not* be able to boot using ext4. Whether we
should change the default on other arches is a useful discussion, but
I'd be worried about maybe breaking support here.

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