Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya ron

> Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > /boot should NEVER be a sepearate partition in todays machines
> > unless you are booting directly into memory or lvm or crypto or 
> > other distro that does not run on real disks
> 
> Please justify the strong word "NEVER".
> 
> "NEVER ... unless" is a contradiction.

it can be a contradiction if one does not recognize the "except"
and want to use it against never ... 

> [snip]
> > ext3 has better recovery tools than the above beause you can use
> > (15-20 yr old ) ext2 repair tools to recover ext3 fs
> 
> Please also justify this.  ext2 was released in 1993.
 
"released" and and it had zero time in development ??

c ya
alvin