topics 2009 summer and autumn

[Jamon Camisso]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> 
> |  "Linux Filesystems in 2009"
> 
> You didn't mention ext4.
> 
> Fedora 11, released this week, defaults to ext4.
> 
> But: grub doesn't understand ext4, so (I think) they default to
> creating a /boot partition of some other type.
> 
> Shades of System V release 4 on x86: that could not boot from their
> default file system, so they had a special simple files system type
> for /boot:  bfs.

Not at all, grub2 supports it.

Jamon
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