Once upon a time, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> said: > The issue with journaled file systems is that GRUB's file system > drivers have no ability to do journal replay. Therefore there is a > small risk the file system is rendered unbootable in a crash, because > the bootloader only sees the no-replay state of the file system used > for /boot. e.g. the bootloader can see grub.cfg, bls snippets, or even > the kernel as either missing or as 0 length files, until the journal > has been replayed. Small risk, big penalty. My suggestion for > mitigation is to use FAT for /boot in simple cases, and Btrfs in less > simple cases. It's just an idea, it's not urgent, but if things are > being reconsidered for simplification anyway, this makes sense to me.
I've been bitten by that issue before. I would probably avoid FAT for a couple of reasons: no ownership/permissions, and could get stepped on in dual-boot setups by Windows. I'd go with one of the Linux non-journaling filesystems, like good ol' ext2. With few writes, it should always be in a "safe" state. Ideally, it could be left mounted read-only and only remounted RW during updates (and then back to RO to make sure everything is flushed); although I guess doing that would generally cover the journaled FSes as well. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
