I first stumbled upon this two years ago and opened a thread in the forum to ask about it [1]. I never got an answer but lived happy and forgetful about it, until some days ago another user PMed me to know if I had ever found out why mount consistently showed `stripe=4` as a mount option for the `/boot` partition, whether or not we leave it in /etc/fstab of use `defaults`. This piqued my interest again, so I'm submitting it here in hope somebody can enlighten us. Please see the original post for all the details. I can confirm that to this day, `$ mount | grep stripe` still returns /dev/mapper/boot-arch on / type ext4 (rw,stripe=4,data=ordered) but `# journalctl -b | grep stripe` returns kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-$): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Cheers [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=176092