[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux 4.05-5 does not boot

[Kevin Chadwick]

> Then use ext4 without a journal. ext2 is out of date and ext4 is
> superior in every aspect.

ext4 is superior and it even beats btrfs in some speed tests. However,
it is rare that any new thing is superior in every respect.

An ext2 filesystem is easier to recover with tools like testdisk rather
than file carving and ext2 is supported on more operating systems.
Neither of these apply to /boot but if you don't need the more complex
journaling (that allows writes of a sort on a read only mount) where
your kernel is stored then why have it, though there seems to be a
reason now.

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