Re: ppc64el Trixie Alpha 1 /boot may be ext2 not ext4

On Mon Jan 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM CET, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 13/01/2025 at 14:28, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> > On Mon Jan 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM CET, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>
> >> AFAIK the only implementation of Petitboot on arm64 (Odroid) supports
> >> ext4 so there is no need to rollback to ext2. I did not mean to roll
> >> back to ext2 but to create a separate /boot partition only with LVM, as
> >> I do not see the benefit of a separate ext4 /boot partition without LVM.
> > 
> > FWIW, I hadn't heard about Petitboot before this bug either, so I looked
> > on their Github repo and found "and ARM64 with ACPI" ... and I think the
> > "with ACPI" is significant.
> > So going back to ext2 on arm64 just for Petitboot users seems a bit
> > heavy handed to me (but I may not fully understand it all).
>
> Do I need to repeat that I did no suggest to revert the /boot partition 
> to ext2  on arm64 ? I found other evidence that Petitboot supports ext4:

Not AFAIC. My post was basically a +1 on yours + some possible extra
arguments to support using ext4 on arm64 and not reverting to ext2.
And FWIW, I also found 'hints' that ext4 not working was to be
considered an anomaly itself.

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