mikeslr wrote: IIRC --I'm currently too lazy to search for my prior post written after researching the specifics-- the maximum size of a partition which can be managed as an Ext3 partition is 16 Terabytes. I don't have any drive anywhere near that size. Again, suspecting that using Ext4-32-bit will require more computer resources than Ext3, I don't see any advantage, and don't. In short, I use Ext3.
I suppose I did wander from the topic a bit, but as you rightly allude people's mileage may vary. For me I haven't used journalling wouldn't care too much for all those writes. I'm old enough to remember floppy drives and its two FATS but whenever I corrupted a file the corruption affected both FATs and never once benefitted from it so I miss (not) the protection of journalling also.
Ext4 comes with extra options over Ext2 including the use of extents and faster fsck time. For some reason or another Android adopted Ext4 rather than go for the supposedly then available Ext2. I do use Ext2 on my boot partition though, as my version of GRUB will not read Ext4.
https://superuser.com/questions/31324/i ... cant-issue
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/239 ... ndroid-use
Getting back to this main thread topic, having used Wary, Raring and now Tahr I would say I'm happy with Tahr though may opt for a PAE Puppy if my RAM was greater than 4GB.