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In Fedora/CentOS Stream 9, /boot will be vfat or ext4 (there is talk of unifying /boot/efi and /boot into one partition in Fedora, a vfat one, vfat is mandatory for firmware as all UEFI firmwares implement this fs). But in an Android Boot environment at least, among others, erofs is also an option for the boot partition (which will probably be implemented in system_b label, with system_a label being rootfs).
Performing some simple benchmarks;
Mount speed:
vfat/erofs (very close, pretty much equal)
ext4
Read speed:
ext4
erofs
vfat
Mount speed is of utmost important for a quick boot. So read speed is the next decisive factor. Given that erofs has more potential to improve than vfat, in performance driven environments like an Android Bootloader based automotive environment, erofs makes sense for a boot partition. vfat also has a 4GB file limit, which can be limiting if you want to use that partition to store large files of some sort.
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ericcurtin
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This might just work, but it needs to be tested. In Fedora there is talk about /boot and /boot/efi partitions being merged as a single vfat /boot partition, so lets be prepared for that. Up to now /boot had been an ext4 partition.
Add erofs bootfs support
Nov 22, 2023
In Fedora/CentOS Stream 9, /boot will be vfat or ext4 (there is talk of unifying /boot/efi and /boot into one partition in Fedora, a vfat one, vfat is mandatory for firmware as all UEFI firmwares implement this fs). But in an Android Boot environment at least, among others, erofs is also an option for the boot partition (which will probably be implemented in system_b label, with system_a label being rootfs).
Performing some simple benchmarks;
Mount speed:
Read speed:
Mount speed is of utmost important for a quick boot. So read speed is the next decisive factor. Given that erofs has more potential to improve than vfat, in performance driven environments like an Android Bootloader based automotive environment, erofs makes sense for a boot partition. vfat also has a 4GB file limit, which can be limiting if you want to use that partition to store large files of some sort.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: