Quoting Akkana Peck (akkana@shallowsky.com):
o Related to your point on being conservative on filesystem type:
Just to show I strongly concur:
linuxmafia:~# mount -l -t ext2 /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) [/boot] /dev/sda9 on /usr type ext2 (ro,nodev) [/usr] /dev/sda6 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime) [/var] linuxmafia:~#
(Parts of /var and /usr are separately mounted and ext3. This is an old build; on a modern one I'd use ext4 where I currently use ext3.)
As to vfat for /boot, sure that's simple and universal, but you pay the price that it's very much not robust.