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Because of https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 112632&i=3
shared by @bigpup
I've been formatting all my puppy USBs ext3.
I just succeeded at manually adding EasyOS to a USB with a pack of puppies, Grub2config, updated initrd, booted. Yay!
Then realized that drive is ext3.
Will anything in EasyOS break if it runs on ext3 instead of ext4?
OK, just can't have encrypted folders in the working partition.
Anyway, ext4 is the best choice these days.
IMHO, this is bad advice. The number of open bugs is not a good indicator for the relative stability of ext4. If almost nobody uses ext3, it's reasonable to assume almost nobody reports bugs. Also, nowadays, many distros use kernels built with CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2=y, which means the same driver is used for ext2, ext3 and ext4, and that may create the false impression that all the reported issues that affect either are specific to ext4, while ext3 is super stable.
Even if you use a super slow hard drive and the better performance of ext4 won't change much, or don't need any of ext4's extra feature like fscrypt support, it's always better to go for the more popular option (ext4), because that's the one that's more battle-tested, and current issues are more likely to be fixed.