Message: 2 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:01:03 +0000 From: Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Thoughts about EXT4 optional in Jaunty Development & questions about Plymouth To: ubuntu-devel-discuss Dev <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
On Nov 24, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Dean Loros wrote: > ... > There has been talk in the testing group about Plymouth & possible > replacement of Usplash...IMO Plymouth provides a better user experience > due to a "more" seamless blending of Grub, Kernel boot & GDM. I realize > that there could be "issues" with this, but it could also net a more > positive user experience . > ... Plymouth is scheduled for discussion at the Ubuntu Developer Summit two weeks from now. <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/plymouth> Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ ******************************************************* Just thought it was worth mentioning that it's certainly possible to use ext4 on Ubuntu already. I'm using it for my 2 data hard drives which were originally ext3. But ext4 is backward compatible and therefore has the capability to mount ext3 partitions and ext4. Here's what I done (as I posted in a recent forum): First you have to enable the system to mount ext4 because Ubuntu still flags ext4 file system as experimental as is therefore disabled by default. ubuntu% sudo tune2fs -E test_fs /dev/your_drive_partition And then you simply have to mount the drive. ubuntu% sudo mount /dev/your_drive_partition -t ext4dev /media/your_mount_directory Done. A quick check with df to see if it worked. ubuntu% df -T It worked. Here's what mine looks like. The last 2 entries are the ext4 mounts. You'll notice that they are flagged as ext4dev, that's because (as mentioned) Ubuntu still flags ext4 as experimental, even though it's not. ubuntu% df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 jfs 17549600 4258296 13291304 25% / tmpfs tmpfs 250364 0 250364 0% /lib/init/rw varrun tmpfs 250364 324 250040 1% /var/run varlock tmpfs 250364 0 250364 0% /var/lock udev tmpfs 250364 2872 247492 2% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 250364 0 250364 0% /dev/shm lrm tmpfs 250364 2380 247984 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile /dev/sda1 jfs 495712 13176 482536 3% /boot /dev/sda5 ext2 55599836 25436932 27903524 48% /home /dev/sdb1 ext4dev 157566568 45810908 103751680 31% /home/chris/disk /dev/sdc1 ext4dev 307663800 256501836 35778776 88% /home/chris/disk-1 For the record too, it's definitely snappier with both read/write on the simple real world tests that I done. Regards -- Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss