Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:42:25 -0600, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've not felt the need to even try ext4. ext3 >> works fine for me. The book doesn't depend on file system type. We >> don't address using mkfs at all. > > Well, apart from the previously mentioned example at > chapter02/creatingfilesystem :-) Right you are. Perhaps we can change: The third extended filesystem (ext3) is a widely used enhancement to ext2, which adds journalling capabilities and is compatible with the E2fsprogs utilities. To read: The third (ext3, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3) and fourth (ext4, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4) filesystem types are widely used enhancements to ext2, which add several new capabilities and are compatible with the E2fsprogs utilities. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
