> Clarification about long wait for format.
> A terrabyte drive just takes a long long time to format. There should
> be a hang-on message every 30 seconds. I think that EXT4 is proven as
> legacy, and Debian should give us the install time option to go with ext4.
IIUC the kernel version in Debian Squeeze will be a derivative of
2.6.32. I know they added (aka backported) a lot of KMS features from
later kernels, but I don't think they went through the same trouble for
ext4, which is probably why ext4 is not encouraged in the
installation tool. Debian is usually not as bleeding edge as Fedora
(often some kernel feature gets implemented by RedHat first, so it gets
into Fedora before it gets into the official kernel).
But FWIW, I've been using ext3 for many many years (including for 1TB
drives on a pathetically slow machine) and it's still perfectly usable.
Stefan
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