On 10-12-02 05:25 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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
Debian says it still considers ext4 experimental :) That is exactly what I want to hear from my server OS maintainers. Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
