I believe that RH in version 6 will support EXT4. Experimental will be btfrs, which may eventually replace logical volume management
------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein mailto:[email protected] mailto [email protected] / [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeremy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] The Debian Squeeze version To: [email protected] Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 9:28 AM 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
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