Ext4 gives a me noticeable increase in performance over ext3 and has given me no problems. I concluded that ext4 is worth the risk. Google has evidently come to a similar conclusion:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/01/google-upgrading-to-ext4-hires-former-linux-foundation-cto.ars -- Pat On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Carlos Konstanski < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:52:53 -0800 > > From: John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > > <[email protected]> > > To: PLUG <[email protected]> > > Subject: [PLUG] Does your favorite rescue CD recognize your current > filesystem? > > > > I have been using Fedora 11, x86_64 for about a month now. It just > > occurred to me to check what fileystem Fedora installed. I recall > > during the installation I told it to use the entire hard disk and just > > clicked OK on the defaults. Turns out that it created a 200 MB ext3 > > boot partition and a logical volume of 297 GB which contains an ext4 > > root partition and a small swap partition. > > > > I have several rescue CDs, from Knoppix to smaller command line only > > disks. Guess what? They're all too old to be able to fix an ext4 > > filesystem. My very, very dim understanding is that older systems > > (with ext3) can read/write to an ext4 filesystem, but the older e2fsck > > won't work. I may well be wrong about the read/write - that is, I may > > have it backwards. > > > > Fedora started using ext4 with Fedora 10. Ubuntu made it optional with > > Jaunty, and Karmic uses it exclusively. > > > > It's Clinic Eve, so I am downloading some more recent rescue CDs. At > > the Clinic tomorrow I will boot them and see which ones can deal with > > my ext4 root partition. > > ext4 is a stopgap version of ext. It adds some features that are on > the roadmap for btrfs. It figures that Fedora would be all over ext4, > even though it isn't really even intended to last once btrfs comes > out. If I were in your shoes, I would avoid it. > > Carlos > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
