On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:13:42 -0700 (MST) Carlos Konstanski <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> 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. >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. First, the Fedora 11 install utility did not give me a choice as to filesystems. And, while upgrading from ext3 to ext4 is fairly trivial, you can't go the other way without reformatting and reinstalling. In short, I am more or less stuck with it. But after spending a couple hours reading about it I conclude that it is very stable and safe. I notice that a lot of file activities with Scribus and OOo are a lot faster than they were under Jaunty. However, I can't ascribe that to ext4 over ext3 because I now have a newer kernel, a different distro, newer versions of Scribus and OOo, and even a new hard disk. Nevertheless, I am happy with ext4. A couple questions about btrfs: 1) Is there any guesstimate as to when it will be declared stable and incorporated into the kernel? 2) Will a user be able to upgrade from ext4 to btrfs without reformatting and reinstalling? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
