EXT4 heads up...

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 17:41 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Doug Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:39, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am using it on a number of different systems (openSUSE 11.2). All
> >> desktop systems. Still, lots of compiling and other disk activity. No
> >> problems yet. Fingers still crossed. But slowly relaxing.
> >>
> >
> > I've been using it since it was marked as stable in the kernel (.30?)
> > on all my personal machines and the test boxes at work. Most are
> > gentoo (highly disk stressful) and some centos. No issues.
> >
> > If you look, those should be security fixes, not data loss/corruption issues
> 
> Just curious. If there are no loss/corruptions issues, why are there
> so few distros (non-bleeding edge) that are willing to take the
> plunge?

openSUSE 11.2 uses EXT4 by default. I do not think it is the only one. I
don't track the other distos. Perhaps others on the list can tell what
their distro-of-choice is supporting?


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