EXT4 heads up...

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 17:54:23 PST 2009


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> ...
>>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?
>
> SuSE defaulted to reiserfs for quite a while even though it had a
> nasty habit of nuking data.

Yep. I lost out twice and then said: never again in this lifetime.

>
> I can't say anything about ext4 yet, but I tend to wait to use
> things like this until they've been out long enough to shake all
> the bugs out.  I have seen far too many cases where the term
> ``bleeding edge'' is too accurate.
>

I have to agree. My taste for tinkering with stuff disappeared a long
time agao. Now "it just works" is where it's at for me.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.




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