EXT4 heads up...

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 15 December 2009 16:24:13 Doug Hunley 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
> 

I looked the fixes over and I cant recall "security" being mentioned. 
Personally, I use ext4 quite a bit too. I was really taken back seeing so many 
ext4 patches this "late in the game".

That said, I yet to have a single problem with ext4. Knock on wood.


Jerry


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