EXT4 heads up...

David A. Bandel david.bandel at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 10:10:36 PST 2009


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:50, Doug Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 19:41, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> I'm pretty sure it was a timing issue. Ext4 needed to be marked
> stable, GRUB needed to be able to boot from ext4. Many other small
> pieces, I'm sure. And all this *before* they decide what's going into
> the release.

LILO has no problem w/ ext4.  Just use it.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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