EXT4 heads up...

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009, Collins Richey wrote:
>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.

Agreed.

I now do all my desktop stuff with OS X while our servers are Linux.  At a
5 day Plone bootcamp I did recently, of the 25 laptops there, the
instructor's was Linux, there were a couple of Windows boxes, and the rest
were Macbooks.  The ratios were similar at a python day at the University
of Washington.

While I can do it, I don't want to spend time digging out working device
drivers, codecs, etc. or have to redo things because somebody thought it's
OK to change the API of a program because it's ``better that way'' without
regard for existing systems.

Bill
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