ICMP Request wrote: > Hello guys! I haven't had time to see much of the discussions of the > list, so sorry if it was asked recently, but either on stable and also > on dev versions of the book you are still creating an ext3 filesystem > instead of ext4. I would like to know if there is any particular reason > for not using ext4 yet, isn't it stable enough for the most recent kernels? > > I'm asking because I'm planning to use ext4 but I don't know if I should > or not, been away from Linux for some time so I don't know how stable it > is. If not even on the dev version of the book you are using yet, that > scares me a little...
It depends on the host file system. Some users don't have ext4 on their older hosts. You can convert an est2/3 file system to ext4 though: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-convert-ext3-to-ext4-file-system.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
