Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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 > Hello Bruce and Agathoklis,
Thanks for the replies! I've seen the article about EXT4 performance dropping with new kernel releases, and what comes into my mind now is if EXT4 performance could drop below EXT3, or REISERFS/XFS and other alternative filesystems for Linux, being better reliability for data corruption, etc. it's only advantage. For what I've seen, EXT4 was made to be an "upgrade" to EXT3, not only an "option", unless you wish for some reason to use an older Kernel. But not every host distribution counting with ext4tools and the fact that it's still relatively new could be enough reasons for you to stick with EXT3. Anyway I'm sure you know WAY better than me what to do with the book, I'm just asking if I plan to turn my /home partition to an EXT4 FS, supposing I used to do weekly backups when it was EXT3, you would recommend now daily or I could stick with weekly (I'm not asking you in opinions about how often a backup should be made for a desktop computer, just how can I trust that EXT4 stability with kernels from, let's say november till now) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
