On 29 January 2010 16:42, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > ICMP Request wrote: > >> 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) > > Sorry, I don't know. I've not felt the need to even try ext4. ext3 > works fine for me. The book doesn't depend on file system type. We > don't address using mkfs at all. > > -- Bruce > --
I've been using ext4 on '/' for a few months now. Seems to work ok, but the worst that I've done has been sync-umount-boot with Alt-SysRq when xorg locks. I think we're now at the stage where ext4 is starting to get widespread use, which is why a lot of odd corner-cases are now coming to light. What _I'd_ *like* to do is move /home to ext4, because the periodic fsck is so much faster, but some of my available systems are a bit too old (ISTR the fs name changed, perhaps around 2.6.30). When I started using ext4, I had fun and games getting systems to a point where they could mount an ext4 partition, some needed e2fsprogs and/or util-linux-ng upgraded, and one time I manged to build a kernel without a necessary config option (CONFIG_LBDAF). Similarly, my server should really benefit from ext4, but that holds my backups and music/photos so I'll want experience with ext4 on /home on my desktops first. For many people, ext4 is currently at least as good as ext3. As to benchmarks, particularly at phoronix, I tend not to give much credence to them. If you intend to try ext4, I suggest you create a new fs and make sure you can correctly mount it, and perhaps run tests if you are concerned about performance, before deciding to move to ext4 for existing data. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
