Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-19 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/13/2010 08:06 PM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Wednesday 13 January 2010 21:57:04 Christos Nouskas wrote: Kind of late response, but I strongly agree with Thomas. I've had my share of truncated files after unclean shutdowns (every single time), some kernel modules being among the

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-13 Thread Christos Nouskas
Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 07.01.2010 18:26, schrieb David C. Rankin: the create the filesystem. With ext4 now available, is there any reason I shouldn't go ahead and create the filesystem as ext4? It Delayed allocation might lead to data loss of recently created or overwritten files in case

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-13 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 21:57:04 Christos Nouskas wrote: Kind of late response, but I strongly agree with Thomas. I've had my share of truncated files after unclean shutdowns (every single time), some kernel modules being among the victims. If you decide to decide to use ext4, then it's

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4?? [Results]

2010-01-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/07/2010 04:01 PM, a...@nezmer.info wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:26:05AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, This is just a quick request to make sure I don't screw myself playing with new technology. I have a server 5 existing ext3 partitions on a dmraid array with several

[arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, This is just a quick request to make sure I don't screw myself playing with new technology. I have a server 5 existing ext3 partitions on a dmraid array with several hundred gig of unpartitioned space. I have created the new partition and I'm about the create the filesystem. With

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.01.2010 18:26, schrieb David C. Rankin: Guys, This is just a quick request to make sure I don't screw myself playing with new technology. I have a server 5 existing ext3 partitions on a dmraid array with several hundred gig of unpartitioned space. I have created the new

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Thomas Bächler wrote: Delayed allocation might lead to data loss of recently created or overwritten files in case of power failure or system freeze. The most common case of overwriting files in badly written programs has been worked around in ext4, but theoretically it might still happen

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread arch
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:26:05AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, This is just a quick request to make sure I don't screw myself playing with new technology. I have a server 5 existing ext3 partitions on a dmraid array with several hundred gig of unpartitioned space. I have