ext4 in Intrepid?

2008-08-11 Thread Chris Jones
I've been following the development of ext4 for what seems like an eternity. >From what I understand, the latest Fedora 9 release features ext4 support. So too do many other popular distros. And what I can't understand is why Ubuntu still doesn't feature any support for ext4, to my knowledge. I w

Re: ext4 in Intrepid?

2008-08-11 Thread Danny Piccirillo
I second this. I'm also providing links to the brainstorm, launchpad bug, and ubuntu forums pages below. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4468/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137872 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=837589 On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wr

Re: ext4 in Intrepid?

2008-08-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:32:31AM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > I've been following the development of ext4 for what seems like an > eternity. > > >From what I understand, the latest Fedora 9 release features ext4 > support. So too do many other popular distros. And what I can't > understand is why

Re: ext4 in Intrepid?

2008-08-14 Thread Chris Jones
-- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:45:04 +0100 From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ext4 in Intrepid? To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-T > * It isn't stable yet. The develo

Re: ext4 in Intrepid?

2008-08-14 Thread Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk
2008/8/14 Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From my understanding, yes, devs are still saying it's still in > development stage. But from all the testing that has been done so far, > nobody has lost any data yet. Don't worry. After it is no longer in development stage and called stable, people w

Re: ext4 in Intrepid?

2008-08-14 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2008-08-14 kello 17:57 +1000, Chris Jones kirjoitti: > So I guess I find it ironic that they are still recommending > very-regular backups. Backups are not ironic. Backups are yummy. Backups are the health food that tastes like junk food. Backups are the smell of a clean world after summer rai

Re: ext4 in Intrepid?

2008-08-14 Thread Gérard BIGOT
> > So I guess I find it ironic that they are still recommending > very-regular backups. > > Don't worry you'll learn, with experience. Wait for your first major hardware crash, obviously at the worst of the times. You'll thank every deity you know for your backups ... Yes, backup is boring. It's