2009/11/3 Michael Clark <[email protected]> > A word of warning (from someone burned). > > Don't try to upgrade your fs to ext4 if already on ext3 (and say upgrading > from 9.04) - or at least wait until one of your friends has done it > successfully. Clean install on ext4 is apparently okay. > > I upgraded 9.04 to 9.10 first, did the ext4 migration steps from ubuntu > wiki. 9.10 booted up and had to perform fs maintenance, and launched a > recovery shell and a login concurrently on the same tty, getting fsck to run > was a challenge, rebooted, shortly after the fs started aborting and went > readonly - a reboot and subsequent fsck started complaining about corrupted > superblock and group descriptors, and after recovery my /etc landed in > lost+found and I had an unbootable system. > > I may well have done something silly (like doing the tune2fs ext4 migration > steps but accidentally not changing to ext4 in fstab) although the kernel > should refuse to mount or detect it is ext4, the software is in a early > stage of unforgivingness with many rough edges - and the recovery shell and > upstart was decidedly broken for me (a shell and a login running at the same > time - with keystrokes going to both). > > Before I attempted the fs upgrade though, I must say it did look nice and > booted really fast and looked sexy, etc, etc. > > Back on Debian Sid now :) > > ~mc > > TH Tan wrote: > >> I was pleasantly surprised when downloading from averse.net 2 nights ago, >> takes all about 15min in contrast to when trying to downloading to 8.x in >> the past. On the other hand, the "offical" sg mirror (selecting sg at the >> ubuntu.com) is a trickle... >> >> --- On *Fri, 30/10/09, [email protected] /<[email protected]>/* wrote: >> >> >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Slugnet] [OT] SG mirror for Ubuntu 9.10 >> To: "Cheng Renquan" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "slugnet" <[email protected]> >> Date: Friday, 30 October, 2009, 10:29 PM >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Cheng Renquan <[email protected] >> </mc/[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Koo Jun Hao >> <[email protected] </mc/[email protected]>> wrote: >> > On 10/30/2009 04:00 PM, Soh Kam Yung wrote: >> >> Singapore Nanyang Technological University Open Source >> Society (Asia) >> >> but the url for it is [http://ntuoss1.uni.cx/ubuntu-releases/] >> >> >> >> Is this correct, or is there a reason the NTU OSS is in the >> domain for >> >> Christmas Island? >> >> > It's correct! I think it's a temporary domain while they fix >> some domain >> > issues. >> >> I'm try to download from this ntuoss site, but It seems slow >> now (not >> my internet access problem), >> >> Maybe two many users from Singapore are downloading from it >> right now? >> >> >> mirror.averse.net <http://mirror.averse.net>. was out of date due >> to some changes in the upstream canonical mirror structures last >> week. fixed and should be syncing up now. >> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] >> </mc/[email protected]> >> List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq >> Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >> To unsubscribe send an empty email to: >> [email protected] >> </mc/[email protected]> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> New Email names for you! < >> http://sg.rd.yahoo.com/sg/mail/domainchoice/mail/signature/*http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/sg/> >> >> Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail. >> Hurry before someone else does! >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] >> List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq >> Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >> To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] >
I wouldn't even recommend upgrading from an fs even in the same family. I chose to use ext4 as soon as it got pushed to mainline, but it coincided with a new installation at that time so it was fresh. I faced some funny quirks like config files being lost (was on the headlines and got fixed sometime later). Right now the one issue I know of is /boot on ext4, using GRUB. Your distribution or packager has to patch GRUB. With regards to the fs itself, it's wonderful now. I have a big fat / on it, so.. :)
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