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 Ubuntu still doesn't feature any support for ext4, to > my knowledge. > > I was hoping that the developers could shed some light on the reasons as > to why. And will it perhaps make its way into Intrepid? If not, when we > will see support for ext4 in Ubuntu.
The reasons are, in no particular order: * There hasn't been a driving need for it (contrast with, say, improved NTFS filesystem support) * It isn't stable yet. The developers still recommend caution and lots of backups * Tool support (e2fsprogs) wasn't released in a stable version until last month (July) * The developers highly recommend tracking out-of-tree kernel patches, even for 2.6.26 (our current kernel in Intrepid) It looks as if it may be worth a more serious look in the next release cycle after 8.10. -- - mdz -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
