Couple of install questions

[James Allsopp]

Hi,
I need to ask a few questions about a new Fedora install which I need to
do over today and tomorrow.

Which is the better option, installing F11 or F12 beta? I would upgrade
to the full F12 version as soon as it came out anyway.

File Formats, has anyone had any problems with Ext4, primarily running
on an LVM inside a RAID1.

Thanks,
Jim

[Jatin K]

On 10/29/2009 03:33 PM, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to ask a few questions about a new Fedora install which I need to
> do over today and tomorrow.
>
> Which is the better option, installing F11 or F12 beta? I would upgrade
> to the full F12 version as soon as it came out anyway.

Beta is not recommended on production environment
> File Formats, has anyone had any problems with Ext4, primarily running
> on an LVM inside a RAID1.

Not sure may be this[1] can help

[1]  http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php
> Thanks,
> Jim

jk

[fedora]

Hi Jim
first trial, i installed on ext4 as well, not using anaconda. Then i had 
problems, and had to re-install using anaconda this time. But anaconda 
said "cannot install yet on ext4" or similar, which made me go back to 
ext3 on all file-systems.
now, fedora 11 runs on ext3 happily.

suomi

On 10/29/2009 11:03 AM, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to ask a few questions about a new Fedora install which I need to
> do over today and tomorrow.
>
> Which is the better option, installing F11 or F12 beta? I would upgrade
> to the full F12 version as soon as it came out anyway.
>
> File Formats, has anyone had any problems with Ext4, primarily running
> on an LVM inside a RAID1.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

[James Allsopp]

Ok, which would be the easier upgrade path
F11 -> F12
F12 beta -> F12

and can you install directly onto ext4 using anaconda for partitions
sitting on an LVM in RAID1?

Is ext4 still considered beta, or is it production quality yet?
Jim

fedora wrote:
> Hi Jim
> first trial, i installed on ext4 as well, not using anaconda. Then i had
> problems, and had to re-install using anaconda this time. But anaconda
> said "cannot install yet on ext4" or similar, which made me go back to
> ext3 on all file-systems.
> now, fedora 11 runs on ext3 happily.
>
> suomi
>
> On 10/29/2009 11:03 AM, James Allsopp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I need to ask a few questions about a new Fedora install which I need to
> > do over today and tomorrow.
> >
> > Which is the better option, installing F11 or F12 beta? I would upgrade
> > to the full F12 version as soon as it came out anyway.
> >
> > File Formats, has anyone had any problems with Ext4, primarily running
> > on an LVM inside a RAID1.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 16:10:17 +0000,
  James Allsopp  wrote:
> Ok, which would be the easier upgrade path
> F11 -> F12
> F12 beta -> F12

If you are installing today, I would suggest using an F12 iso to do it.
Unless you already have a copy of the beta iso, you could grab use the
boot.iso from the daily builds or try a test RC image as that would start
you off closer to what you will end up with.
> and can you install directly onto ext4 using anaconda for partitions
> sitting on an LVM in RAID1?

Yes.
> Is ext4 still considered beta, or is it production quality yet?
> Jim

It is the default. For F11 grub wasn't ready in time for the release so
that ext4 was not usable for /boot. ext3 was used on /boot and ext4 was the
default for other file systems. For F12 ext4 will be the default for all
file systems.

There is a recent discussion about a possible corruption bug for ext4 if
you have an unclean shutdown. I haven't been following it closely though.