call for brave ext4 testers in F9, with caveats
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Wed Feb 6 22:56:59 UTC 2008
Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:31:30 -0600
> Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>
>>> You can explicitly mount it as -t ext4dev, and the next file created
>>> will make a non-backwards-compatible change when it writes in extent
>>> format. From then on, it's an "ext4dev" filesystem with mostly
>>> non-extent ext3 files on it. :)
>> Oh, and getting some airtime on that configuration *would* be good, too.
>
> What's the likelyhood of it being yanked in F9 final? I'd hate to
> switch over and then have F9 final say "you're stupid wtf is this
> filesystem?"
It's my goal to have it ready for, and remain in, F9. So far I don't
expect failure. But I'll refer you back to the $SUBJECT. :)
-Eric
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