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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