Heads up on ext4 changes

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.net
Thu Oct 9 15:59:29 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 08:04 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> (*)Yes, this does indicate that the ext4 developers feel it's time to
> move on past the "dev" stage; as the patch says "The ext4 filesystem is
> getting stable enough that it's time to drop the "dev" prefix." - as
> with any filesystem, though, I still encourage you to back up important
> data :)

Does this mean ext4 will be available as generic during
installs/upgrades, same as ext3?  Or does it have to be given as an
option during install to get it to show up?

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Mike Chambers
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