Heads up on ext4 changes

[Christopher Brown]

2008/10/10 Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>:
> Christopher Brown wrote:
>> 2008/10/9 Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>:
>>> Mike Chambers wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> it still takes the ext4 option on boot.
>>
>> Oh come on - that makes it barely differential between
>> iamanext4developer. Put your nuts on the line and offer it up as an
>> additional option on install - I dare you. I thought Fedora was
>> bleeding edge! I miss that heart-racing feeling when I _just dont
>> know_ if my data is coming back up on reboot... :)
>
> too late for the fedora feature process, otherwise I'd be tempted....

Fair enough. I'll settle for default on F11 then.


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