call for brave ext4 testers in F9, with caveats

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Wed Feb 6 21:59:51 UTC 2008


On 2008-02-04, 17:23 GMT, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Rawhide and the F9 alpha can install onto an ext4dev filesystem 
> root; first you need to tell (a.k.a. lie to) the installer with
> "iamanext4developer" on the boot commandline.  This is akin to the "jfs"
> or "reiserfs" options for those filesystems, but a higher hurdle (more
> characters to type!).

Do I have to reinstall, or I can switch some partitions (probably 
starting with /var -- it will take some time, before I will use 
it for /home ;-)) to ext4 on the already working Rawhide?

Matěj




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