call for brave ext4 testers in F9, with caveats

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 23:42:59 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?"
> 
> josh

You could just test with filesystems other than /home, and plan on being able to 
reinstall the others and keep home. (in the event something goes wrong, or just 
to clean up the system to F9 final when its released, either way)

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