Heads up on ext4 changes

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 16:05:39 UTC 2008


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.

-Eric




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