Heads up on ext4 changes

[Christopher Brown]

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... :)


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Christopher Brown

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