3 commits - en-US/Author_Group.xml en-US/FileSystems.xml

[David Nalley]

 en-US/Author_Group.xml |    5 ++++
 en-US/FileSystems.xml  |   53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit 097de620da7a32a4c6bad55e86ea6270b2278187
Merge: c1a502b... d94e056...
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date:   Thu Apr 2 08:03:39 2009 -0400

    Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/docs/release-notes



commit c1a502b65e3a269998c9abd5c9dd0091d706afb1
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date:   Thu Apr 2 08:02:47 2009 -0400

    adding my name to Author_Group.xml

diff --git a/en-US/Author_Group.xml b/en-US/Author_Group.xml
index 897b8f9..c7878be 100644
--- a/en-US/Author_Group.xml
+++ b/en-US/Author_Group.xml
@@ -24,4 +24,9 @@
 		<surname>Bewley</surname>
 		<contrib>Virtualization Release Notes</contrib>
 	</author>
+	<author>
+		<firstname>David</firstname>
+		<surname>Nalley</surname>
+		<contrib>FileSystems Release Notes</contrib>
+	</author>
 </authorgroup>


commit b245bbc353699d13aa4f2e7a2e6875aae98414e2
Author: David Nalley <david at gnsa.us>
Date:   Thu Apr 2 08:01:02 2009 -0400

    ported content from filesystems beat

diff --git a/en-US/FileSystems.xml b/en-US/FileSystems.xml
index 083ac8a..6960603 100644
--- a/en-US/FileSystems.xml
+++ b/en-US/FileSystems.xml
@@ -8,14 +8,10 @@
         <section>
         	<title>Ext4 - The default file system</title>
         	<para>
+			Fedora 11 utilizes ext4 as the deafult file system. ext4 brings significant new features and performance enhancements including:
         		<itemizedlist>
         			<listitem>
         				<para>
-        					Serious notes needed about upgrading and downgrading. Following content uses this reference: <ulink type="http" url="http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4">http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4</ulink>
-        				</para>
-        			</listitem>
-        			<listitem>
-        				<para>
         					Improvements in file systems and sizes
 							<itemizedlist>
 								<listitem>
@@ -59,6 +55,51 @@
         				</para>
         			</listitem>
         		</itemizedlist>
-        	</para>
+		</para>
+        		<section>	
+				<title>Buffered Data Loss Mitigation </title>
+				<para>
+					The recent news about buffered data loss experienced during a 
+					system crash with ext4 has resulted in upstream, and thus F11, 
+					flushing file data on a truncate or rename to mitigate this issue.
+				</para>
+			</section>
+			<section>
+				<title>Migration from ext3 to ext4</title>
+				<para>
+					It is generally recommended that users wishing to make use of ext4
+					start with a freshly formatted partition. However you may install with the
+					<command>ext4migrate</command> boot option if you wish to convert your legacy ext3 partitions
+					to ext4. Users are cautioned that they will not realize many of the benefits
+					ext4 since the data currently residing on the partition will not make use of
+					extents. New data will make use of extents. Please note that as suggested by
+					the requirement to pass a boot option that migration to ext4 has not been 
+					heavily tested and users are urged to backup filesystems before attempting
+					migration
+				</para>
+			</section>
+			<section>
+				<title> No grub support</title>
+				<para> 
+					Currently <application>grub</application> doesn't support booting from an 
+					ext4 partition so make sure to utilize ext2/3 for /boot
+				</para>
+			</section>
         </section>	
+	<section>
+	<title> btrfs - next-generation Linux filesystem</title>
+	<para> Fedora 11 makes btrfs, the next-generation Linux filesystem available as a technology preview. To enable 
+		btrfs pass <command>icantbelieveitsnotbtr</command> as a boot potion. Users are warned that btrfs is still experimental and 
+		under heavy development. The on-disk format may yet change and much functionality is still missing such
+		as a fully operative fsck or even proper out-of-space handling. 
+	</para>
+		<section>
+
+			<title>No grub support</title>
+			<para> 
+				Currently <application>grub</application> doesn't support booting from a btrfs partition 
+				so make sure to utilize ext2/3 for /boot 
+			</para>
+		</section>
+	</section>
     </section>