Update to F11 or new install?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 11 00:53:30 UTC 2009


On 06/11/2009 06:20 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> writes:
>> On 06/11/2009 12:47 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>>> You don't get to use the shiny new ext4 filesystem.  
>>
>> Not quite.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#How_do_I_migrate_from_Ext3_to_Ext4.3F
> 
>>From reading all the documentation it appears to me that the files
> written by the installation are all written in ext3 format.  Is that
> wrong?  What does one really buy by doing this sort of conversion?

Existing files would be in Ext3 format while new files would be in Ext4
format. The advantage would be some performance enhancements though not
as much as a full conversion.

Rahul




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