Convert ext3 to ext4

[Robin Laing]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Jerry Amundson wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rahul Sundaram
>> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> Robin Laing wrote:
>>>
>>>> It has to do with the write delays and the way the data is written to
>>>> the disk.  I didn't want to risk it.
>>> The fixes for these issues have long since been in rawhide.
>> And in F10 also?
> 
> Will be when 2.6.29 hits F10.
> 
> F10 still had ext4 as a "hidden" fs option, remember, it was a bit more
> of a test fs at that point.  We do make efforts to keep things working
> well in F10 (Thanks esp. to Chuck!) but F10 ext4 wasn't expected to be
> without some potential flaws.

When I installed my F10, it was an option to use EXT4 so I used it.

I have had strange crashes but I think they are a combination of 
hardware and timing issues, not Fedora directly.  I cannot say what data 
has been lost, if any due to using EXT4.

-- 
Robin Laing