Ext4 FAQ

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/29/2009 02:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 23:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 04/28/2009 09:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 21:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I have put up a FAQ at
>>>>
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11
>>>>
>>>> I will be expanding this over time. If you have other unanswered
>>>> questions, do let me know.
>>> OK, here's one. The FAQ says "You can use the Anaconda boot option,
>>> "ext4migrate" to automatically migrate from Ext3 to the new Ext4
>>> filesytem when upgrading from a previous release of Fedora".
>>>
>>> What does this mean in practice? Is the end result equivalent to backing
>>> up my ext3 partition and restoring under ext4, or does it simply mount
>>> the ext3 partition as ext4?
>> Mounts Ext3 partitions as Ext4 with new files written in Ext4 format.
> 
> Thanks Rahul. Perhaps you could add this to the FAQ text.

I am already editing the text whenever I am responding. Do check and let
me know if there is anything else to add.

Rahul