Ext4 FAQ

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 00:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/05/2009 04:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 02:52 +0530, Gireesh wrote:
> >>> I had mistakenly assumed that this would be settable interactively.
> >>> In fact I don't quite see why it isn't.
> >> I rather prefer the current setup to manually specify "ext4migrate"
> >> a) Since ext4 isn't backward compatible to ext3.
> >> b) users when interactively prompted with a message to choose between
> >> ext4 and ext3, would most of the time choose ext4 because of the
> >> higher number without knowing the facts.
> > 
> > There's something to be said for that, however I think hiding it in the
> > Anaconda options will virtually guarantee that most people, keen to try
> > out their shiny new F11, simply won't see it.
> 
> I think it is better that way. A new filesystem is a big deal. People
> upgrading should ideally read the documentation associated with an
> upgrade to understand the details. If they don't, they are better off
> with the conservative choice.

While I don't argue with that, in my case I had read fairly extensively
on ext4 and did want to use it. My confusion didn't arise from not
knowing the implications of ext4, but of not understanding this specific
detail of Anaconda, which is not the same thing.

Anyway, what's done is done. I guess I'll just fiddle with the mount
options.

poc