[Klug-general] Be careful with ext4

[J D Freeman]

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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:08:17AM +0100, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> My experience was salutary - and I just wanted other members of the 
> group to be warned. As I said, those with knowledge would know but 
> perhaps others in the group are just simple users like me. I was just 
> trying to help, a bit.

I had had a debate recently with some friends about the risks of moving to
ext4, your experience seems to add to a growing wealth of terror stories
about ext4 that just indicate it isn't quite ready for the primetime yet.

File system choice is always a fun one, I tend to take the approach of
using the one that has the best understood tooling, which means ext2 and
ext3. I used reiserfs for a while, but unfortunately the failure mode for
reiser seems to be total, where as with abit of patience, some handy
commands and abuse of dd, you can do wonders to reconstruct ext2/3. 

I will give ext4 a wide berth for abit longer. I am sure when it is ready
it will be wonderful, but for now, I'll just watch.

J
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